I aim to write things that are useful. My long-term goal is to make the future humane, aesthetic, and to make it happen faster. My biggest intellectual influences are Scott Alexander and Gwern.
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Recent
June 30, Why is there only one Elon Musk? Why is there so much low-hanging fruit?
April 29, Links for Jan-Mar 2020
February 14, Scientific experiments I want to fund
January 20, Links for Oct-Dec 2019
Notable
- Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
- Every productivity thought I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible
- How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation
- The Effects on Cognition of Sleeping 4 Hours per Night for 12-14 Days: a Pre-Registered Self-Experiment
- Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now
- What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice
- It Is Your Responsibility to Follow Up
- Why You Should Join Twitter Right Now
- How to make friends over the internet
- Research Ideas
- Gwern’s Most Important Writing (in essays, tweets, book reviews, and other forms
- Most Important Slate Star Codex Posts
- Don’t believe self-reported data
- Reviving Patronage and Revolutionary Industrial Research
- Tools / Gear
- How to use your wife/husband/gf/bf correctly
- Is anything inherently difficult?
Personal
- On Friendship and on Finding Your People
- 17-20: a Retrospective on Four Years in College
- My journal: years of depression and self-loathing; learning to accept myself and others; overcoming video game addiction
- My Favorite Movies, TV Shows, Books, Podcasts, Music, Video games
- People and Things I Would Fund If I Were a Billionaire
Fiction & Art
- How I got to #1 spot on Hacker News and why you should never try doing the same
- Why You Should Not Go on a Tinder Date with Me
- Dating
- RAPIDLY PRESS X TO REFUSE TO COME TO TERMS WITH YOUR OWN MORTALITY
- A dying snake
Other
- How Our Commitments Slip Away From Us (pdf, my bachelor’s thesis)
- Why We Likely Underappreciate the Pace of Technological Progress
- Why is there only one Elon Musk? Why is there so much low-hanging fruit?
- Instilling Novel Thought Patterns and Making Your Long-Term Memory Accountable with Anki
- Contra Scott Alexander’s “The Tails Coming Apart as Metaphor for Life”
- Against Universal Basic Income
- Fun Economic Facts
- Polynomial Time Reductions and the P vs NP problem
- Three Questions for Russia
- MOOCs I Recommend And How to Study with Them
- My Favorite Textbooks
- Where does talent come from? How easy is it to discover talent?
- Tweet rot
- Can We Trust Peter Turchin?
- Scientific experiments I want to fund
- Tweet-Sized Insight Porn
- Philosophers for Sale
- Julian Jaynes and the Ancient Tablets