London Rationalish Readings

2022

2022 July 10

1. Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cujpciCqNbawBihhQ/self-integrity-and-the-drowning-child

2. Among the Unvaccinated

   https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/among-the-unvaccinated
   In Lincoln's Inn Fields

2022 June 12

1. "Taking your environment as object" vs "Being subject to your environment"

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aGxBbQNuahNrv7wxP/taking-your-environment-as-object-vs-being-subject-to-your

2. Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work

   https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/11/why-the-canadian-tech-scene-doesnt-work/

2022 April 15

1. Astral Codex Ten Meetup London April 2022

   https://lu.ma/ACXLondonApr2022
   No readings - just a meetup

2022 February 12

1. Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg: Preference Falsification and Postmodernism with Michael Vassar (93 minutes)

   https://clearerthinkingpodcast.com/episode/028

2. Overconfidence is Deceit

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WsvpkCekuxYSkwsuG/overconfidence-is-deceit

2022 January 08

1. Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

   https://rootsofprogress.org/andrew-carnegie-autobiography

2. Be More Evil

   https://seekingquestions.blogspot.com/2017/06/be-more-evil.html

2021

2021 December 12

1. WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise

   https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible

2. Why I Am Not In Charge

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cR7Zfrc4BtnFes46y/why-i-am-not-in-charge

3. Still Not In Charge

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BbxHGqhxQ9f6zsNac/still-not-in-charge

2021 November 14

1. Online Regulation of Terrorist and Harmful Content

   https://www.lawfareblog.com/online-regulation-terrorist-and-harmful-content

2. Curing insanity with malaria

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AH3iGfz4ArJnXEEYs/curing-insanity-with-malaria

2021 September 12

1. Trapped priors as a basic problem of rationality

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hNqte2p48nqKux3wS/trapped-priors-as-a-basic-problem-of-rationality

2. Your cheerful price

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MzKKi7niyEqkBPnyu/your-cheerful-price

2021 August 08

1. Everything Is Broken

   https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken

2. Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics

   https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-conditions

2021 July 11

1. The Social Motte-and-Bailey

   https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/the-social-motte-and-bailey-b4d87aadbe1

2. Book review: The Geography of Thought

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FM5PwzKaXojcktEue/book-review-the-geography-of-thought

2021 June 06

1. Lena (fiction)

   https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

2. Don't sell your soul

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YtisDHHhpxEh4e7zr/don-t-sell-your-soul

2021 May 02

1. What can we learn from the lunar pandemic that never was?

   https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-we-learn-from-the-lunar-pandemic-that-never-was

2. (🔊 podcast) Rationally Speaking: Chris Fraser on "The Mohists, ancient China's philosopher warriors"

   http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-223-chris-fraser-on-the-mohists-ancient-chinas-philosophe.html

2021 April 18

1. Google Antitrust Notes

   https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/10/20/Google-Antitrust

2. Science in a High-Dimensional World

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4XRjPocTprL4L8tmB/science-in-a-high-dimensional-world

2021 April 04

1. Beyond the !Kung

   https://aeon.co/essays/not-all-early-human-societies-were-small-scale-egalitarian-bands

2. Lessons from "The Book of My Life"

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/9YDk52NPrfq7nqLvd/lessons-from-the-book-of-my-life

2021 March 21

1. Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election

   https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/02/18/election.html

2. Motive Ambiguity

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/L6Ktf952cwdMJnzWm/motive-ambiguity

2021 February 21

1. Naked mole-rats: a case study in biological weirdness

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fDKZZtTMTcGqvHnXd/naked-mole-rats-a-case-study-in-biological-weirdness

2. The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

   http://paulgraham.com/genius.html

2021 February 07

1. Anti-Aging: State of the Art

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RcifQCKkRc9XTjxC2/anti-aging-state-of-the-art

