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