Damon Binder
I'm a researcher at Coefficient Giving, working on risks from AI and biology, with a background in theoretical physics.
Latest posts
Why AGI-driven robotics could let a fully automated economy double its physical output roughly every year.
A Forethought podcast interview on how fast a post-AGI economy could grow.
Ranking the largest empires by area is a fairly straightforward exercise. Wikipedia puts the British Empire in the top spot, controlling 35.5 million km² at its peak—about a quarter of the world’s land area. Next come the Mongol Empire and...
Projects
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.