2. Politics and the English Language

   https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/

2021 January 11

1. Progress, Stagnation, and Flying Cars

   https://rootsofprogress.org/where-is-my-flying-car

2. Bob the Builder and the Neo-Puritan Deal

   http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bob-the-builder-and-the-neo-puritan-deal/

2020

2020 December 06

1. The view that the scientific process is “red tape,” just a bunch of hoops you need to jump through so you can move on with your life

   https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/10/05/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-scientific-process-according-to-the-people-who-are-in-charge-of-some-social-science-journals/

2. Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

   https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freedom-b5ab45cae2a5
   short story but still long by normal standards

2020 November 08

1. Honest Putdowns

   https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/09/honest-putdowns.html

2. Reneging Prosocially

   https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/reneging-prosocially-5b44bdec3bb9

2020 October 25

1. Liking What You See: A Documentary

   https://canvas.wayne.edu/courses/102861/files/3959556/download?download_frd=1

2. Against Boots Theory

   http://reasonableapproximation.net/2020/09/14/against-boots-theory.html

2020 October 11

1. Polio eradication: Current status and challenges

   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893965/

2. Global Rinderpest Eradication: Lessons Learned and Why Humans Should Celebrate Too

   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144172/

3. Vaccination and the theory of games

   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC516577/

2020 September 27

1. Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind

   https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-consciousness-in-the-breakdown-of-the-bicameral-mind/

2. The Origin of Consciousness Reading Companion Part 1

   https://putanumonit.com/2020/04/05/the-origin-companion-part-1/

3. Sex, Lies, and Canaanites

   https://putanumonit.com/2020/04/18/sex-lies-and-canaanites/

2020 September 13

1. Open Problems in Group Rationality

   https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/open-problems-in-group-rationality-5636440a2cd1

2. Loneliness and the Paradox of Choice

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kdYiDBjYRbXQZkTxm/loneliness-and-the-paradox-of-choice

3. What journalists should know about the atomic bombings

   http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2020/06/09/what-journalists-should-know-about-the-atomic-bombings/

2020 August 30

1. The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising

   https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-here-its-called-online-advertising/13228924500-22d5fd24

2. The Loudest Alarm is Probably False

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/B2CfMNfay2P8f2yyc/the-loudest-alarm-is-probably-false

3. Collections: Why Don’t We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore?

   https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/

2020 August 16

1. Can you keep this confidential? How do you know?

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rz73eva3jv267Hy7B/can-you-keep-this-confidential-how-do-you-know

2. Parameters of privacy

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/afqz78RTjGB9a7MPe/parameters-of-privacy

3. On progress and historical change

   https://www.exurbe.com/on-progress-and-historical-change/

2020 August 02

1. To Adapt to Tech, We're Heading Into the Shadows

   https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-to-adapt-to-tech-were-heading-into-the-shadows/

2. Taxonomic vandalism and the Raymond Hoser problem

   https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/taxonomic-vandalism-and-hoser/

3. Lurking More Before Joining Complex Conversations

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/sj4mWbeiX3XDJr8ZR/lurking-more-before-joining-complex-conversations

2020 July 19

1. Sequence Thinking vs. Cluster Thinking

   https://blog.givewell.org/2014/06/10/sequence-thinking-vs-cluster-thinking/

2. The Submarine

   http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

3. How to Get Worse at StarCraft II

   https://illiteracyhasdownsides.com/2020/06/13/how-to-get-worse-at-starcraft-ii/

2020 June 21

1. What to write down when you're reading to learn

   https://acesounderglass.com/2020/06/10/what-to-write-down-when-youre-reading-to-learn/

2. In Defense of Meyers Briggs

   https://dynomight.home.blog/2020/06/12/in-defense-of-meyers-briggs/

3. The Worldwide Scavenger Hunt For Vintage, Low-Radiation Metals

   https://www.good.is/articles/the-search-for-low-background-steel

2020 June 07

1. What is Rationality?

   https://atlaspragmatica.com/what-is-rationality/

2. Book Review: Hoover

   https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/17/book-review-hoover/

