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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
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are they good or bad?
23h ago
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Thoughts while watching myself be automated
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(Excluding “please stop”)
on Sep 5
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Sloth was not the right answer
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You can have a wrong favorite animal
on Thu, 4PM
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Attitudes one can take towards people who have behaved badly
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humans and social punishment
on Nov 7
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Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology
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if you keep units
on Oct 17
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Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening
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The sound and the worry
on Oct 16
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The real data wall is billions of years of evolution
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Careful with those human analogies
on Oct 3
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Underrated reasons to be thankful
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30 underrated reasons to be thankful, starting with the fact that atomic bombs don’t ignite the atmosphere
on Sep 18
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A review of early split-brain experiments
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What happens if you cut your brain in half?
on Sep 12
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Consciousness will slip through our fingers
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Can technology explain subjective experience?
on Sep 12
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It’s probably just money: Why hosts do well at the Olympics
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sometimes it’s boycotts
on Aug 8
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The case against ultrasonic humidifiers
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Why it’s better not to use an ultrasonic humidifier
on Jul 7
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Datasets that change the odds you exist
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Stats for dangerous situations
on Jun 28
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Fighting me and other survey results
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Do extroverts have more martial confidence?
on May 10
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Plans you’re not supposed to talk about
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When does talking about a plan ruin it? Marriage, CO2, religion, self-promotion, edgelords, and Chinese medicine.
on Mar 29
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Or: Things where there’s a case worth considering that they don’t work all that well for most of people.
on Mar 21
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Everything is espionage: Things I learned researching Assange
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(espissange? asspionage?)
on Mar 14
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Using axis lines for good or evil
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add them only if they mean something
on Mar 2
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Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s
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You can make a DIY air purifier in 30s. To test if it works, I generated smoke, and measured how well it removes tiny particles.
on Jan 29
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Fancy math doesn’t make simple math stop being true
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on butts and instrumental variables
on Jan 21
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Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
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The Wirecutter’s review of the IKEA air purifier is a mishmash of scientific errors, shoddy testing, and self-contradictory logic.
on Jan 20
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Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
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Report back on how it goes
on Dec 24
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Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics II
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Report back on how it goes
on Dec 21
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The big alcohol study that didn’t happen: My primal scream of rage
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Why did a huge alcohol RCT get cancelled? A strange story of science, academia, bureaucratic maneuvering, ambition, politics, capitalism, the deep state, secret emails, and slippery ethical slopes.
on Dec 19
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Bourdieu’s theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé
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what the stuff we like says about us
on Nov 16, 2023
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What’s so great about tunnel man?
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insensitivity to evolution and engineering?
on Nov 9, 2023
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Are language models good at making predictions?
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politics more than science
on Nov 2, 2023