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# #essay

- <https://jasminexli.substack.com/p/slowly-then-all-at-once> — Slowly, then all at once

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["change","history"]
    - later: true

- <https://zarazhang.com/2019/06/26/unanswerable-questions> — Unanswerable Questions

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["careers","reflection"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/creative-block> — Some remarks on being stuck, with digressions on David Hockney, developing style, and gardens

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["creativity","creative block"]
    - later: true

- <https://the6thspence.substack.com/p/my-best-friend-is-cheating-on-her> — My best friend is cheating on her husband, and I can’t judge her for it

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["relationships","ethics"]
    - later: true

- <https://pauljun.substack.com/p/execution-over-everything> — Execution over everything

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["creative work","execution"]
    - later: true

- <https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites> — A website to destroy all websites

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["indieweb","web culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://hereisyourbrain.substack.com/p/ai-generated-content-mind-virus> — The mind virus: Why you should care whether you read AI-generated content

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["ai writing","epistemology"]
    - later: true

- <https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear> — The contagion of fear

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["technology","fear"]
    - later: true

- <https://velvetnoise.substack.com/p/notes-on-catch-up-conversations> — notes on catch-up conversations

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["friendship","conversation"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.freaktakes.com/p/a-report-on-scientific-branch-creation> — A Report on Scientific Branch-Creation: How the Rockefeller Foundation helped bootstrap the field of molecular biology

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://jasmi.news/p/warning-shots> — AI Populism’s Warning Shots

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://ossama.is/writing/betrayed> — Betrayed by my own blog

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.theringer.com/2017/09/26/media/casper-snapchat-airbnb-startup-publications> — Can Tech Startups Do Journalism?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://crowprose.com/blog/competence-as-tragedy> — Competence as Tragedy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://sfalexandria.com/posts/donalds-stories> — Engineering Feelings

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://a16z.com/every-building-youve-ever-been-in-was-designed-by-software-built-in-1997> — Every Building You’ve Ever Been In Was Designed By Software Built in 1997 | Andreessen Horowitz

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow> — Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.pacificu.edu/magazine/four-waves-feminism> — Four Waves of Feminism | Pacific University

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://centuryofbio.com/p/sid> — Going Founder Mode On Cancer

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering> — Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay","agents"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.construction-physics.com/p/helium-is-hard-to-replace> — Helium Is Hard to Replace

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.adymehta.xyz/writing/one-on-one-trajectory> — How do we close the Junior <> Senior talent gap™? · Ady Mehta

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-i-estimate-work> — How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech-career-in-2026> — How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? - Anil Dash

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay","careers"]
    - later: true

- <https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out> — I’ve sold out

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.thecut.com/2022/10/internet-thin-culture-is-back.html> — Could Thin Be in Again?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/8/mario-and-earendil> — Mario and Earendil

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey> — My AI Adoption Journey

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://blog.redwoodresearch.org/p/my-picture-of-the-present-in-ai> — My picture of the present in AI

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/ai-future-work-technology-white-collar> — Nascent tech, real fear: how AI anxiety is upending career ambitions

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay","careers"]
    - later: true

- <https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html> — Outsourcing thinking – Erik Johannes Husom

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.semafor.com/article/02/24/2026/pentagons-anthropic-feud-deepened-after-tense-exchange-over-missile-attacks> — Exclusive: Pentagon’s Anthropic feud deepened after tense exchange over missile attacks

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_career_planning_part2.html> — Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Skills and education

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay","careers"]
    - later: true

- <https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_career_planning_part3.html> — Pmarchive · Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Where to go and why

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay","careers"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.tobyord.com/writing/remembering-peter-eckersley> — Remembering Peter Eckersley - Toby Ord

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.westlondonliving.co.uk/people/my-west-london-life/riva-melissa-tez-2> — Riva-Melissa Tez - West London Living

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2025/10/self-affirmations-well-being> — Self-affirmations can boost well-being, study finds

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed#my-config> — Shipping at Inference-Speed | Peter Steinberger

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay","inference"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.themolehill.net/p/sharing-clothes-is-my-favorite-form> — sisterhood of the traveling winter boots

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://stratechery.com/2025/the-agentic-web-and-original-sin> — The Agentic Web and Original Sin

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay","agents"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.maximevidal.com/ai-sound-house> — The AI Sound House

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b> — The Anthropic Hive Mind

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://essayarchitecture.metalabel.com/the-best-internet-essays-2025?variantId=1> — The Best Internet Essays 2025

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html> — The Brand Age

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/small-llms> — The Cortical Ratio: A Thought Experiment on the ‘Final’ Size of AGI

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/04/13/everyones-a-billionaire.html> — The ‘Everyone’s a Billionaire’ act

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://aphyr.com/data/posts/411/the-future-of-everything-is-lies.pdf> — The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine> — The machines are fine. I’m worried about us.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://loojy.me/posts/20251117%20Building%20the%20Lester%20St%20to%20Phillip%20St%20Pedestrian%20Shortcut> — The people want a shortcut - My Site

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.cybercelibate.com/p/the-power-of-being-intentionally> — The Power Of Being Intentionally Dense

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/the-profession-that-does-not-exist-symposium> — The Profession That Does Not Exist

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://ai-frontiers.org/articles/the-robot-in-your-living-room-has-no-rulebook> — The Robot in Your Living Room Has No Rulebook | AI Frontiers

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://shigalyovism.com> — The Shigalyovist Turn

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://thundergolfer.com/vibe-coding-vibe-shift> — There’s been a vibe shift in vibe coding

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://commoncog.com/to-get-good-go-after-the-metagame> — To Get Good, Go After The Metagame

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://jacobin.com/2025/09/unions-workers-algorithms-negotiation-apps> — Trade Unions Need to Fight Against Algorithmic Exploitation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.jenn.site/inkhaven2-unusually-good-pieces> — Unusually Good Posts from Inkhaven 2

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.anthropic.com/research/vibe-physics> — Vibe physics: The AI grad student

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://colossus.com/article/we-have-learned-nothing-startup-pundits> — Startup Punditry’s 25 Years of Failure

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/#toc_0> — What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay","agents"]
    - later: true

- <https://cdt.org/insights/what-will-it-look-like-to-insure-against-ai-risks> — What Will It Look Like to Insure Against AI Risks?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-political-economy-of-science/who-owns-knowledge> — Who Owns Knowledge? • SftP Magazine

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/america-has-too-many-bus-stops> — Why American needs fewer bus stops

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.benkuhn.net/writing> — Why and how to write things on the Internet

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html> — Why Cryonics Makes Sense

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight> — Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay","careers"]
    - later: true

- <https://gwern.net/matt-levine> — Why So Few Matt Levines?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://thegradient.pub/why-transformative-artificial-intelligence-is-really-really-hard-to-achieve> — Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://sharif.io/looking-stupid> — Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/28/specials/dillard-drop.html> — Write Till You Drop

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/17/three-minutes.html> — you have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.chinatalk.media/p/my-favorite-person-needs-a-cofounder> — Not Another Dev Tool

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/there-are-only-four-skills-design-technical-management-and![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KRLGxCaqdgrotyB8z/there-are-only-four-skills-design-technical-management-and) — There are only four skills: Design, Technical, Management, and Physical

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://substack.com/home/post/p-194366170> — I got fired from my tech job

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://dylanmatthews.substack.com/p/the-ai-people-have-been-right-a-lot> — The AI people have been right a lot

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/only-law-can-prevent-extinction![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5CfBDiQNg9upfipWk/only-law-can-prevent-extinction) — Only law can prevent extinction

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://lydianottingham.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-specialization> — The cost of specialization

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://croissanthology.substack.com/p/try-automating-yourself> — Try automating yourself!

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://gwern.net/blog/2025/good-ai-samples> — Adding Bits Beats AI Slop

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-working-with-wizards> — On Working with Wizards

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://croissanthology.com/llm-stack> — Comment to Ceselder on LLM stack

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://croissanthology.substack.com/p/llm-cybersecurity-risks-in-the-long> — LLM cybersecurity risks in the long run are probably exaggerated

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://croissanthology.substack.com/p/should-i-speak-to-a-model-cleverer> — Should I speak to a model cleverer than Claude Opus 4.5?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/new-sages-unrivalled> — “New Sages Unrivalled”

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["essay"]
    - later: true

- <https://devonhalliday.substack.com/p/literary-fiction-has-lost-the-plot> — Literary Fiction Has Lost the Plot

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/12/2026
    - tags: \["literature","criticism"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.matthewball.co/all/presentation-the-state-of-video-gaming-in-2026> — The State of Video Gaming in 2026

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/12/2026
    - tags: \["video games","industry"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/102-minutes-last-words-at-the-trade-center-fighting-to-live-as-the-towers-die.html> — 102 Minutes: Last Words at the Trade Center

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/12/2026
    - tags: \["september 11","history"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick> — I like ‘em thick

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["writing","literature"]
    - later: true

- <https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought> — Code was our medium for thought

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["programming","thinking"]
    - later: true

- <https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/unhappy-consciousness> — Unhappy Consciousness

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["rachel cusk","literature"]
    - later: true

- <https://tayiabr.wordpress.com/2014/06/22/how-to-write-with-style-by-kurt-vonnegut> — How To Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["writing","vonnegut"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-keep-thinking> — How to keep thinking

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["thinking","software"]
    - later: true

- <https://everythingi.love/text/tropical-technologist/text.html> — Tropical Technologist

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["philippines","technology"]
    - later: true

- <https://paulgraham.com/speak.html> — Writing and Speaking

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["writing","speaking"]
    - later: true

- <https://josephthacker.com/personal/2026/07/22/its-important-to-say-things.html> — it’s important to say things

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["communication","ambiguity"]
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  - rest in peace, Om

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  - The idea is that we are succumbing our own children to the slopification of education via LLMs or fancy auto-complete text models.

