Beren's Blog

Authors note: I originally wrote this poem in the summer of 2013 where I was very inspired by Thomas Babbington Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome and thinking deeply about virtue and historiography. I recently rediscovered this while going through my old computer and wanted to put it up before LLMs... [Read More]

Epistemic Status: Obviously highly speculative. I have no inside information. Opinions lightly held. [Read More]

Epistemic note: This is the beginning of a planned series of posts trying to think about what a highly multi-polar post-AGI world would look like and to what extent humanity or human values could survive in such a world depending on our degree of alignment success. This is all highly... [Read More]

Epistemic status: Obviously speculative sociology. Probably pretty obvious to some but I’m just trying to crystallize these ideas from my mind onto paper. [Read More]

It is now 2026 and we are half way through the decade of the 2020s. If we think back to the halcyon days of January 2020 certainly a lot has happened, especially in AI1. The first half of the decade has essentially been the discovery and then incredible exploitation of... [Read More]