37+ min ago  (411+ words) A classic trope of hard sci-fi as well as more serious futurism is using self-replicating nanoassemblers to convert planets of the Solar System to computronium, or some other kind of a Dyson swarm. This is almost the default way to…...

59+ min ago  (20+ words) Work also done with Cindy Wu, Asic Q Chen, Jean Tarbouriech, Min Ma, Brendan O'Donoghue, Jo'o Gabriel Lopes de Oliveira. "...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago  (1562+ words) Tldr: Most strategic writing on AI governance on Less Wrong describes the outsider game, which is most often visible: press, statements, open letters. Here I want to describe the other, invisible half: the insider work within ministerial cabinets and international…...

9+ hour, 1+ min ago  (232+ words) I recently made a dumb (in retrospect) mistake that set me back a lot. Feeling upset and regretful, I spoke to an older family member who reassured me, "yeah, unfortunately there's no way around it; we have to experience these…...

22+ hour, 12+ min ago  (304+ words) The implication of this is that it is very hard to have one concrete AI risk argument I can read and respond to. It is difficult to form opinions on AI safety when most experts are in great disagreement about…...

22+ hour, 43+ min ago  (1088+ words) In a recent podcast episode published July 20, 2025, Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann is asked (at 48: 43) "What are the odds that we align AI correctly and actually solve this problem?" In his answer, Ben references the following part of Anthropic's March 8, 2023 blog…...

22+ hour, 20+ min ago  (1067+ words) In outline, the moral skeptic's challenge goes: To respond, one must either refute the skeptical hypothesis or identify an extra-moral reason to accept morality. Without a response, one's acceptance of morality is unjustified. This position threatens to be reflectively destabilizing…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (463+ words) These are some personal notes taken and later dressed up a bit to make into a post. Dunno how much value is here for people already familiar with the AI Safety Ecosystem. I believe MATS will be publishing the results…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (245+ words) I'm not aware of a good list of downside risks for AI safety broadly[1], so I decided to make one. This is not intended to be fully comprehensive, these are just the ones that I personally take seriously[2][3]: (This list…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1001+ words) I believe that internet culture influences real culture much more than the other way around. This is quite hard to prove, but I often see an idea start to come up in real-life conversations where I've seen it appear on…...