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    - tags: \["mysticism","uncertainty"]
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- <https://www.totei.com/story/la-marzocco-coffee> — How La Marzocco Perfected the Espresso Machine \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["craft","machinery","engineering"]
    - highlighted: true

- [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/mutiny-noam-scheiber-book-review-yuppies-dylan-gottlieb](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/mutiny-noam-scheiber-book-review-yuppies-dylan-gottlieb) — When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["work","futurism"]

- <https://www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/a-brief-history-of-biohacking> — A Brief History of Biohacking

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["biohacking","biology"]
    - later: true

- <https://rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/youre-writing-a-book-so-stop-writing> — You’re Writing a Book. So Stop Writing a Movie.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["writing","fiction"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.personalcanon.com/p/everything-i-read-in-february-march-2026> — everything i read in february & march 2026

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["reading","books"]
    - later: true

- <https://croissanthology.substack.com/p/boringpunk> — Boringpunk

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["humanism","culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/how-i-read> — How i read

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["reading","writing"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/> — Malleable software \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["tools"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 8

- <https://jack-clark.net/2026/05/26/import-ai-458-reckoning-with-the-future-and-a-singularity-story/> — Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["singularity"]
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 5

- <https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-2-28-when-ai-writes-the-worlds-software-who-verifies-it/> — When AI Writes the World’s Software, Who Verifies It?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["verfiable","plt"]

- <https://snscratchpad.com/posts/frontier-ecosystem/> — A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["scaling"]

- <https://borretti.me/article/i-wish-people-were-more-public#your-books> — I Wish People Were More Public

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["public","life"]

- <https://borretti.me/article/human-bottlenecks> — Human Bottlenecks

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["longtermism"]

- <https://jasmi.news/p/2026-advice> — the old world is dying \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["futurism","work"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 10

- <https://intempus.org/writings/machines-for-conviviality/> — Machines for Conviviality

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["agi","autonomous"]

- <https://wttdotm.com/blog/tcpb_part_1.html> — The Making of Traffic Cam Photobooth

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["play"]

- <https://x.com/pk_iv/status/2066272106682466799?s=46&t=E_gPjnJKDBGnwpVrE7Z-WQ> — A Letter to My Younger Self \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["visions","life"]
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 5

- <https://ribbonfarm.com/2011/10/14/the-gervais-principle-v-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose/> — The Gervais Principle V: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["teleology"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.thriveholdings.com/long-humans> — Long Human \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["transhumanism","future"]
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 8

- <https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/gu_02_23/> — Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["fiction","writing"]
    - later: true

- <https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/some-interesting-open-problems-in-technology/> — Some interesting open problems in technology \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["science","ideas"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- [Simondon\_Gilbert\_On\_the\_Mode\_of\_Existence\_of\_Technical\_Objects\_Part\_I\_alt.pdf](/thoughts/pdfs/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf) — On The Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, Gilbert Simondon

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["math","theology","naturalism"]
    - later: true

- [IntroductionInverseProblems.pdf](/thoughts/pdfs/IntroductionInverseProblems.pdf) — Introduction to Inverse Problems

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["math"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.awwwards.com/summer-afternoon.html> — Summer Afternoon

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["gx","visuals"]
    - later: true

- <https://upcycledwords.substack.com/p/process-note-5> — Process Note 5

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["retrospective","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/on-the-preparations-before-writing> — On the preparations before writing an essay

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["writing","process"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.booritney.com/p/march-madness> — march madness

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["life","risk"]
    - later: true

- <https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/on-reading-prousts-in-search-of-lost> — On Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["reading","literature"]
    - later: true

- <https://aella.substack.com/p/how-your-survey-responder-lies> — How Your Survey Responder Lies

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["survey","honesty"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.startingfromnix.com/p/choice-loneliness> — choice loneliness

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["choice","loneliness"]
    - later: true

- <https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/> — Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["stimulants","medicine"]
    - later: true

- <https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/217-following-your-non-specific-dreams> — Following your non-specific dreams

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["dreams","agency"]
    - later: true

- <https://ceselder.substack.com/p/walking-on-rope> — walking on rope

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["identity","memory"]
    - later: true

- <https://aiprospects.substack.com/p/when-ideas-round-to-false> — When Ideas Round to False

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["epistemology","memetics"]
    - later: true

- <https://acotra.substack.com/p/the-stable-marriage-problem> — The stable marriage problem

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["agency","relationship"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/friendship-maintenance> — Friendship maintenance

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["friendship","relationship"]
    - later: true

- <https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/the-lies-i-used-to-tell-myself> — The lies I used to tell myself

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["selfhood","growth"]
    - later: true

- <https://rojospinks.substack.com/p/the-friendship-problem> — The friendship problem

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["friendship","adulthood"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/always-on-your-side> — always on your side

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["friendship","love"]
    - later: true

- <https://theebookclubx.substack.com/p/inside-the-dead-poets-society> — Inside the dead poets society

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["literature","reading"]
    - later: true

- <https://theebookclubx.substack.com/p/the-secret-syllabus-hobbies-thatll-c3b> — The Secret Syllabus: Hobbies That’ll Make Adulthood Less Boring

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["hobbies","adulthood"]
    - later: true

- <https://ceselder.substack.com/p/do-you-want-to-make-it-or-do-you> — do I want to make it or do I just want to be held

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["ambition","love"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/fracking-for-power> — On political power

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["power","biography"]
    - later: true

- <https://mindslice.substack.com/p/mode-collapse> — mode collapse

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["selfhood","aging"]
    - later: true

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/the-pain-gap> — the pain gap

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["dating","maturity"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/things-that-connect-us> — Things that connect us to ourselves, and things that don’t

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["connection","selfhood"]
    - later: true

- <https://stephstiner.substack.com/p/a-gen-z-guide-to-fixing-your-doom> — a gen z guide to fixing your doom-pilled brain

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["doom","mental health"]
    - later: true

- <https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwave-alternate> — My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["technology","counterfactual"]
    - later: true

- <https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/attention-is-all-we-have> — Attention is all we have

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["attention","cognition"]
    - later: true

- <https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-social-status> — Some thoughts on social status

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["status","sociology"]
    - later: true

- <https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/links-for-winter-2026> — Links for Winter 2026

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["links","culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query> — A blog post is a very long and complex search query

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["writing","internet"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/being-creative-requires-taking-risks> — Being creative requires taking risks

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["creativity","risk"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/nothing-will-change-your-life-more> — nothing will change your life more than saying what you actually want to say

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["writing","selfhood"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/ohexuberance> — Oh-Exuberance!

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["exuberance","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://map.simonsarris.com/p/ink-in-the-stomach> — Ink in the Stomach

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["craft","home"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.personalcanon.com/p/writing-is-an-inherently-dignified> — writing is an inherently dignified human activity

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["writing","newsletter"]
    - later: true

- <https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/taste-notes-112025-turbo-moka-edition> — Taste Notes 11.20.25, turbo moka edition

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["criticism","culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://mingyuan.substack.com/p/digital-intentionality-whats-the> — Digital intentionality: What’s the point?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["intentionality","attention"]
    - later: true

- <https://lydialoo.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-micro-nostalgia> — The problem with micro nostalgia

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["nostalgia","culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/first-we-shape-our-social-graph-then> — First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["social graph","culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://milky.substack.com/p/mollys-2025-notes> — Molly’s 2025 notes

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["notes","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://befriendjamin.substack.com/p/the-green-light-of-another-language> — The Green Light of Another Language

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["literature","translation"]
    - later: true

- <https://web.archive.org/web/20260611112129/https://europe2031.ai/> — Europe 2031

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/14/2026
    - tags: \["futurism","transhumanism"]
    - importance: 5

- <https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/the-void> — the void

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/14/2026
    - tags: \["ai","sentient"]
    - later: true

- <https://livingbulwark.net/wp-content/bulwark/april2020p7.htm> — On Living in an Atomic Age, C. S. Lewis

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/14/2026
    - tags: \["longtermism"]

  - > If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds…

- <https://aarushgupta.io/posts/specialization/> — The pitfalls of hyperspecialization

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/14/2026
    - tags: \["efficiency"]
    - later: true

- <https://randsinrepose.com/archives/stables-and-volatiles/> — Stables and Volatiles

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/14/2026
    - tags: \["work","being","culture"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/06/school-is-not-enough> — School Is Not Enough \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/14/2026
    - tags: \["pedagogy","skills"]
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 8

- [lesswrong/theory-uplift-differentially-benefits-safety-and-is![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KWeAYcDJwfrG7RwBN/theory-uplift-differentially-benefits-safety-and-is) — theory uplift differentially benefits safety & is underleveraged

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/10/2026
    - tags: \["ai safety","theory"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/turning-20-in-the-probable-pre-apocalypse![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/S5dnLsmRbj2JkLWvf/turning-20-in-the-probable-pre-apocalypse) — Turning 20 in the probable pre-apocalypse

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["forecasting","life"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/mourning-a-life-without-ai![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jwrhoHxxQHGrbBk3f/mourning-a-life-without-ai) — Mourning a life without AI

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["ai","grief"]
    - later: true

- <https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kACcdhLDdWb9ZPG9L/why-you-can-justify-almost-anything-using-historical-social> — Why you can justify almost anything using historical social movements

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["history","activism"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/tsuyoku-naritai-i-want-to-become-stronger![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DoLQN5ryZ9XkZjq5h/tsuyoku-naritai-i-want-to-become-stronger) — Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["agency","rationality"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/trying-to-try![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WLJwTJ7uGPA5Qphbp/trying-to-try) — Trying to Try

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["agency","rationality"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/college-was-not-that-terrible-now-that-i-m-not-that-crazy![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hHEvfp7kwvaHwgcdH/college-was-not-that-terrible-now-that-i-m-not-that-crazy) — College Was Not That Terrible Now That I’m Not That Crazy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["education","mental health"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/book-review-going-infinite![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AocXh6gJ9tJC2WyCL/book-review-going-infinite) — Book Review: Going Infinite

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["finance","fraud"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/taboo-your-words![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBdvyyHLdxZSAMmoz/taboo-your-words) — Taboo Your Words

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["rationality","language"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/why-you-don-t-believe-in-xhosa-prophecies![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tz5AmWbEcMBQpiEjY/why-you-don-t-believe-in-xhosa-prophecies) — Why You Don’t Believe in Xhosa Prophecies

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["epistemology","history"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/trying-to-understand-my-own-cognitive-edge![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ophhRzHyt44qcjnkS/trying-to-understand-my-own-cognitive-edge) — Trying to understand my own cognitive edge

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["metacognition","agency"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/less-dead![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E9xfgJHvs6M55kABD/less-dead) — Less Dead

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["health","survival"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/nullius-in-verba![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NEFNs4vbNxJPJJgYY/nullius-in-verba) — Nullius in Verba: 3rd party evidence for Nectome’s Brain Preservation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["cryonics","brain preservation"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/the-practical-guide-to-superbabies-3![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PPLHfFhNWMuWCnaTt/the-practical-guide-to-superbabies-3) — The Practical Guide to Superbabies

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["biology","futurism"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/an-interactive-version-of-the-extropians-mailing-list![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hTnhwX9kr6GHgFrp4/an-interactive-version-of-the-extropians-mailing-list) — An interactive version of the extropians mailing list

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["extropianism","archive"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/mats-9-retrospective-and-advice![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eFD3rozNCZKMe4rTs/mats-9-retrospective-and-advice) — MATS 9 Retrospective & Advice

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["research","career"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/i-made-geneguessr![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kLdADoEtdYf6FDM8j/i-made-geneguessr) — I made Geneguessr

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["biology","game"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/mnemonic-portraits-for-19-023-human-genes![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BJ7AqXeigNKXLqZyx/mnemonic-portraits-for-19-023-human-genes) — Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["biology","memory"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/lab-leaks-black-holes-and-eggs-epistemic-case-study![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/frizRHnA6AZpJSDqw/lab-leaks-black-holes-and-eggs-epistemic-case-study) — Lab Leaks, Black Holes, and Eggs: Epistemic Case Study Competition