3. The Hierarchy of Requests

   https://celandine13.livejournal.com/72711.html

2020 May 24

1. The EMH Aten’t Dead

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/utySCY9nJt9xGYGGQ/the-emh-aten-t-dead

2. Ketosis – advantaged or misunderstood state? (Part I)

   https://peterattiamd.com/ketosis-advantaged-or-misunderstood-state-part-i/

3. Studies on Slack

   https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/

2020 May 10

1. Simulacra and Subjectivity

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fEX7G2N7CtmZQ3eB5/simulacra-and-subjectivity

2. Negative Feedback and Simulacra

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Z5wF8mdonsM2AuGgt/negative-feedback-and-simulacra

3. Against Dog Ownership

   https://dormin.org/2020/03/21/against-dog-ownership/

2020 April 26

1. Social media is the perfect petri dish for bias. The solution is for tech companies to slow us down.

   https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/2019/9/3/20842654/jennifer-eberhardt-biased-social-media-nextdoor-racial-profiling-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast
   Podcast with transcript.

2. Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ivpKSjM4D6FbqF4pZ/cortes-pizarro-and-afonso-as-precedents-for-takeover

3. On Liberty vs. Efficiency

   http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/04/on-liberty-vs-efficiency.html

2020 April 12

1. Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/DGoK3QeaXFu5Mvxh8/epistemic-standards-for-why-did-it-take-so-long-to-invent-x

2. Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.

   https://www.quantamagazine.org/artificial-intelligence-will-do-what-we-ask-thats-a-problem-20200130/

3. Invalidating Imaginary Injury

   https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/invalidating-imaginary-injury-45e9a265e80
   CW: picture containing nudity

2020 March 29

1. The history of smallpox and the origin of vaccines

   https://rootsofprogress.org/smallpox-and-vaccines

2. Meetups as institutions for intellectual progress

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/TBbPTBdApovxhM7NC/meetups-as-institutions-for-intellectual-progress

3. Between the Spreadsheets: The management consultant’s guide to love and sex

   https://www.1843magazine.com/features/between-the-spreadsheets
   context: Jacob is putanumonit author Jacob Falkovich

2020 March 15

1. The 12 Second Rule (i.e. think before answering) and other Epistemic Norms

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/7kBWMfeRjXQbfxqHL/the-12-second-rule-i-e-think-before-answering-and-other

2. Picture Frames, Window Frames and Frameworks

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/bhSjufKtnPRWqW52h/picture-frames-window-frames-and-frameworks-1

3. Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term historical perspective

   https://get21stnight.com/2019/12/27/why-introductory-chemistry-is-boring-a-long-term-historical-perspective/

2020 February 16

1. Iron: From mythical to mundane

   https://rootsofprogress.org/iron-from-mythical-to-mundane

2. The Tale of Alice Almost: Strategies for Dealing With Pretty Good People

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/QLmSFeFexgTLsNeeA/the-tale-of-alice-almost-strategies-for-dealing-with-pretty

3. The Relationship Between the Village and the Mission

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/yGycR8tFA3JJbvApp/the-relationship-between-the-village-and-the-mission

2020 February 02

1. Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/bNXdnRTpSXk9p4zmi/book-review-design-principles-of-biological-circuits

2. GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence

   https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/

3. Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/8xLtE3BwgegJ7WBbf/is-rationalist-self-improvement-real

2020 January 19

1. Book Review: Impro by Keith Johnstone

   http://theoryengine.org/mental-health/book-review-impro-by-keith-johnstone/

2. The Lesson to Unlearn

   http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html

3. Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ypXHnS3vWeDRmDsK9/approval-extraction-advertised-as-production

2020 January 05

1. Ethics and Actuaries

   https://magic-maths-money.blogspot.com/2019/05/ethics-and-actuaries-issues-and.html

