Lucie Philippon

Taking reasonable choices is not enough. You need to fight death at every possible point of intervention. Two weeks ago, my flatmates and I published Basics of How Not to Die, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of not dying from carbon monoxide poisoning. This post was written with a rather...

One year ago, we nearly died. This is maybe an overdramatic statement, but long story short, nearly all of us underwent carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning[1]. The benefit is, we all suddenly got back in touch with a failure mode we had forgotten about, and we decided to make it a...

First part of a series of article on French AI Policy that I’m currently writing as part of the Inkhaven Residency. EDIT: Those are my views of how French government and tech elites see the world. I am personally skeptical that France can stay relevant. I'm offering here a lens...

Edit: I made some claims about American non-profit law which were wrong or incomplete. See River's comment for corrections. In the latest Bayesian Conspiracy episode (How and Why to Form a Church, with Andrew Wilson), Andrew describes all the great perks churches get compared to normal 501c3. Coming from France...

Thanks to Linda Linsefors for encouraging me to write my story. Although it might not generalize to anyone else, I hope it will help some AI safety newcomers get a clearer picture of how to get into the field. In Summer 2023, I thought that all jobs in AI safety...

During DunCon 2025, I run a community building strategy workshop with @Screwtape. Going through the workshop gave me great insights into what I actually wanted out of my community and how to get there, so I figured sharing the session plan could be useful. If you end up following this...

[Last update: 2025-06-07] The Bay Area rationalist community has an entry problem! Lots of listed groups are dead, the last centralized index disappeared, communication moved to private discord and slacks. This is bad, so we're making a new index, hopefully up to date and as complete as we can! This...