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...
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Thoughts on Claude Mythos
Epistemic Status: Obviously highly speculative. I have no inside information. Opinions lightly held.
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When Does Competition Lead To Recognizable Values
Author’s Note: Transcript of my talk at the Post-AGI workshop in San Diego on December 3rd, 2025. This is taken from the cross-posted version on lesswrong. You can find the video of the talk here. I’m cross-posting this to have a long-term copy hosted on my personal blog. Thanks to...
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AI Monotheism vs AI Polytheism
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...
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Two Mechanisms of Decadence
Epistemic status: Obviously speculative sociology. Probably pretty obvious to some but I’m just trying to crystallize these ideas from my mind onto paper.
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