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AI Timelines and Points of no return
The final Point of no return may happen before superintelligence.
Oct 19, 2025
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Gabe
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"Default Trajectory", an AI omnicide story
A mundane story where AI development ends up killing everyone.
Oct 2, 2025
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Gabe
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September 2025
We are likely in an AI overhang, and this is bad.
How unknown capabilities in AI models may undermine most AI safety frameworks.
Sep 23, 2025
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Gabe
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How people politically confront the Modern Eldritch
A follow-up to "The Eldritch in the 21st century"
Sep 18, 2025
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Gabe
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Redistribution Shift: The Hidden Cost of Redistribution
How redistribution naturally induces more demand for it and deter its own supply.
Sep 12, 2025
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Gabe
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The Eldritch in the 21st century
We're so much richer, smarter and full of technology. Why does it feel like everything is going wrong?
Sep 10, 2025
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Gabe
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Introducing MicroCommit
What is the smallest practical commitment an organisation can ask of its members?
Sep 8, 2025
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Gabe
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August 2025
The Gabian History of Mathematics
One of these times where Humanity solved a Big Problem
Aug 29, 2025
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Gabe
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The Fungible Threat to the Enlightenment Philosophy
About Freedom, Wealth Concentration, and the Separation of Power
Aug 21, 2025
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Gabe
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How to Identify Futile Moral Debates
A small framework for identifying which moral discussions are worth having
Aug 18, 2025
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Gabe
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The Formation of Unreflected Beliefs
On the fine balance between changing one's mind and getting mind-hacked.
Aug 16, 2025
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Gabe
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The Experience of Obliviousness
How unreflected beliefs cause us to durably miss obvious things.
Aug 14, 2025
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Gabe
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