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You need a plan for the future
It’s about to get weird The events of the past few weeks have convinced me that this chart from Wait But Why is true, and that we're only a few years…
Dec 15, 2023
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November 2022
Album review: Ants From Up There
This was originally a Twitter thread, hence the weird formatting and style. But, as a “longer” piece of writing, I also wanted to post it here. As the…
Nov 14, 2022
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August 2022
20 transformative texts, part 2
(Follow-up to 20 transformative texts). Another friend of mine — I swear I have more than one! — is trying to learn about post-rationality, and I…
Aug 16, 2022
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20 transformative texts
A friend has been trying to get into “rationality” and “effective altruism” for a while, but there’s just so much content out there that the task seems…
Aug 13, 2022
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What's up with Amsterdam?
Tales from the most beautiful city in the world
Aug 4, 2022
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June 2022
We can do much more together
A manifesto
Jun 26, 2022
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Alignment is extremely hard
"Can't we just ask the AI not to kill us?" I wish AI alignment was this easy. But it's almost impossible to write down all the sub-values we care about…
Jun 9, 2022
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May 2022
Bryan Caplan's keyhole solutions for immigration
A keyhole solution is an idea of “targeting specific problems through narrow, targeted solutions rather than trying to restrict or control unrelated…
May 29, 2022
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Unconscious bias training doesn't work
From Tom Chivers: The IAT does not appear to measure a real thing and there is no evidence that unconscious bias training does what it is claimed to do…
May 28, 2022
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March 2022
10 Japanese directors to know to impress your Tinder date
Japanese cinema is fascinating. On the one hand, it's familiar and accessible enough to not alienate its western audience — anime and samurai are…
Mar 21, 2022
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January 2022
Who's afraid of synthetic wombs?
The latest Twitter drama
Jan 20, 2022
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We should decouple materialism from capitalism
Why capitalism is not all that bad.
Jan 6, 2022
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