Tim Hwang Interview Explores Tarot Design, AI Alignment, and Why We Need More Organizations
michael_nielsen · x · 2026-07-24
Michael Nielsen shares a conversation with Tim Hwang for The Good Conversation Project.
The discussion ranges from treating tarot as a design problem, to why humanity should start far more organizations, how Hwang got himself into a nuclear power plant, and whether AI alignment could be rebuilt from Christian rather than rationalist priors.
The post says there are links and additional highlights below, but the core signal is the breadth of the interview topics and its unusual angle on alignment and institutions.
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