links 3/31/26: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/sarahbrain/page/03-31-2026

• • https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/press-play-to-continue a cogent explanation of "why not Pause AI, given that you are concerned about AI risk?" pretty convincing to me.
  • • tl;dr: you don't want to support bad policies that don't affect x-risk and/or are unlikely to pass
  • https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/delve-into-compliance-theatre/ Patrick McKenzie on Delve. he believes they're probably helping startups fake compliance paperwork. this is illegal and will get a lot of people in trouble.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities you cannot exert control over private property for more than 20 years after the owner's death.
  • https://summerlightning.substack.com/p/the-two-memories AI and embodied vs. contemplative memories. ofc i'm mostly on the contemplative side.
  • https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/ a case that this war is a bad idea
  • https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/gooning-towards-the-fuhrer-as-policy rather satisfying (too satisfying?) theory of how the Trump administration operates
  • https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/finish-the-industrial-revolution Robin Hanson on his usual obsession. i have to ask myself, what would I be willing to sacrifice about modern liberal democratic culture in order to make it out-reproduce the Amish or Haredi in the long run... that wouldn't make it worse, by my values, than the Amish or the Haredi? like, if you buy the argument that in the long run the future is dominated by Malthusian cultures that sacrifice personal freedom and per capita consumption to reproduce more, and you want to turn your own culture into a Malthusian one, maybe the result is not going to be a nicer culture to live in than other Malthusian cultures. Maybe the problem is precisely the Malthusianism and, if i have to pick my flavor, i might pick Jewish Malthusianism as the least-worst option.