owencb

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How (and why) to read Drexler on AI

owencb21 Jan 2026 23:25 UTC

52 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Human Dignity: a review

owencb8 Dec 2025 20:37 UTC

32 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Embedded Altruism [slides]

owencb1 Jul 2025 13:02 UTC

22 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The crucible — how I think about the situation with AI

owencb5 May 2025 13:18 UTC

25 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Disempowerment spirals as a likely mechanism for existential catastrophe

Raymond Douglas and owencb

10 Apr 2025 14:37 UTC

76 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Knowledge, Reasoning, and Superintelligence

owencb26 Mar 2025 23:28 UTC

21 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

AI Tools for Existential Security

Lizka and owencb

14 Mar 2025 18:38 UTC

22 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

The Choice Transition

owencb and Raymond Douglas

18 Nov 2024 12:30 UTC

54 points

6 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

(strangecities.substack.com)

A brief history of the automated corporation

owencb4 Nov 2024 14:35 UTC

26 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy

owencb and AI Impacts

28 Oct 2024 17:10 UTC

40 points

3 comments30 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

AI safety tax dynamics

owencb23 Oct 2024 12:18 UTC

22 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Safety tax functions

owencb20 Oct 2024 14:08 UTC

31 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

AI, centralization, and the One Ring

owencb13 Sep 2024 14:00 UTC

82 points

14 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

(strangecities.substack.com)

The last era of human mistakes

owencb24 Jul 2024 9:58 UTC

34 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Caring about excellence

owencb22 Jul 2024 14:24 UTC

47 points

5 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Decomposing Agency — capabilities without desires

owencb and Raymond Douglas

11 Jul 2024 9:38 UTC

156 points

33 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

(strangecities.substack.com)

In favour of exploring nagging doubts about x-risk

owencb25 Jun 2024 23:52 UTC

107 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

owencb’s Shortform

owencb21 Jun 2024 11:00 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

AI takeoff and nuclear war

owencb11 Jun 2024 19:36 UTC

81 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy — $25k in prizes

owencb and AI Impacts

16 Apr 2024 10:10 UTC

84 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)