Damon Binder

How fast are today's AIs, and how much faster could they be?

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 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.