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AI Safety has a scaling problem
Companies as proto-ASI
Esoteric vim
Experts have it easy
Solving for incentives and Mechanism Design
Using Anki to memorise the names of the MATS 9 cohort
Where's the $100k iPhone?
Why your boss isn't worried about AI
Work in progress: expert_aesthetics.md
Work in progress: hard.md
Writing every day in November 2025
YAML for the haters
projects
Downloaded more for business, or pleasure?
Elevation maps
Eskom-calendar: solving a nation-wide blackout
GitHub-like activity graphs in your terminal
ListenToAnything.com: listen to your reading list
The Provenance Protocol
TikTok Scraper
wip
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Jan 09, 2026
Companies as proto-ASI
companies
asi
proto-asi
Jan 09, 2026
Work in progress: expert_aesthetics.md
explorer-exclude
Jan 09, 2026
Work in progress: hard.md
explorer-exclude
Jan 09, 2026
Using Anki to memorise the names of the MATS 9 cohort
mats
social
anki
memorise
mixers
names-and-faces
Jan 09, 2026
Solving for incentives and Mechanism Design
mechanism-design
essays
game-theory
systems
incentives
needs-writing
Jan 09, 2026
AI Safety has a scaling problem
ai-safety
field-building
scaling
mechanism-design
Jan 09, 2026
YAML for the haters
yaml
essays
configuration
formats
Jan 09, 2026
Where's the $100k iPhone?
economics
essay
Jan 09, 2026
Writing every day in November 2025
essays
writing-challenge
november-2025
law
memetics
ideas
overton-window
lesswrong
http402
economics
payments
explore-exploit
search
research
asymmetric-penalties
err-correctly
100k-iphone
constraints
billionaires
octopuses
intelligence
biology
ai-art
gradual-disempowerment
artificial-intelligence
doomscrolling
social-media
persuasion
communication
practical
burden-of-proof
policy
parenting
long-term-planning
epistemics
cryonics
timelines
existential-risk
nuclear-risk
bio-risk
legibility
seeing-like-a-state
skill-development
processes
expert-aesthetics
experts
Oct 14, 2025
Why your boss isn't worried about AI
essays
artificial-intelligence
ai-safety
boss
public-perception
Apr 12, 2024
Experts have it easy
experts
novices
incentives
systems
essays
Jan 01, 2024
Esoteric vim
vim
neovim
vi
shell
unix
terminal
essays