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code

• Do masks work against COVID, at scale?
• Highlights from my Gists

science

• Do masks work against COVID, at scale?
• Highlights from my Gists
• 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
• Can you trust your methods?

research

• Do masks work against COVID, at scale?
• Crossing the ocean of my ignorance

music

• 'Trompettes de la Mort' (2005)
• Nation playlists
• Rubinations
• 'Have One on Me' (2010) by Joanna Newsom
• Punk as ideology

art

• 'Trompettes de la Mort' (2005)
• 'Homicide' (1991) by Simon
• 'Have One on Me' (2010) by Joanna Newsom

death

• 'Trompettes de la Mort' (2005)

ai

• Why worry about future AI?
• Using courts for algorithmic fairness

xrisk

• Why worry about future AI?
• Existential risk as common cause
• 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry

ethics

• Using courts for algorithmic fairness
• The One True Sceptic
• Against the Culture
• AI ethics for present & future
• 'Perfect Rigour' (2009) by Gessen
• 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar
• on veganism
• Anaesthetatron
• What's the highest moral wage?
• Misreading Russell on radical scepticism

philosophy

• The One True Sceptic
• Irony, sincerity, nostalgia, neoteny
• '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
• Why is quality rare?
• Conceptual conversions
• Comparing up and down
• Limits to self-invention
• Taking Hume's name
• Frege's grand failure
• Misreading Russell on radical scepticism
• Economics as philosophy of life
• Staring at mystics
• Neither Turing, neither Searle

ethics-of-belief

• The One True Sceptic
• Anaesthetatron
• Misreading Russell on radical scepticism

epistemology

• The One True Sceptic
• 'Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor' (2019)
• 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry
• Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?
• Misreading Russell on radical scepticism

fiction

• Unthinking meat

rationality

• Unthinking meat
• 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
• Staring at mystics

meaning

• Irony, sincerity, nostalgia, neoteny
• hope dies last
• Against the Culture
• 'Blindsight' (2006) by Watts
• 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar
• Is education worth it for society?
• Why is quality rare?
• Anaesthetatron
• 'Infinite Jest' (1996)

fun

• hope dies last

maths

• Graphs are cool
• Better ways to write maths
• Maths at the Open University
• 'Perfect Rigour' (2009) by Gessen
• π vs τ as clash of worldviews
• Conceptual conversions
• Frege's grand failure

tools-for-thought

• Graphs are cool
• Better ways to write maths

biochemistry

• Stimulant tolerance, or, the tears of things

self-help

• Stimulant tolerance, or, the tears of things
• 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

quantified-self

• Stimulant tolerance, or, the tears of things
• The trouble with supplements
• Existential overheads

biology

• Stimulant tolerance, or, the tears of things
• The trouble with supplements
• Why is quality rare?

health

• Metabolism is violent
• 'Starting Strength' by Rippetoe
• Comparing up and down

academia

• Better ways to write maths
• AI alignment & academia

longtermism

• Against the Culture
• AI ethics for present & future
• Blogging is dead, long live sites
• Existential risk as common cause

scifi

• Against the Culture

suffering

• Against the Culture
• Why is quality rare?

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
• Notes on inductive logic programming
• Preventing Side-effects in Gridworlds
• A ceiling for human expertise
• Automatic for the people
• Neither Turing, neither Searle

writing

• Crossing the ocean of my ignorance
• Blogging is dead, long live sites

self-representation

• Blogging is dead, long live sites
• Worldview in Five Books

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

• Robots, Games, Life, Markets
• Preventing Side-effects in Gridworlds

game-theory

• Robots, Games, Life, Markets
• The Worst Game Ever

economics

• Robots, Games, Life, Markets
• Is education worth it for society?
• Automatic for the people
• What's the highest moral wage?
• Economics as philosophy of life

rosetta-stone

• Robots, Games, Life, Markets
• Conceptual conversions

quantification

• Things I Use
• Estimating political controversy

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

mental-health

• 'Starting Strength' by Rippetoe
• Comparing up and down

replication

• 'Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor' (2019)

long-content

• Reversals in psychology
• Hardening the browser
• Why I'm not a philosopher

psychology

• Reversals in psychology

uni

• Uncritical thinking
• Maths at the Open University

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

literature

• 'The Odyssey' (2017) by Emily Wilson

utility

• Insurance isn't necessarily a scam

finance

• Insurance isn't necessarily a scam

bio

• Stimulant tolerance, or, the tears of things
• 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
• Why is quality rare?

goodhart

• 'Homicide' (1991) by Simon

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

progress

• 'Curiosity' (2012) by Ball

greatness

• 'Einstein' (2007) by Isaacson

biorisk

• 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry

stats

• How lethal are the Tories? Part 1
• The Worst Game Ever
• Modelling linguistic accommodation

forecasting

• A ceiling for human expertise

argument

• A ceiling for human expertise
• Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?
• Neither Turing, neither Searle

conceptual-analysis

• Disambiguating the first computer

education

• Is education worth it for society?

physics

• 'Hitler's Uranium Club' (2008) by Bernstein

scary-futurism

• Why care about genetic privacy?

naturalism

• Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?

scepticism

• Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?
• The presumed worth of anthropology
• Can you trust your methods?

reason

• π vs τ as clash of worldviews

politics

• π vs τ as clash of worldviews
• Punk as ideology

machine-learning

• Data Science FAQ

data-science

• Data Science FAQ

cause-prioritisation

• Estimating political controversy
• 'Why study economics?'

transhumanism

• Automatic for the people
• Why is quality rare?

criticism

• Present pieties
• Rubinations
• Punk as ideology

becoming

• Limits to self-invention

false-framework

• Limits to self-invention

nonsense

• Staring at mystics

love

• 'Have One on Me' (2010) by Joanna Newsom

culture

• Punk as ideology

subculture

• Punk as ideology