Damon Binder

The tasks AIs can perform are expanding rapidly, and on the hundreds in my dataset I find the compute required is already cheap.

Comparative advantage guarantees that human labor is worth something post-AGI, but not that it is worth more than the worker's leisure.

Voters frequently vote 'irrationally' for rational reasons: a single vote has very little impact on the outcome. For most people, beliefs and actions on AI risk are likewise only weakly correlated with the true risk.

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.