Damon Binder

Once we have human-level AI systems, we could run hundreds of millions of them in parallel. They would not need to be smarter than us to be dangerous.

Self-reinforcing rules and coordination games as the basis of political power.

The supply chains for chips, robots, and power can probably be scaled up fast enough that none of them seriously delays post-AGI growth.

The history of the universe on one zoomable axis.

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.

Reconstructing dishes from the ancient and medieval world.

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

My PhD dissertation and earlier physics work.

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