Slate Star Codex:
- Eight Short Studies on Excuses
- Schelling fences on slippery slopes
- All Debates Are Bravery Debates
- Is Science Slowing Down?
- Trapped Priors
- It's Bayes All The Way Up
- Value Differences as Differently Crystallized Metaphysical Heuristics
- Beware Isolated Demands for Rigor
- Sadly, Porn Book Review
- Bounded Distrust
Gwern:
Eliezer:
Book Review: Unlocking the Emotional Brain
Joe Carlsmith, Can You Control the Past?
Integrity for consequentialists
Peter Thiel:
Paul Graham:
- What You'll Wish You'd Known
- Microsoft is Dead
- How to Do Philosophy
- How to Get Startup Ideas
- How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
- Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
- The Lesson to Unlearn
- How to Do Great Work
- Superlinear Returns
Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity
Scott Aaronson:
Michael Nielsen:
- How I use memory systems
- Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics
- Augmenting Long-term Memory
When do ideas get easier to find?
Starship is Still Not Understood
How to make off-grid data centers affordable
Karpathy:
- We are really, really far away
- Quantifying Productivity
- Survival Guide to a PhD
- A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
- Biohacking lite
Transformer Inference Arithmetic
On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr From First Principles
Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Engineering Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: from TensorFlow and PyTorch to Jax and Julia
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
How to Criticize Computer Scientists
How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel
Dan Williams: are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies?
Matt Levine:
Byrne Hobart:
Rationalizing latency competition in HFT
Towards a Transcendental Deduction of Jungle
Sam Kriss: