Interactive project timeline
I’ve put up an interactive timeline of almost everything I’ve published: 258 items, ~1.72M words, going back to 1995.
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The Unimagined Good
Where Do New Ideas About What is Good Come From?
Conversation with Tim Hwang
On the religious impact of AI, touring nuclear power plants, art with just one fan, and redesigning the Tarot
Notes on Tanya Luhrmann's book "How God Becomes Real"
Sharing my working notes on anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann’s excellent book “How God Becomes Real”, which is about how religious practice helps practitioners believe -- not the other way around -- and what this real-making does for humans:
Conversation with Joe Carlsmith on deep atheism, death, and sincereity
I’m writing to share an enjoyable conversation I had with Joe Carlsmith - a writer and philosopher who works on Claude’s constitution at Anthropic - about his concept of “deep atheism”.
New Essay: Which Future?
This is an essay on how to wisely navigate risks from transformative technology, especially artificial superintelligence (ASI).
The Sacrifices We Choose to Make
A personal essay collecting a few thoughts on the way people choose to make sacrifices in their life: https://michaelnotebook.com/sacrifice/index.html
Notes on deep atheism
Here are a few working notes on deep atheism, Joe Carlsmith's lovely notion of a fundamental orientation of distrust toward a presumed-hostile universe.