2. The Lesson of Bretton Woods

   https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-23/bretton-woods-75th-anniversary-expect-the-unexpected

3. How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

   https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work

2019

2019 December 08

1. Scott and Scurvy

   https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

2. The Coming Boeing Bailout

   https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout

3. Power Buys You Distance From The Crime

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/9fB4gvoooNYa4t56S/power-buys-you-distance-from-the-crime

2019 November 10

1. Why I Am Not A Technocrat

   https://radicalxchange.org/blog/posts/2019-08-19-bv61r6/

2. Slavery 2.0 and how to avoid it: a practical guide for cyborgs

   https://ar.al/2019/05/02/slavery-2.0-and-how-to-avoid-it-a-practical-guide-for-cyborgs/

3. Book Review: The Secrets of Alchemy

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/cnS7X2MKuqXtzmcRA/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy

2019 October 27

1. Consciousness and its Place in Nature

   http://consc.net/papers/nature.pdf

2. Going Critical

   https://www.meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/

3. Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/DoPo4PDjgSySquHX8/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting

2019 October 13

1. Against “System 1” and “System 2”

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/HbXXd2givHBBLxr3d/against-system-1-and-system-2-subagent-sequence

2. Family tree of 400 million people shows genetics has limited influence on longevity (original paper: https://www.genetics.org/content/210/3/1109)

   https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/gsoa-fto103118.php

3. Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

   https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650/

2019 August 10

1. Intellectual Dark Matter

   https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/intellectual-dark-matter-2e5890aa8d8f

2. The Proper Use of Humility

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GrDqnMjhqoxiqpQPw/the-proper-use-of-humility

3. Postmodernism for Rationalists

   https://palegreendot.net/assets/2017-10-09/postmodernism_for_rationalists.pdf

2019 August 04

1. From Personal to Prison Gangs: Enforcing Prosocial Behavior

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/sYt3ZCrBq2QAf3rak/from-personal-to-prison-gangs-enforcing-prosocial-behavior

2. The Art of Decision-Making

   https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making

3. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

   https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle

2019 July 21

1. The Schelling Choice is “Rabbit”, not “Stag”

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/zp5AEENssb8ZDnoZR/the-schelling-choice-is-rabbit-not-stag-1?

2. Some Ways Coordination is Hard

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/6XfeAxBQw2sxvbTMR/some-ways-coordination-is-hard

3. How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance

   https://fastjetperformance.com/podcasts/how-i-almost-destroyed-a-50-million-war-plane-when-display-flying-goes-wrong-and-the-normalisation-of-deviance/

2019 July 07

1. Separation of Concerns

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/o6GS3JoWKeuuvBPSK/separation-of-concerns

2. It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning

   https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/ted-chiang-future-genetic-engineering.html

3. No, it’s not The Incentives—it’s you

   https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-incentives-its-you/

2019 June 23

1. You Have About Five Words

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words

2. Ads Don't Work That Way

   https://meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/

3. The Trade Secret: Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers

   https://features.propublica.org/ransomware/ransomware-attack-data-recovery-firms-paying-hackers/

2019 June 09

1. Thesis Culture

   https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/thesis-culture-f3f55fddedfc

2. Lifestyle Interventions to Increase Longevity

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PhXENjdXiHhsWGfQo/lifestyle-interventions-to-increase-longevity

3. The Surprising Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America

   https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/paxadz/the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america

2019 May 26

1. Justice-Related Objections to Effective Altruism

   https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/Danaher20160216

2. Deep Laziness

   https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/06/deep-laziness/

3. Patterned Meaning

   http://coyotespike.github.io/philosophy/2019/05/11/PatternedMeaning.html

2019 May 12

1. Degrees of freedom

   https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/04/02/degrees-of-freedom/