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["epistemology","ai"]
    - later: true

- <https://borretti.me/article/the-applicability-of-spaced-repetition> — The applicability of spaced repetition

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["pedagogy"]
    - importance: 7

- <https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/the-mistake-of-conflating-intelligence> — The Mistake of conflating intelligence with power

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["being","ontology"]

- <https://taper.badquar.to/16/> — Taper 16

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["zine","intraweb"]

- <https://www.gleech.org/enhance> — Transnormalism

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["humanism","longtermism"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/06/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/06/2026
    - importanct: 8
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/06/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/06/2026
    - tags: \["life"]
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    - importance: 8

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/06/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/05/2026
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- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/kinks-in-other-people> — kinks in other people

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/05/2026
    - tags: \["love","relationship"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/05/2026
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- <https://bigthink.com/high-culture/ken-liu-ai-art/> — The cinematograph, the “noematograph,” and the future of AI art

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/04/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/04/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/04/2026
    - tags: \["longtermism","systems"]
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    - importance: 9

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/03/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/28/2026
    - tags: \["visualisation","talent density"]

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/opinion/ai-claude-chatgpt-gemini-mcluhan.html> — I Saw Something New in San Francisco, Ezra Klein

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/27/2026
    - tags: \["longtermism","systems","ai"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/27/2026
    - tags: \["futurism"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/27/2026
    - tags: \["epistemology"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/27/2026
    - tags: \["love","relationship","epistemology"]
    - importance: 8

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/26/2026
    - tags: \["attraction","epistemology"]
    - importance: 6

- <https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html> — ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/25/2026
    - tags: \["belief","longtermism"]
    - pinned: true
    - importance: 8

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/25/2026
    - tags: \["life","conversation"]
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/25/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/25/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2026
    - tags: \["web"]

- <https://earlydaysbymerlin.substack.com/p/meeting-eigen> — Entering the eigenworld

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/19/2026
    - tags: \["transhumanism"]

- <https://thezvi.substack.com/p/dating-roundup-12-sex-and-violence> — Dating Roundup [#12](https://github.com/aarnphm/aarnphm.github.io/issues/12): Sex and Violence

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/18/2026
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- <https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/11/the-phatic-and-the-anti-inductive/> — The Phatic And The Anti-Inductive

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/12/2026
    - tags: \["epistemology"]
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/12/2026
    - tags: \["consciousness"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/12/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","ai"]

- <https://x.com/WillManidis/status/2054181721470620044> — Black Sun (الشمس السوداء)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/12/2026
    - tags: \["notes","humanity"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/12/2026
    - tags: \["humanity"]
    - importance: 5

- <https://www.deepfates.com/projects/sonnet-funeral> — Claude 3 Funeralia

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/09/2026
    - tags: \["longtermism","model"]

- <https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one> — The real problem of consciousness is a distraction from the real one

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/30/2026
    - tags: \["consciousness"]

- [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/) — As we may think

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/29/2026
    - tags: \["thinking"]

- <https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/13/mating-in-captivity-esther-perel/> — Esther Perel on Reconciling the Closeness Needed for Intimacy with the Psychological Distance That Fuels Desire

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/27/2026
    - tags: \["love"]
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- <https://rawandferal.substack.com/p/norman-polycule> — Norman Polycule

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/27/2026
    - tags: \["stun","sociology"]

- <https://angelicdissent.substack.com/p/type-face-2-that-wasnt-very-dark> — that wasn’t very dark academia of you

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/27/2026
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- <https://jason.ml/heuristics> — Do Thing, Do One Thing \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/27/2026
    - tags: \["heuristics"]
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    - importance: 8

- <https://ky.fyi/posts/embrace-friction> — Embrace friction

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/27/2026
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- <https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/04/23/Why_not_Lean.html> — Why not use Lean?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/27/2026
    - tags: \["formal","proof"]

- <https://dreamofmachin.es/machine_prophecy.html> — Against Prophecy among the machines

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/20/2026
    - tags: \["policy"]

- <https://humaniterations.net/2016/05/16/the-orthogonality-thesis-ontological-crises/> — The Orthogonality Thesis & Ontological Crises

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/17/2026
    - tags: \["longtermism"]

- <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04287-9> — An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug effects on brain circuit function

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/17/2026
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- <https://blog.kevinzwu.com/lessons-for-the-aspiring-quant/> — Lessons for the Aspiring Quant

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/17/2026
    - tags: \["life","advice"]

- <https://colah.github.io/posts/2019-05-Collaboration> — Collaboration & Credit Principles

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/16/2026
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- <https://tseliot.com/essays/the-perfect-critic> — The Perfect Critic

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/12/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/12/2026
    - tags: \["technology"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/12/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/09/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/09/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/09/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/05/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/04/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/04/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/04/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/02/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/02/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/02/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/01/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/01/2026
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    - importance: 9

- <https://resonantcomputing.org> — The Resonant Computing Manifesto

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/01/2026
    - tags: \["manifesto","longtermism"]

- <https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/who-can-understand-the-proof-a-window-on-formalized-mathematics/> — Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/26/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/25/2026
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    - importance: 5

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/23/2026
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- <https://interconnected.org/home/2026/01/15/reminders> — The natural home for AI agents is your Reminders app

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/20/2026
    - tags: \["agentic","systems"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/20/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["pedagogy"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/06/2026
    - tags: \["farewell"]

- <https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology> — The Adolescence of Technology

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/26/2026
    - tags: \["alignment","technology","ai"]

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    - date: 01/26/2026
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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/26/2026
    - tags: \["agents","productivity"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/24/2026
    - tags: \["attention","love"]

- <https://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc> — Isometric NYC

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/23/2026
    - tags: \["graphics"]

- <https://aeon.co/essays/the-question-is-what-are-we-a-conversation-on-consciousness> — You are the world

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/22/2026
    - tags: \["consciousness","dualism"]
    - importance: 7

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/22/2026
    - tags: \["health","relationship"]

- <https://turntrout.com/instrumental-convergence-requires-psychology-assumptions> — No Instrumental Convergence without AI Psychology

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/20/2026
    - tags: \["interpretability"]

- <https://pudding.cool/2024/10/fanfic/> — Who gets shipped, and why?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/20/2026
    - tags: \["relationship","love"]

- <https://artsbarca.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/the-opening-fist-lygia-clark-and-the-notion-of-the-organic/> — The Opening Fist: Lygia Clark and the Notion of the Organic

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/19/2026
    - tags: \["physicality","items","biography"]

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/19/2026
    - tags: \["culture","study","writing"]

  - > Phone are a terrible medium for performance art.

  - > The affect of the Phone is revealed as a cracked modernist thrust. You approach it with commands, but it’s a black mirror, and it gives you loss.

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/19/2026
    - tags: \["systems","history","infrastructure"]
    - importance: 5

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/no-good-alone> — No good alone

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/18/2026
    - tags: \["love","isolation"]

  - > Seductively, it whispers that you “don’t owe anyone anything.” It glamourizes — and moralizes — a life spent alone.

- <https://borischerny.com/tech/2023/12/10/Working-Remotely.html> — Learning to work (very) remotely

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/17/2026
    - tags: \["work","habits"]

- <https://ldeming.posthaven.com/the-rage-of-research> — The rage of research

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/17/2026
    - tags: \["research","feeling"]
    - importance: 5

  - > A lot of stage 3 can be best characterized by reading everything I possibly can about a subject and internally screaming “but what actually is the thing???”

- <https://logangraves.com/the-human-project> — The Human Project \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["meliorism","simulation"]
    - highlighted: true

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["sanbox","simulation"]
    - importance: 5

- <https://torontolife.com/food/restaurant-ruined-life/> — A Restaurant Ruined My Life

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["life","business"]

- <https://archive.is/e180u> — Why I Broke Up with New York \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["life","communal"]
    - later: true

- <https://commoncog.com/tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing> — Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["learning","comprehension"]

- <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> — How to Ask Questions the Smart Way

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["pedagogy","work"]
    - pinned: true
    - importance: 8

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  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["technology","longtermism"]

- <https://davidbau.com/archives/2026/01/05/agi_break_room.html> — AGI Break Room

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/14/2026
    - tags: \["futurism","meliorism"]

- <https://www.argmin.net/p/nothings-shocking> — Nothing’s Shocking

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/14/2026
    - tags: \["meliorism"]

- <https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne/> — Claude is not a senior engineer (yet)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/14/2026
    - tags: \["longtermism","capabilities"]

- <https://www.yudhister.me/home-1/> — home is what the heart remembers \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/14/2026
    - tags: \["letter","growth"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.firstround.com/ai/notion> — Context Before Code: How Notion Put an AI Engineer on the Sales Floor to Discover What Actually Needed Building

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/14/2026
    - tags: \["technology","agentic"]

- <https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-permanent-emergency> — The Permanent Emergency

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["life","parents"]

- <https://dark.ronacher.eu/2026/1/11/i-have/> — I have Thus I Deserve

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["influence","politics"]

  - i.e. how billionaires are simply as influential as the people in the White House.

- <https://cognitivemedium.com/tat/index.html> — Thought as a Technology \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["interface","learning"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 8

- <https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/51-socratic-persuasion> — Socratic Persuasion: Giving Opinionated Yet Truth-Seeking Advice \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["logic","rationality","subjective"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://phoenixscreenwriters.org/theres-two-kinds-of-people-bill-true> — There’s two kinds of people

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["life","media"]
    - later: true

- <https://archive.ph/y5cUb> — A battle with my blood \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/10/2026
    - tags: \["eschatology","leukemia"]

- <https://otherinter.net/research/squad-wealth/> — Squad Wealth

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/09/2026
    - tags: \["communal"]

- <https://www.rajan.sh/multiplayer> — How not to do research

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/09/2026
    - tags: \["research","bitter lesson"]

- <https://www.gleech.org/god> — What god has to do with mathematics?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/09/2026
    - tags: \["theology"]

- <https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/> — Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/07/2026
    - tags: \["fiction","life"]

- <https://www.doc.cc/articles/power-of-beauty> — The power of beauty in communicating complex ideas

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["illicitation","writing"]

- <https://folklore.org/Make_a_Mess,_Clean_it_Up!.html> — Make a Mess, Clean it Up

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["personality","creation"]

- <https://kipp.ly/group-hugging-theory/> — Group hugging theory

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["relationship","being"]

- <https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/marriage-decision.html> — The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothing Ever Again

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["relationship"]

- <https://www.gleech.org/paper> — Making sense of Chinese AI

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["llm","opensource"]

- <https://www.secondperson.dating/p/femininity-is-about-power> — Everything Is about Sex, Femininity Is about Power

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["sex","relationship"]

- <https://letterstomyfriends.substack.com/p/on-doing-real-work> — on doing real work

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["review","productivity"]

- <https://ceselder.substack.com/p/stop-trying-to-be-a-good-person> — stop trying to be a “good person”

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["being","philosophy"]

- <https://www.doc.cc/articles/ai-navigation> — A new navigation paradigm

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["ux"]

  - Hmm, I don’t really agree with the framing here, insofar to a symbiosis of navigation mode instead of complete replacement for ingesting information.

