This year I decided to get into dancing. I actually got into kayaking, gelato, Haskell. I theorised country music.

This year I quit nicotine. Zyban works! For a while.


Work

  • I worked 2103 hours, not counting fun stuff like the blog.
  • Started my first company, Arb.
  • We crunched most of Asimov, Heinlein and Clarke’s nonfiction to answer a question. Probably the most memey thing I will ever be paid todo.
  • Proposal about developmental neuroscience and AI.
  • Proposal about backfiring AI safety
  • Off Road, launch and handover.
  • Emergency research teams: writing and executive search.
  • Ran an ESPR camp for the first time.
  • I learned Haskell tolerably (did Euler). for loops are now hopelessly ugly to me.


Breakthroughs


Papers


Books

  • The Chemistry Book by God
  • Frank Ramsey by Misak
  • Robbery Under Law by Waugh
  • Learn You a Haskell by Lipovaca
  • Automation and Utopia by Danaher
  • Moral Mazes by Jackall

  • When We Cease to Understand the World by Labatut
  • Based on a True Story by Norm
  • Moby Dick
  • Diaspora by Egan
  • The Prince of Nothing by Bakker
  • Xenocide by Card
  • Shards of Honor by Bujold
  • Lord of Light by Zelazny
  • China Mountain Zhang by McHugh

Worst book: Mathematics for Human Flourishing


Essays and sites


Shorts & poems


Tweets

  • https://twitter.com/xuenay/status/1546453510920830978
  • https://twitter.com/sp_monte_carlo/status/1478783658714673159
  • https://twitter.com/the_aiju/status/1495582144009285632
  • https://twitter.com/zacharylipton/status/1488669529005821953
  • https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1509832349986562048
  • https://twitter.com/micefearboggis/status/1554851031670001667
  • https://twitter.com/DanSchkade/status/1560552093684903938/photo/4
  • https://twitter.com/jackclarksf/status/1555980412333133824
  • https://twitter.com/ExileGrimm/status/1436340416513810434
  • https://twitter.com/ben_j_todd/status/1504439141924278278
  • https://twitter.com/BasisOfCulture/status/1505248977804951552
  • https://twitter.com/AgnesCallard/status/1507355908321468422
  • https://twitter.com/bantablack/status/1510289000812228609
  • https://twitter.com/land_planarian/status/1511549227658141705
  • https://twitter.com/XanderManshel/status/1538150707060215808
  • https://twitter.com/georainbolt/status/1554648828275347456
  • https://twitter.com/Wiglet1981/status/1580197903007907842
  • https://twitter.com/ben_golub/status/1582224782728495109
  • https://twitter.com/drewcoffman/status/1590527437418684417


Vids

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XWEVoI40sE
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHOn8u-c2wk
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJ6_GAprFE
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Mx42zOet4
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoZUjxstIZs
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq5inG547JA
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhXSlFjODvs
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-DH4owYP1k&list=LL&index=10



Films / TV

  • The Lighthouse
  • Top Secret
  • Invention for Destruction
  • Uncut Gems
  • EEAAO
  • The General


Podcasts

Gave up on em.


Games

  • Inscryption
  • Two Crowns
  • Backpack Hero
  • Star Traders
  • https://sdkgames.itch.io/ecocoru
  • Iris and the Giant
  • The Devil’s Calculator


Albums

  • Dragon New Warm Mountain (2022) by Big Thief
  • Expert in a Dying Field (2022) by the Beths
  • Beach House - Once Twice Melody
  • Ab-Soul - Herbert
  • Half Man Half Biscuit - The Voltarol Years
  • Tourist - Inside Out
  • Click Click (2006) by Freschard
  • Spinoza (2022) by John Zorn
  • Musique Citadine de L’Ere Edo (2007) by Ensemble Hijiri-Kai
  • Out of the Blue (1979) by Blue Gene Tyranny
  • Live at the Star-Club (1964) by Jerry Lee
  • The Songs of Tony Sly (2013) by Various
  • 万能青年旅店 (2010) by 万能青年旅店.
  • An Elephant Sitting Still (2018) by Hualun
  • A Place to Call Home by Pontus Hulgren. Fanfic music!


Songs

  • ‘As the World Caves In’ by Matt Maltese
  • ‘Discourse on Accents’ by Amy Walker
  • ‘Better Days’ by Turner Cody
  • ‘Make Me Feel’ by Janelle Monae
  • ‘I Won’t Lie to You’ by Francis
  • ‘Something’ by Lasgo
  • ‘Piano Concerto 2’ by Rachmaninoff
  • ‘Вот такой пацан’ by TalanT
  • ‘Numb’ by Jerry Galeries
  • ‘Acroyear2’ by Autechre
  • ‘Seychelles’ by Masayoshi Takanaka
  • Expert in a Dying Field (2022) by the Beths
  • ‘An Ending, A Beginning’ by Dustin O’Halloran
  • ‘Fantasy Baseball’ by John Samson
  • ‘Swap Meet Louie’ by Sir Mixalot
  • ‘Nosetalgia’, the Kendrick verse
  • ‘Wow & Flutter’ by Jeffrey Lewis
  • ‘Ana Ng’ by They Might Be Giants
  • ‘Kids’ by Current Joys
  • ‘You Can Have the Crown’ by Sturgill
  • ‘Pretty Girls’ by Coco Peila
  • ‘Body Terror Song’ by AJJ
  • ‘Silk’ by Wolf Alice
  • Op 87 by Shostakovich
  • ‘Future of HUmanity’ by Tom Cardy


Deals

  • Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 9th Gen (£60) ??????