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2026 9

  1. Before I could read, I would write
  2. Elizabeth Elsewhere (Sept 2026)
  3. Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
  4. Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically?
  5. How I use AI for writing
  6. Elizabeth Elsewhere
  7. Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t)
  8. Church Planting: Lessons from the Comments
  9. Things I learned from reddit fashion

2025 18

  1. The Boring Part of Bell Labs
  2. The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Work
  3. I take antidepressants. You’re welcome
  4. FTX, Golden Geese, and The Widow’s Mite
  5. Ketamine part 2: What do in vitro studies tell us about safety?
  6. Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus
  7. Mirroring to Substack
  8. Podcast: Lincoln Quirk from Wave
  9. Ketamine Part 1: Dosing
  10. What do you Want out of Literature Reviews?
  11. Ivan Gayton: A Right and a Duty
  12. Bandwidth Rules Everything Around Me: Oliver Habryka on OpenPhil and GoodVentures
  13. Journal of Null Results: EZMelt sublingual vitamins
  14. Predict the impact of sublingual vitamins
  15. Austin Chen on Winning, Risk-Taking, and FTX
  16. Feedback loops for exercise (VO2Max)
  17. Can we rescue Effective Altruism?
  18. Guesstimating the health impact of Xofluza

2024 15

  1. Luck Based Medicine: No Good Very Bad Winter Cured My Hypothyroidism
  2. (Salt) Water Gargling as an Antiviral
  3. Chaos Theory in Ecology
  4. Why I quit effective altruism, and why Timothy Telleen-Lawton is staying (for now)
  5. AI research assistants competition 2024Q3: Tie between Elicit and You.com
  6. Applications of Chaos: Saying No (with Hastings Greer)
  7. Simon DeDeo on Explore vs Exploit in Science
  8. Retroactively support my covid work (with money)
  9. Perplexity wins my AI race
  10. Quick look: applications of chaos theory
  11. Please support this blog (with money)
  12. Humming is not a free $100 bill
  13. [RETRACTED] Do you believe in hundred dollar bills lying on the ground? Consider humming
  14. Betadine oral rinses for covid and other viral infections
  15. Nitric oxide for covid and other viral infections

2023 21

  1. Inositol Non-Results
  2. Aceso Under Glass
  3. Follow-up survey: inositol
  4. Grant Making and Grand Narratives
  5. Truthseeking when your disagreements lie in moral philosophy
  6. EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem
  7. Luck based medicine: inositol
  8. Luck based medicine: angry eldritch sugar gods edition
  9. Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition
  10. Apollo Neuro Results
  11. Apollo Neuro Follow Up
  12. Adventist Health Study-2 supports pescetarianism more than veganism
  13. Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes
  14. Product Endorsement: Food for sleep interruptions
  15. Playing with Faunalytics’ Vegan Attrition Data
  16. Lessons learned from offering in-office nutritional testing
  17. Product Endorsement: Apollo Neuro
  18. Long Covid Risks: 2023 Update
  19. A different observation of Vavilov Day
  20. Vegan Nutrition Testing Project: Interim Report
  21. Iron deficiencies are very bad and you should treat them

2022 21

  1. Quick look: cognitive damage from well-administered anesthesia
  2. Follow up to medical miracle
  3. Luck-based medicine: My resentful story of becoming a medical miracle
  4. The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
  5. Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics
  6. Review of Examine.com’s vitamin write-ups
  7. Guesstimate Algorithm for Medical Research
  8. Impact Shares For Speculative Projects
  9. Cognitive Risks of Adolescent Binge Drinking
  10. Quick Look: Asymptomatic Herpes Shedding
  11. New Water Quality x Obesity Dataset Available
  12. Home Antigen Tests Aren’t Useful For Covid Screening
  13. I Caught Covid And All I Got Was This Lousy Ambiguous Data
  14. Bazant: An alternate covid calculator
  15. My Tiny Study Finds No Effect For Ketone Esters as a Nootropic
  16. Epistemic Legibility
  17. Butterfly Ideas
  18. A Quick Look At 20% Time
  19. Vavilov Day Starts Tomorrow
  20. Nudging My Way Out Of The Intellectual Mosh Pit
  21. An Observation of Vavilov Day

