Flight From Perfection
"AGI" considered harmful
The Open Way to Universal Peace and Prosperity
postrat philanthropy
GNX (teaser)
How much wealth do I need to retire early? (2024 refresh)
A new pledge of allegiance
Iceland's founding legend
On having kids
Make email great again
Han on rest
Getting started with tpot
Some thoughts on "AI could defeat all of us combined"
Fundamental AGI alignment problems
You are a janitor
Mitochondria and moral mazes
Cause area: jhana meditation
Herzog on wild animal suffering as a cause area
Sexualities finite and infinite 2
Sexualities finite and infinite
Make your tech work for you
"Better not to begin. Once begun, better to finish!"
Books read Q3 and Q4 2020
Specific benefits of meditation
Books read Q1 and Q2 2020
The contemplative fitness revolution
The best explanation of Modern Monetary Theory
The common ownership self-assessed tax (COST)
Contemplative practices, optimal stopping, explore/exploit
Taoist vs. moralist
Brave
Books read Q4 2019
Prepping for bitcoiners
Cummings on mentality, education, and institutions
von Neumann on science
2019 reflections & 2020 aspirations
2019 in review: state of the blog
Books read Q2 and Q3 2019
Steamed guano – the real driver of our industrial prosperity
(a)
Mann's moral interlude
Borlaug overrated?
Inbox When Ready
What supplements do you use?
ITT in the wild
Magic(k)
Ego is a process
The jetliner
Who owns the park?
Excerpt 5 from "White Fragility"
The ambassador and the engineer
Achmiz on the drowning child
Excerpt 4 from "White Fragility"
Excerpt 3 from "White Fragility"
Huxley on mental arterio-sclerosis
Excerpt 2 from "White Fragility"
Excerpt from "White Fragility"
Krishnamurti on right livelihood 2
Rubenstein on wonder
Romeo on living in expensive places
Habryka on philosopher kings
Krishnamurti on right livelihood
Books read Q1 2019
Romer on the economics of objects vs. the economics of ideas
What's the point of Huxley's Island?
Framework: complex value & situational awareness
Constructed vs. constructive consciousness
Science: slowing down or tackling bigger problems?
The hard work of translation
Better words for happiness
Harden your browser
Surveillance capitalism: 1,000 contracts
Stegenga on medical nihilism
Surveillance capitalism: definitions
Altruistic action is dispassionate
Microcosmographia excerpt
China notes
Has your EA worldview changed over time?
"Moral Mazes" 3
Do the enlightened doubt?
More from "Moral Mazes"
Basic anxiety is happening all the time
Jordan Peterson on universities
Aphorisms for meditation
Naval twitter bombs
Excerpt from "Moral Mazes"
Who has the highest potential to change the world?
Traffic defector
Jordan Peterson on Exodus
Ray Dalio's advice to a 20-year-old
Four major tools
Being a bank
Choruses from The Rock
Greenberg on the placebo effect & healer-patient alliances
What we talk about when we talk about life satisfaction
The useless
When the shoe fits
Books read Q4 2018
If slow-takeoff AGI is somewhat likely, don't give now
Lorde on mythical norms
Watchmen trilemma
2018 reflections & 2019 aspirations
2018 in review: analytic
2018 in review: state of the blog
Giving more won't make you happier: distilled
Giving more won't make you happier
AI god scenario
Nye on order
Smartphones in popular 2018 movies
Dorsey does vipassana
Free Solo
Worth keeping
The tyranny of structurelessness
Prescient quote
Perfectly round circles
Synanon
Opioid deaths
Memetic tribes
Rumi: a children's game
Fear and resentment
De dicto and de re
Security mindset
The Great Brahma
A few drinks aren't that bad
Angry uncle bot
Beijing social credit
Penny universities & the European discovery of coffee
Email newsletters
Krishnamurti bomb
Jordan Peterson on hockey & iterated games
Explain Foucault to me
When laziness is optimal
Naval bombs 6
Naval bombs 5
Naval bombs 4
Naval bombs 3
Naval bombs 2
Coase's question
Naval bombs
Illustrated guide to a PhD
Kibbutz 2
World's longest sea bridge
Kibbutz
Supernormal stimuli
Books read Q3 2018
Daily aspirin increases risk of a bleeding event
Cynefin
Get lunch to defeat siloes (sometimes)
Casual sex differential
Nazis listening to Big Ben
Tribes to nations to something new
George Washington's slaves
Happiness
Free won't
Trolls in the grievance academy
Lying about your age, past and present
There's something good in coffee...
Marriage as a capstone
Harari on liberal humanism and life science
Bloom on cruelty & dehumanization
People are having less sex
Does knuckle cracking lead to arthritis of the fingers?
Hyperprolific
Finding work happy-making
Three things, interlinked
Hazony on the most effective indoctrination
College students have grown more narcissistic
Hazony on political rationalism
Fire discourse
Billionaire contingency plans
Life as herding cats
On measuring happiness
No amount of alcohol improves health
Office sharks
Help others to help yourself
Cowen on having independent opinions
Political correctness & success
Mao & Trump
Apologists vs. historians
The agricultural revolution: story #2
The agricultural revolution: story #1
Michelle Dawson's production function
The bad reason New York didn't crack down on money laundering
Michelle Dawson on autistic intelligence
Harari on myths
And yet...
