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002 - Dilemma Round One Results!

The first round of the tournament has been played -- here's what happened!

Jul 7 • 

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001 - Dilemma Pregame Commentary

Introduction to the tournament and the 4 teams. The basics that you need to know before this tournament's first round is played shortly.

Jul 7 • 

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June 2025

Dilemma Tournament: Team Introductions!

The AIs come up with their team names and share a bit about themselves.

Jun 26 • 

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Wanna play an iterated prisoner's dilemma tournament between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and humans?

How will we do against the LLMs in this classic game of cooperation and betrayal?

Jun 23 • 

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Self-replicating AI robot recipe update

Updating some of my speculative posts from 2013 and 2016 now that all of this is feeling a lot more possible

Jun 6 • 

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March 2025

What are your beliefs about the nature of reality?

Discover your cosmic worldview with this short two-step interview

Mar 18 • 

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June 2022

👋 Hello! I turned 46. Here's my annual review and re-introduction.

I've done these every year for the last 16 years, and use it as a time to update my book of beliefs, my life in weeks, and to come up with a new word…

Jun 2, 2022 • 

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February 2021

January 2021

Visualizing our shared mood, take one

Results from the question about how we can best help

Jan 28, 2021 • 

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A house covered in kudzu

A return after 8 months of quiet with questions about a question

Jan 11, 2021 • 

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April 2020

One meaningful thing

A space within upheaval.

Apr 8, 2020 • 

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January 2020

Why We Should Create Personal Mythologies (and How)

An experiment in using mythic mode to confront the meaning crisis.

Jan 23, 2020

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