Strata of the World—moved to: https://nosetgauge.com/

"You laugh at iterative statistical curve fitting, but it might not be too long before iterative statistical curve fitting is laughing at you"

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2020-07-26

EA ideas 3: uncertainty

2.0k words (7 minutes) Posts in this series: FIRST | PREVIOUS | NEXT Moral uncertainty is uncertainty over the definition of good. F...

2020-07-25

EA ideas 2: expected value and risk neutrality

2.6k words (9 minutes) Posts in this series: PREVIOUS | NEXT The expected value (EV) of an event / choice / random variable is the sum, ...

EA ideas 1: rigour and opportunity in charity

2.2k words (8 minutes) Effective altruism (EA) is about trying to carefully reason how to do the most good. On the practical side, EA has ...

2020-05-09

Short reviews: fiction

Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson) Cryptonomicon is a hard novel to summarise. It is about World War II code-breakers and 1990s tech entre...

Short reviews: non-fiction

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Richard Feynman) The Feynman Lectures on Physics (FLOP) is an incredible resource on basic physics. Fe...

2020-04-23

Review: The Doomsday Machine

Book: The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner , by Daniel Ellsberg (2012). This review is 4.6k words (≈15 minutes)...

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