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On Thinking About the Unthinkable

biosecurity
voice
philosophy
April 28, 2026
2 min

What makes for good research managers, mentors, and leaders?

Eight observations
research
leadership
mentorship
April 21, 2026
10 min

Inference time compute helps agents but hurts writing

ai
writing
prose
April 5, 2026
2 min

The Sun and the Shadow of Rostam

Know yourself, or be destroyed.
philosophy
self-knowledge
literary
March 27, 2026
15 min

London & Artificial Intelligence

It’s a strange world
ai-safety
london
biosecurity
February 23, 2026
5 min

Evaluating LLM hypothesis generation in biology is hard

Is it useful, is it true, and a story about mRNA
ai-evals
biosecurity
scientific-method
December 12, 2025
9 min

MIT Lincoln Laboratory & The Dual-Use Frontier

Why I’m betting my career on consequential science
biosecurity
dual-use
science-policy
mit
November 27, 2025
7 min

Making Software for Your Non-Tech Small Business

Personalized software no longer takes tremendous time and money.
ai-tools
software
productivity
November 24, 2025
13 min

Biorisk & DNA fragment analysis with Claude

Forbidden Questions and Their Answers
biosecurity
dual-use
ai-safety
November 18, 2025
6 min

In Good Company, a Letter to [Redacted]

Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice
political
voice
dialogue
October 28, 2025
4 min

Kandahar, Afghanistan: Prelude

Stories of the Horizon of Being
travel
afghanistan
personal
October 21, 2025
5 min

Networking for Spies: Translating a Cyrillic Text with Claude Code

LLMs Beyond the Anglosphere
ai-tools
claude-code
applied-ai
October 18, 2025
26 min

Autonomous Web Browsing with Comet

Quick impressions and a look at Comet’s Chain of Thought Reasoning
ai-safety
agents
security
October 13, 2025
10 min

The Alignment Problem Isn’t Theoretical

Deception, deployment, and automated testing with PETRI
ai-safety
alignment
evals
October 11, 2025
19 min

Keeping our Teeth in Biotech; prelude

Personal visions other heretical hearsay
biotech
philosophy
vision
September 24, 2025
5 min

GPT-5, Verbal Judo of Sam Altman, and the First Censored Safety Report

A disturbing preview of emerging AI risk
ai-safety
openai
evals
August 22, 2025
11 min

Why Scientists Embrace Being Wrong

Embracing Ignorance to Further Learning
science
philosophy
epistemics
November 26, 2024
5 min

Stop Thinking About Science (Start Doing It)

The Hidden Cost of Overthinking in Scientific Practice
science
philosophy
voice
November 21, 2024
4 min
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