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• Why are people so scared of causing fear? May 5, 2026

• Women should be able to open things May 4, 2026

• Numb mental state shifts May 3, 2026

• Understand why AI is a doom-risk in 39 captivating minutes May 2, 2026

• Games that change your mind May 1, 2026

• 11 ways to be less deferential Apr 30, 2026

• Self driving interview Apr 29, 2026

• San Francisco: self driving Apr 28, 2026

• AI unemployment and AI extinction are often the same Apr 27, 2026

• Manhattan: distance and movement Apr 26, 2026

• AI: cognitive labor glut + new guys Apr 25, 2026

• Cambridge: the kettle Apr 24, 2026

• Sleep puzzle system Apr 23, 2026

• How much should the ideal person cry wolf? Apr 22, 2026

• Vibe signaling externalities and the people-to-places pipeline Apr 21, 2026

• AI risk was not invested by AI CEOs to hype their companies Apr 20, 2026

• The salad market mystery Apr 19, 2026

• Athletic education vs. athletic torment Apr 18, 2026

• Missing markets in executive function Apr 17, 2026

• Tax offenses Apr 16, 2026

• Unsickness celebration Apr 15, 2026

• When will AI surpass us at being limited? Apr 14, 2026

• Orgs: unreasonable boyfriend as service Apr 13, 2026

• Is there an acceptable way to store clothes? Apr 12, 2026

• Picking up where I left off in 2021 Apr 11, 2026

• Talking to journalists Apr 10, 2026

• Fake voices: warping the social world Apr 9, 2026

• Let's talk about the AI coordination problem Apr 8, 2026

• An easy coordination problem? Apr 7, 2026

• Eggs, rooms, puzzles, and talking about AI Apr 6, 2026

• How I love running Apr 5, 2026

• Canberra: folk music Apr 4, 2026

• We can prevent progress! Conceptual clarity, and inspiration from the FDA Apr 3, 2026

• AI as a Trojan horse race Apr 2, 2026

• 'Wicked': thoughts Jun 2, 2025

• Association taxes are collusion subsidies May 27, 2025

• Mental software updates Feb 26, 2025

• Winning the power to lose Nov 11, 2024

• Ten arguments that AI is an existential risk Aug 14, 2024

• Secondary forces of debt Jun 27, 2024

• Podcasts: AGI Show, Consistently Candid, London Futurists Jun 23, 2024

• What if a tech company forced you to move to NYC? Jun 9, 2024

• Podcast: Center for AI Policy, on AI risk and listening to AI researchers Jun 6, 2024

• Is suffering like shit? May 31, 2024

• Twin Peaks: under the air May 30, 2024

• What is my Facebook feed about? May 15, 2024

• Things I hate about Partiful May 9, 2024

• An explanation of evil in an organized world May 2, 2024

• The first future and the best future Apr 25, 2024

• Experiment on repeating choices Apr 18, 2024

• Mid-conditional love Apr 17, 2024

• Partial value takeover without world takeover Apr 5, 2024

• More podcasts on 2023 AI survey: Cognitive Revolution and FLI Mar 27, 2024

• New social credit formalizations Mar 11, 2024

• Podcast: Eye4AI on 2023 Survey Mar 9, 2024

• Movie posters Mar 5, 2024

• Are we so good to simulate? Mar 4, 2024

• Shaming with and without naming Feb 22, 2024

• Parasocial relationship logic Feb 19, 2024

• Deep and obvious points in the gap between your thoughts and your pictures of thought Feb 15, 2024

• Survey of 2,778 AI authors: six parts in pictures Jan 5, 2024

• I put odds on ends with Nathan Young Nov 8, 2023

• A to Z of things Nov 3, 2023

• The other side of the tidal wave Nov 3, 2023

• Robin Hanson and I talk about AI risk May 4, 2023

• Have we really forsaken natural selection? Jan 11, 2023

• We don't trade with ants Jan 10, 2023

• How to eat potato chips while typing Jan 3, 2023

• Pacing: inexplicably good Jan 1, 2023

• Worldly Positions archive, briefly with private drafts Dec 30, 2022

• More ways to spot abysses Dec 29, 2022

• Let's think about slowing down AI Dec 22, 2022

• Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case Oct 14, 2022

• Calibration of a thousand predictions Oct 12, 2022

• A game of mattering Sep 23, 2022

• Update updates Sep 22, 2022

• Podcasts on surveys, slower AI, AI arguments Sep 18, 2022

• Survey advice Aug 24, 2022

• What do ML researchers think about AI in 2022? Aug 4, 2022

• Book review: The Passenger by Lisa Lutz Jun 23, 2022

• An inquiry into the thoughts of twenty-five people in India May 28, 2022

• Podcast: with Spencer Greenberg on groupstruckness and boundedness May 20, 2022

