Damon Binder

Damon Binder

I'm a researcher at Coefficient Giving, working on risks from AI and biology, with a background in theoretical physics.

Latest posts

AGI Will Set Off an Industrial Explosion

Why AGI-driven robotics could let a fully automated economy double its physical output roughly every year.

Why biological weapons are scary, and what we can do about it

Comparing conventional, chemical, nuclear, and biological weapons on cost per death and mass per death puts biological weapons in a class of their own.

The AI Industrial Explosion — Part 5: Given AGI, automating physical production is probably not that hard

Once we have the minds, building bodies capable enough to automate physical labor is not that hard.

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Projects

The Indo-European Family Tree

An interactive, time-calibrated tree of the Indo-European languages.

Harmonics Lab

Build a sound from its harmonics and play it across a keyboard.

Random Lives

Biographical stories of randomly sampled people from across all of human history.

Other stuff

Historical recipes

Reconstructing dishes from the ancient and medieval world.

Book recommendations

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

Physics research

My PhD dissertation and earlier physics work.