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| | I saw some clicks coming in from a certain Substack, and I was flattered to see NightRoller recommended me in a comment. I read the article and it awakened many dormant threads within me, and I was struck with enormous sympathy with the author, who I'll address as SD. Despite our superficial tribal differences (me...
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| | Two weeks ago, I gave a lecture setting out my current thoughts on AI safety, halfway through my year at OpenAI. I was asked to speak by UT Austin's Effective Altruist club. You can watch the lecture on YouTube here (I recommend 2x speed). The timing turned out to be weird, coming immediately after the...
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| | By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by a "culture of repudiation," keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. (essay by Sir Roger Scruton)
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| In 2012, I spoke with John Heilbron, historian of science and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, about his career, his work with Thomas Kuhn, and the legacy of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions on its 50th anniversary. We talked late into the night. The conversation covered his shift from physics to history, his encounters with...