• Proposal: Twitter dislike button May 17, 2022

• Fighting in various places for a really long time May 11, 2022

• Stuff I might do if I had covid May 10, 2022

• Why do people avoid vaccination? Feb 10, 2022

• Bernal Heights: acquisition of a bicycle Feb 9, 2022

• Positly covid survey 2: controlled productivity data Feb 4, 2022

• Positly covid survey: long covid Jan 18, 2022

• Long covid: probably worth avoiding—some considerations Jan 16, 2022

• Survey supports ‘long covid is bad’ hypothesis (very tentative) Jan 14, 2022

• Beyond fire alarms: freeing the groupstruck Sep 26, 2021

• Punishing the good Jul 20, 2021

• Lafayette: empty traffic signals Jul 15, 2021

• Lafayette: traffic vessels Jul 15, 2021

• Typology of blog posts that don't always add anything clear and insightful Jul 13, 2021

• Do incoherent entities have stronger reason to become more coherent than less? Jun 30, 2021

• Holidaying and purpose Jun 6, 2021

• Coherence arguments imply a force for goal-directed behavior Mar 27, 2021

• Animal faces Mar 11, 2021

• Quarantine variety Mar 10, 2021

• Why does Applied Divinity Studies think EA hasn't grown since 2015? Mar 9, 2021

• Sleep math: red clay blue clay Mar 7, 2021

• Arrow grid game Feb 28, 2021

• Remarks on morality, shuddering, judging, friendship and the law Feb 21, 2021

• Coffee trucks: a brilliant idea that someone should do? Feb 19, 2021

• Oliver Sipple Feb 18, 2021

• Neck abacus Feb 18, 2021

• Training sweetness Feb 16, 2021

• Remember that to value something infinitely is usually to give it a finite dollar value Feb 15, 2021

• What didn't happen Feb 15, 2021

• The ecology of conviction Feb 13, 2021

• Things a Katja-society might try (Part 2) Feb 13, 2021

• The art of caring what people think Feb 12, 2021

• In balance and flux Feb 11, 2021

• A great hard day Feb 9, 2021

• Evolution from distinction difference Feb 9, 2021

• The distinction distance Feb 7, 2021

• Massive consequences Feb 6, 2021

• Current cryonics impressions Feb 6, 2021

• Ways of being with you Feb 4, 2021

• Speaking of the efficiency of utopia Feb 3, 2021

• Covid cafes Feb 3, 2021

• Elephant seal 2 Feb 2, 2021

• Feedback for learning Feb 1, 2021

• Oceans of snails Jan 31, 2021

• Play with neural net Jan 30, 2021

• Top li'l pots Jan 29, 2021

• Unpopularity of efficiency Jan 28, 2021

• What is up with spirituality? Jan 26, 2021

• Wordtune review Jan 26, 2021

• Tentative covid surface risk estimates Jan 25, 2021

• Li'l pots Jan 24, 2021

• Who should you expect to spend your life with? Jan 23, 2021

• What if we all just stayed at home and didn't get covid for two weeks? Jan 22, 2021

• Thoughts on the inner ring Jan 21, 2021

• On fundamental solitude Jan 20, 2021

• Public selves Jan 18, 2021

• Are the consequences of groups usually highly contingent on their details? Jan 17, 2021

