Life, The Universe & That Safety Thing

Exploring what it means to be human in an age of artificial intelligence. Essays on evolution, philosophy, and building a future worth living in.

Hello, I'm Sean

I write about AI safety, philosophy, and whatever else catches my attention. Currently working on mapping the space of AI risk arguments with the Doom Assumptions project.

Featured Project · AISC 2026

Doom Assumptions

An interactive map of AI risk arguments. Different worldviews, one shared structure. Set your own probabilities, compare named worldviews (Yudkowsky-like, LeCun-like, Hinton-like, …) and find cruxes automatically.

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Recent Writing

Some AI threats people aren't thinking about AI identity is not tied to its model Stockfish is not a chess superintelligence (and it doesn't need to be) Most people can't juggle one ball Estimates of the expected utility gain of AI Safety Research Changes to an optimised thing make it worse The quest for general intelligence is hitting a wall [April Fool's] AGI both does and doesn't have an infinite time horizon