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 2022

  • Deciding not to found a human-data-for-alignment startup  (collaboration)
  • AI risk intro 2: solving the problem (collaboration)
  • AI risk intro 1: advanced AI might be very bad (collaboration)
  • 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
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