Cognition Café

[ControlAI post] Preventing extinction from superintelligence on a $50M yearly budget

About ControlAI's theory of change for preventing extinction from ASI, and how we think $50M / year in funding would give us a real shot at prohibiting…

Apr 22 • Andrea Miotti, Alex, and Gabe

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March 2026

The Realpolitik of the Permanent Underclass

Or why there is No Escaping the Permanent Underclass

Mar 31 • Gabe

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[GUEST] The Hypothetical Audience

Who judges you when nobody is watching?

Mar 29 • remember

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Why AI Evaluation Regimes are bad

How the flagship project of the AI Safety Community ended up helping AI Corporations.

Mar 11 • Gabe

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February 2026

[GUEST] The Ledger

Where we track who does what and hate people we owe

Feb 22 • remember

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The Spectre haunting the "AI Safety" Community

A consistent failure of informing lawmakers and laypeople about extinction risks.

Feb 20 • Gabe

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[GUEST] Action, Knowledge, and Oppression

Doing nothing is very easy

Feb 19 • remember

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[GUEST] Desires, Porn and Envy

What is easier than wanting things? Wanting nothing at all.

Feb 17 • remember

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Against Epistemic Humility and for Epistemic Precision

How mindlessly hedging our beliefs weakens us.

Feb 16 • Gabe

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Human Fine-Tuning

What do you call the thing that includes all of learning, operant conditioning and trauma?

Feb 14 • Gabe

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Terminal Cynicism

How negativity erodes our institutions.

Feb 12 • Gabe

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January 2026

Abstract Idealism

On the mistake of loving the world only as it could be, and not for what it is.

Jan 21 • Gabe

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