Gold Takes
Ben Goldhaber, Oliver SourbutPanning the internet waters for good links and good takes.
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Paraxanthine: a trip report
I like coffee. I like the culture around coffee. I like it when you go into someone’s house and they have a “don’t talk to me before I’ve had my morning coffee” mug 😍
Hey little guy!
I’ve been drinking coffee for a little over eighteen y...
Links for April 2026
The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life. A profile of my new favorite drug, paraxanthine, a metabolite of caffeine that has a shorter half life.
more than 80% of circulating caffeine is metabolized into...
Canonical Hours
Time feels like an immutable fact of nature, but most of how we experience it is as a shared cultural hallucination. The ground truth may be tied to biology and the sun’s orbit, but the representations - clocks, calendars, daily planners -...
Don't Pause AI Into a Black Site
“Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.” - Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Status: Spent several hours today thinking about a potential bad outcome of pausing commercial AI development....
Links for March 2026
1: I know that I’m at the right level of feeling the AGI when my first thought after the US attacked Iran was “maybe this is just a distraction from the Department of War’s actions against Anthropic”. There has been extensive coverage and I...
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Posting in a personal capacity, all views are my own and don't reflect my employer unless stated otherwise, all takes should be treated as correct even when all evidence is to the contrary.
Researcher@FLF. Formerly UK AI Safety Institute and Oxford. Father of one little legend. I like pizza, friends, symphonies, sentient flourishing, and boardgames.
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