Damon Binder

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.

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.

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.