Oly on AI

A Full Epistemic Stack

Knowledge Commons for the 21st Century

Dec 19, 2025 • Oliver Sourbut and Ben Goldhaber

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May 2025

You Can’t Skip Exploration

Why understanding experimentation and taste is key to understanding AI

May 21, 2025 • Oliver Sourbut

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November 2023

Cooperation and Alignment in Delegation Games

You need both! (and also fairness)

Nov 15, 2023 • Oliver Sourbut

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October 2023

Exponentials and extinction

A barrel of laughs in Australia

Oct 7, 2023 • Oliver Sourbut

Universally Challenged

Sore Butt and Groin (it's 'Sourbut' and 'Groyne', actually)

Oct 6, 2023 • Oliver Sourbut

‘US vs China’ vs me

More lazy, dangerous rhetoric on the state and nature of AI competition

Oct 6, 2023 • Oliver Sourbut

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September 2023

Careless talk on US-China AI competition?

Caution on political discussion, nuance is needed, and criticism of CAIS coverage

Sep 20, 2023 • Oliver Sourbut

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Invading Australia

Endless Formerlies Most Beautiful, or What I Learned On My Holiday

Sep 8, 2023 • Oliver Sourbut

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Hertford, Sourbut

Rationality lessons from University Challenge

Sep 4, 2023 • Oliver Sourbut

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May 2023

Un-unpluggability

Can’t we just un­plug it? A few weeks ago I was in­vited to the UK FCDO to dis­cuss op­por­tu­ni­ties and risks from AI. I highly ap­pre­ci­ated the…

May 15, 2023 • Oliver Sourbut

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June 2022

Deliberation Everywhere: Simple Examples

We pre­vi­ously dis­cussed a con­cep­tual al­gorith­mic break­down of some as­pects of goal-di­rected be­havi­our with the in­ten­tion of in­spiring…

Jun 27, 2022 • Oliver Sourbut

Deliberation, Reactions, and Control

Tentative Definitions and a Restatement of Instrumental Convergence

Jun 27, 2022 • Oliver Sourbut