2021 20

  1. Internet Literacy Atrophy
  2. Quick Poll: Booster Reactions
  3. Dear Self; We Need To Talk About Social Media
  4. Future Review: Screen Extenders
  5. I Don’t Know How To Count That Low
  6. Quick Look: Altitude and Child Development
  7. Long Covid Informal Study Results
  8. Niacin as a treatment for covid? (Probably no, but I’m glad we’re checking)
  9. “Eating Dirt Benefits Kids” is Basically Made Up
  10. Consider Taking Zinc Every Time You Travel
  11. Review: The End Is Always Near
  12. Review: Martyr Made Podcast
  13. Exercise Trade Offs: Follow Up 2
  14. Alternate Views On Long Covid
  15. Exercise Trade Offs: Followup
  16. Long Covid Is Not Necessarily Your Biggest Problem
  17. Exercise Trade Offs
  18. Book Recommendation: The Cruel Prince
  19. Antidepressants and Medical Uncertainty
  20. What can a covid test tell you?

2020 38

  1. Follow Up: Predictions as a Substitute For Reviews
  2. Interview with former cult member Duncan H.
  3. Looking For Work
  4. Epistemic Spot Check: This Isn’t Sparta
  5. Looking For Test Subjects: Breaking Questions Down
  6. No Notes Research
  7. Coping with Cats
  8. Predictions As A Substitute For Reviews
  9. Aceso Under Glass
  10. Knowledge Bootstrapping Steps v0.1
  11. Breaking Questions Down
  12. How to Find Sources in an Unreliable World
  13. Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning
  14. Types of Knowledge
  15. What to write down when you’re reading to learn
  16. Where to Start Research?
  17. Turns Out Interruptions Are Bad, Who Knew?
  18. The Oil Crisis of 1973
  19. Product Endorsement: ENOF
  20. What Happens in a Recession Anyway?
  21. Negative Feedback and Simulacra
  22. Talk to Me for an Hour
  23. Quarantine Failure Report
  24. Me and Monastic Academy
  25. Literature Review: Distributed Teams
  26. Stop Hitting Yourself
  27. Draft: Models of Risks of Delivery Under Coronavirus
  28. Really Ridiculously Thorough Notes
  29. Fake Thesis vs. Absent Thesis
  30. Set Ups and Summaries
  31. The Purpose of Lectures
  32. Signs a Craigslist Apartment Listing is a Scam
  33. Epistemic Spot Check: Spare the Child (Philip Greven)
  34. Review: How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren)
  35. Epistemic Spot Check: Children in Colonial America
  36. My Favorite Gifts This Year
  37. Cassette Tape Thoughts
  38. Call for Volunteers

2019 37

  1. Criticism as Entertainment
  2. What we Know vs. How we Know it?
  3. ESC Process Notes: Detail-Focused Books
  4. Epistemic Spot Check: Children and Childhood Education in the Classical World
  5. Forecasting Epistemic Spot Checks
  6. ESC Process Notes: Claim Evaluation vs. Syntheses
  7. Epistemic Spot Check: Children and Childhood in Ancient Rome (Beryl Rawson)
  8. How’s that Epistemic Spot Check Project Coming?
  9. Epistemic Spot Check: The Unbound Prometheus
  10. Trip Report: Fertility Drugs
  11. Epistemic Spot Check: Fatigue and the Central Governor Module
  12. Roam
  13. Epistemic Spot Check: Unconditional Parenting
  14. Epistemic (Spot Check?): The Fate of Rome Round 2
  15. Aceso Under Glass
  16. What Comes After Epistemic Spot Checks?
  17. Epistemic Spot Checks: The Fall of Rome
  18. Aceso Under Glass
  19. Aceso Under Glass
  20. When Did You Learn Your Relationship Dealbreaker?
  21. Epistemic Spot Check: The Fate of Rome (Kyle Harper)
  22. Epistemic Spot Check Scaling Experiment
  23. Power Buys You Distance From The Crime
  24. Review: Dark Souls is basically Candy Crush
  25. Truthseeking is not Just About Proving Yourself Wrong
  26. Informed Attributes
  27. Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
  28. Kencko Fruit Powder: Better Than Anything I’m Actually Going to do
  29. How Accurate Do Citations Need to be?
  30. Literature Review: Distributed Teams
  31. Horrible Stories from Ray, Part 1
  32. 5 Groups of Homeless People
  33. Engaging With Reality
  34. How I Research
  35. Unscientific Survey
  36. Knowing I’m Being Tricked is Barely Enough
  37. Letters to the Future

