Content Highlights
Videos and essays at the intersection of philosophy and AI
Will We Let AI Decide For Us? | Brendan McCord
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Selected writings
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The Philosopher-Builder
The AI age demands a new kind of technologist

You Are Not a Function
Why the race to stay useful is a trap

Coasean Bargaining At Scale
Decentralization, coordination, and co-existence with AGI

The Last Temptation of Claude
Weakness-of-will and the value of struggle

In Defense of Self-Direction
Tocqueville, Aristotle, and Mill on human autonomy

AI Won't Fix Central Planning
Why even superintelligence needs a price
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Preparing for an AI world | Tyler Cowen
Philosophy and building companies | Marcus Ryu
Human and machine consciousness | Murray Shannahan
Building Alpha School for K-12 education | MacKenzie Price
Philosophy and building an investment firm | Colin Moran
AI and human autonomy | Brendan McCord
What will you build for
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Alex Komoroske
Co-Founder, Common Tools. Ex-Stripe, Google.

Lisa Wehden
Founder, Plymouth Street

Seb Krier
Frontier Policy Lead, Google DeepMind

Ivan Vendrov
AI Researcher. Ex-Midjourney, Anthropic.

Zoe Weinberg
Founder, ex/ante

Joel Lehman
Second Nature AI. Ex-Open AI Team Lead.

Alex Komoroske
Co-Founder, Common Tools. Ex-Stripe, Google.

Lisa Wehden
Founder, Plymouth Street

Seb Krier
Frontier Policy Lead, Google DeepMind

Ivan Vendrov
AI Researcher. Ex-Midjourney, Anthropic.

Zoe Weinberg
Founder, ex/ante

Joel Lehman
Second Nature AI. Ex-Open AI Team Lead.

Alex Komoroske
Co-Founder, Common Tools. Ex-Stripe, Google.

Lisa Wehden
Founder, Plymouth Street

Seb Krier
Frontier Policy Lead, Google DeepMind

Ivan Vendrov
AI Researcher. Ex-Midjourney, Anthropic.

Zoe Weinberg
Founder, ex/ante
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