- <https://samuelalbanie.substack.com/p/reflections-on-2025> — The Compute Theory of Everything, grading the homework of a minor deity, and the acoustic preferences of Atlantic salmon \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["progress","ai"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://newaesthetics.art/> — A Call for New Aesthetics

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/01/2026
    - tags: \["aesthetics","practice"]

- <https://web.archive.org/web/20241014094544/https://kanjun.me/writing/research-as-understanding> — Research as understanding \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/01/2026
    - tags: \["research","taste"]

- <https://near.blog/supplements/> — Supplements \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/01/2026
    - tags: \["enhancement"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://near.blog/productivity-tips/> — Productivity tips \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["enhancement drugs","recreational"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://archive.is/pSMXO> — Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”? \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/01/2026
    - tags: \["society"]

  - seealso: [AGI](/thoughts/AGI)

- <https://zhengdongwang.com/2025/12/30/2025-letter.html> — Zhengdong Wang’s 2025 letter

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/01/2026
    - tags: \["review"]

- <https://www.visakanv.com/blog/relationships> — relationship are challenging and a lot of work

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/31/2025
    - tags: \["love","being"]
    - later: true

- <https://theimpermanent.substack.com/p/why-i-think-like-an-athlete> — Why I think like an Athlete

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/29/2025
    - tags: \["work","discipline"]

- <https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/three-value-clumps> — Three Value Clumps

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/27/2025
    - tags: \["identity","being"]

- [lesswrong/hire-or-become-a-thinking-assistant-body-double![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ajT6q5aMokagfthvG/hire-or-become-a-thinking-assistant-body-double) — Hire (or Become) a Thinking Assistant

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/26/2025
    - tags: \["being","assistant"]

- <https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/25/san-francisco-standard-most-read-stories-2025/> — The Standard’s 25 most read stories of 2025

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/26/2025
    - tags: \["sf","culture"]

  - [Stanford students used to chase jobs at Meta and Google. Now they want to work on defense](https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/)

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/style/italian-novelists-love-letters-turn-political.html> — Italian novelist’s love letters turn political

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/25/2025
    - tags: \["politics","sociology"]

- <https://archive.is/W4aBo> — My Family’s Slave \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["life","race"]

- <https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-and-informal-science/> — We are in the “gentleman scientist” era of AI research

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["research","direction","agi"]

- <https://nadia.xyz/idea-machines> — Idea machines \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["philosophy","longtermism"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/the-sword-of-good> — The Sword of Good

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["fiction","being"]

- <https://sfalexandria.com/posts/rileys-ideas/> — Training the Idea Muscle

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["strategy"]

  - another banger from aadil

  - > If you reject your own ideas, then the part of the brain that comes up with ideas is going to stop. You just do it and do it and do it, and you sort it out later.

- <https://x.com/jackclarkSF/status/2003526145380151614> — Silent Sirens, Flashing For Us All

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["longtermism","life"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/20/proust-on-reading/> — Proust on why we read

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["reading","learning"]

- <https://jason.ml/hpmor> — HPMOR

  - \[meta]:
    - date: 12/23/2025
  - <https://x.com/sama/status/1621621724507938816> — Yud’s impact on AGI

- <https://www.atvbt.com/21-facts-about-throwing-good-parties/> — 21 facts about throwing good parties

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["community"]

- <https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192654545539400> — Steam, Steel, and Infinite Mind

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["silicon","longtermism"]

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/radical-fun> — Radical fun \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["friendship"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://kk.org/thetechnium/scenius-or-comm/> — Scenius, or Communal Genius

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/22/2025
    - tags: \["being","phenomenology"]
    - later: true

- [lesswrong/the-correct-response-to-uncertainty-is-not-half-speed![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FMkQtPvzsriQAow5q/the-correct-response-to-uncertainty-is-not-half-speed) — The correct response to undcertainty is _not_ half-speed

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/21/2025
    - tags: \["progress","epistemology"]

  - I wasn’t sure if I was a good enough writer to write a given doc myself, or if I should try to outsource it. So, I sat there kind-of-writing it while also fretting about whether the task was correct.

    - (Solution: Take a minute out to think through heuristics. Then, either: (1) write the post at full speed; or (2) try to outsource it; or (3) write full force for some fixed time period, and then pause and evaluate.)

  - I wasn’t sure (back in early 2012) that CFAR was worthwhile. So, I kind-of worked on it.

  - An old friend came to my door unexpectedly, and I was tempted to hang out with her, but I also thought I should finish my work. So I kind-of hung out with her while feeling bad and distracted about my work.

  - A friend of mine, when teaching me math, seems to mumble specifically those words that he doesn’t expect me to understand (in a sort of compromise between saying them and not saying them)…

- <https://zaira.blog/blog/use-writing-to-augment-your-thinking/> — Use writing to augment your thinking

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["writing"]

- <https://aligned.substack.com/p/alignment-mvp> — A minimal viable product for alignment

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/21/2025
    - tags: \["alignment","products"]

- <https://aligned.substack.com/p/alignment-is-not-solved-but-increasingly-looks-solvable> — Alignment is not solved

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/02/2026
    - tags: \["alignment","longtermism"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/self-help-for-cocoons> — Self-help for cocoons

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/21/2025
    - tags: \["epistemology","learning"]

- <https://www.forethought.org/research/the-first-type-of-transformative-ai> — The first type of transformative AI

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/21/2025
    - tags: \["longtermism","ai"]

- <https://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html> — The Age of the Essay

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/21/2025
    - tags: \["writing"]

- [lesswrong/w39LsdhGFvTQmgBAQ![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/pCxX5sReHdrwb4aHE/p/w39LsdhGFvTQmgBAQ) — Willpower is exhausting, use content blockers

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/21/2025
    - tags: \["intentionality","will"]

- <https://www.recurse.com/social-rules> — Recurse’s social rules

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["communal"]

  - There’s another part of no subtle -isms: all discussions of -isms and politics at RC should be opt-in, like in the politics channel on Zulip, in a one-on-one conversation, or in a clearly described event in a private room at the Hub and/or on Zoom. Conversations about -isms can be distracting and draining, especially for people from marginalized groups, and what’s an intellectual exercise for one person can have real material consequences for another.

- <https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/229-living-to-please-your-future> — Living to please your future self

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["agency"]

- <https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/95-are-you-baby-a-litmus-test> — Are you a baby? A litmus test

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["life","growth"]

- <https://blog.glitch.com/post/goodbye-glitch> — Until we meet again

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["software","eos"]

  - Makes me think about the longevity of tangible software that we use daily.

  - File triumphs over hosting solutions here.

- <https://syllabusproject.org/syllabus-for-taking-an-internet-walk/> — Taking an Internet Walk

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["web","internet","interfaces"]

- <https://altered.substack.com/p/goodbye-self> — The grief of losing your sense of self is like getting to Heaven and being upset they don’t have your favorite flavor of La Croix

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["grief","love"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.gleech.org/barriers> — Ways we can fail to answer

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["curiosity","knowledge"]

  - Conceptual problems (the question is not a question) (i.e. category error)

  - Logical problems (the question has no answer) (i.e. antinomy)

  - Ontic problems (the answer is literally inaccessible) (i.e. Computational intractability)

  - Epistemic (we cannot get at the answer) (i.e. [Chaos](/posts/Chaos), Computational irreducibility)

  - ??? (the question is logical and/or ontic and/or epistemic idk) (i.e. Observer effects)

    - Hysteresis: we can’t answer it because we weren’t there at the start and the system remembers. (e.g. What’s the magnetic moment of this material at field strength H? When will this old rope snap? At what temperature will this water freeze?)

- <https://davidbau.com/archives/2025/12/09/in_defense_of_curiosity.html> — In defense of Curiosity

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["research","taste"]

- <https://gwern.net/everything> — Everything is Correlated

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["causal reasoning","anthropology"]

- <https://www.tommydixon.ca/p/text-remains-the-loveliest-medium> — Text remains the loveliest medium \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["writing","love"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec9014> — Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["metaculture","pedagogy"]

- <https://gwern.net/blog/2025/better-llm-writing> — Towards Better [LLMs](/thoughts/LLMs) Creative Writing

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["writing","ai","generative arts"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.humaninvariant.com/blog/career> — Career Advice that Doesn’t Suck

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["life","effective work"]

  - Working multiple jobs for a period of time and using the earnings to have a period of unemployment (what I’m doing currently).

    - This has enabled me to prevent myself from
    - (1) being anesthetized by my job and becoming complacent, and
    - (2) giving myself full latitude to work on projects in-depth, not as perpetual half-assed “side projects”.

  - Two super intense deep work days per week where I go zero to one with no distractions.

  - Doing way more and trying way harder; [no one is even trying.](https://www.applieddivinitystudies.com/trying/)

  - Reading long-form books regularly, within _1-3 intensive_ subject deep dives per year on specific topics or classics.

- [lesswrong/eliezer-s-unteachable-methods-of-sanity![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/isSBwfgRY6zD6mycc/eliezer-s-unteachable-methods-of-sanity) — Eliezer’s Unteachable Methods of Sanity

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["life","advice"]

- <https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-science-needs-outsiders> — Why science needs outliers

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["progress"]

- <https://convergentthinking.sh/posts/people-are-the-new-oil/> — People are the new oil

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["workplace"]
    - pinned: true
    - importance: 6

- <https://mingyuan.substack.com/p/a-glimpse-of-the-other-side> — A glimpse of the other side

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["life"]
    - later: true

- <https://mindingourway.com/half-assing-it-with-everything-youve-got/> — Half-assing it with everything you’ve got

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["advice","policy","pedagogy"]

  - Say you’re a college student, and you have a paper due. The quality of the paper will depend upon the amount of effort you put in. We’ll say that you know the project pretty well: you can get an A with only moderate effort, and with significant effort you could produce something much better than the usual A-grade paper. The education environment implicitly attempts to convince students that their preferences point ever rightward along this line. Parents and teachers say things like “you should put in your best effort,” and they heap shame upon people who don’t strive to push ever rightward along the quality line.

  - The first group (the “slackers”) rejects the implication that quality=preferences. These are the people who don’t care about the class, who complain constantly about the useless pointless work they have to do, who half-ass the assignment and turn in something that either barely passes or fails entirely. Slackers tend to resent the authority forcing them to write the paper.

  - The second group (the “tryers”) are the ones who accept the premise that quality=preferences, and strive ever rightwards on the quality line. Tryers include people of all ability levels: some struggle as hard as they can just to get a C, others flaunt their ability to produce masterpieces. Some try to curry favor with the teacher, others are perfectionists who simply can’t allow themselves to turn in anything less than their best effort. Some of them are scrupulous people, who feel guilty even after getting an A, because they know they could have done better, and think they should have. Some are humble, some are show-offs, but all of them are pushing rightward.

