Messy Progress

Mini Posts 5 - Status, Power, and Reason

Status Traps, The Purpose of a System is what it Rewards, A Non-cynical View of Colleges and Power, Thinking Too Much is Bad for Society, The Most…

Jul 26 • 

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June 2025

Using Codex Well (Experiences so Far)

The future of work is managing a team of AI agents to do work.

Jun 10 • 

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February 2025

Easy Robotics with a 3D Printer and Raspberry Pi

It’s pretty cheap and easy to make something fun.

Feb 10 • 

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November 2024

Mini-Posts Collection 4 - Election Edition

A brief history of angry elections, Is politics optimized for outrage, Can remote work save the world, What is Democracy and how can we save it, Watch…

Nov 3, 2024 • 

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September 2024

In Praise of the Beatitudes

Jesus' 9-bullet summary of morality has value even to non-Christians.

Sep 24, 2024 • 

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Virtue is a Vector

Treating things as good vs bad is too simple.

Sep 10, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Mini Posts Collection 3 - August 2024

Compromise Coin, Will AI Detach Wealth from Ability, Power flows Up then Down, Lessons from Revolt of the Public, and Empirical Consequentialism

Aug 3, 2024 • 

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April 2024

Let GPT Be the Judge

Not everything that counts can be counted, but maybe GPT can measure it anyway.

Apr 4, 2024 • 

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Work with Me at New Public

We are hiring a Software Engineer to work on Public Spaces Incubator.

Apr 1, 2024 • 

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February 2024

How AI Will Change Education

Education does lots of things for society. AI will change all of them.

Feb 16, 2024 • 

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January 2024

Highlights from my Quora Writing

I used to write on Quora. Here is some of what I wrote.

Jan 17, 2024 • 

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November 2023

Artificial General Horsiness

AI doesn't need to match all human intelligence to replace all human work. If it's faster and cheaper, we'll adapt the rest of the world around it.

Nov 11, 2023 • 

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