Damon Binder

Persuasion isn't just convincing someone to do one narrow thing: it's finding actions that are in their interest and also benefit you. AIs could be superhumanly good at that search.

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.

A browser shooter you aim by looking and fire by blinking.

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.

A collection of interactive physics simulations that run in your browser.

Reconstructing dishes from the ancient and medieval world.

Non-fiction books that I like, organized by topic.

My PhD dissertation and earlier physics work.