Interests

  • World-building
  • AI as co-alignment
  • 'Governance Futurism'
    • Building the successor to the nation-state
    • Upgrading and reinventing democratic technologies
  • Education
    • John Dewey: "Education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform."
    • Spaced repetition, AI tutoring, learning without teachers, autodidacticism, Great Courses, lifelong learning
  • Knowledge graphs, digital gardens, and revisiting the promise of early computers
    • Ted Nelson's Xanadu, Roam Research and personal knowledge management, Memexes intersecting with LLMs (this website)