Anders Sandberg
@arenamontanus.bsky.social
Academic jack-of-all-trades.
#AICopeBubble: @boingboing.net is crowing about how clocks.brianmoore.com shows how bad AI is and how far away the singularity is. I open a browser tab and get a perfectly good clock from a current model (some debate about which timezone I am in and somewhat bad number placement).
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#AICopeBubble: @boingboing.net is crowing about how clocks.brianmoore.com shows how bad AI is and how far away the singularity is. I open a browser tab and get a perfectly good clock from a current model (some debate about which timezone I am in and somewhat bad number placement).
This is a really insightful and optimistic take on how AI may affect time by Nicklas Lundblad. Time design is important. open.substack.com/pub/aipolicy...
Time Machines
Tech keeps accelerating. Humans can’t. Could AI save us?
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is a really insightful and optimistic take on how AI may affect time by Nicklas Lundblad. Time design is important. open.substack.com/pub/aipolicy...
Reposted by Anders Sandberg
Research seminar with Natuschka Lee: Mars and the Earthlings – A Realistic View on Mars Exploration and Settlement. Natuschka Lee is a microbiologist and astrobiologist, with a PhD degree in Biotechnology.
Tomorrow, participation possible both on-site or online:
www.iffs.se/kalendarium/...
Tomorrow, participation possible both on-site or online:
www.iffs.se/kalendarium/...
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Research seminar with Natuschka Lee: Mars and the Earthlings – A Realistic View on Mars Exploration and Settlement. Natuschka Lee is a microbiologist and astrobiologist, with a PhD degree in Biotechnology.
Tomorrow, participation possible both on-site or online:
www.iffs.se/kalendarium/...
Tomorrow, participation possible both on-site or online:
www.iffs.se/kalendarium/...
A fun website. As somebody working on existential risk for real it is a fun complement to prediction markets. Maybe we should look into using LLMs to automate detection of predictions and help comment on their performance. However, most doomsday talk is non-specific enough to be hard to test.
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A fun website. As somebody working on existential risk for real it is a fun complement to prediction markets. Maybe we should look into using LLMs to automate detection of predictions and help comment on their performance. However, most doomsday talk is non-specific enough to be hard to test.
This is pretty scandalous. And, given the content of the lecture, extra ironic. Let's hope this decision gets Streisanded into eternity.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This is pretty scandalous. And, given the content of the lecture, extra ironic. Let's hope this decision gets Streisanded into eternity.
OK, color me officially impressed: Nano Banana Pro can make good diagrams based on papers. This one can go almost straight into my presentations.
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
OK, color me officially impressed: Nano Banana Pro can make good diagrams based on papers. This one can go almost straight into my presentations.
Reposted by Anders Sandberg
If ever you find yourself visiting Oxford, why not take a walk round, & see if you can spot any of these "famous cats of Oxford."
I wonder if anyone will spot the cat puns in the story too.
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
I wonder if anyone will spot the cat puns in the story too.
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If ever you find yourself visiting Oxford, why not take a walk round, & see if you can spot any of these "famous cats of Oxford."
I wonder if anyone will spot the cat puns in the story too.
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
I wonder if anyone will spot the cat puns in the story too.
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
When people talk about mental enhancement, people often bring up mental techniques such as mindfulness as alternatives to biomedical interventions, claiming that they are cheaper, more proven and safer. I think this is overconfident.
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
When people talk about mental enhancement, people often bring up mental techniques such as mindfulness as alternatives to biomedical interventions, claiming that they are cheaper, more proven and safer. I think this is overconfident.
Jag dyker up i podden Vox Populi där jag diskuterar transhumanism, existentiell risk, livsförlängning, religion och teknik. youtu.be/Y88MbzkC3_c?...
Världskända framtidsforskaren om: Evigt liv, domedagsrisken med AI och vikten av goda värderingar!
YouTube video by Kyrkans Tidning
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Jag dyker up i podden Vox Populi där jag diskuterar transhumanism, existentiell risk, livsförlängning, religion och teknik. youtu.be/Y88MbzkC3_c?...
Dubai is as always exorbitantly absurd. A bit like a Las Vegas without the alcohol and gambling, with some eclectic cyberpunk touches.
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Dubai is as always exorbitantly absurd. A bit like a Las Vegas without the alcohol and gambling, with some eclectic cyberpunk touches.
Reposted by Anders Sandberg
GiscardPunk - late 70's and 1980's technosolutionist France (synthwave edit)
YouTube video by Templarius
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I suffer from digital scar tissue.
Over a long digital life we acquire identities in multiple identity ecosystems. Over time many become obsolete, rendering references erroneous and blocking access even for new links.
aleph.se/andart2/comp...
Over a long digital life we acquire identities in multiple identity ecosystems. Over time many become obsolete, rendering references erroneous and blocking access even for new links.
aleph.se/andart2/comp...
Digital Scar Tissue – Andart II
aleph.se
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I suffer from digital scar tissue.
Over a long digital life we acquire identities in multiple identity ecosystems. Over time many become obsolete, rendering references erroneous and blocking access even for new links.
aleph.se/andart2/comp...
Over a long digital life we acquire identities in multiple identity ecosystems. Over time many become obsolete, rendering references erroneous and blocking access even for new links.
aleph.se/andart2/comp...
