Damon Binder

Voters frequently vote 'irrationally' for rational reasons: a single vote has very little impact on the outcome. For most people, beliefs and actions on AI risk are likewise only weakly correlated with the true risk.

Persuasion isn't just convincing someone to do one narrow thing: it's finding actions that are in their interest and also benefit you. AIs could be superhumanly good at that search.

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

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.

A collection of interactive physics simulations that run in your browser.

Reconstructing dishes from the ancient and medieval world.

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

My PhD dissertation and earlier physics work.