Universal Moral Core Principle 2

The second principle in my proposed Universal Moral Core (UMC) is as follows: Accept the responsibility that comes from power. This principle is inspired by the great font of philosophical wisdom that...

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Signing the Statement on Superintelligence

Gigi and I have signed the Statement on Superintelligence, which calls for a pause on the development of superintelligence. This blog post lays out our rationale for doing so now after having previous...

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Philosophy Mondays: Human Nature and Multiscale Analysis

Today’s post is an interlude in the Universal Moral Core series to discuss human nature. Given how much philosophical and other writing centers on different ideas of human nature, including the endles...

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Universal Moral Core Principle 1: Implications

In last week's post I explained the first principle of the Universal Moral Core (UMC) in greater detail. Today I want to investigate some of its implications for how we should behave. As a reminder, e...

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The Cost of Capital in the AGI Age

A few years back we experienced the infamous vibecession. Kudos to Kyla Scanlon for this terrific term which captures a moment where the public feels bad about the economy at a moment where traditiona...

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Philosophy Mondays: Progress in Physics

To truly understand the world, we must bridge the gap between philosophy and physics. Recent breakthroughs in gravity and quantum theory are finally moving us past stagnant paradigms to make this poss...

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A Brief Note on the US China Strategy

By confronting China politically while becoming economically dependent, the US violated basic game theory. To reach a stable multipolar world, we must build supply chain resilience.

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Happy 250th Anniversary, America!

Before coming to the US for the first time, I attended a long weekend orientation held by the organization that was arranging my stay. We were warned that we would feel homesick, and that we would exp...

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The AI Pledge for Humanity

We all made AI possible. We all deserve a share of what it makes possible.

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The World After Capital, Second Edition (ePub)

Digital version of The World After Capital, Second Edition in ePub format. If you have a Kindle device, you can easily read this version after downloading it.

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AI, Energy and the Environment: What to Believe? — The Spark of Hudson

Claims about AI's energy and water usage are everywhere. But the people raising alarms often have reasons to exaggerate, and the people building AI have every reason to downplay the costs. So how does...

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Order the paperback of 'Customers Included.'

Product teams should read this book to create better tech.

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Modeling The AGI Economy

There is a heated debate about what an AGI-level economy might look like. On one side are pessimists who foresee extreme wealth concentration and a permanent precariat: people with no meaningful econo...

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AI Bubble or Not?

Are we in an AI bubble or not? As someone who lived through the dotcom bubble as an investor there are many parallels and also significant differences. By many metrics we are in obvious bubble territo...

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GERD WTF?

I love food and I love drink. Food and drink provide wonderful delights from delicious flavors and through jolly company. To my great fortune I never had any eating or drinking problems. Well all of t...

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A BIG idea, a bot idea -- How smart policy will advance tech | Albert Wenger | TEDxNewYork

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Immigration and Cheating in American Culture

I am an immigrant, which has given me a profound appreciation of the interplay between culture and immigration. My first time in the United States was as an exchange student in Rochester, Minnesota. I...

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Automated Software: Some Implications

I learned how to code on a Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator and then moved on to an Apple II. The calculator had a kind of assembly language and on the Apple I had access to Basic but s...

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What Now? Slow down the Worst & Build the New

If you want inspiration for this moment in time I have two recommendations: watch Babylon Berlin and read the Foundation Trilogy. They are roadmaps for living a moral life in a time of profound regres...

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European Federation Manifesto

I wrote the following in April of 2025 and sent it to some friends in Europe. But now seems a good time to just publish it here as a provocation. Illustration by Gemini/Nano Banana Pro. European Feder...

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European Federation Manifesto

I wrote the following in April of 2025 and sent it to some friends in Europe. But now seems a good time to just publish it here as a provocation. Illustration by Gemini/Nano Banana Pro. European Feder...

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Philosophy Mondays: From Is to Ought - Toward a Universal Moral Core (Cont’d)

As introduced in the prior post, studying the interaction between “ought” and “is” permits a scientifically grounded approach to morality. Previously we looked at the importance of avoiding absorbing ...

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More Lazy Employment Thinking: Jevons Paradox Edition

Invocations of the Lump of Labor Fallacy have recently been superseded by appeals to Jevons paradox in claiming that we shouldn’t worry about what AI progress will do to workers. As with the case of c...

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Intent-based Collaboration Environments

In the Beginning was the Command Line is a famous essay by Neal Stephenson, in which he argues against the Disneyfication of computing represented by Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). And I do have fo...

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