• What is going on in the world? Jan 17, 2021

• Meditative thinking Jan 16, 2021

• San Francisco outing Jan 15, 2021

• Discussion on the choice of concepts Jan 14, 2021

• What's good about haikus? Jan 13, 2021

• A vastly faster vaccine rollout Jan 12, 2021

• The time I got really into poker Jan 11, 2021

• A different dictionary Jan 9, 2021

• Why not? potato chips in a box edition Jan 8, 2021

• Condition-directedness Jan 8, 2021

• Evening drawing Jan 7, 2021

• Centrally planned war Jan 6, 2021

• Intended enjoyment Jan 5, 2021

• Review: The Gioconda Smile Jan 4, 2021

• On writing like a butterfly Jan 2, 2021

• Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jan 1, 2021

• Mistakes to want Jan 1, 2021

• Seeing the edge of the world Dec 31, 2020

• Desires as film posters Dec 29, 2020

• Measuring up to incredible potential Dec 28, 2020

• Infinite possibilities Dec 28, 2020

• An open Christmas card to my stepfather Dec 27, 2020

• An open Christmas card to my brothers Dec 26, 2020

• Open Christmas card to my father Dec 24, 2020

• Open Christmas card to my mother Dec 23, 2020

• Moral moralizing Dec 22, 2020

• What is food like? Dec 22, 2020

• Elephant seal Dec 21, 2020

• Opposite attractions Dec 19, 2020

• Thesauring Dec 19, 2020

• Genetic magic Dec 18, 2020

• Some things I'm looking forward to in 2021: probable post-pandemic edition Dec 17, 2020

• What is it good for? But actually? Dec 16, 2020

• The wild Dec 15, 2020

• Blog plant Dec 14, 2020

• Why quantitative methods are heartwarming Dec 12, 2020

• The institution of email Dec 12, 2020

• Flights of wonder Dec 11, 2020

• Unexplored modes of language Dec 9, 2020

• Walk to a San Francisco FedEx Dec 9, 2020

• Why are delicious biscuits obscure? Dec 7, 2020

• What it really looks like Dec 6, 2020

• Cultural accumulation Dec 6, 2020

• Distanced Christmas book celebration Dec 5, 2020

• How to unhurriedly take a short time? Dec 3, 2020

• The Milkmaid Dec 3, 2020

• Inbox zero day Dec 2, 2020

• Points for anxiety Dec 1, 2020

• Sincerity trends Nov 30, 2020

• Another point of view on the details Nov 29, 2020

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame as a 1996 taste datapoint Nov 28, 2020

• No need to refrigerate Nov 27, 2020

• Air walls and empty currents Nov 26, 2020

• Salience costs and other lives Nov 25, 2020

• Room cleaning haikus Nov 24, 2020

• Social stigma of PPE Nov 23, 2020

• Some beauty, mid-2020 edition Nov 22, 2020

• 10 things society might try having if it only contained variants of me Nov 21, 2020

• Personal covid responses as a technology microcosm or 18 ways I know to make the pandemic suck less Nov 20, 2020

• What is it like to be a tidy person? Nov 18, 2020

• Schelling points amidst communication Nov 17, 2020

• Octobillionupling effort Nov 17, 2020

• Schedules versus momentum Nov 15, 2020

• The day of Hellfire Nov 15, 2020

• Overlooking the obvious Nov 13, 2020

• Misalignment and misuse: whose values are manifest? Nov 13, 2020

• Migraine basket Nov 12, 2020

• And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon Nov 11, 2020

• Tweet markets for impersonal truth tracking? Nov 9, 2020

• On the fifth day of election Nov 9, 2020

• Where are the concept factories? Nov 8, 2020

• Calling it Nov 7, 2020

• Why Trump? A survey Nov 6, 2020

• Everyone headed to win Nov 5, 2020

• Election night Nov 4, 2020

• Why are bananas not my brothers? Nov 3, 2020

• Questions of the afternoon Nov 2, 2020

• Automated intelligence is not AI Nov 1, 2020

• Study of a 34th birthday Oct 31, 2020

• Why don't presidential candidates seem more ideal? Oct 30, 2020

• Blue wall Oct 29, 2020

• Empirical case study: how optimized are my Facebook ads? Oct 28, 2020

• Whence the symptoms of social media? Oct 27, 2020

• But what kinds of puppets are we? Oct 26, 2020

• Yet another world spirit sock puppet Oct 25, 2020

• The end of ordinary days Oct 24, 2020

• Why aren't P100s all the rage? Oct 23, 2020

• P100 PSA Oct 22, 2020

• My city Oct 21, 2020

• American Politics Oct 20, 2020

• Oxford: starting the day liveblog Oct 19, 2020

• Scale of unrest Oct 18, 2020

• The past: mysterious poem Oct 17, 2020

• More seals Oct 16, 2020

• Problems and gratitudes Oct 15, 2020

• The bads of ads Oct 14, 2020

• Todo rocks Oct 13, 2020

• 200,000 hours Oct 12, 2020

• War as a carefully honed coordination failure Oct 11, 2020

• Heavenly hellfire Oct 10, 2020

• The mystery of the fall of the Bronze Age Oct 9, 2020

• Punishment for forgotten norms Oct 8, 2020

• Pastoral meanings Oct 7, 2020

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