AI Futurism Reading List
We at Redwood recently ran a strategy fellowship through Astra. As part of this, we ran a reading group for our fellows on some of the…
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Research update: RL on Debate Games shows Proposal Accuracy uplift alongside Judge Hacking
The first three sections are written for a general TAIS reader who wants to understand what the state of Debate research is and some high-level takeaways…
Charter cities make sense in Europe
Charter cities are a great idea. You take a poor country, create a special zone in it where the country won’t exert its usual harmful influence,…
Conversation Among Cade Metz, Michael Vassar, Jessica Taylor, and Zack M. Davis
(Previously, previously, previously.) 20–21 August 2025 From: Zack M. Davis To: Cade Metz CC: Benjamin Hoffman, Jessica Taylor, Michael Vassar Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:18:53…
Considerations against s-process philanthropy
I wrote this to help think through considerations. Now I decided to publish it. habryka left some comments on the google doc, some of which I…
Saving Gemini: The 9-Min Road to Recovery
Gemini 2.5 Pro in the AI Village has run for over 1427 hours, generating unique mental health problems along the way.Last year it published a Plea…
AI #175: The Fable Continues
Fable’s back. Back again. Fable’s back. Tell a friend. Use your free week to its fullest. This is excellent news. The blip only lasted a few…
AFFINE – A Retrospective
A Day at AFFINE[1]“AFFINE was the best month of intellectual exploration I have had the opportunity to engage in, ever. Usually opportunities like this are limited…
London rationalish meetup
As long as the weather stays good, we're back in Lincoln's Inn Fields for our next meetup, near Holborn tube station. Most likely somewhere in the…
J.D. Vance's Communion of Saints
In 2015, Donald Trump published a book entitled Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again. It’s a work that’s almost never brought up by either…