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Neel Nanda

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2025 3

  1. MATS Applications Open (Due Aug 29)
  2. Post 51: Socratic Persuasion: Giving Opinionated Yet Truth-Seeking Advice
  3. Post 50: Good Research Takes are Not Sufficient for Good Strategic Takes

2022 6

  1. Interlude: A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking
  2. Post 49: Things That Make Me Enjoy Giving Career Advice
  3. Post 48: Prioritise Tasks by Rating not Sorting
  4. Post 47: How I Formed My Own Views About AI Safety
  5. Post 46: Reward Good Bets That Had Bad Outcomes
  6. Post 45: Simplify EA Pitches to “Holy Shit, X-Risk”

2021 6

  1. Post 44: What’s Stopping You?
  2. Post 43: Intentionally Making Close Friends
  3. Post 42: When You Already Know the Answer
  4. Post 41: Overcoming Helplessness
  5. Interlude 2: Podcast episode on Effective Altruism
  6. Interlude: Retrospective on Teaching Rationality Workshops

2020 41

  1. Post 40: Asking for help
  2. Post 39: On Reflection
  3. PSA: Light levels can matter a lot for mental health
  4. Post 38: On Slack - Having room to be excited
  5. Post 37: On Option Paralysis - The Thing You Actually Do
  6. Post 36: My Sense of Aesthetics
  7. Post 35: Your Standards are Too High
  8. Post 34: Learning how to learn
  9. Post 33: Seek Upside Risk
  10. Post 32: Macro-Procrastination
  11. Post 31: Noticing and Overcoming Bias
  12. Post 30: Helping People to Solve Their Problems
  13. Post 29: Meaningful Rest
  14. Post 28: On Creativity - the joys of 5 minute timers
  15. Mini Blog Post 27: On blog posts
  16. Mini Blog Post 26: Having an accurate self-image
  17. Mini Blog Post 25: Friendships should feel like playing on the same team
  18. Mini Blog Post 24: On Procrastination - The art of shaping your future actions
  19. Mini Blog Post 23: Taking Social Initiative
  20. Mini Blog Post 22: The world is full of wasted motion
  21. Mini Blog Post 21: Taking the first step
  22. Mini Blog Post 20: Emotions are Bayesian Evidence
  23. Mini Blog Post 19: On systems - Living a life of zero willpower
  24. Mini Blog Post 18: How to teach things well
  25. Mini Blog Post 17: Prioritisation Part 2/2 - Achieving Goals
  26. Mini Blog Post 16: Prioritisation Part 1/2 - Finding Goals
  27. Mini Blog Post 15: The illusion of doing nothing
  28. Mini Blog Post 14: Minds should make sense
  29. Mini Blog Post 13: Beliefs are for True Things
  30. Mini Blog Post 12: The Map is not the Territory
  31. Mini Blog Post 11: Live a life you feel excited about
  32. Mini Blog Post 10: Seek positive externalities
  33. Mini Blog Post 9: What it means to optimise
  34. Mini Blog Post 8: What altruism means to me
  35. Mini Blog Post 7: Problems are for Fixing
  36. Mini Blog Post 6: Stop pressing the Try Harder button
  37. Mini Blog Post 5: How to Learn From Conversations
  38. Mini Blog Post 4: Reward the ways you’d like to be treated
  39. Mini Blog Post 3: Become a person who Actually Does Things
  40. Mini Blog Post 2: Be Deliberate
  41. Mini Blog Post 1: The value of experiments