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Ways we can fail to answer
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'Have One on Me' by Joanna Newsom
Reading the best album of the last 20 years.
'Disco Elysium' (2019): Part 1
Messy thoughts on the best work of political fiction of recent decades
The Worst Game Ever
A true story about model error, noisy decisions, and the birth of tragedy.
Comparing up and down
Choosing your reference class for happiness or growth.
Robots, Games, Life, Markets
Understanding game theory, reinforcement learning,
evolutionary dynamics, & economic calculation, with each other
evolutionary dynamics, & economic calculation, with each other
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A Life Really Worth Living
new version of my classic class on the meaning of life
Transnormalism
in which human enhancement won without thinking
AI in 2025: gestalt
300 takes in search of an opinion
My politics
Paper AI Tigers
Making sense of current Chinese AI
The jailbreak argument against LLM values
Writeup of a folk argument I didn't come up with
Ways we can fail to answer
Fundamental barriers to knowledge