Damon Binder
I'm a researcher at Coefficient Giving, working on risks from AI and biology, with a background in theoretical physics.
Latest posts
Why AGI-driven robotics could let a fully automated economy double its physical output roughly every year.
Comparing conventional, chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons on cost per death and mass per death puts biological weapons in a class of their own.
Once we have the minds, building bodies capable enough to automate physical labor is not that hard.
Projects
An interactive, time-calibrated tree of the Indo-European languages.
Build a sound from its harmonics and play it across a keyboard.
Biographical stories of randomly sampled people from across all of human history.
Other stuff
Reconstructing dishes from the ancient and medieval world.
Non-fiction books that I like, organized by topic.
My PhD dissertation and earlier physics work.