I'm a Master's student in Cognitive Science at Higher School of Economics in Moscow, where I previously studied Economics and Mathematics.
On this site I collect my writing and research and try to make my private knowledge public. My goal for signal-to-noise ratio is to make my writing unhighlightable.
My long-term goal is to make the future humane, aesthetic, and to make it happen faster.
I'm inspired by Gwern, Derek Sivers, Michael Karpeles, Spencer Greenberg.
You can contact me at alexey@guzey.com or via Twitter, Telegram, Facebook or VK.
Top 10 my favorite pages
An Ad Hominem Argument Against GDP — because every other argument has been written about a thousand times by now
Every productivity thought I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible
RAPIDLY PRESS X TO REFUSE TO COME TO TERMS WITH YOUR OWN MORTALITY, an interactive experience.
17-20: a Retrospective on Four Years in College
Why You Should Not Go on a Tinder Date with Me
Instilling Novel Thought Patterns and Making Your Long-Term Memory Accountable with Anki
Why You Shoud Join Twitter Right Now
People and Things I Would Fund If I were a Billionaire
Top 5 most popular pages
Every productivity thought I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible
17-20: a Retrospective on Four Years in College
Instilling Novel Thought Patterns and Making Your Long-Term Memory Accountable with Anki
An Ad Hominem Argument Against GDP — because every other argument has been written about a thousand times by now
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Every productivity thought I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible
Quarterly Links
Personal
17-20: a Retrospective on Four Years in College
People and Things I Would Fund If I were a Billionaire
Why You Should Not Go on a Tinder Date with Me
Julian Jaynes and the Ancient Tablets
RAPIDLY PRESS X TO REFUSE TO COME TO TERMS WITH YOUR OWN MORTALITY, an interactive experience.
Economics
Contra Scott Alexander’s “The Tails Coming Apart as Metaphor for Life”
An Ad Hominem Argument Against GDP — because every other argument has been written about a thousand times by now
Fun Economic Facts, e.g. if a firm develops a new technology and starts selling the same product in the same quantity but cheaper, GDP will fall and GDP per capita will fall
Faulty Reasoning in Dalio’s “How The Economic Machine Works”
Things including computer hardware and electronics, computer software, chrome extensions, and phone apps I use; discussions of Twitter, Anki, Android
Books books highlights, my comments, and recommendations
Politics
People
Education
Is anything inherently difficult?
Polynomial Time Reductions and the P vs NP problem