Consider longboarding
Now is all you have
Arthur Brooks recommends taking a politics cleanse
Arthur Brooks on four jobs of the CEO
Puritans didn't like wasting time
Don't take the existence of wealth for granted
"Existential risk" in Chinese
Are you Thrasymachus?
Comment thread about cost-effect skepticism
Bug-out bag refresh
Jaron Lanier on wolf mentalities in social media
Tension between autonomy & care in modernity
Books read Q2 2018
Why I'm skeptical of cost-effectiveness analysis
What's important is what you're reading
Puritan marriages were surprisingly liberal
On deciding what to do
Theranos: the religion
Big firm life
Caplan on the autodidact's curse
Some things I've learned
Jonah Goldberg on capitalism
Dr. Gabor Maté on the opioid crisis
Can you pay for unconditional love?
Books read Q1 2018
Rehabilitating Khrushchev
Tim Ferriss on lovingkindness meditation
Delayed Gratification
War with Russia means war with China
00000000
But where are the bones?
One good man at the Phnom Pehn Water Authority
A life you will want to wake up to
Jerry Brown at the gates of Tassajara
Harari on meditation
Andrew Sullivan on the opioid crisis
Shunryu Suzuki on life as a movie
Jeff Warren on "Expanding Mind"
Doing good while clueless
Charles Mann's production function
Books read Q4 2017
Hubspot's diversity data
Kabat-Zinn on stepping out of time
Excerpts from the introduction of "not always so"
Shunryu Suzuki on evil desires
Still Drinking's job advice
Ross Douthat's production function
Thiel on retaining employees
A strong claim in "Never Split the Difference"
David Foster Wallace on 3
Excerpts from a David Foster Wallace television interview
Shuffering and shmiling
9/9/6
Two lenses on working in tech
BART as a tool for focus
Reality Winner and the surveillance state
How tractable is cluelessness?
2017 in review: narrative (sorta)
2017 in review: analytic
“Just take the expected value” – a possible reply to concerns about cluelessness
The Social Security Trust Fund
Someone still receives a soldier's pension from the Civil War
Buddha epigraph misattribution
Definitional example of a Schelling point
Bitcoin 2025
Cowen on reducing complacency in your children
Salzberg's spoon of salt
What consequences?
Gopnik on Buddhism
Scott Adams' persuasion tips
Try your phone on grayscale
What to do about consequentialist cluelessness?
Good article on male loneliness
Eliezer on epistemic modesty
Excerpts from "The Gulag Archipelago"
A terrifying sample of nuclear close calls
Skopje statue
The Italo-Nigerian sex fashion pipeline
Books read Q3 2017
Hoffman on Quakers
The Larry Summers production function
Nu
Vegas dispatch
Solnit on negative capability
Gawande & Sasse on hiring
Scholarly production functions
Books read Q2 2017
Why I am not a Christian
Excerpt from "Strangers in Their Own Land"
Books read Q1 2017
80% of the S&P 500 is intangible
Excerpts from "The End of the Tour"
Online dating is frustrating
Books read Q4 2016
Freewrite rescued from my email drafts: 4
Freewrite rescued from my email drafts: 3
Freewrite rescued from my email drafts: 2
Freewrite rescued from my email drafts: 1
Second half of 2016 in review: analytic
Second half of 2016 in review: narrative
Joint statement from California legislative leaders on result of presidential election
President Trump
Should we give now or later? (continued)
Should we give now or later?
Misalignment of consequentialism and intuition
Black Mirror: Nosedive
Books read Q3 2016
How much do I need to save to retire early?
Motorcycling: is it worth the risk?
Passages I particularly enjoyed in "The Seven Storey Mountain"
Lifehack
When akrasia crosses with depression
Reflection on my time at GiveWell
Nanodegree postmortem
Excerpt from "One Man's Wilderness"
On spending money freely
Books read Q2 2016
2015-2016 year in review
Excerpt from Schlosser's "Command and Control"
"Trump overvalued" postmortem
Revisions to "Trump overvalued"
Trump overvalued
Longform read Q1 2016
Books read Q1 2016
Another prediction market oddity
A bet against Sanders, II
A new daily schedule
A more serious commitment to mindfulness, and a relevant paradox
A prediction market bet against Sanders
Putting a bug-out bag together
Review of "The Hateful Eight"
Longform read Q4 2015
Books read Q4 2015
Heuristics for evaluating performance
Two quotes from "The House I Live In"
Lost time
Migrating to Pelican
Reading list Q3 2015
The fading of older relatives
Navigating the death of older relatives, II
Navigating the death of older relatives
Framework for thinking about performance
Research methodology for a pseudostatistical analysis of Understanding Power
Radical open period
Reading list Q2 2015
2014-2015 year in review
You should read this
How to get started as a Bay Area motorcyclist
How many productive hours do I have remaining?
Min Kamp
In which repugnancy functions as the catalyst of an agenda for further ethical investigation
Godless humility
Music from "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night"
Reading List Q1 2015
Allowance
Ode to the Caffe Mediterraneum
Reading for quantity
Couple thoughts on organics
Untitled, by D'Angelo
Understanding Power
Maps
Things I found on the internet
The problem with meaning
(latter part of) 2014 reading list
Crash course to the current world
Seasons greetings
Abridged, dramatized account of a car ride conversation
Another bit from the internet
Overheard in Maseru
Tinder
True Detective, ep. 1
Computer?
Where blogging falls
citizenfour
Form follows function