2. The Vulnerable World Hypothesis

   https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

3. A Critical View of the Agile Manifesto

   https://sdtimes.com/agile/a-critical-view-of-the-agile-manifesto/

2019 April 28

1. Mountains Beyond Mountains and the case against cost effectiveness

   https://acesounderglass.com/2015/09/30/mountains-beyond-mountains-tracy-kidder-and-the-case-against-cost-effectiveness/

2. The Fitness Industry Is Dead

   https://breakingmuscle.com/learn/the-fitness-industry-is-dead

3. Augmenting Long-term Memory

   http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

2019 April 07

1. In My Culture

   https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/in-my-culture-29c6464072b2

2. The Humility Argument for Honesty

   http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humility-argument-honesty/

3. You Should (Probably) Lift Weights

   http://redd.it/9h2jbi

2019 March 24

1. A Positive Account of Property Rights

   http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.html

2. Checkmate on Blackmail

   http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/02/checkmate-on-blackmail.html

3. Blackmail

   https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/blackmail/

4. Blackmailers are Privateers in the War on Hypocrisy

   http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blackmailers-are-privateers-in-the-war-on-hypocrisy/

2019 March 10

1. The Bounty Hunter's Pursuit of Justice

   http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/essays/bounty-hunters-pursuit-justice

2. Why American Costs Are So High

   https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-costs-are-so-high-work-in-progress/

3. Littlewood's law and the global media

   https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood

2019 February 10

1. The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

   https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/

2. This is the Dream Time

   http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/this-is-the-dream-time.html

3. The Asshole Filter

   https://siderea.livejournal.com/1230660.html

4. A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism

   http://dresdencodak.com/2009/05/15/a-thinking-apes-critique-of-trans-simianism-repost

2019 January 27

1. How to Beat Procrastination

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RWo4LwFzpHNQCTcYt/how-to-beat-procrastination

2. Humans are not automatically strategic

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PBRWb2Em5SNeWYwwB/humans-are-not-automatically-strategic

3. Life Extension Cost-Benefits

   https://www.gwern.net/Longevity

4. The Vimes boots theory: further reflections

   https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1477942.html

2019 January 13

1. Japan's hometown tax

   https://www.kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/japanese-hometown-tax/

2. Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty

   https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/

3. A natural history of beauty

   https://meltingasphalt.com/a-natural-history-of-beauty/

4. Stop trying to try and try

   http://mindingourway.com/stop-trying-to-try-and-try/

2018

2018 December 16

1. Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?

   https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/08/is-the-fda-too-conservative-or-too-aggressive.html

2. The 'cruel joke' of compassionate use and right to try: Pharma companies don’t have to comply

   https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/05/right-to-try-compassionate-use-pharma-compliance/

3. Against Waldenponding

   https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/against-waldenponding

4. How To Train Noticing

   http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-to-train-noticing.html

5. Why the Tails Come Apart

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dC7mP5nSwvpL65Qu5/why-the-tails-come-apart

2018 December 02

1. Most Popular Theories of Consciousness Are Worse Than Wrong

   https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/phlegm-theories-of-consciousness/472812/

2. The Case Against News

   https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/03/the_case_agains_6.html

3. Innocence is Irrelevant

   https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/innocence-is-irrelevant/534171/

4. Technology forecasting errors: functional fixedness in assuming dependencies

   https://www.gwern.net/Complexity-vs-AI#technology-forecasting-errors-functional-fixedness-in-assuming-dependencies

2018 November 18

1. Fundamental Value Differences Are Not That Fundamental

   https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/18/fundamental-value-differences-are-not-that-fundamental/

2. The Whole City Is Center

   https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/18/the-whole-city-is-center/

3. Value Differences As Differently Crystallized Metaphysical Heuristics

   https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/24/value-differences-as-differently-crystallized-metaphysical-heuristics/

4. Nominating Oneself For The Short End Of A Tradeoff

   http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/24/nominating-oneself-for-the-short-end-of-a-tradeoff/

