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forecasting
- Can policymakers trust forecasters?
- Scoring the Big Three
- Comparing experts and generalists
- A ceiling for human expertise
art
- 'Disco Elysium' (2019): Part 1
- To be led out
- Cracking country
- Songs for the Extremely Online
- Cracking cultures
- 'Trompettes de la Mort' (2005)
- 'Homicide' (1991) by Simon
- 'The Decline' (1999) by NOFX
- 'Have One on Me' by Joanna Newsom
politics
- 'Disco Elysium' (2019): Part 1
- π vs τ as clash of worldviews
- 'The Decline' (1999) by NOFX
- Punk as ideology
mind
becoming
- 'Disco Elysium' (2019): Part 1
- The ladder of abstraction
- get hype
- To be led out
- prospective nostalgia
- Limits to self-invention
maths
- The ladder of abstraction
- Favourite maths tools
- Graphs are cool
- Better ways to write maths
- Maths at the Open University
- Perelman
- π vs τ as clash of worldviews
- Conceptual conversions
- Frege's grand failure
philosophy
- The ladder of abstraction
- Ramsey
- Drake, Hanson, and the meaning of life
- Cracking cultures
- 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
- Effective Altruism Global: x: Oxford
- magic words
- 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
- 'The Scotch' (1880) by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Economics as philosophy of life
Staring at mystics- Neither Turing, neither Searle
meaning
- get hype
- To be led out
- The sense of a start
- prospective nostalgia
- Legacy and the memory of legacy
- 'Terra Ignota': the ecstasy of uncertainty
- Cracking cultures
- 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
self-help
- get hype
- prospective nostalgia
- 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
poem
literature
status
subculture
longtermism
- The sense of a start
- Ramsey
- Legacy and the memory of legacy
- 'Terra Ignota': the ecstasy of uncertainty
- Drake, Hanson, and the meaning of life
- Against the Culture
- AI ethics for present & future
- Blogging is dead, long live sites
- Existential risk as common cause
scifi
personal
writing
machine-learning
greats
epistemology
- Comparing experts and generalists
- 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
social-science
- Comparing experts and generalists
- Uncritical thinking
- How lethal are the Tories? Part 1
- The presumed worth of anthropology
- The Worst Game Ever
- Modelling linguistic accommodation
- Present pieties
effective-altruism
- Phil Harvey (1938 - 2021)
- AI alignment & academia
- 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar
- Turing
- Estimating political controversy
- Effective Altruism Global: x: Oxford
- What's the highest moral wage?
Rorty and the Wild PartyVirtue, work, and the world to come
poverty
death
music
- Songs for the Extremely Online
- 'Trompettes de la Mort' (2005)
- Nation playlists
- 'The Decline' (1999) by NOFX
- Rubinations
- 'Have One on Me' by Joanna Newsom
- Punk as ideology
fiction
rationality
- Drake, Hanson, and the meaning of life
- 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
science
- Comparing experts and generalists
- Drake, Hanson, and the meaning of life
- 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
- 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?
code
research
ai
xrisk
ethics
- Using courts for algorithmic fairness
- The One True Sceptic
- Against the Culture
- AI ethics for present & future
- Perelman
- 'Strangers Drowning' (2015) by MacFarquhar
on veganism- Anaesthetatron
- What's the highest moral wage?
- Misreading Russell on radical scepticism
ethics-of-belief
tools-for-thought
biochemistry
quantified-self
biology
health
academia
suffering
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
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
- Is education worth it for society?
- 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
- Perelman
- 'Homicide' (1991) by Simon
- 'Blindsight' (2006) by Watts
- 'Curiosity' (2012) by Ball
- 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry
mental-health
replication
long-content
psychology
uni
utility
finance
bio
- Stimulant tolerance, or, the tears of things
- The trouble with supplements
- Perelman
- Einstein
- 'The Great Influenza' (2004) by Barry
- Turing
- 'Hitler's Uranium Club' (2008) by Bernstein
- Why is quality rare?
goodhart
computers
history
- 'Curiosity' (2012) by Ball
- Disambiguating the first computer
- 'Hitler's Uranium Club' (2008) by Bernstein
- Taking Hume's name
progress
biorisk
stats
argument
- A ceiling for human expertise
- Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?
- Neither Turing, neither Searle
conceptual-analysis
education
physics
scary-futurism
naturalism
scepticism
- Does the gut cross the epistemic barrier?
- The presumed worth of anthropology
- Can you trust your methods?