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 supply chains for chips, robots, and power can probably be scaled up fast enough that none of them seriously delays post-AGI growth.
Moll and Imas argue that AI is unlikely to cause rapid growth in the next ten to fifteen years. Here is why I wasn't persuaded.
How much research has humanity done, and how quickly could AI match it?
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.