Damon Binder
I'm a researcher at Coefficient Giving, working on risks from AI and biology, with a background in theoretical physics.
Latest posts
The US has about 150 million workers. How long did it take them to learn to do what they do?
Intelligence is cheap now because it isn't very good, and it will be cheap again once there are billions of AIs. In between, AI will be priced like the workers it replaces.
The tasks AIs can perform are expanding rapidly, and on the hundreds in my dataset I find the compute required is already cheap.
Projects
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.
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.