2018 October 21

1. Diversify your identity

   https://markmanson.net/diversify-your-identity

2. Conscious dreaming and controlled hallucinations

   http://www.shaman-australis.com/~claude/dreams.html

3. In defense of flogging

   https://harpers.org/blog/2011/07/in-defense-of-flogging-six-questions-for-peter-moskos/

2018 October 07

1. How Doctors Die

   http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/ideas/nexus/

2. Doctors Really Do Die Differently

   http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/07/23/doctors-really-do-die-differently/ideas/nexus/

3. Out to Get You

   https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/out-to-get-you/

4. Rationality

   https://putanumonit.com/2016/05/17/rationality/

5. Comparing Income & Sex Redistribution

   http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-redistribution.html

2018 September 09

1. Sabbath Hard and Go Home

   http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-and-go-home/

2. Bring Back the Sabbath

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZoCitBiBv97WEWpX5/bring-back-the-sabbath

3. The illusion of understanding

   https://meaningness.com/understanding

4. The Tyranny of Structurelessness

   https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

5. Delong vs. Krugman on Globalization

   http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/delong-vs-krugman-on-globalization.html

2018 August 26

1. When Your Left Arm Becomes A Chicken

   https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2016/01/when-your-left-arm-becomes-chicken-dont.html

2. The New Politics of Meaning

   https://meaningness.com/metablog/communal-vs-systematic-politics

3. Can Economists and Humanists Ever be Friends?

   https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/23/can-economists-and-humanists-ever-be-friends

4. Yuppie Fishtanks: YIMBYism explained without "supply and demand"

   https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/yimbyism-explained-without-supply-and.html

5. The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics

   http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cambist-and-lord-iron-a-fairy-tale-of-economics/

2018 July 29

1. Dragon Army Theory and Charter

   https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/dragon-army-theory-charter-8192dc64ea22

2. Dragon Army Retrospective

   https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/dragon-army-retrospective-597faf182e50

3. Beware Systemic Change

   http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/22/beware-systemic-change/

4. The Meaning of Mood

   http://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/12/the_meaning_of_2.html

5. Care Less about STIs

   https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/care-less-about-stis/

2018 July 15

1. Stuck In The Middle With Bruce

   http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/2005_Stuck_In_The_Middle_With_Bruce.html

2. A review of The Case Against Education

   https://quillette.com/2018/06/03/bryan-caplans-case-education-review/

3. Monopoly: A Manifesto and Fact Post

   https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/monopoly-a-manifesto-and-fact-post/

4. What If Facebook And Twitter Made You Read An Article Before You Could Share It?

   https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/15/what-if-facebook-and-twitter-made-you-read-an-article-before-you-could-share-it/

5. The Mathematical World

   https://aeon.co/essays/aristotle-was-right-about-mathematics-after-all

2018 July 01

1. In defense of Punch Bug

   https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/in-defense-of-punch-bug-68fcec56cd6b

2. AI Nationalism

   https://www.ianhogarth.com/blog/2018/6/13/ai-nationalism

3. Prickles and Goo

   http://meltingasphalt.com/prickles-and-goo/

4. Probability is in the Mind

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f6ZLxEWaankRZ2Crv/probability-is-in-the-mind

5. Probability is Subjectively Objective

   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XhaKvQyHzeXdNnFKy/probability-is-subjectively-objective

2018 June 17

1. 🎮 Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)

   https://reason.com/archives/2017/06/13/young-men-are-playing-video-ga

2. 💰 Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia

   http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic-jobs-against-hijacking-utopia/

3. 📄 Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling

   https://wiki.quanticle.net/Main/InstitutionalMemoryAndReverseSmuggling

4. 🧠 Understand - Ted Chiang

   https://royallib.com/read/Chiang_Ted/Understand.html

2018 June 03

1. On Types of Typologies

   http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/27/on-types-of-typologies/