2018 21

  1. Cortisol Manager for Sleep
  2. Burnout
  3. Epistemic Spot Check: The Dorito Effect (Mark Schatzker)
  4. Meditation Ramblings
  5. Literature Review: MDMA
  6. Water Pick Experimental Results
  7. Bullshit Job Notes
  8. Today in Horrifying Systems
  9. The Longevity Research Institute
  10. Aceso Under Glass
  11. Self Help Epistemic Spot Check Results
  12. Review: SOMA
  13. Manganese
  14. The Supply Chain Game
  15. Can History be Moved?
  16. Epistemic Spot Check: Polyvagal Theory/Safe and Sound Protocol/Stephen Porges
  17. As long as it’s addressed
  18. The Moral Arithmetic of Humble Bundle
  19. Humble Paradox Bundle
  20. The Tallest Pygmy Effect
  21. Epistemic Spot Check: The Tapping Solution (Nick Ortner)

2017 59

  1. Product Endorsement: Secret Stuff Chalk Cream
  2. Epistemic Spot Check: Full Catastrophe Living (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
  3. The Parable of Ignac Semmelweiss
  4. That Guy Lives in All of Us
  5. Open Opportunities in Longevity
  6. Aceso Under Glass
  7. Cost Effectiveness of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
  8. Measuring the Impact of Mental Illness on Quality of Life
  9. Impact of Depression and its Treatment on Productivity
  10. TransTech Conference Round Up
  11. Transformative Technology Conference
  12. Wonders of our Age
  13. Tim Schafer Videogame Roundup
  14. Epistemic Spot Check: Exercise for Mood and Anxiety (Michael W. Otto, Jasper A.J. Smits)
  15. Public Service Announcement
  16. Do you want to exercise yet?
  17. Tracking Flow State
  18. Things I Have Gotten Wrong
  19. What do I do now?
  20. More Brain Lies
  21. Your Brain is an Unreliable Narrator
  22. Happy EA Global Everyone
  23. Review: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Spark Joy (Mari Kondo)
  24. Epistemic Spot Check Changes
  25. Econtalk on Generic Medications
  26. Epistemic Spot Check: A Guide To Better Movement (Todd Hargrove)
  27. How to Handle Bad Examples in Texts?
  28. Epistemic Spot Check: The Demon Under the Microscope (Thomas Hager)
  29. Current Projects
  30. The Good News Is I’ll Have More Time For Blogging Now
  31. Epistemic Spot Check Update
  32. Talk to Me For an Hour Goes Legit
  33. Call for Exercise Study Recommendations
  34. Call for volunteers who want to want to exercise.
  35. Review: The Dueling Neurosurgeons (Sam Kean)
  36. Better Pay(ment System) for Pro Athletes
  37. Why not Calories In/Calories Out?
  38. An Alternate Explanation for Dieting Studies
  39. An Opportunity to Throw Money at the Problem of Medical Science
  40. Epistemic Spot Check: The Alchemy of Air (Thomas Hager)
  41. Aceso Under Glass
  42. World War Technology
  43. Other Ways to Learn About Homonid Diversity
  44. Support Aceso Under Glass
  45. Epistemic Spot Check: A Brief History of the Human Race (Michael Cook)
  46. Epistemic Spot Check: Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)
  47. Why I Get To The Airport Early
  48. Dreamland: bad organic chemistry edition
  49. Review: Volume
  50. Some thoughts on The Power Broker (Robert Caro)
  51. Georgia Bill SB 81
  52. Review: Submission (Michel Houellebecq)
  53. International Refugee Assistance Project
  54. This is Not Okay
  55. Aceso Under Glass
  56. What is the Giving What We Can Pledge?
  57. Protecting the Commons
  58. Aceso Under Glass
  59. Tracking donations

