Morgan Lu

Writings

Essays & longer pieces

Essay · May 2026

Dominion

On Babel, Bensalem, and the case against the fear of playing God.
Essay · May 2026

The Move Worth Finding

On chess, AGI, and what's left for us when the tools become the toolmakers.

Projects

Things I've built

Live · 2026

New Alexandria

A digital library of essential works via Project Gutenberg built for the casual reader with on-demand translation for difficult English.

Library

Things worth reading & watching

Essay · Peter Thiel

The Straussian Moment

I've read this too many times.
Book · Sebastian Mallaby

The Infinity Machine

The only person I trust with developing powerful AI.
Documentary

The Thinking Game

Watch before or after reading The Infinity Machine. 1:13:26.
Essay · Peter Thiel & Sam Wolfe

Voyages to the End of the World

A surreal perspective on technology and the Antichrist from New Atlantis to One Piece.
Letter · Jeff Bezos

2020 Letter to Shareholders

Bezo's last shareholder letter. Skip to "Differentiation is Survival and the Universe Wants You to be Typical."
Email · Steve Jobs

You can't plan to meet the people who will change your life

Just really heartwarming.
Paper · David Silver & Richard S. Sutton

Welcome to the Era of Experience

A really clear and compelling counterpoint to the Valley's LLM mania.
Paper · Nick Bostrom

Are You Living In a Computer Simulation?

Sometimes, it's good to question reality.
Poem · Alfred Tennyson

Locksley Hall

Onwards. Onwards. Onwards.

About

A short bio

I'm Morgan. I write, build, and occasionally simulate flocks of birds for fun. This page is mostly a place to keep my own work — the simulation behind it is a single HTML file with a small physics engine based on Boids algorithm.

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