I am an incoming research scholar at GovAI working on US AI policy. Before that, I did my BPhil in Philosophy and BA at Oxford.

Zen and the Art of Post-AGI Living.

lcrpatell [at] gmail [dot] com

Work in progress

• The Goals of a US National AI Project
• A US National AI Project Needs Congressional Oversight
• ASI Arms Control
• The Dangers of MAIM
• Strategic Transparency
• On Decisive Strategic Advantage
• Interstate Competitive Dynamics
• Rawls and the Singularity
• Modeling Cultural Disempowerment
• Political Capture: Modeling and Mitigating a Systemic Risk from AI

Reading

• Derek Parfit -- On What Matters (Volume Two, Chapter 23)
• Rudolf Carnap -- Der logische Aufbau der Welt
• Richard Rorty -- Philosophy and Social Hope
• Friedrich Nietzsche (ed. Kaufmann) -- The Gay Science
• Michael Tomasello -- The Evolution of Agency
• Neil Theise -- Notes on Complexity
• Roshi Enkyo O'Hara -- A Winter Sesshin
• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche -- The Teacup and the Skullcup
• Yukio Mishima -- Patriotism
• Hisham Matar -- A Month in Siena
• Mary Gaitskill -- Veronica
• Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The American Scholar
• Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Self-Reliance