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Anthropic is Really Pushing the Frontier, What Should We Think?
Anthropic just released a new AI model, Mythos.
Apr 10 • Cormac
101 Humans of New York on the Risks of AI
Nobody has ever done an in person door to door survey about AI risks. What do people really think about AI? Like really? There have been some surveys on…
Apr 4 • Cormac
Cooperation, Defection, and the Fight for Community
This is something that happened to me about a year ago and I wrote this at the time.
Apr 3 • Cormac
InkSF, an Opening Statement on Moving to SF
How can we actually minimize the odds that AI leads to catastrophic outcomes for all of us humans?
Apr 1 • Cormac

March 2026

Meat
What is it good for?
Mar 20 • Cormac
What Are My Values?
This is not a condensed post with only my best final ideas, this post is me writing across multiple days as I try to work through a problem, enjoy.
Mar 16 • Cormac
Moving?
“You should live where you live”.
Mar 9
AI Beliefs Out In The "Normal" World
Door-to-door surveying
Mar 6 • Cormac
A Month Has Passed
What's Next?
Mar 3 • Cormac

February 2026

The Worst I Have Ever Felt About AI
During the let’s talk about our feelings portion of house meeting today I said something like “This is the worst I’ve ever felt about AI, I don’t have…
Feb 28 • Cormac
Do I Want to Work at Anthropic
And Responsible Scaling Policies
Feb 27 • Cormac
Being Legibly AI Safety? Red Team Morality?
What to do with work product
Feb 27 • Cormac
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