  - > If you want to be highly effective, remember what you’re fighting for.

  - Your preferences are to _hit the quality target with minimum effort._

  - If you’re trying to learn the material to the fullest, then mine the assignment for all its knowledge, and don’t fret about your grade. Anything else is wasted motion.

- <https://guzey.com/how-to-make-friends-over-the-internet/> — How to make friends over the internet

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["relationship","friends"]

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/agency> — On agency \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - socials: {"ks":"https\://karthiksuresh.me/#agency"}
    - tags: \["agency"]
    - highlighted: true

  - > [Agency #fragments](/thoughts/Agency#fragments)

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/agentic-fragments> — Agentic fragments \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["agency"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/autenticity> — Rationality is an underrated way to be authentic \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["rationalism","authenticity"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/the-newness-of-depth> — The newness of depth \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["being","series"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/modular-life-meaningful-work> — Modular life, meaningful work \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["being","series"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/living-80-years-you-can-have-8-lives> — Living 80 years, you can have 8 lives \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["being","series"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://spencer.place/experiments/100posts/quiet-confidence/> — quiet confidence

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["styling","life"]

  - Quiet confidence is when you’re able to naturally take your time, take up proper space, and be unapologetically yourself without putting down anyone else or manufacturing dependence.

  - Quiet confidence is the stable foundation of self-belief that emanates around one who has a core of trust in themselves.

- <https://www.applieddivinitystudies.com/trying/> — No One is Even Trying

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["work","productivity"]

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/diaries> — The paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, I change.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://archive.is/U1aZ6> — Why I Run

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["motivation","sports"]

- <https://jason.ml/motivation> — Why I do what I do

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["longtermism","motivation"]

- <https://michaelnotebook.com/df/index.html> — Discovery fiction, Michael Nielsen

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["research","process"]
    - later: true

- <https://sotaletters.substack.com/p/a-message-from-number-10> — Message from [10 Downing Street](/puzzle/sota-number-10)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["puzzle","recruiting"]

- <https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523> — Conversation with Alan Kay \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/15/2025
    - tags: \["design","conversation"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/crisis-of-faith> — Crisis of faith

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/13/2025
    - tags: \["eschatology","grief"]

  - see also: [on omnipotence paradox![apex](/static/icon.webp)](https://stream.aarnphm.xyz/stream/on/2025/11/29)

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/choosing-to-walk> — Choosing to walk

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/13/2025
    - tags: \["rtq","ai","writing"]
    - later: true

- <https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/understanding> — How to Understand Thing \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["pedagogy","ontology"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- [lesswrong/seven-ways-to-become-unstoppably-agentic![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Tnpp3cyEHMGthjGAf/seven-ways-to-become-unstoppably-agentic) — Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["agency"]

- <https://100r.ca/site/shining_sand.html> — Shining Place Built Upon The Sand

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["wasm","functional"]

- <https://www.asimov.press/p/gentle-romance> — The Gentle Romance

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["longtermism","ai","love"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.humaninvariant.com/blog/presence> — On Learning through Presence

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["perseverance"]
    - later: true

- <https://caitlynrichardson.substack.com/p/the-discourse-i-refuse-to-participate> — The discourse i refuse to participate in.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/11/2025
    - tags: \["life","being"]

- [lesswrong/the-void-1![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3EzbtNLdcnZe8og8b/the-void-1) — the void \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/11/2025
    - tags: \["llm","nature"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://thegoldenhour.substack.com/p/how-do-you-live-in-time>

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/11/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://gwern.net/speedrunning> — Speed run is not such a waste of talent

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/11/2025
    - tags: \["productivity"]

- <https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/04/04/the-strategic-independent/> — Strategic Independent

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/11/2025
    - tags: \["productivity","working"]

- <https://befriendjamin.substack.com/p/963-words> — 963 words

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/10/2025
    - tags: \["wordlist"]

- <https://croissanthology.com/archiving> — Causal archiving

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/10/2025
    - tags: \["garden","internet"]

- <https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/be-slightly-monstrous> — Be Slightly Monstrous

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/10/2025
    - tags: \["essay","thesis","writing"]

- [lesswrong/i-m-scared![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2rDdKiCoeqXmh9zb9/i-m-scared) — I’m scared.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/08/2025
    - tags: \["rationalism"]

- [lesswrong/choose-to-be-happy![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vsBw66gQwNXYX6KAK/choose-to-be-happy) — Choose to be happy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/08/2025
    - tags: \["eudaimonia"]

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/against-narrative> — against narrative \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/08/2025
    - tags: \["love","grief"]
    - later: true
    - highlighted: true

  - In Susan Sontag’s seminal essay “Against Interpretation,” she argues for prioritizing the sensuous experience of art over the attempt to determine what it represents. Rather than trying to plumb it for a message or a meaning, Sontag wants us to try and reckon with art’s ability to evoke overwhelming, frightening, unintelligible feeling — to develop an “erotics, rather than a hermeneutics, of art.” This is hard because it is painful, and valuable because it is hard. “Real art has the capacity to make us nervous,” she writes. “By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.”

- <https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html> — Worse is better

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/08/2025
    - tags: \["progress","performance","ai"]

  - The concept known as “worse is better” holds that in software making (and perhaps in other arenas as well) it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed. Christopher Alexander might call this “piecemeal growth.” This is the story of the evolution of that concept.

- <https://gwern.net/llm-writing> — Writing for LLMs so they listen, Gwern \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/08/2025
    - tags: \["writing","llm"]
    - later: true
    - highlighted: true

  - This is hard because LLMs are still advancing so fast. If I had written this in 2020, aimed at the original `davinci`, it would now be hopelessly obsolete; and the (still-unreleased and presumably still improving) o1 or [GPT-5](https://openai.com/gpt-5/) might render much of this moot. Perhaps there is not really anything a human can write now for LLMs beyond brute factual observations not yet recorded anywhere in black-and-white, or researchers at the frontier documenting their most esoteric findings, and we should drop “writing for LLMs” as a goal entirely, and write for all the other reasons there are to write? Still, I’m going to give it a try.

  - see also: [writing](/thoughts/writing)

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html> — Why does AI write like… that?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/07/2025
    - tags: \["llm","distribution"]

  - No A.I. has ever stood over a huge windswept view all laid out for its pleasure, or sat down hungrily to a great heap of food. They will never be able to understand the small, strange way in which these two experiences are the same. Everything they know about the world comes to them through statistical correlations within large quantities of words.

  - Researchers found that most people vastly prefer A.I.-generated poetry to the actual works of Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson. It’s more beautiful. It’s more emotive. It’s more likely to mention deep, touching things, like quietness or echoes. It’s more of what poetry ought to be.

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/resident-evil> — Resident evil \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/06/2025
    - tags: \["love","life"]
    - highlighted: true

  - It’s so weird, I text my friend, presumptively, to watch a stranger have what will obviously be one of the singular most beautiful moments of their entire life. I love the city for this, most of the time, for its vast de-privatization of sentiment — I like bearing witness to the best and worst of other people, and I like the knowledge that I am witnessed in return.

  - Like any good woman should, I feel uncomfortable with my own instinctive [skepticism](/thoughts/Skepticism) on the matter

  - I only realized after I dropped out of school that while I honestly did like physics — I actually even loved it, sometimes — I think some part of my attraction to the field was a fantasy I’d cooked up in the anxious anticipatory muck of pre-puberty that if I could get smart enough, smart enough in the right way, then I might be able to escape the functional category of _girl_.

  - Or, perhaps more accurately, my fantasy was that I could dominate it, instead of being the one dominated — that my impending womanhood could be a trick I pulled instead of a trick that got pulled on me. (My pubescent breasts were inflating in front of my eyes like God’s whoopee cushion, a setup stretching out in front of me towards an unforeseen but guaranteed punchline.)

  - Maybe it’s only embarrassing to be a girl, I thought, if you’re stupid — if you confirm the stereotype instead of subvert it.

  - It’s hard to write about stuff like that without sounding like I was offended by it, because really I wasn’t. I could produce a laundry list of those banal academic misogynies, most of them way worse than that one and also less funny, many of them meaning almost nothing to me

  - And I don’t think I really did drop out because I was a woman, or even because school was too hard, because I couldn’t hack it — I think I just dropped out because I wanted to kill myself, which was maybe a little bit because of the woman stuff but also surely because of a complex web of factors I can still neither understand nor satisfyingly quantify.

  - [youtube/v=3z5dO\_jx5Q0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z5dO_jx5Q0)

- <https://etymology.substack.com/p/feeling-without-thinking> — feeling without thinking

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/04/2025
    - tags: \["etymology"]

- [drive.google.com/1va1j76NRdpgSy6mnEcYFi3Vc3Gt-jyvD](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1va1j76NRdpgSy6mnEcYFi3Vc3Gt-jyvD/edit) — Dear Graduates

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/03/2025
    - tags: \["graduations","life lesson"]

- <https://lexploress.substack.com/p/the-people-to-keep-and-treasure> — the people to keep, and treasure

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/02/2025
    - tags: \["relationship","friends"]

- <https://archive.is/1mIGi> — “Agency” needs nuance \[—] \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/01/2025
    - tags: \["agency"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://sarvasvkulpati.com/midwit> — Midwits

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/01/2025
    - tags: \["being"]

- <https://archive.md/e2qt0> — Elizabeth Bishop, The Art of Poetry No. 27 \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/29/2025
    - tags: \["poetry","interview"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/the-friendship-theory-of-everything> — The friendship theory of everything \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/29/2025
    - tags: \["relationship","eudamonia"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - Tenets:

    1. You accept that in choosing who you spend time with you choose who you are.
    2. Almost everyone who’s unhappy is unhappy because they feel isolated. The best cure for isolation is a strong friend group. So much of happiness is having someone you can get a last-minute dinner with on a Monday night, or ask to water your plants while you’re gone for a week. The opposite of loneliness, as it were.
    3. You try your best to move to where your favorite people are. You do not agonize over whether this is, in fact, The Best City in the World. You do not Complain Relentlessly about Everything You Dislike About It. You simply suck it up and accept that if you like the people around you, everything else will work out.
    4. You ask your friends to live close to you, though you accept that they might not want to. You say, Let’s all stay in California together. I want my kids to grow up with your kids.
    5. When you value friendships more, they also get more fraught. I think this is what Rhaina Cohen referred to as “the problems of having community versus not having community.” When we ask for more from friendship, we also get more disappointment, conflict, mismatch. There is no such thing as closeness without friction.
    6. Befriending people who are good communicators can make you a better communicator. Befriending people who are trustworthy makes you more trusting. Secure attachment can be a learned thing.
    7. People will have periods when they disappear; people have times when they let you down. When you know someone for many many years you will have so many ups and downs. As with any kind of love, the most important thing is that you both keep coming back.
    8. It’s okay to pursue and cherish romantic love, but sacrificing platonic love for it leads to [disconnection and atomization](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-transcript-kristen-ghodsee.html).
    9. You show up: you go to your friends’ birthday parties. You ask them to read your writing. You make an effort to make nice with whoever they date.
    10. Your friends will change you, even in ways you initially reject. That’s a good thing. You will acquire new opinions and hobbies; you will find yourself into uncomfortable situations; you will learn to like the people they like.