2016 12

  1. Aceso Under Glass
  2. Accountability Update
  3. Seeing Like A State, Flashlights, and Giving This Year
  4. Hang out at EAG?
  5. Review: King Leopold’s Ghost (Adam Hochschild)
  6. “But they’ve repaid the debt several times over”
  7. Debt: The First 5000 Years (David Graeber)
  8. Aceso Under Glass
  9. Motion sickness cure: mint gum
  10. Bone Broth
  11. Spreading the Wealth Around
  12. 2015 donations

2015 135

  1. Solstice Speech Playlist
  2. Talking about controversial things (discussion version)
  3. Talking about controversial things (speech version)
  4. My Solstice Speech
  5. The Giving What We Can Pledge
  6. Talk to me for an hour
  7. Unquantified Self
  8. The Importance of Being Seen
  9. Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder) and the case against cost effectiveness
  10. EA Book Roundup
  11. Special Tax Status for Non-Profits?
  12. Links 8/28/15
  13. The Argument Against Incrementalism.
  14. Review: The Hot Seat (Dan Shapiro)
  15. How Does Amazon Convince Anyone To Work For Them?
  16. Links 8/21/15
  17. The Future Soon
  18. In Defense Of The Sunk Cost Fallacy
  19. Links 8/14/15
  20. Food Choices at EA Global
  21. Links 8/7/15
  22. Product Endorsement: Baby Watermelon
  23. Links 7/31/15
  24. Filtering Labor
  25. Mission Statement
  26. Thoughts on So Good They Can’t Ignore You (Cal Newport)
  27. Travel Notice
  28. Why Open Offices? (synchronicity)
  29. Links 7/24/15
  30. Binaural Beats
  31. Meditation
  32. IQ Tests and Poverty
  33. Links 7/17/15
  34. Life Imitates Coloring Books
  35. Aceso Under Glass
  36. Status Through Disbelief
  37. Links 7/3/15
  38. Improving Commuting
  39. Making Hannibal Make Sense
  40. Review: Inside Out
  41. Link 6/26/15
  42. When genes fight
  43. Kin Selection
  44. Haplodiploidy
  45. Eusociality/How to Train Your Dragon in Behavioral Ecology
  46. Links 6/19/15
  47. Effectiveness Updates
  48. Seattle Effective Altruist’s “Be Excellent To Each Other” Policy
  49. Blender Bottle pitfalls
  50. Links 6/12/15
  51. Meeting protocols don’t scale
  52. Questioning Questions
  53. Interpretive Labor
  54. Inclusivity is a Trade Off
  55. Links 6/5/15
  56. Heart Rate Variability
  57. Links 5/29/15
  58. Rehighjacking the dopamine system
  59. Dopamine: the tension builder
  60. Links 5/22/15
  61. Soylent + Blender Bottle = Awesome
  62. Bupropion finds its real family
  63. Review: Mindset (Carol Dweck)
  64. Links 5/15/15
  65. Shorter courses of antibiotics better after all?
  66. Pointers to Maps
  67. The Efficacy of Deliberate Practice
  68. Map of Open Spaces in Effective Altruism
  69. Links 5/8/15
  70. T-Shirt Fundraisers Less Dumb Than Previously Thought
