Internet Writing
Rationality
- Slate Star Codex. Eight Short Studies on Excuses
- Slate Star Codex. Schelling Fences on Slippery Slopes
- Slate Star Codex. All Debates Are Bravery Debates
- Slate Star Codex. Is Science Slowing Down?
- Slate Star Codex. Trapped Priors
- Slate Star Codex. It's Bayes All The Way Up
- Slate Star Codex. Value Differences as Differently Crystallized Metaphysical Heuristics
- Slate Star Codex. Beware Isolated Demands for Rigor
- Slate Star Codex. Sadly, Porn Book Review
- Slate Star Codex. Bounded Distrust
- Gwern. One Man's Modus Ponens
- Gwern. The Scaling Hypothesis
- Gwern. Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning
- Eliezer Yudkowsky. How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
- Eliezer Yudkowsky. Occam's Razor
- Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain
- Joe Carlsmith. Can You Control the Past?
- The Lessons of Xanadu
- Integrity for Consequentialists
Startups
- Peter Thiel. The Education of a Libertarian
- Paul Graham. What You'll Wish You'd Known
- Paul Graham. Microsoft is Dead
- Paul Graham. How to Do Philosophy
- Paul Graham. How to Get Startup Ideas
- Paul Graham. How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
- Paul Graham. Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
- Paul Graham. The Lesson to Unlearn
- Paul Graham. How to Do Great Work
- Paul Graham. Superlinear Returns
Science and Technology
- Richard Hamming. You and Your Research
- Vernor Vinge. The Coming Technological Singularity
- Scott Aaronson. On Being Wrong About AI
- Michael Nielsen. How I Use Memory Systems
- Michael Nielsen. Using Spaced Repetition Systems to See Through a Piece of Mathematics
- Michael Nielsen. Augmenting Long-Term Memory
- When Do Ideas Get Easier to Find?
- Austin Vernon. How to Make Off-Grid Data Centers Affordable
Machine Learning
- Rich Sutton. The Bitter Lesson
- Eric Jang. Just Ask for Generalization
- Wired. An AI Pioneer Explains the Evolution of Neural Networks
- Peter Norvig. On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
- Horace He. Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr From First Principles
- Edward Yang. PyTorch Internals
Programming
- Guido van Rossum. Python Patterns: An Optimization Anecdote
- James Iry. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
- Chris Rackauckas. Engineering Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation
- Peter Norvig. Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
- Douglas Comer. How to Criticize Computer Scientists
Misc
- Dan Wang. 2021 Letter
- Dan Wang. 2022 Letter
- Utopian Pharmacology
- Dan Williams. Are People Too Flawed, Ignorant, and Tribal for Open Societies?
- Headlands Tech. Rationalizing Latency Competition in HFT
- On Lucidity
- Towards a Transcendental Deduction of Jungle
- Sam Kriss. Downtown 23
- Scott Sumner. Italian Mannerism, David Lynch, and Lars von Trier
- Scott Sumner. Peak Cinema
- Scott Sumner. A Theory of Second Best