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2024
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