Archive - Cosmos Institute

What Got Lost in the Optimization

Look closer. Does it get better or worse?

Dec 5 •

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What Will You Build For: Rune Kvist

Anthropic's first commercial hire now wants to underwrite superintelligence.

Dec 2 •

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November 2025

Philosophical Field Notes: 11 Reflections on AI, Technology, and Ourselves

Reid Hoffman, Tyler Cowen, Joe Lonsdale, Nick Bostrom and others get philosophical

Nov 28 •

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A Return to Wholeness

AI forces a return to “natural philosophy,” just as science once needed to leave it

Nov 21 •

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What You Want To Want

Harry Frankfurt, technology, and "addiction"

Nov 14 •

Frankenstein: A Child Without a Childhood

AI and the fantasy of the sovereign child

Nov 7 •

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October 2025

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