- [lesswrong/highly-opinionated-advice-on-how-to-write-ml-papers![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eJGptPbbFPZGLpjsp/highly-opinionated-advice-on-how-to-write-ml-papers) — Neel’s highly opinionated advice on how to write ml papers

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/29/2025
    - tags: \["ml","research"]

- <https://www.jmeiners.com/think-in-math/> — Think in Math. Write in Code

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["determinism","logic"]
    - later: true

- <https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2025-10-19-forecasts-of-AI-growth.html> — Forecasts of AI & Economics growth

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["longtermism","ai"]

- <https://archive.is/ilTr1> — How to spot a genius \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["intelligence"]
    - later: true

  - Prodigies also need access to clusters of high-ability peers. A study by Ufuk Akcigit of the University of Chicago, John Grigsby of Princeton University and Tom Nicholas of Harvard finds that America’s golden age of innovation was fuelled by migration: inventors left their home states in search of denser networks.

  - Thomas Edison, born poor in rural Ohio, moved to New Jersey to build Menlo Park laboratory, where inventors could collaborate.

- <https://sharif.io/pain> — Choose your pain \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["hedonia"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://archive.is/1w2bs> — Scott Alexander’s Antichrist Lecture \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["theology"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us> — Bag of words have mercy on us

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["ml","llm"]

- <https://mingyuan.substack.com/p/youre-always-stressed-your-mind-is> — # You’re always stressed, your mind is always busy, you never have enough time

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/27/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://namelessvirtue.com/2025/11/26/youll-never-believe-where-blood-is-made/> — You’ll never believe where blood is made

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/27/2025
    - tags: \["biology"]

- <https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-trust-quotient-tq/> — The Trust Quotient

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/27/2025
    - tags: \["life","theory"]

- <https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/> — 1000 True Fans

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/27/2025
    - tags: \["life","productivity"]

- [lesswrong/reflections-on-neuralese![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qehggwKRMEyWqvjZG/reflections-on-neuralese) — Reflections on Neuralese

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/26/2025
    - tags: \["psychology","llm","longtermism"]

- <https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/> — The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/25/2025
    - tags: \["finance"]

- [lesswrong/paranoia-a-beginner-s-guide![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yXSKGm4txgbC3gvNs/paranoia-a-beginner-s-guide) — Paranoia: A Beginner’s Guide

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/25/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://www.jenn.site/after-my-dad-died-we-found-the-love-letters/> — After my dad died, we found the love letters \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/23/2025
    - tags: \["eschatology","family","homosexuality"]
    - later: true
    - highlighted: true

  - still, the two of us were close in our own way. sometimes, the two of us would go on long walks together. after fifteen minutes of silence, or twenty, something would loosen in him and he would start to tell me about the depths of his sadness and the disappointment in the way his life [played out.](https://www.jenn.site/after-my-dad-died-we-found-the-love-letters/#:~:text=still%2C%20the%20two%20of%20us%20were%20close%20in%20our%20own%20way.%20sometimes%2C%20the%20two%20of%20us%20would%20go%20on%20long%20walks%20together.%20after%20fifteen%20minutes%20of%20silence%2C%20or%20twenty%2C%20something%20would%20loosen%20in%20him%20and%20he%20would%20start%20to%20tell%20me%20about%20the%20depths%20of%20his%20sadness%20and%20the%20disappointment%20in%20the%20way%20his%20life%20played%20out.)

  - edward gave me some photos he had of my dad, and i could scarcely believe that they were of the grim, sad man i knew. he beams in all of them, glowing with joy, his smile more incandescent than i’ve ever seen in my entire life. i steal glances at edward, the person who took all those impossible photos. the person he was looking at.

  - your own grief is an isolating thing because you are closeted and no one else knew who you were to each other.

  - when i did, he took it well. he told me that though the path i am on is a **painful one**, he would be there for me, and that the most important thing was to find _xin fu_ in life, not to live your life in accordance to the expectations of anyone else.

  - because you see, my dad was a coward. mom had started asking for divorces by the time i was in my teens, and dad was the one who always said no.

  - _he wasted his entire life_, my mom said to me, the evening we found the love letters. _his entire life, and mine as well._

- <https://www.personalcanon.com/p/ten-thousand-takes-on-tech-culture> — ten thousand takes on tech, culture, criticism, and bait

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/22/2025
    - tags: \["technoculture","podcast"]

- <https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html> — Always bet on text \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/22/2025
    - tags: \["web"]
    - highlighted: true

  - _text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever_, period.

- <https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/suddenly-trait-based-embryo-selection> — Suddenly, Trait-Based Embryo Selection

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["genome systems"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-the-bay> — Dating men in the Bay \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/22/2025
    - tags: \["life","manhood"]
    - highlighted: true

  - The argument is that men lost their ways in understanding their manhood, i.e their designated role were gone/morphed into new categories by modern Western society.

  - Goal to craft a new map:

    - Encourage positive male role models to provide detailed directions on how to “become a man”
    - Stigmatize sexist behavior toward men
    - Remind men of their worth
    - Encourage en to discuss the issues they face, and **listen to them**
    - Openly acknowledge that mena nd women share some biological differences, and embrace the beauty of this diversity.

- <https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/home-for-the-holidays> — home for the holidays \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/22/2025
    - tags: \["grief","life"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - They drove each other crazy and called on the phone every day. When her mother died a few years ago, I watched time warp and stretch around her. The stress of a loss makes everyone feel weary and old, of course, but I always felt as though the loss of her mother aged my mom in a way that was both far less tangible and much more real: she was no longer forever young in comparison to someone else, no longer still a baby in somebody’s heart and mind.

- <https://www.sunday.ai/journal/no-robot-data> — ACT-1: A Robot Foundation Model Trained on Zero Robot Data

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/21/2025
    - tags: \["research","foundational models"]

  - Why bother curating pre-training data when you can create a gloves-in-hand (extension-of-self) to capture data to train on 😅

- <https://nadia.xyz/independent-research> — The independent researcher

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/21/2025
    - tags: \["research"]
    - pinned: true

- <https://tarneo.fr/posts/minimal_web/> — Bringing back the minimal web \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["web"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://jasmi.news/p/dictionary> — 🌻 are you high-agency or an NPC?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["agency"]

- <https://100r.ca/site/weathering_software_winter.html> — Weathering Software Winter

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["web"]

- <https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/03/to-the-great-city/> — To the Great City

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["fiction"]

- <https://www.visakanv.com/blog/focus/> — focus on what you want to see more of

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["productivity"]

- <https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/in-praise-of-useless-robots> — In praise of useless robots

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["robotic"]

- <https://read.asimov.com/> — Read Something Wonderful (About Biology)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["biology"]

- <https://notes.jordanscales.com/emails> — My Career as a Series of Emails

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/19/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://befriendjamin.substack.com/p/call-them-rationalists> — Call Them Rationalist

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/19/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://how.complexsystems.fail> — How complex systems fail \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/18/2025
    - tags: \["physics","biology"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.juliaharms.com/blog/physics-mutations> — On Physics of Mutation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/17/2025
    - tags: \["physics","biology"]

  - How does thermodynamics generate the _self-organized_ dynamics that _enable_ life?

  - why must replication mechanisms work this way to function?

- <https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/11/illicit-love-letters-albert-camus-and-maria-casares/> — Illicit Love Letters: [Albert Camus](/thoughts/Camus) and Maria Casares

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/16/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://www.late-review.com/p/ways-of-not-seeing> — ways of not seeing

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/15/2025
    - tags: \["perception"]

- <https://mingyuan.substack.com/p/theres-too-much-world-for-a-person> — There’s too much world for a person to know

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/15/2025
    - tags: \["epistemology"]

- <https://ishitagrad.substack.com/p/on-deaths-and-breakups> — On deaths and breakups

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/15/2025
    - tags: \["life","relationship"]

- <https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/deep-future> — Deep Future

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/15/2025
    - tags: \["scenarios","planning","ai"]

  - <https://deepfuture.now/#features>

- <https://newscience.org/faq/> — What’s wrong with academia?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/15/2025
    - tags: \["research"]

- [lesswrong/the-rise-of-parasitic-ai![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-of-parasitic-ai) — The Rise of Parasitic AI \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/14/2025
    - tags: \["alignment"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - [llm](/tags/llm) -induced psychosis

- <https://namelessvirtue.com/2025/11/13/a-paradox-of-cultural-heritage/> — A paradox of cultural heritage

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/14/2025
    - tags: \["culture"]

- <https://scyy.fi/poly-silence> — The Great Poly Science

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/14/2025
    - tags: \["dating"]

- <https://www.benkuhn.net/abyss> — Staring into the abyss as a core life skill \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/14/2025
    - tags: \["life","love"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://drunkwisconsin.substack.com/p/marry-the-first-person-you-date> — Marry the First Person You Date

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/13/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://jeninamendz.substack.com/p/miss-your-train-or-lose-the-love> — Miss your train or lose the love of your life

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/13/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://personalscriptures.substack.com/p/the-intimacy-of-never-talking-again> — the intimacy of never speaking again \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/13/2025
    - tags: \["love"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - There’s a sick kind of closeness in silence. Why does it feel more intimate to never speak to someone again than to text them “Happy Birthday!”? Someone I used to know is a year older today. I know that not because we still talk (God no), but because my brain is a haunted archive of useless information about men who always end up in relationships the second they’re done picking through the folds of my brain and the crevices of my body.

  - There’s something sacred in the quiet. Something twistedly tender about knowing that we are both carrying the same memories, unspoken and untouched, like a weird little time capsule we buried and agreed never to dig up. That is real intimacy. Not a soft launch. Not a photo dump. Just shared silence, heavy as hell.

  - It’s maddening how loud it gets. Because even when they’ve vanished from your feed, your phone, your orbit, they still exist. They’re not dead. They’re just… invisible.

  - Sometimes, I catch myself trying to picture it, what they look like now, if they still use my lingo, if they still have a hard time parking or still overcompensate for shyness with humor.

- <https://offhandquibbles.substack.com/p/philosophy-is-kinda-autistic-hj-pos> — Philosophy is kinda autistic

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/13/2025
    - tags: \["metaphysics"]

- <https://buttondown.com/greengaybles/archive/tender-masculinity> — Tender Masculinity \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/13/2025
    - tags: \["love"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://blamensir.neocities.org/guide>

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/13/2025
    - tags: \["medieval"]

- [docs.google.com/14X\[...\]Oj4](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14XZJtJcMGzD4ZY6AgaTzobunndRvXZMGUybA6JIQOj4/edit?tab=t.0) — On suicide \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/12/2025
    - tags: \["absurdism"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.makingsoftware.com/> — Making Software

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["cs","design"]

  - <https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/color-spaces-models-and-gamuts> — Color space

  - <https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-is-data-stored> — How is data stored?

