Archive

2024

• Positive visions for AI (w/ Florence Hinder)
• A model of research skill

2023

• A Disneyland Without Children (fiction)

2022

• Deciding not to found a human-data-for-alignment startup  (w/ Matt Putz)
• AI risk intro 2: solving the problem (w/ Callum McDougall)
• AI risk intro 1: advanced AI might be very bad (w/ Callum McDougall)
  
• EA as a Schelling point
  
• Effective Altruism in practice
  
• Information theory 3: channel coding
  
• Information theory 2: source coding
  
• Information theory 1
  

 

2021

• Death is bad
  
• Short reviews: biographies
  
• Lambda calculus
  
• Nuclear power is good
• Technological progress
  
• Review: Where is my Flying Car?
  
• Data science 2 

 

2020

• Data science 1
  
• Review: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
  
• EA ideas 4: utilitarianism
• EA ideas 3: uncertainty
• EA ideas 2: expected value and risk neutrality
  
• EA ideas 1: rigour and opportunity in charity
• Short reviews: fiction
  
• Short reviews: non-fiction
  
• Review: The Doomsday Machine

2019

• Classical physics
• Growth and civilisation
• Review: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Review: The Pleasures of Counting
• Review: From NAND to Tetris
• Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Two Proofs
• The Ultimate Literary Essay
• Review: Diaspora

2018

• Review: Seeds of Science: Why we got it so wrong on GMOs
• More Energy and More Civilisation
• Review: Energy and Civilisation: A History
• Powerful Proof Techniques
• Review: Enlightenment Now
• Review: The Baroque Cycle
• Review: The Internationalists
• Review: Permutation City
• Review: Gödel, Escher, Bach