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2025

• 04/01 - (Book review) The Anxious Generation
• 03/29 - Popper as Historian: The Case of Kant
• 02/12 - The statistics wars via Royall's three questions

2024

• 12/30 - On moving and community
• 12/20 - My end of the world bets
• 12/15 - Two math cultures
• 11/30 - The era of thinking about thinking
• 08/18 - Some thoughts from two-fifths of the way through grad school
• 08/13 - On the importance of norms over policies
• 08/01 - On studying useless things
• 06/05 - Solitude vs Serendipity
• 02/04 - The paradox of dogmatism

2023

• 09/22 - An epistemological Frankenstein
• 09/06 - You need a theory for that theory
• 07/28 - On Creativity
• 06/17 - And the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down optimization from heaven
• 04/27 - There are no Ramanujans in Abstract Expressionism

2022

• 12/24 - The Mismeasure of Models
• 12/16 - An AI-capabilities bet
• 10/20 - Longtermism and the second wave of effective altruism (IAI)
• 09/10 - The commentary is all that matters (or, why nobody is actually a Bayesian)
• 08/28 - Break up big tech (departments)
• 06/26 - The case for replacing peer-review with preprints and overlay journals

2021

• 06/09 - The False Philosophy Plaguing AI (Towards Data Science)
• 01/04 - Cliodynamics and the Dangers of Prophesy (Conjecture Mag)

2020

• 12/30 - When unprecedented times meet unprecedented opportunities (GWWC)
• 12/20 - Strong Longtermism, Irrefutability, and Moral Progress (EA Forum)
• 12/18 - Pascal's Mugging and Bad Explanations (Conjecture Mag)