- <https://www.benkuhn.net/outliers/> — Searching for outliers

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["search"]

- [lesswrong/please-don-t-throw-your-mind-away![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RryyWNmJNnLowbhfC/please-don-t-throw-your-mind-away) — Please don’t throw your mind away \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/12/2025
    - tags: \["dialectic"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://smoothbrains.net/> — speculative neuroscience, psychedelics, and phenomenology \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/15/2025
    - tags: \["blogosphere"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.ethansmith2000.com/post/where-are-you> — Where are you?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["perception"]

- <https://lydianottingham.substack.com/p/the-k-values-of-speculative-kinship> — The K-values of Speculative Kinship \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/12/2025
    - tags: \["love","kindship"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - > [Transclude of quotes #^coparent](/quotes#coparent)

- <https://www.ystrickler.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet/> — The dark forest theory of the internet

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["web","connectedness"]

- <https://jalexine.github.io/on-doing-things.html> — On doing things \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["pedagogy"]
    - highlighted: true

  - You can just do things btw.

  - see also: [docs.google.com/10X\[...\]5nk](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10X-el41KoDluiC4ffXGL1wMDT8R2moOGPvdHE4j65nk/edit?gid=0#gid=0)

- <https://colah.github.io/posts/2020-05-University/> — Do I Need to Go to University?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["pedagogy"]

  - Instead of asking “Is university good?”, ask “Do I have something more compelling to do?”

- <https://www.brendanschlagel.com/2022/12/19/patterns-pedagogy-p2p-play/> — Patterns, [pedagogy](/tags/r/pedagogy) and p2p play

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/27/2025
    - tags: \["pedagogy","patterns"]

  - see also: [A Pattern Language](/library/A-Pattern-Language)

- <https://www.brendanschlagel.com/2017/11/05/canonize-creating-personal-canon-template/> — Canonize: Creating a Personal Canon Template

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["self"]

  - The idea of a “personal canon” is an \_encapsulation in list form of those things that shaped you \[as a person].

- <https://ncase.me/remember/> — How to remember anything forever-ish \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["web comics","spaced repetition"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://jasmi.news/p/china-2025> — 🌻 america against china against america

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/11/2025
    - tags: \["politics"]

- <https://sarvasvkulpati.com/words-for-love> — English doesn’t have enough words for [love](/tags/love)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/10/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-the-cactus-person/> — Universal love, said the cactus person \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/10/2025
    - tags: \["acl","ssc","love"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.nypl.org/blog/2022/07/25/into-woods-video-game> — ‘Into the Woods’: The Video Game

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/09/2025
    - tags: \["game"]

- <https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240206-why-flirting-might-be-good-for-your-relationship> — How to be a good flirt, according to science

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/09/2025
    - tags: \["dating"]

- <http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/tdk> — What Happens in The Dark Knight

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/09/2025
    - tags: \["essay","movie"]

- <http://pdf-objects.com/files/ErichFromm_TheArtOfLoving_1956_148pp.pdf> — The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

  - ([Fromm, 1956](#bib-fromm1956art))

- <https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/courses/lx400/Gallistel-King_chaps1-9.pdf> — Memory and Computational Brain

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["cognitive","read later"]

- <https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf> — [The Vulnerable World Hypothesis](/thoughts/The-Vulnerable-World-Hypothesis), Nick Bostrom

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/09/2025
    - tags: \["alignment","singularity"]
    - pinned: true

  - the idea of a “vulnerable world” mandates _one in which there exist some level of technological advances that renders civilization useless (i.e existinction), unless it has exited the “semi-anarchic default condition”_

  - requires amplified capacities for preventive policing and global governance

    - [alignment](/tags/alignment) of [AGI](/thoughts/AGI)

- <https://jacobin.com/2023/01/nicos-poulantzas-revolutionary-reformism-democratic-socialism-state-theory> — Nicos Poulantzas Was a Vital Theorist of Democratic Socialism

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/09/2025
    - tags: \["politics"]

- <https://web.mit.edu/sts.035/www/PDFs/think.pdf> — As we may think

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/09/2025
    - tags: \["perception","brain"]

- <https://archive.ph/5669x> — Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/09/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://alexanderobenauer.com/think/1/> — The Interfaces With Which We Think

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/05/2025
    - tags: \["interfaces"]
    - pinned: true

  - [design](/tags/design)

- <https://andymatuschak.org/hmwl/> — How might we learn? \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/05/2025
    - tags: \["pedagogy","ai"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - how do we create a convivial learning experience, without cargo-culting others to learn?

  - learning doesn’t really work, given that knowledge is not transferrable, and we also forgot half of it.

  - implicit vs guided learning

    - implicit: discovery, motivation, authenticity
    - guided: fluency, cognition, scaffolds

- <https://press.asimov.com/articles/mitochondria> — Mitochondria Are Alive

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/05/2025
    - tags: \["biology"]

- <https://nintil.com/longevity> — Longevity \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/03/2025
    - tags: \["philosophy","biology"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology> — I should have loved biology

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/03/2025
    - tags: \["biology","history"]

- <https://archive.ph/iMdvd> — Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/02/2025
    - tags: \["friend"]

  - Aphantasics might skip over descriptive passages in books—since description aroused no images in their minds, they found it dull—or, because of such passages, avoid fiction altogether.

  - Hyperphantasia often seemed to function as an emotional amplifier in mental illness—heightening hypomania, worsening depression, causing intrusive traumatic imagery in P.T.S.D. to be more realistic and disturbing.

- <https://nintil.com/> — nintil.com \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/02/2025
    - tags: \["evergreen","essays"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/> — Politics and the English Language

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/31/2025
    - tags: \["orwellian"]

  - [Orwellian](/thoughts/Orwellian)

- <https://linear.app/now> — Linear Engineering Blog \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/30/2025
    - tags: \["engineering"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://paulgraham.com/best.html> — The Best Essay \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/30/2025
    - tags: \["writing"]
    - highlighted: true

  - Another unexpected consequence: I imagined when I started writing this that the best essay would be fairly timeless — that the best essay you could write in 1844 would be much the same as the best one you could write now.

  - If the question of how to write the best possible essay reduces to the question of how to make great discoveries, then I _started with the wrong question._

- <https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2025-05-01-thinking/> — Why We Think?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["ml","cot"]

- <https://jamesyu.org/singular/> — Singular

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["post capitalism","generative"]

  - Co-written with GPT-3

  - Cool sidenotes implementations though.

- <https://www.gleech.org/nysound> — NY sounds

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["metropolitan","nyc"]

- <https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/> — Things you’re allowed to do

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["life","work"]

- <https://maggieappleton.com/digital-anthropology> — A Brief Introduction to Digital Anthropology \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["anthropology"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://saffron.substack.com/p/something-divine-shook-me-by-the> — something divine shook me by the shoulders

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["god"]

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/wordless-thought> — When is it better to think without words?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["writing"]

- <https://www.brasstacks.blog/tyatd-uni/> — Things You’re Allowed to Do: University Edition \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["school","college"]
    - highlighted: true

  - see also:

    - <https://web.archive.org/web/20231126160243/http://becomingeden.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-in-college/>
    - <https://skunkledger.substack.com/p/escaping-high-school>
    - <https://guzey.com/personal/college/>
    - <https://web.archive.org/web/20231126160243/http://becomingeden.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-in-college/>

- <https://rauno.me/craft/interaction-design> — Invisible Details of Interaction Design \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/28/2025
    - tags: \["design"]
    - highlighted: true

- <http://www.wepsite.de/Kate_Fox,Humour_Rules.htm> — Humour rules

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/28/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://sdan.io/blog/intelligence-arbitrage> — Intelligence arbitrage

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/28/2025
    - tags: \["ai"]

- <https://joincolossus.com/article/the-amusement-park-for-engineers> — The Amusement Park for Engineers

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/28/2025
    - tags: \["build","engineering"]

  - Anduril’s product engineering machine

- <https://jennyclark.substack.com/p/prayer-for-the-girl-who-often-forgets> — prayer for the girl who often forgets that enough is enough

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/27/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://amasad.me/keep-winning> — How to keep winning.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/24/2025
    - tags: \["determinism"]

- <https://masonjwang.com/writing/anhedonia> — anhedonia

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/24/2025
    - tags: \["love","joy"]

  - lack of pleasure in activities

- <https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/10/15/1995-internet/> — My First Months in Cyberspace

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/24/2025
    - tags: \["reflection"]

- <https://nadia.xyz/climate-tribes> — Mapping out the tribes of climate \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/24/2025
    - tags: \["maps"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://brianlovin.com/writing/how-to-give-a-great-product-design-portfolio-presentation> — How to give a great product design portfolio presentation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/23/2025
    - tags: \["design"]

- <https://guzey.com/productivity/> — Every productivity thought I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/23/2025
    - tags: \["hacks"]

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/style/the-36-questions-on-the-way-to-love.html> — 36 Questions to fall in love \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/23/2025
    - tags: \["love"]
    - highlighted: true

  - <https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/style/modern-love-to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this.html>

  - <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167297234003>

  - [her](/posts/her), [a broken heart](/posts/a-broken-heart), [love](/thoughts/love), [love](/tags/love), [friend](/tags/friend)

- <https://itscertified.substack.com/p/radiochange> — Radio/Change

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/23/2025
    - tags: \["life","love"]

- <https://www.ameliahruby.com/blog/100-ways-to-share> — 100 ways to share your work + life off social media \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/21/2025
    - tags: \["creative","sharing","ring"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html> — Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/21/2025
    - tags: \["research"]
    - later: true

  - What is 4 R’s of Graduate School? - Reading, aRithmetic, Research, and wRiting

  - Reading

  - Studying

  - Thinking

  - middle of PhD

- <https://onegirlinfinitethoughts.substack.com/p/not-lost-not-found-becoming>

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/21/2025
    - tags: \["becoming","love"]

- <https://mkodama.org/content/suffering-focused/> — Suffering-focused ethics

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/18/2025
    - tags: \["ethics"]

  - see also [ethics](/thoughts/ethics)

- <https://anthropic-principle.com/anthropic-bias/> — Anthropic Bias \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/18/2025
    - tags: \["life","longtermism"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://clairebookworm.substack.com/p/i-think-about-it-all-the-time> — I think about it all the time

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/12/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://chrislakin.blog/p/flaky-breakthroughs> — Flaky breakthrough \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/09/2025
    - tags: \["productivity"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/state-change/> — State change

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/09/2025
    - tags: \["culture"]

- <https://ellululu.substack.com/p/the-art-of-asking> — The art of asking

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/07/2025
    - tags: \["friendship"]

- <https://christophlocher.com/notes/ethnographic-research-on-dynamicland> — Götz Bachmann’s Ethnographic Research on Dynamicland \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/07/2025
    - tags: \["tool for thought"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://aeon.co/essays/pluck-and-hard-work-or-luck-of-birth-two-stories-one-man> — Pluck versus luck

