Philosophical Multicore
Healthy Cooking Tips from a Lazy Person
Doctor Strange Didn't See Only One Victory out of 14,000,605 Futures
Is It So Much to Ask for a Nice Reliable Aggregated X-Risk Forecast?
Annual Subscription Discounts Usually Aren't Worth It
LLMs Might Already Be Conscious
In Which I Defend Fruit's Honor
Updates Digest: Inaugural Edition
Against Ergodicity Economics
Let's Take a Moment to Marvel At How Bad the Original USDA Food Pyramid Was
Can You Maintain Lean Mass in a Calorie Deficit?
Why Would AI Companies Use Human-Level AI to Do Alignment Research?
Do Protests Work? A Critical Review
The Triple-Interaction-Effects Argument
You Can Now Read My Reading Notes
There Are Three Kinds of "No Evidence"
Return Stacked Funds: A New Way to Get Leverage
I Was Probably Wrong About HIIT and VO2max
Retroactive If-Then Commitments
The 7 Best High-Protein Breakfast Cereals
Charity Cost-Effectiveness Really Does Follow a Power Law
"You Can't Calculate the Expected Utility of a Communist Revolution"
Thoughts on My Donation Process
Where I Am Donating in 2024
Subjects in Pysch Studies Are More Rational Than Psychologists
My Submission for Worst Argument In The World
Outlive: A Critical Review
I Have Whatever the Opposite of a Placebo Effect Is
Protein Quality (DIAAS) Calculator
Just Because a Number Is a Rounding Error Doesn't Mean It's Not Important
A 401(k) Sometimes Isn't Worth It
Continuing My Caffeine Self-Experiment
Some Things I've Changed My Mind On
Notes on Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
What's the Healthiest Body Composition?
What's the Healthiest BMI?
Caffeine Cycling Self-Experiment
How Well Did Scott Alexander's List of Social Science Findings Hold Up?
Explicit Bayesian Reasoning: Don't Give Up So Easily
Does Caffeine Stop Working?
Avoiding Caffeine Tolerance
Utilitarianism Isn't About Doing Bad Things for the Greater Good. It's About Doing the Most Good
The United States Is Weird
Should Patient Philanthropists Invest Differently?
Two Types of Scientific Misconceptions You Can Easily Disprove
Most Theories Can't Explain Why Game of Thrones Went Downhill
Philanthropists Probably Shouldn't Mission-Hedge AI Progress
The Review Service Vortex of Death
Index Funds That Vote Are Active, Not Passive
A Preliminary Model of Mission-Correlated Investing
How I Estimate Future Investment Returns
Can Good Writing Be Taught?
Existential Risk Reduction Is Naive (And That's a Good Thing)
Altruistic Investors Care About Other Altruists' Portfolios
Should Earners-to-Give Work at Startups Instead of Big Companies?
Obvious Investing Facts
Future Funding/Talent/Capacity Constraints Matter, Too
Low-Hanging (Monetary) Fruit for Wealthy EAs
Do I Read My Own Citations?
Summaries Are Important
Argumentative Tactics I Would Like to Stop Seeing
My Experience Trying to Force Myself to Do Deep Work
Mission Hedgers Want to Hedge Quantity, Not Price
How Do AI Timelines Affect Giving Now vs. Later?
Metaculus Questions Suggest Money Will Do More Good in the Future
Reverse-Engineering the Philanthropic Discount Rate
How Can We Increase the Frequency of Rare Insights?
Investment Strategies for Donor-Advised Funds
A Comparison of Donor-Advised Fund Providers
More Evidence on Concentrated Stock Selection
The True Cost of Leveraged ETFs
Investors Can Simulate Leverage via Concentrated Stock Selection
Asset Allocation and Leverage for Altruists with Constraints
Uncorrelated Investments for Altruists
If Causes Differ Astronomically in Cost-Effectiveness, Then Personal Fit In Career Choice Is Unimportant
Donor-Advised Funds vs. Taxable Accounts for Patient Donors
The Risk of Concentrating Wealth in a Single Asset
"Disappointing Futures" Might Be As Important As Existential Risks
Mission Hedging via Momentum Investing
Giving Now vs. Later for Existential Risk: An Initial Approach
Should We Prioritize Long-Term Existential Risk?
The Importance of Unknown Existential Risks
Estimating the Philanthropic Discount Rate
Do Theoretical Models Accurately Predict Optimal Leverage?
How Much Leverage Should Altruists Use?
Correction on Giving Now vs. Later
Are All Actions Impermissible Under Kantian Deontology?
New Page: Convert Credences into a Bet
What Are the Best TV Shows (According to IMDb Episode Ratings)?
High School Science Experiments
How Can Donors Incentivize Good Predictions on Important but Unpopular Topics?
Should Global Poverty Donors Give Now or Later?
Why Do Small Donors Give Now, But Large Donors Give Later?
Where Some People Donated in 2017
Newcomb's Problem and Efficient Markets
All Expected Utility Distributions Have One of Two Big Problems
New Comment System
An Idea for How Large Donors Can Support Small Charities
Do Investors Put Too Much Stock in the US?
Ideas Too Short for Essays
Good Ventures/Open Phil Should Make Riskier Grants