Another good concept to use.
There isn't a fixed amount of thinking to do, and whether outsourcing thinking is good or bad depends on the use, rather than it being outsourced. I see many similarities to the cognitive enhancement debate. andymasley.substack.com/p/the-lump-o...
There isn't a fixed amount of thinking to do, and whether outsourcing thinking is good or bad depends on the use, rather than it being outsourced. I see many similarities to the cognitive enhancement debate. andymasley.substack.com/p/the-lump-o...
The lump of cognition fallacy
The extended mind as the advance of civilization
andymasley.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Another good concept to use.
There isn't a fixed amount of thinking to do, and whether outsourcing thinking is good or bad depends on the use, rather than it being outsourced. I see many similarities to the cognitive enhancement debate. andymasley.substack.com/p/the-lump-o...
There isn't a fixed amount of thinking to do, and whether outsourcing thinking is good or bad depends on the use, rather than it being outsourced. I see many similarities to the cognitive enhancement debate. andymasley.substack.com/p/the-lump-o...
Oxford in autumn can be nice. Especially indoors.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Oxford in autumn can be nice. Especially indoors.
I am worried that people converge to general "AI hating" instead of being against particular reasons (e.g. IP, xrisk, slop, competition, power concentration etc.) AI is not going to go away - it is too useful - so general rejection will not work other than as social posing.
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I am worried that people converge to general "AI hating" instead of being against particular reasons (e.g. IP, xrisk, slop, competition, power concentration etc.) AI is not going to go away - it is too useful - so general rejection will not work other than as social posing.
Lovely visualisation of CMEs. helioforecast.space/cme
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Lovely visualisation of CMEs. helioforecast.space/cme
When @fermatslibrary.bsky.social brought up this 1940 article about why we have nothing to worry about from nuclear chain reactions, I checked that it was real and not a modern forgery. Because it seems almost too good to be true in light of current AI safety talk.
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
When @fermatslibrary.bsky.social brought up this 1940 article about why we have nothing to worry about from nuclear chain reactions, I checked that it was real and not a modern forgery. Because it seems almost too good to be true in light of current AI safety talk.
"Think of the children!" responses commonly hurt children and young people, often by creating rigid systems motivated more by institutional self-protection than achieving the actual aim.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
Genius-producing math program lost to UC Berkeley fingerprinting requirements
After 27 years, Berkeley Math Circle has shut down its flagship program, BMC-Upper, due to “stringent” new campus background check requirements, according to a statement on BMC’s website.
www.dailycal.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Think of the children!" responses commonly hurt children and young people, often by creating rigid systems motivated more by institutional self-protection than achieving the actual aim.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
All Saints' Day is one of those holidays that has grown on me. To me it is all about acknowledging the network of lives across the human project, past, present and future.
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
All Saints' Day is one of those holidays that has grown on me. To me it is all about acknowledging the network of lives across the human project, past, present and future.
Reposted by Anders Sandberg
One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.
I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯.
Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee
It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism
Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee
It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.
Reposted by Anders Sandberg
Projektet “Nya sätt att sprida forskningsresultat till samhället” testar nu policy briefs förmåga att nå ut med forskning till beslutsfattare. Kan vi förutse opinionsförändringar? Hur når experter fram i kriser? Har vi koll på våra fördomar? Läs och tyck till om formatet: www.iffs.se/ovriga-sidor...
September 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Projektet “Nya sätt att sprida forskningsresultat till samhället” testar nu policy briefs förmåga att nå ut med forskning till beslutsfattare. Kan vi förutse opinionsförändringar? Hur når experter fram i kriser? Har vi koll på våra fördomar? Läs och tyck till om formatet: www.iffs.se/ovriga-sidor...
I had a fun Halloween discussion with Adam Ford on Scary Futures - we made a tier list! (Because that is apparently what kids do these days.) youtu.be/3sToD13u_78?...
Anders Sandberg: Scary Futures Tier List - Halloween Special
YouTube video by Science, Technology & the Future
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I had a fun Halloween discussion with Adam Ford on Scary Futures - we made a tier list! (Because that is apparently what kids do these days.) youtu.be/3sToD13u_78?...
Playing around with Grokipedia and finding it a bit too wordy. While I enjoyed this long biography of myself for narcissistic reasons, honestly it gets a bit repetitive.
grokipedia.com/page/Anders_...
grokipedia.com/page/Anders_...
Anders Sandberg
Anders Sandberg (born 11 July 1972) is a Swedish researcher, futurist, and transhumanist specializing in computational neuroscience, human enhancement, and existential risks. He earned a PhD in comput...
grokipedia.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Playing around with Grokipedia and finding it a bit too wordy. While I enjoyed this long biography of myself for narcissistic reasons, honestly it gets a bit repetitive.
grokipedia.com/page/Anders_...
grokipedia.com/page/Anders_...
One pattern I have noticed is that people often have trouble thinking well about AI systems because they use a mental model of what they "should" be doing (whether being human-like, stochastic parrots, Data, etc). Models rarely fit the weird reality.
October 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
One pattern I have noticed is that people often have trouble thinking well about AI systems because they use a mental model of what they "should" be doing (whether being human-like, stochastic parrots, Data, etc). Models rarely fit the weird reality.