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effective-altruism
- AI alignment & academia
- 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar
- Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) by Hodges
- Estimating political controversy
- What's the highest moral wage?
AI
- AI alignment & academia
- AI ethics for present & future
- Preventing Side-effects in Gridworlds
- A ceiling for human expertise
- Automatic for the people
- Neither Turing, neither Searle
academia
research
writing
self-help
- Crossing the ocean of my ignorance
- Self-help, hard and soft
- Things I Use
- Hardening the browser
- You do you
- Existential overheads
- Comparing up and down
- Limits to self-invention
rationality
- Self-help, hard and soft
- Uncritical thinking
- The trouble with supplements
- Insurance isn't necessarily a scam
- 'The Unpersuadables' (2013) by Storr
- You do you
- Existential overheads
ethics
- AI ethics for present & future
- 'Perfect Rigour' (2009) by Gessen
- 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar
- Anaesthetatron
- What's the highest moral wage?
longtermism
self-representation
lists
- Blogging is dead, long live sites
- Things I Use
- Reversals in psychology
- Worldview in Five Books
- Hardening the browser
- Disambiguating the first computer
- Existential overheads
- Taking Hume's name
- Rubinations
RL
game-theory
economics
- Robots, Games, Life, Markets
- Automatic for the people
- What's the highest moral wage?
- Economics as philosophy of life
rosetta-stone
quantification
review
- 'Starting Strength' by Rippetoe
- 'Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor' (2019)
- 'The Odyssey' (2017) by Emily Wilson
- Maths at the Open University
- 'Perfect Rigour' (2009) by Gessen
- 'Homicide' (1991) by Simon
- 'Blindsight' (2006) by Watts
- 'Curiosity' (2012) by Ball
- 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry
philosophy
- 'Starting Strength' by Rippetoe
- Worldview in Five Books
- 'Blindsight' (2006) by Watts
- Existential risk as common cause
- 'The Unpersuadables' (2013) by Storr
- 'Curiosity' (2012) by Ball
- Why I'm not a philosopher
- Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?
- The presumed worth of anthropology
- Conceptual conversions
- Comparing up and down
- Limits to self-invention
- Taking Hume's name
- Frege's grand failure
- Economics as philosophy of life
- Neither Turing, neither Searle
mental-health
epistemology
- 'Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor' (2019)
- 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry
- Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?
replication
long-content
science
- Reversals in psychology
- Uncritical thinking
- 'Blindsight' (2006) by Watts
- 'Curiosity' (2012) by Ball
- 'Einstein' (2007) by Isaacson
- How lethal are the Tories? Part 1
- Data Science FAQ
- The presumed worth of anthropology
- The Worst Game Ever
- Modelling linguistic accommodation
- Present pieties
psychology
uni
social-science
- Uncritical thinking
- How lethal are the Tories? Part 1
- The presumed worth of anthropology
- The Worst Game Ever
- Modelling linguistic accommodation
- Present pieties
quantified-self
biology
literature
utility
finance
maths
- Maths at the Open University
- 'Perfect Rigour' (2009) by Gessen
- π vs τ as clash of worldviews
- Conceptual conversions
- Frege's grand failure
bio
- The trouble with supplements
- 'Perfect Rigour' (2009) by Gessen
- 'Einstein' (2007) by Isaacson
- 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry
- Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) by Hodges
- 'Hitler's Uranium Club' (2008) by Bernstein
goodhart
meaning
xrisk
computers
- Hardening the browser
- Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) by Hodges
- Disambiguating the first computer
- Conceptual conversions
history
- 'Curiosity' (2012) by Ball
- Disambiguating the first computer
- 'Hitler's Uranium Club' (2008) by Bernstein
- Taking Hume's name
greatness
biorisk
stats
forecasting
argument
- A ceiling for human expertise
- Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?
- Neither Turing, neither Searle