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Last updated 13 days ago

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13 days ago

(1) My 8-year-old son asked me last week, “daddy, did you hear...

ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman

22 days ago

Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who...

Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase #5 (2025 Edition)!

26 days ago

Sorry for the long blog-hiatus! I was completely occupied for weeks, teaching...

BusyBeaver(6) is really quite large

about 2 months ago

For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and...

Raymond Laflamme (1960-2025)

2 months ago

Even with everything happening in the Middle East right now, even with...

Trump and Iran, by popular request

2 months ago

I posted this on my Facebook, but several friends asked me to...

Guess I’m A Rationalist Now

3 months ago

A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many...

“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”

3 months ago

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares are publishing a mass-market book, the rather...

Cracking the Top Fifty!

4 months ago

I’ve now been blogging for nearly twenty years—through five presidential administrations, my...

Opposing SB37

4 months ago

Yesterday, the Texas State Legislature heard public comments about SB37, a bill...

Quantum! AI! Everything but Trump!

4 months ago

Grant Sanderson, of 3blue1brown, has put up a phenomenal YouTube video explaining...

Fight Fiercely

4 months ago

Last week I visited Harvard and MIT, and as advertised in my...