Archive - The Good blog

Ranking the Narnia books

It's my blog and I'll write what I want to

Nov 29, 2024 •

A response to Michael Huemer on why progressives like Islam

I initially wrote this as a note which I couldn't post and it would make me sad if I couldn't post it somehow

Nov 27, 2024 •

March 2024

The Defence production act and AI policy

The Defence production act and AI policy

Mar 1, 2024 •

February 2024

China Forecasts and AI

China Forecasts and AI

Feb 25, 2024 •

Examples of governments doing good in house (or contracted) technical research

An open question is the degree to which governments can do good technical research, either in-house or commissioned.

Feb 14, 2024 •

January 2024

AI governance frames

CW: reference to sexual violence

Jan 30, 2024 •

Some heuristics I use for deciding how much I trust scientific results

I'm back blogging!

Jan 18, 2024 •

February 2023

It's not a helpful term

Feb 3, 2023 •

January 2023

Many children are needlessly dying

Many children are needlessly dying

Jan 1, 2023 •

December 2022

Be less trusting of intuitive arguments about social phenomena

We don't know anything about macroeconomics and we're trying really hard.

Dec 18, 2022 •

AI overhangs depend on whether algorithms and compute are substitutes or complements

Dec 16, 2022 •

November 2022

Should the US have pushed Ukraine to surrender

Enter the signalling game

Nov 23, 2022 •

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