AI for human agency
How AI can expand human agency by closing the capability overhang—helping people, businesses, and countries…
Irrationality as a Defense Mechanism for Reward-hacking
Published on January 18, 2026 3:57 AM GMTThis post was written as part of research…
Blogging, Writing, Musing, And Thinking
Published on January 18, 2026 3:28 AM GMTYesterday I stumbled on this quote from a…
Is METR Underestimating LLM Time Horizons?
Published on January 18, 2026 1:19 AM GMTTL;DRUsing METR human-baseline data, I define an alternate…
Understanding Trust: Project Update
Published on January 17, 2026 9:19 PM GMTThis is a brief note on what I…
Focusing on Flourishing Even When Survival is Unlikely (I)
Published on January 17, 2026 6:47 PM GMT1. The CaseYou've probably heard something like this…
The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Published on January 17, 2026 5:28 PM GMTIn 1654, a Jesuit polymath named Athanasius Kircher…
Japan is a bank
Published on January 17, 2026 4:33 PM GMTAmong developed countries, Japan has long had the…
Turning Down the Overthinking: How Cathodal Brain Stimulation Could Transform Stuttering Therapy
Published on January 17, 2026 2:54 PM GMTThe cruelest irony of stuttering is that trying…
Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune
Musk's legal team argues he should be compensated as an early startup investor who sees…