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2025 2

  1. Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
  2. Book Review: Nadia's Antimemetics

2024 1

  1. On the Experience of Using a Guest Pass at an Elite Gym

2022 12

  1. Unpleasant Experiences Considered Pretty Fun
  2. The Repugnant Conclusion Isn't
  3. Punching Utilitarians in the Face
  4. Statistical Theodicy
  5. Corporate Culture is the Final Holdout of Mainstream America
  6. San Francisco Shoplifting: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
  7. San Francisco Shoplifting: Prelude
  8. Every Grant is also a Bounty
  9. You Can Get Fluvoxamine
  10. I'm Donating 90% of my Recent Income to Slime Mold Time Mold
  11. Finance
  12. Is Time Working for or Against You?

2021 54

  1. Make COVID Predictions, Take My Money: On Zvi, Bets and Taking Ideas Seriously
  2. My Interview with Alex Berger
  3. Progress Studies Exegesis
  4. My Interview with Byrne Hobart for The Browser
  5. One Year of Applied Divinity Studies
  6. Ordinary Life Improvements 2030
  7. The Myth of the Myth of the Latte Millionaire
  8. The Most Interesting Generation
  9. A Subconscious Dilemma
  10. How Long Should you Take to Decide on a Career?
  11. Varieties of Deterministic Experience
  12. Yes, X Causes Y
  13. Failures of Megaproject Management, or Why Are the Olympics so Unprofitable?
  14. The Transhuman Olympics
  15. Writing about my job: Internet Blogger
  16. Generating Intuitions for Exponential Growth
  17. Become a Billionaire Part II: You're Not Even Trying
  18. Life Advice: Become a Billionaire
  19. Does Moral Philosophy Drive Moral Progress?
  20. On Being a Loser, or Should you Start a Blog?
  21. The Hypostatic Union of Kanye West
  22. Contra Smith, I Guess
  23. 60,000,000,000 Chickens
  24. The Irony of “Longtermism”
  25. The Moral Foundations of Progress
  26. Book Review: The Making of Prince of Persia
  27. My Fantasy Intellectual Draft Picks
  28. A List of Very Bad Things
  29. Data and Models
  30. Mistakes
  31. Criticism
  32. Crypto is Stupid; Everything is Stupid; It's All Okay
  33. Asymmetric Opportunities and the Cult of Optionality
  34. Against and Then for Hyperproductivity
  35. Responses and Testimonies on EA Growth
  36. On Radical Reforms, Technocracy and Seeing Like a State
  37. Why Hasn't Effective Altruism Grown Since 2015?
  38. The Byrne Hobart Portfolio
  39. The Irony of "Progress Studies"
  40. Highlights from the Comments on Organizing Research
  41. Why Haven't We Passed any Constitutional Amendments Lately?
  42. Is There a Translational Research Gap?
  43. Are Athletes Great for Longer?
  44. Why does this blog take so long to write?
  45. Notes on Adam Marblestone’s Focused Research Organizations
  46. Wake Up, You've Been Asleep for 50 Years
  47. No Revival for the Industrial Research Lab
  48. Progress Studies: A Discipline is a Set of Institutional Norms
  49. Don't Read the News
  50. SlateStarSubstack
  51. Contra StatNews: How Long to Herd Immunity?
  52. Progress Studies: Tensions of the Liberal Order
  53. Progress Studies: A Question in Search of a Discipline
  54. Was Vaccine Production Actually Delayed?

2020 36

  1. Isolated Demands for Rigour in New Optimism
  2. About Applied Divinity Studies
  3. Every Post I Couldn't Write This Year
  4. What is an Explanation?
  5. Highlights from the Emails on Golden Handcuffs
  6. Empirical Estimates of Golden Handcuffs
  7. The Golden Handcuffs Were Inside of You The Whole Time
  8. The Best Writing Against, For, and On Substack
  9. The Murder of Wilbur Wright
  10. Correlated Returns are Insufficient for True Alignment
  11. Lambda School's Incredibly Naive Incentive Alignment
  12. Transcendance and Material Gain in Queen's Gambit
  13. Austen Allred is Consistently Deceptive
  14. The Epistemic Pain of Prop 22
  15. Are the Neurotypicals Okay?
  16. I Couldn't Read Papers Until I Learned The Greek Alphabet
  17. Replying to Robert Wiblin on Young Rationalists
  18. Revising my Views on the Impact of Teachers
  19. No One is Even Trying
  20. A Vote for Jo Is at Most Half a Vote for Trump
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  24. Oct 15
  25. Oct 6
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  27. Sep 17
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  35. Sep 2
  36. Sep 1