Highly aligned political candidates have a lot of leverage to affect policies that could impact the long-term future and are uniquely benefited from individu...
This post, which I authored with Lennart Heim, provides a brief overview on how information security might impact the long term future and why we’d like the ...
If we survive the next few centuries, I think we’ll find ways to eliminate violent, destructive competition. To that end I’m going to prioritize which battle...
I’ve been thinking a lot about integrity recently and finding that it’s a more difficult subject than I thought at first.
I ran a Petrov’s day experiment on Facebook and learned some interesting game dynamics!
Jeffrey and Gavan get meta/nerd out on the dual-use model of risk assessment for emerging technologies, discuss the lab origin theory for SARS-CoV-2, and Jef...
A friend of mine requested that I write up some of my comments on the lab leak hypothesis, since I had done quite a bit of research into this in 2020. This w...
I’m a transhumanist: I like to augment my natural abilities with technology to fundamentally change what I can do.
This is a retrospective on Catalyst, a one-day collaborative biosecurity summit that was held in February 2020 in the San Francisco Bay Area, written by the ...
A number of people have claimed that a full-scale nuclear war is likely to cause human extinction. I have investigated this issue in depth and concluded that...