I am often skeptical of arguments about China that rely heavily on personal experience. The author may explicitly acknowledge that their experience is limited without appropriately treating their arguments with rigor beforehand. This acknowledgment may thus sit beside conclusions about the values, behaviors, and functions of Chinese society without meaningfully...
An introduction and reading list on how incentives, expectations, and political conditions shape participation in collective action. * Mancur Olson (1965). The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. * Pamela E. Oliver and Gerald Marwell (1988). “The Paradox of Group Size in Collective Action: A...
Celeste and I are excited to launch Babel Translation, a nonprofit organization translating English-language writing on AI safety to be accessible to a global audience! We’re starting with Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and Japanese. AI has been moving so fast. Its risks are indeed globally felt[1], and we’d like to help...