  71. Sweating as a predictor of suicide? Seriously? (maybe a little)
  72. Educational Games
  73. Link Roundup 5/1/15
  74. Minor Spoilers for Avengers: Age of Ultron and previous MCU movies
  75. Effective Actions Post-Mortem
  76. Motion Sickness
  77. My Suggestions For Studying Vegan Advocacy
  78. Leaflets are Ineffective, Tell Your Friends
  79. The Compassion Pain Scale
  80. Hunger Tracker 1.0
  81. Xylitol for sinusitis
  82. More ways to make to the world better
  83. Autism as Developmental Injury
  84. Hunger Tracker 0.3
  85. Review: The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis (Thomas Goetz)
  86. What We Talk About When We Talk About Effectiveness
  87. The Science of Blood Types
  88. Is Blood Donation Effective? (Yes)
  89. How Tests Improve Code Structure pt 2
  90. Review: Neanderthal Man
  91. Being a cyborg proves more boring than anticipated.
  92. How Tests Improve Code Structure pt 1
  93. Prostaglandin, omega-3s, and health
  94. Video Games for Good
  95. 100% Food versus Soylent
  96. How effective is volunteering at a suicide hotline?
  97. Is Nicotine Harmful?
  98. Every conversation I’ve ever had about opioid pain killers.
  99. Testing Android Software
  100. Hunger Tracker 0.1
  101. Male Birth Control
  102. Alternate Birth Control
  103. Pain, ADHD, and happiness
  104. Simple Screening for Depression?
  105. Humans are complicated, children are even more complicated
  106. Locks of Love
  107. The Talent Code: Two Truths and a Lie
  108. What a healthy child. And so full of organs!
  109. Review: How to Be Sick (Toni Bernhard)
  110. McDentistry
  111. Bug or Feature? SAT edition
  112. Review: Immune Defense Video Game
  113. Oral Probiotics for Dental Health
  114. Activism Field Trip
  115. Review: Selling Sickness ( Ray Moynihan, Alan Cassels)
  116. Selling Sickness: Depression and Anxiety
  117. Gender-based variation in grading and teacher attitudes.
  118. Aceso Under Glass Valentine’s Day Special
  119. Things I Say a Lot in Crisis Chat: You Are Worthy of Help Too
  120. Anticholinergic agents and dementia
  121. Loratadine for Allergies?
  122. Crisis Chat Observations: “You’re Very Aware”
  123. Screen Bedtime Follow Up
  124. Downer Superbowl Post
  125. Review: The Decision Tree (by Thomas Goetz)
  126. Animal Rights Deep Dive Pre-Check
  127. Inaugural Kitten Video
  128. The Kitten Pain Scale
  129. Adventures in Dentistry and Neurology
  130. Adventures in Podiatry and Neurology
  131. Depression as a false negative
  132. The FDA strikes a blow for HIV virus everywhere
  133. Why I donated to the EFF this year
  134. Problems in need of generalizable solutions
  135. Reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last