2. Coping with Compulsive Behavior

   https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/coping-with-compulsive-behavior/

3. Book Review: History of the Fabian Society

   http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/30/book-review-history-of-the-fabian-society/

4. The Long-Term Significance of Reducing Global Catastrophic Risk

   https://blog.givewell.org/2015/08/13/the-long-term-significance-of-reducing-global-catastrophic-risks/

5. The Gig Economy

   https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/

2018 May 20

1. Caring Less

   https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2018/03/13/caring-less/

2. Ethics is Advertising

   https://vividness.live/2015/10/05/buddhist-ethics-is-advertising/

3. On Punitive Restoration

   https://quarterly.demos.co.uk/article/issue-2/on-punitive-restoration/

4. Class

   https://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light

5. Staying Classy

   http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/30/staying-classy/

2018 May 06

1. Inadequacy and Modesty

   https://equilibriabook.com/inadequacy-and-modesty/

2. For Signaling Part I

   https://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/for-signaling-part-i/

3. What's College Good For

   https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/?utm_source=atltw

4. College Isn't a Waste of Time

   https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-11/college-isn-t-a-waste-of-time

5. Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

   http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic-communitarianism/

2018 April 22

1. The Bummer Economy

   https://putanumonit.com/2016/04/02/021_bummer/

2. Familiar Finance

   https://putanumonit.com/2017/02/27/familiar-finance/

3. Time Well Spent

   https://putanumonit.com/2017/05/09/time-well-spent/

4. Strong men are socialist, reports study that previously reported the opposite

   https://putanumonit.com/2017/05/27/strong-men-are-socialist-reports-a-study-that-previously-reported-the-opposite/

2018 April 08

1. Simulating Religion

   https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simulating-religion

2. How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive

   https://web.archive.org/web/20180224175641/https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-28/how-utah-keeps-the-american-dream-alive

3. You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes

   https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-23/you-can-t-have-denmark-without-danes

4. The Craft & The Community - A Post-Mortem & Resurrection

   https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/wmEcNP3KFEGPZaFJk/the-craft-and-the-community-a-post-mortem-and-resurrection

2018 March 25

1. Automoderation

   http://ferocioustruth.com/2017/automoderation/

2. Narrative Fallacy

   https://www.fs.blog/2016/04/narrative-fallacy/

3. The Intelligent Social Web

   https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/AqbWna2S85pFTsHH4/the-intelligent-social-web

4. Keep Your Identity Small

   http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

5. How to Be Happy

   http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/how_to_be_happy/

2018 March 11

1. I, Pencil

   http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

2. How To Do What You Love

   http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html

3. A Big Little Idea Called Legibility

   https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/

4. Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development

   https://nickbostrom.com/astronomical/waste.html

5. A Hanging

   http://orwell.ru/library/articles/hanging/english/e_hanging

2018 February 25

1. Wait Culture vs. Interrupt Culture

   http://lesswrong.com/lw/j5n/wait_vs_interrupt_culture/

2. Interpretive Labor

   https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/

3. Ra

   https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/

4. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics

   https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/

5. Theory of Change

   http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange

2018 February 11

1. Ask and Guess

   http://lesswrong.com/lw/375/ask_and_guess/

2. Tell Culture

   http://lesswrong.com/lw/jis/tell_culture/

3. Reveal Culture

   http://malcolmocean.com/2015/06/reveal-culture/

4. Against Tell Culture

   https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/against-tell-culture/

5. Against Being For or Against Tell Culture

   http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2015/05/against-being-for-or-against-tell.html

2018 January 28

1. Cargo Cult Science

   http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

2. The Pleasures of Drowning

   https://samharris.org/the-pleasures-of-drowning/

3. Failing with Abandon

   http://mindingourway.com/failing-with-abandon/

4. Rest in Motion

   http://mindingourway.com/rest-in-motion/

5. Politics and the English Language

   http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit