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2026 2

  1. Why You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive
  2. Making Dungeon Synth without Perfectionism

2024 1

  1. Not a Meat Eater FAQ

2023 9

  1. Introducing midihum: An ML-Based MIDI Humanizing Tool
  2. Attention on X-Risk from AI Likely Hasn't Distracted from Current Harms from AI
  3. Amish Country
  4. Alpha
  5. The Prospect of an AI Winter
  6. Against LLM Reductionism
  7. How to Get Hold of a Research Paper
  8. The Mating Season
  9. Forecasts on the Population, Stability, and Upcoming Election of Nigeria

2022 41

  1. Notes on Meta's Diplomacy-Playing AI
  2. Impact above Replacement
  3. Uncommon Sensations: A Review of The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
  4. Sweet Irony
  5. Apropos the Swedish General Election
  6. Weakly Against the Cessation of the Issuance of Tourist Visas for Russians
  7. Follow-Up on the Health Effects of Veganism: Mental Health
  8. How Many Effective Altruist Billionaires Five Years from Now?
  9. Staring Out across the New Mexico Desert
  10. Is There a Place among the Barbarians for Me and My Puny Muscles?
  11. Good Works by Lesser-Known Composers 2
  12. On Amorality
  13. A Kantian View on Extinction
  14. Emacs Lisp Functions for Easy BibTeX Recording
  15. Taste Disclosure Asymmetry
  16. Quick Summaries of Two Papers on Kant and Game Theory
  17. The Biggest Game in Town
  18. Meta Update 3
  19. Frunimius
  20. Decomposition and Problem-Solving
  21. Does Human Purpose Have Anywhere to Retreat to?
  22. A Few Elementary Productivity Tips
  23. An Estimate of Cattle Killed due to EU GMO Skepticism
  24. Life Is a School of Probability
  25. Ravi Zacharias Solves the Problem of Evil
  26. The Power of Music
  27. The Atemporal Franz Kafka
  28. Gradually Migrating Python Code to asyncio
  29. Why I Am Not a Conservative
  30. About the Neglectedness of Longtermism and Future Work
  31. Why Rome?
  32. Nuclear Decay
  33. Marilynne Robinson's Quest for Truth
  34. What Made _World of Warcraft_'s Environments so Compelling?
  35. Doubts about Track Record Arguments for Utilitarianism
  36. Scoring My Veganism Predictions
  37. Critique of Norm Criticism
  38. How I Track My Hour Balance with a Custom org-mode Clock Table
  39. How Bad Is QWERTY, Really? A Review of the Literature, such as It Is
  40. How I Make Dungeon Synth
  41. Predictions for 2022

2021 58

  1. Against Octopus Farming
  2. How the Equivalent Bet Test Actually Works
  3. GDPR: A View on the Ground
  4. Meta Update 2
  5. For Cows
  6. Child Prodigies
  7. Identity Politics and the Left
  8. Setting Up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e
  9. Walter Simmons Article about Arnold Rosner in _Harper's Magazine_
  10. The Devastating Power and Heartbreaking Pain of Truly Changing Minds
  11. Some Books that Have Influenced Me during the Past Decade
  12. How Impactful Is Free and Open Source Software Development?
  13. Simulations of Diversity Hiring
  14. Small Things that Bug Me in Sanderson's Otherwise Good _Stormlight Archive_
  15. Interview with Corentin Boissier: Romanticism, Modernism, Composition
  16. The American Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation Makes No Sense
  17. Why Does the Western Left Worry More about Local Poverty than Global Poverty?
  18. Moral Golems Assume Uncertainty
  19. Interview with Olle Häggström: Reason, COVID-19, and Academic Freedom in Sweden
  20. Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia
  21. The Literary Technique of Recapitulation
  22. Scoring My AstraZeneca Predictions
  23. My Path toward Veganism
  24. Meta Update 1
  25. It Did Not Take Matt Bruenig and Jon White Two Days to Make a Good Child Tax Credit Website
  26. Dimensions of Animal Advocacy Terminology
  27. Possible Resolutions to the Rights/Welfare Debate in Animal Advocacy
  28. Rights or Welfare for Animals?
  29. Interview with Lucia Coulter: Lead Exposure, Effective Altruism, Progress in Malawi
  30. Moral Standing Is Not Moral Agency
  31. Mysteries of the Unknown and the Unknowable
  32. Animal Testing Is Exploitative and Largely Ineffective
  33. Using Scheme to Find the Median of Two Sorted Integer Lists
  34. Hello, DIE-BRVECKE-003
  35. Does It Smell like Pollocks in Here?
  36. How Can One Tell What Is Beautiful?
  37. Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard: Animal Ethics, Kantianism, Utilitarianism
  38. Reliability in the Lincoln-Petersen Method of Estimating Population Size
  39. Bayesian Modeling of Simulated Data from the Kingdom of Tamego
  40. The Kingdom of Tamego
  41. Problems with "Eating Animals"
  42. Networks of Meaning
  43. Rediscovery, the Mind's Curare
  44. Moral Golems
  45. Code Purity and Principles
  46. Building a Lightweight, Command-Line Newsletter Program
  47. The AstraZeneca Vaccine Will Save Lives
  48. Can a Vegan Diet Be Healthy? A Literature Review
  49. Paying for a Service
  50. Recent Recordings of Sibelius's Symphony No. 1
  51. Auderico
  52. Four Ways of Not Writing Software Bugs
  53. Two Inadequate Arguments against Moral Vegetarianism
  54. A Contradiction at the Heart of Stallman's Free Software Argument
  55. Good Works by Lesser-Known Composers
  56. Permanent Suspension of Reason
  57. Tolstoy in Ryazan
  58. Evolution of Programming Language Traits

2020 3

  1. Two Accounts of the Armenian Genocide
  2. Strictness of Logic versus Openness of Logic
  3. Introduction