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AI Risk Might Be More Subtle Than We Expect - 2023
Depressed people are more prone to addiction. If social media engagement looks a lot like addiction, does that mean algorithms for increasing engagement…
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Faith, UFOs, the Supernatural, and Transistor Radios
Why are many people so willing to believe evidence of UFOs and Aliens, and so unwilling to believe evidence for God?
Sep 19
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Speculative Attempts to Complicate Throughout History - 2023
When things aren't going well, those in power will sometimes introduce some speculative chaos in the hopes that what emerges on the other side will be…
Sep 16
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The 11 Books I Finished in August
World Beyond Your Head, 4 Thousand Weeks, Generations, When Violence Is the Answer, Ship of Fools, Traction, One More Thing, Animal Farm…
Sep 9
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The Apocalypse Will Not Be as Cool or as Deadly as You Hope - 2023
There are many potential apocalypses, and when people imagine them they imagine that everyone will die. On the contrary most people will live, and it…
Sep 2
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August 2023
The Nation Debt in Three Lists of Six Items - 2023
Apparently even the "smart" people are finally ready to admit that we should start reducing our annual deficit. In 2017 I was unclear on what the…
Aug 23
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The 9 Books I Finished in July and the One I Didn’t
Some Turchin, some Attia, some Camus, some popsci, and a large dash of obscure science fiction.
Aug 12
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Is Pornography a Supernormal Stimuli? - 2023
Supernormal stimuli are those things which encourage us to do something that was historically very useful, but in an artificial and supercharged way…
Aug 2
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July 2023
Tribe by Sebastian Junger and the Strange Diseases of Progress
The Siege of Sarajevo killed 20% of the population, a horror most of us can scarcely grasp, yet those who survived it look back on the siege as a period…
Jul 27
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The Vulnerable World Hypothesis as Map to the Future
Expanding on Nick Bostrom's metaphor for technological development — it's like drawing balls of various shades from an urn, and if you ever draw a pure…
Jul 19
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Traditions: Separating the Important from the Inconsequential - 2023
There's significant evidence that traditional practices were beneficial and adaptive. But many reject traditions as relics of a barbarous past. How do…
Jul 13
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The 10 Books I Finished in June
But above all I want to go back to it, not because I know it was the right place but because I think it was the right turning. And the right turning…
Jul 6
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June 2023
The Ideas of Nassim Nicholas Taleb - 2023
The pithiest explanation of Taleb's philosophy anywhere on the internet.
Jun 28
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The Politics of the Zombie Apocalypse - 2023
Per Scott Alexander it's possible that the right optimizes for survival, while the left optimizes for thriving. If so would a society entirely optimized…
Jun 21
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Burning Man, Dreamtime and Dragons - 2023
Originally published in 2019 — modernized for your edification. Why this one from all the other dreck? Robin Hanson read it and said, "Another…
Jun 14
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The 10 Books I Finished in May and One I Didn't
Didn't finish in May that is. I finished it back in September, but it was only just now published...
Jun 8
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Nukes (2023)
I modernize an old post, adding copious footnotes, along with significant editing. Oh, and I guess I talk a lot about nuclear weapons and what the…
Jun 1
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May 2023
Decisions as a Barbell (Also a Very Meta Post)
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May 25
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The 8 Books I Finished in April
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May 6
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April 2023
Eschatologist #28: If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear
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Apr 30
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The Modern Landscape of Harm
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Apr 27
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The Silly Startup and the (Law)suit It Spawned
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Apr 21
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The 13 Books I Finished in March
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Apr 10
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