2022

2021

2020

  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

  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/

2019

  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/

  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/

2018

  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

  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

  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/

  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/

  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

  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

  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/

  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/

  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