Not With a Bang
ArctotheriumArticles on demography and civilization.
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AI Race Dynamics Are Not Always Bad
Reader’s Note: This post was intended for LessWrong, so the tone and style differ from my usual.
Summary: It is an extremely good thing that advancing the current leading AI paradigm requires immense capital expenditures, which encourages...
Mortmain Migration
In The Future and Its Enemies1, Virginia Postrel argues that immigration restrictionists are “stasists,” who reject progress and change, while “dynamists,” the friends of the future, embrace open borders. The obvious, and correct, rejoinder...
Summary and Review of Jacob Siegel’s The Information State
tl;dr: It’s a great book, but flawed. I wholeheartedly recommend buying and reading it. The Information State can be purchased here or here.
Unless otherwise noted, all quotes in this review are from The Information State and the numbers i...
The Closure of the Internet
Introduction
In July 2012, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) unanimously adopted a landmark resolution affirming a simple proposition: “The same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular freedom of...
LLM Exchange Rates: Claude Fable and Company
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Emergent Utilities
In February 2025, the Center for AI Safety published “Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs” (website, code, paper) showing that modern LLM...
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