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Slate Star Codex:

Gwern:

Eliezer:

Book Review: Unlocking the Emotional Brain

Joe Carlsmith, Can You Control the Past?

The Midwit Trap

The lessons of Xanadu

Integrity for consequentialists

Startups

Peter Thiel:

Paul Graham:

Science and Tech

You and Your Research

Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity

Scott Aaronson:

Michael Nielsen:

When do ideas get easier to find?

Starship is Still Not Understood

How to make off-grid data centers affordable

Machine Learning

The Bitter Lesson

Just Ask for Generalization

Karpathy:

Dwarkesh: Will scaling work?

Transformer Inference Arithmetic

Wired, Geoff Hinton

On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr From First Principles

GPT, Fast

ezyang, pytorch internals

Programming

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

Programmer's intro to unicode

Misc

Dan Wang, 2021 Letter

Dan Wang, 2022 Letter

Utopian Pharmacology

Dan Williams: are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies?

Matt Levine:

Byrne Hobart:

Rationalizing latency competition in HFT

On lucidity

Towards a Transcendental Deduction of Jungle

Sam Kriss:

High culture and hyperstimulus