Damon Binder
I'm a researcher at Coefficient Giving, working on risks from AI and biology, with a background in theoretical physics.
Latest posts
How much research has humanity done, and how quickly could AI match it?
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.
Projects
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.
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.
A collection of interactive physics simulations that run in your browser.