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Owen Cotton-Barratt

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AI for epistemics: the good, the bad and the ugly

Forethought13 Apr 2026 17:17 UTC
22 points
4 comments11 min readEA link
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Defense-favoured co­or­di­na­tion de­sign sketches

Forethought6 Apr 2026 15:18 UTC
44 points
16 comments24 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

AI for AI for Epistemics

Forethought1 Apr 2026 16:12 UTC
28 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

Which ques­tions can’t we punt?

Lizka23 Feb 2026 19:17 UTC
81 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

Some tools for strate­gic awareness

Forethought11 Feb 2026 12:29 UTC
25 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

Some an­gel-on-the-shoulder AI tools

Forethought9 Feb 2026 9:51 UTC
62 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

Some tools for col­lec­tive epistemics

Forethought6 Feb 2026 11:01 UTC
71 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

How (and why) to read Drexler on AI

Owen Cotton-Barratt21 Jan 2026 23:25 UTC
37 points
8 comments6 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Hu­man Dig­nity: a review

Owen Cotton-Barratt8 Dec 2025 20:37 UTC
25 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Embed­ded Altru­ism [slides]

Owen Cotton-Barratt1 Jul 2025 13:02 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The cru­cible — how I think about the situ­a­tion with AI

Owen Cotton-Barratt5 May 2025 13:19 UTC
38 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Disem­pow­er­ment spirals as a likely mechanism for ex­is­ten­tial catastrophe

Raymond D10 Apr 2025 14:38 UTC
15 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Knowl­edge, Rea­son­ing, and Superintelligence

Owen Cotton-Barratt26 Mar 2025 23:28 UTC
21 points
3 comments7 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

AI Tools for Ex­is­ten­tial Security

Lizka14 Mar 2025 18:37 UTC
64 points
10 comments11 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

The Choice Transition

Owen Cotton-Barratt18 Nov 2024 12:32 UTC
49 points
1 comment15 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

A brief his­tory of the au­to­mated corporation

Owen Cotton-Barratt4 Nov 2024 14:37 UTC
21 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Win­ners of the Es­say com­pe­ti­tion on the Au­toma­tion of Wis­dom and Philosophy

Owen Cotton-Barratt29 Oct 2024 0:02 UTC
37 points
2 comments30 min readEA link
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AI safety tax dynamics

Owen Cotton-Barratt23 Oct 2024 12:21 UTC
22 points
9 comments6 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Safety tax functions

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Oct 2024 14:13 UTC
23 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

AI, cen­tral­iza­tion, and the One Ring

Owen Cotton-Barratt13 Sep 2024 13:56 UTC
20 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
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