Posts by category

research

• Crossing the ocean of my ignorance

writing

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

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

AI

• AI ethics for present & future
• Preventing Side-effects in Gridworlds
• A ceiling for human expertise
• Automatic for the people
• Neither Turing, neither Searle

ethics

• AI ethics for present & future
• 'Perfect Rigour' (2009) by Gessen
• 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar
• Anaesthetatron
• What's the highest moral wage?

longtermism

• Blogging is dead, long live sites
• Existential risk as common cause

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
• Automatic for the people
• What's the highest moral wage?

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

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
• Neither Turing, neither Searle

mental-health

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

epistemology

• 'Peter Watts is an Angry Sentient Tumor' (2019)
• 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry
• Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?

replication

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

long-content

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

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

• 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

quantified-self

• The trouble with supplements
• Existential overheads

biology

• The trouble with supplements

literature

• 'The Odyssey' (2017) by Emily Wilson

utility

• Insurance isn't necessarily a scam

finance

• Insurance isn't necessarily a scam

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

• 'Homicide' (1991) by Simon

meaning

• 'Blindsight' (2006) by Watts
• 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar
• Anaesthetatron

xrisk

• Existential risk as common cause
• 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry

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

effective-altruism

• 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar
• Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) by Hodges
• Estimating political controversy
• What's the highest moral wage?

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

physics

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

scary-futurism

• Why care about genetic privacy?

naturalism

• Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?

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

scepticism

• The presumed worth of anthropology

cause-prioritisation

• Estimating political controversy
• 'Why study economics?'

transhumanism

• Automatic for the people

criticism

• Present pieties
• Rubinations
• Punk as ideology

ethics-of-belief

• Anaesthetatron

becoming

• Limits to self-invention

false-framework

• Limits to self-invention

music

• Rubinations
• Punk as ideology

culture

• Punk as ideology

subculture

• Punk as ideology