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September quarterly update

Published 20 days ago • 1 min read

Hope you've had a good September. This quarter, I published 3 book summaries and 1 blog post:

Book summaries

Blog posts

  • ​My thoughts on AI killing us all (30 mins). This post sets out my thoughts after reading If Anyone Builds It above, and how my views on AI risk have changed over time. I wrote this before AI risk really blew up in the media this month, and still stand by the views in this post. However, I do feel more optimistic now that superintelligent AI will not be built anytime soon, now that there is much greater public awareness of the risks.

Yeah, it's been a bit of an AI/tech-heavy quarter. If you're sick of hearing about AI by now, you'll be pleased to hear that my next summary for Kaput is on a completely different topic. It's about Germany's economic model and the problems that the author Wolfgang Münchau sees with it. I expect to publish that in the next week or two.

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