2014 125

  1. Why I donated to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood
  2. Donations in 2014
  3. Review: Surprisingly Vegan Waffle Mix
  4. My Comparative Advantage in Effective Altruism
  5. Cis and Trans
  6. What doctors can learn from day care workers
  7. Multifactor analysis
  8. Back exercises
  9. Review and Science: Thomas Was Alone
  10. Wish me luck
  11. Helping Ferguson, part 2
  12. r/fatlogic endorses creationism
  13. Health At Every Size Roundup
  14. An Apple a Day Does Surprisingly Little?
  15. HAES post-check
  16. Today in Bad Infographs
  17. The Limits of Metrics
  18. Controls and Confounds
  19. Obesity, Blood Pressure, and Study Design
  20. Fiber: the Mr. Rogers of nutrition
  21. Bariatric Surgery
  22. Nature tricks us again
  23. Insulin and Glucagon: Mockingsugar
  24. Poverty, Medicine, and Research
  25. Leptin: Catching Chemicals
  26. Contempt and Complacency
  27. Cannibidiol for pain: a partial retraction
  28. Why Jezebel is Wrong that Cats Don’t Care About You.
  29. And now for a completely different kind of sexism
  30. Your Annual Reminder: Tryptophan Does Not Make You Sleepy
  31. Different things for the same name
  32. On Racial Injustice in America
  33. Book review: Why Does He Do That, by Lundy Bancroft
  34. Now I’m learning about hypothalamusing
  35. Ghrelin: The Hunger and Lung Development Games
  36. Open access journals
  37. Harm mitigation vs. cure
  38. Damnit
  39. HAES pre-check
  40. Antibiotics: is there anything they can’t do?
  41. …and the Wisdom to Tell the Difference
  42. Costly Signalling and the Scheherazade Effect
  43. Intro to EA/Giving What I Should
  44. Rededication
  45. Narrative Dessert Doesn’t Spoil Dinner
  46. When You Call a Suicide Hotline and Things Go Poorly
  47. Intelligence vs. Effort, Acknowledgement vs. Praise
  48. I Swallowed A Bug
  49. Any straw that doesn’t break your back must be weightless.
  50. …wait a second
  51. Depression in video games
  52. Book Review: The Child Catchers
  53. Cutting
  54. The Real Reason Ebola Should Scare You
  55. Borderline Personality Week: What success looks like
  56. Borderline Personality Week: Making sure you’re not getting too much out of medical care
  57. Borderline Personality Week: when your desire to kill yourself is an annoyance to others
  58. Cochrane review
  59. Reality is Broken and how to fix it
  60. Borderline Personality Week: sympathy for the devil
  61. Pain, part 2: Options for Treating Pain
  62. Pain, part 1: Pain is bad.
  63. Differential recall as an objective test for abuse?
  64. The origins of traumatic bonding
  65. Depression, symptoms and definition
  66. Patterns of pain
  67. Monday morning quarterbacking
  68. Eating for oral surgery
  69. Pain, Concentration, and Achievement
  70. Aceso Under Glass
  71. Quick tip: medicinal straws and crazy straws
  72. Another easy one: video games for sensory integration disorder
  73. Book Review: It’s Always Something, by Gilda Radner
  74. Frying pan, slightly warm stovetop.
  75. Surgery update/words you hear a lot on House
  76. Luck of the draw.
  77. Bad journalism, good science
  78. Want to hear something horrifying?
  79. Crisis chat chats: active rescues for suicides
  80. Adventures in Accutane
  81. I can fix anything/if you let me near
  82. When ethics is ugly
  83. Prior assumptions
  84. First Impressions: It’s Not Just Who You Know, by Tommy Spaulding.
  85. Depression and Inflammation
  86. Chronic and Systemic Inflammation
  87. Career stuff
  88. I wanted to talk about depression but first I have to talk about inflammation
  89. What I want to be when I grow up
  90. Learning how to learn.
  91. The implicit promise of good luck
  92. Flu Week/Book Review: Flu, by Gina Kolata
  93. Flu week: herd immunity
  94. Flu week: why the flu is special.
  95. medical measurements
  96. Being happy without being Neo
  97. Book Review: Top Dog
  98. Systems vs. Goals
  99. Reason #28348 to hate open offices
  100. Vestibular processing
  101. Quick Tip/Warning: Vibrating Toothbrushes
  102. Book review: High Price
  103. SAD and Inositol.
  104. What does it mean to say a gene causes something?
  105. If high sensitivity is so costly, why is it still around?
  106. What we talk about when we talk about heritability
  107. Sensory input and economies.
  108. I figured it out.
  109. Possibly fictitious diseases of the endolymphatic sac
  110. The magic of placebos
  111. Optimal hammering time
  112. The vestibular system
  113. Quick tip: honey for allergies
  114. Gastric acid, B12, and Parietal Cells
  115. Adventures in ametuer research: the definition of reflex
  116. My issues: sensorymumble, and the link with digestion
  117. Quick tips: stock cubes
  118. Medical Privilege
  119. My experience with hypochlorhydria and diagnosis thereof
  120. Quick tips: roast vegetables
  121. True facts about Helicobacter pylori
  122. Adventures in amateur research: implausible mechanisms
  123. Digestion, hormones, acid, and bacteria.
  124. My medical issues: digestion
  125. Why “Aceso Under Glass”?

2013 1

  1. Why I’m Writing