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2024

Dec 19 Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics III

Dec 5 Tactical parenting

Nov 28 Underrated reasons to be thankful IV

Nov 21 OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now

Nov 14 Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

Nov 7 Attitudes one can take towards people who have behaved badly

Oct 31 Sloth was not the right answer

Oct 24 Please show lots of digits

Oct 17 Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology

Oct 10 Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening

Oct 3 The real data wall is billions of years of evolution

Sep 12 Consciousness will slip through our fingers

Sep 5 Thoughts while watching myself be automated

Aug 29 Nursing doubts: Is breastfeeding good?

Aug 8 It's probably just money: Why hosts do well at the Olympics

Aug 1 Tactical typing

Jul 25 Is there a homeless crisis?

Jul 11 Why doesn't advice work?

Jul 4 Let's stop counting centuries

Jun 27 Datasets that change the odds you exist

Jun 20 Obvious travel advice

May 9 Fighting me and other survey results

May 2 Dynomight internet survey

Apr 18 Thoughts on seed oil

Mar 28 Fahren-height

Mar 21 Things that don't work

Mar 14 Everything is espionage: Things I learned researching Assange

Feb 29 Using axis lines for good or evil

Feb 15 Taste games

Jan 25 What if you just bought everyone air purifiers?

Jan 11 Fancy math doesn't make simple math stop being true

Jan 4 Shorts for January

2023

Dec 21 Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics II

Dec 14 Your tastes are a point in space

Nov 23 Underrated reasons to be thankful III

Nov 16 Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé

Nov 9 What's so great about tunnel man?

Nov 2 Are language models good at making predictions?

Oct 26 You’re Invited to a Colonoscopy!

Oct 12 The midwit home

Oct 5 Grug on diet soda and autism

Sep 14 Can I take ducks home from the park?

Sep 7 My heuristics for interacting with humans

Aug 24 Contra four-wheeled suitcases, sort of

Aug 14 Thoughts on high-stakes college admissions

Aug 10 Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists

Jul 27 Conspiracy theory: Electric cars make more air pollution than gas cars

Jul 17 WHO aspartame brouhaha

Jul 13 Notes on Lawrence of Arabia

Jun 27 My stupid noise journey

Jun 20 The second system problem

Jun 14 I still think it's very unlikely we're observing alien aircraft

May 8 Taxonomy of procrastination

May 4 Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss

Apr 24 Reasons after nonpersons

Apr 5 The hard problem of feelings

Mar 21 Why didn't we get GPT-2 in 2005?

Mar 6 First-principles on AI scaling

Mar 3 Your friend the language model

Jan 19 Winner take all science

Jan 5 Buy more copies

2022

Dec 24 Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics

Dec 15 Advice on being managed

Dec 8 Historical analogies for large language models

Dec 1 Valid arguments with invalid conclusions

Nov 24 Underrated reasons to be thankful II

Oct 27 A modest proposal: For preventing the heat in bathwater in Britain

Oct 14 How much does a CT scan affect life expectancy?

Oct 6 Prediction market does not imply causation

Sep 29 The anxiety of the moderate

Sep 23 The conspiratorial Monty Hall problem

Sep 19 Why ‟controlling for a variable” doesn't (usually) work

Sep 8 Effectiveness beats accuracy

Sep 1 Does gratitude increase happiness?

Aug 22 358 games of puzzle storm

Aug 15 Rules for weird ideas

Aug 11 A model for journalistic copypasta

Aug 8 Shorts for August

Aug 4 Old jokes

Aug 1 No soap radio

Jul 28 Nobody optimizes happiness

Jul 25 Litter and circles of internalization

Jul 21 Notes on the Balkans

Jul 18 What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world

Jul 11 Thoughts on the potato diet

Jul 7 Shorts for July

Jul 4 Blocked persons and letters of marque

Jun 27 Candidate final bosses

Jun 20 Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

Jun 16 Aspartame: Once more unto the breach

Jun 13 Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

Jun 9 Why it's bad to kill Grandma

Jun 6 Social dynamics of bluetooth speakers

Jun 2 Shorts for June

May 30 What caused the hallucinations of the Oracle of Delphi?

May 26 Don't blame ethylene for bad tomatoes

May 23 Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with? Six models

May 19 The madness of reduced medical diagnostics

May 16 Why nuclear weapons aren't getting bigger

May 11 So you want to invent a nuclear weapon

May 9 Ethylene in the food supply chain

May 5 Ethylene for fun and profit and produce

Apr 5 My attempted cult recruitment

Apr 4 Creative nonfiction training exercises

Apr 1 Why I don't believe in long-term thinking

Mar 24 Arguing without warning

Mar 21 You, your parents, and the hotness of who you marry

Mar 17 How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list

Mar 11 Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate

Mar 7 Do economies tend to converge or diverge?

Feb 14 So you're thinking about writing on the internet

Feb 14 Warby Parker multiverse

Feb 9 A summary of the research on gas stoves and health

Feb 1 Reasons and Persons: The case against the self

Jan 24 How to use analogies for good not evil

Jan 10 Things you're doing but don't want to be doing

2021

Dec 21 Homosexuality and evolution

Dec 14 Plans you're not supposed to talk about

Dec 7 Reasons and Persons: Watch theories eat themselves

Dec 2 How many extra days of life do you get from taking statins?

Nov 30 Effective selfishness

Nov 26 How the United States didn't ban the death penalty

Nov 25 Underrated reasons to be thankful

Nov 24 How France banned the death penalty

Nov 23 How the United Kingdom banned the death penalty

Nov 22 How Germany banned the death penalty

Nov 22 The death penalty as a lens on democracy

Nov 11 A breakdown of the data on the homeless crisis across the U.S.

Oct 26 The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it

Oct 20 Two conspiracy theories about cola

Oct 4 The big alcohol study that didn't happen: My primal scream of rage

Aug 26 Statistical nihilism and culture-war island hopping

Aug 19 Political polarization is partly a sample bias illusion

Aug 17 General factors of intelligence and physical fitness

Jul 15 It’s perfectly valid for a trait to be more than 100% heritable

Jul 1 Does the gender-equality paradox actually exist?

Jun 17 A review of early split-brain experiments

May 30 Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush

May 6 Are some personalities just better?

Apr 18 The case against ultrasonic humidifiers

Apr 14 The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated

Apr 2 Better air quality is the easiest way not to die

Feb 26 The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan

Feb 7 What I learned from reading about writing

Jan 28 Are ethics all a lie?

Jan 25 How to run without all the pesky agonizing pain

Jan 15 What happens if you don't fill out that ethnicity form?

2020

Dec 22 Napoleon's failure in Russia as an analogy for T-cell based viral immunity

Dec 15 Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s

Dec 9 Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax

Dec 3 Why I'm skeptical of universal basic income

Nov 23 Why fairness is basically unobservable

Nov 21 Policy proposals and what we don't know about them

Nov 16 Simpson's paradox all the way down

Oct 30 The simplest possible way to convert Celsius and Fahrenheit

Oct 29 Pragmatic reasons to believe in formal ethics

Oct 19 It's hard to use utility maximization to justify creating new sentient beings

Oct 12 The veil of darkness

Oct 8 Your ratios don't prove what you think they prove

Sep 29 Doing discourse better: Stuff I wish I knew

Sep 17 Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious

Sep 14 What happens if you drink acetone?

Sep 11 Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island

Jun 12 In defense of Myers-Briggs