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/07/2025
    - tags: \["merit"]

  - Meritocracy emphasises the power of the individual to overcome obstacles, but the real story is quite a different one

- <https://blog.redwoodresearch.org/p/guide> — Reading list for AI Safety

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/06/2025
    - tags: \["alignment"]

- <https://mkodama.org/content/EU-code/> — The World’s First Frontier AI Regulation is Surprisingly Thoughtful

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/06/2025
    - tags: \["ai","alignment","safety"]

- <https://read.isabelunraveled.com/p/solitude> — Solitude, space, and the selfishness of creation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/06/2025
    - tags: \["self","creativity"]

- <https://read.isabelunraveled.com/p/paris> — Paris diaries, part 2 \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/06/2025
    - tags: \["self"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://read.isabelunraveled.com/p/show-up> — Just show up \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/06/2025
    - tags: \["love","self"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://read.isabelunraveled.com/p/confidence> — Confidence Comes from Taking Care of Yourself

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/06/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://offhandquibbles.substack.com/p/why-have-sex> — Why Have Sex?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["anisogamy"]

  - i.e: the evolution of anisogamy

- [Augmenting-Human-Intellect.pdf](/thoughts/papers/Augmenting-Human-Intellect.pdf) — Augmenting Human Intellect, A Conceptual Framework - D.C Engelbart, 1962 \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/28/2025
    - tags: \["hci"]
    - highlighted: true

  - source: <https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/papers/scanned/Doug_Engelbart-AugmentingHumanIntellect.pdf>, <https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html>

- <https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html> — You and Your Research, Richard Hamming \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["research"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 8

  - One lesson was sufficient to educate my boss as to why I didn’t want to do big jobs that displaced exploratory research and why I was justified in not doing crash jobs which absorb all the research computing facilities. I wanted instead to use the facilities to compute a large number of small problems. Again, in the early days, I was limited in computing capacity and it was clear, in my area, that a ‘mathematician had no use for machines.’ But I needed more machine capacity. Every time I had to tell some scientist in some other area, “No I can’t; I haven’t the machine capacity,” he complained. I said “Go tell your Vice President that Hamming needs more computing capacity.” After a while I could see what was happening up there at the top; many people said to my Vice President, “Your man needs more computing capacity.” I got it!

  - The people who do great work with less ability but who are committed to it, get more done that those who have great skill and dabble in it, who work during the day and go home and do other things and come back and work the next day.

- <https://www.benkuhn.net/thinkrealhard/> — Think real hard \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["life","logic"]
    - highlighted: true

  - In retrospect, I wish those people had just told me “think real hard.” I was looking for an easy way out—One Weird Trick to Programming Better—but programming is too hard for that.

- <https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/principles-of-effective-research/> — Principles of Effective Research \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["research"]
    - highlighted: true

  - The [philosophy](/tags/philosophy) underlying the essay is based on a famous quote attributed to [Aristotle](/thoughts/Aristotle): “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Underlying all our habits are models (often unconscious) of how the world works.

  - [Research](/research) is, of course, only a part of life, and must be understood in relation to the rest of life

  - Effective people are proactive and take personal responsibility for the events in their lives.

  - They form a vision of how they want their life to be, and work toward achieving that vision.

  - They identify problems in their lives, and work toward solutions to those problems.

  - Self-discipline:

    - The first factor is having clarity about what one wants to achieve, why one wants to achieve it, and how to go about achieving it.

    - The second factor affecting self-discipline is one’s social environment.

      - Access to a social environment which encourages and supports the development of research skills and research excellence

    - The third factor affecting self-discipline is a special kind of honesty, honesty to oneself, about oneself.

- <https://www.benkuhn.net/pjm/> — How I’ve run major projects \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["productivity"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - Even more importantly than freeing up time, clearing my schedule made sure the project was the top idea in my mind. If I don’t do that, it’s easy for me to let projects “go on autopilot,” where I keep them running but don’t proactively make time to think through things like whether we should change goals, add or drop priorities, or do other “non-obvious” things.

- <https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/all-you-need-is-links> — All you need is links \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["\[hyperlinks]"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://cybermonk.substack.com/p/i-am> — I am

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["being"]

- <https://blog.scottstevenson.net/p/how-to-finally-make-something-a16c8db7ba2a> — How to finally make something

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["productivity"]

- <http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange> — Theory of Change

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["metaphysics"]

- <https://thesolarmonk.com/posts/a-spacebar-for-the-web> — vintage, letter type

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/17/2025
    - tags: \["hyperlinks"]

- <https://retool.com/visual-basic> — ASCII effects and procedural arrangement

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/17/2025
    - tags: \["web"]

- <https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/words/flow-fields> — flow feel

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/17/2025
    - tags: \["design"]

- <https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/words/the-design-philosophy-of-the-qql-algorithm> — QQL algorithm

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/04/2026
    - tags: \["algorithm","design"]

- <https://maalvika.substack.com/p/tiktoks-boyfriend-tests-and-the-spectacle> — tiktok boyfriend test and spectacle of modern love

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/17/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://archive.ph/XsuTV> — Handwritten blog \[\*\*] \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/17/2025
    - tags: \["web"]
    - highlighted: true

  - source: <https://handwritten.blog/2022-10-01-hyperlinks-in-handwriting.html> (dns problems)

- <https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jul/21/nothing-indicate-nothing-indicate-subject-had-any-/> — Paul Erdős, he is just a mathematician that really [love](/tags/love) math

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/20/2025
    - tags: \["math","life"]

- <https://matthewstrom.com/writing/generative-art-og-images/> — Generative OG with [Brownian motion![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/20/2025
    - tags: \["design"]

- [docs.google.com/1h1\[...\]hKo](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h1vw4-t9Es4p2qQkZblnWcJDo6uEc6Yu61AxaLB5hKo/edit) — Atlantis

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["fiction"]

- <https://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-social-radar-what-i-did-at-y-combinator> — Social radar, by Jess Livingston

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/30/2025
    - tags: \["productivity"]

- <https://jameslin.bio/jolie> — Love, with a friend

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/20/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://www.paulgraham.com/good.html> — Be good

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/21/2025
    - tags: \["being"]

- [lesswrong/ironing-out-the-squiggles![LessWrong](/static/favicons/lesswrong.avif)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/H7fkGinsv8SDxgiS2/ironing-out-the-squiggles) — Ironing Out the Squiggles

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/01/2025
    - tags: \["reductionism"]

- <https://readsomethingwonderful.com/p/47/the-inner-ring> — Read something wonderful

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/05/2025
    - tags: \["reading"]

- <https://writeordiemag.com/elliptical-love/untranslatable> — Untranslatable

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/05/2025
    - tags: \["being","perplexity"]

- <https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/on-bubble-watch.pdf> — On Bubble Watch and Stock market

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/05/2025
    - tags: \["letters"]

- <https://www.epi.org/publication/u-s-benefits-from-immigration> — US benefits from immigration but policy reforms needed to maximize gains

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/05/2025
    - tags: \["policy"]

- <https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/the-portable-bloomberg-the-wit-wisdom-of-michael-bloomberg/ba5281b4-886d-42dc-a28d-e67eceb60719/> — The Portable Bloomberg: [The Wit & Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg](/thoughts/pdfs/The-Wit-and-Wisdom-of-Michael-Bloomberg.pdf)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/08/2025
    - tags: \["leaders"]

- <https://www.autodidacts.io/troubleshooting/> — On Troubleshooting

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/09/2025
    - tags: \["engineering"]

- <https://stirthepots.substack.com/p/things-i-notice-when-im-not-rushing> — things i notice when i’m not rushing

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["being"]

  - The air changes when I’m not rushing. It remembers me.

- <https://onegirlinfinitethoughts.substack.com/p/what-if-love-never-finds-you> — What If Love never finds you?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

  - If you became too good at spotting the wolves beneath the wool, too fluent in the language of red flags, too unwilling to be dazzled by the cheap magic tricks of love bombers and smooth-tongued frauds.

- <https://read.mindmine.xyz/p/stop-hiding> — Stop hiding from your power.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/09/2025
    - tags: \["actualisation"]

- <https://danluu.com/learn-what/> — What to learn

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["pedagogy"]

- <https://pketh.org/organic-software.html> — In Search of Organic Software

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/23/2025
    - tags: \["engineering","rhizomatic software"]

- <https://emilymstark.com/2022/12/18/death-to-the-line-of-death.html> — The death of the line of death

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/04/2025
    - tags: \["web","design"]

- <https://matthewstrom.com/writing/album-art/> — The history of [album art](/thoughts/music-theory)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/04/2025
    - tags: \["arts"]

- <https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/how-curiosity-rewires-your-brain-for-change/> — How curiosity rewires your brain for change

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/04/2025
    - tags: \["neuroscience"]

  - When we are curious, the brain’s dopaminergic system — the same one that lights up when we anticipate a reward — kicks into gear. Simply put, curiosity makes us feel good about the prospect of discovering something new.

- <https://a16z.com/a-good-place-to-work/> — A Good Place to Work, Ben Horowitz

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/04/2025
    - tags: \["work","company"]

- <https://cristobal.arquipelago.org/writing/screenshot.html> — Notes from Screenshot Conf

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/04/2025
    - tags: \["conference"]

- <https://www.avabear.xyz/p/dialectical-damage> — Dialectical damage

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/04/2025
    - tags: \["love","being"]

- <https://halogen2.tumblr.com/post/187591113672/i-think-love-is-something-that-happens-to-other> — I think love is something that happens to other.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/07/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://evanjconrad.com/posts/love> — On love and relationship \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/09/2025
    - tags: \["love"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://barnsworthburning.net/> — cool hyperlinks format

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/09/2025
    - tags: \["web","digital garden"]

- <https://museguided.substack.com/p/love-is-not-enough> — Love is not enough

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://mindslice.substack.com/p/alignment> — On dating AI [researcher](/thoughts/Alignment)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/13/2025
    - tags: \["ai","love"]

- <https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/> — Frame of references, a history of Mac Settings, 1984-2004

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["design"]

- <https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/bom/anthrophilic.html> — Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["design","tools of conviviality"]

  - You might think that any number of computers have been designed with these criteria in mind, but not so. Any system which requires a user to ever see the interior, for any reason, does not meet these specifications. There must not be additional ROMS, RAMS, boards or accessories except those that can be understood by the PITS as a separate appliance.

  - Seeing the guts is taboo. Things in sockets is taboo (unless to make servicing cheaper without imposing too large an initial cost). Billions of keys on the keyboard is taboo. Computerese is taboo. Large manuals, or many of them (large manuals are a sure sign of bad design) is taboo. **Self-instructional programs are NOT taboo.**

  - The computer must be in one lump. This means, given present technology, a 4 or 5 inch CRT (unless a better display comes along in the next year), a keyboard, and disk integrated into one package.

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/magazine/men-heterofatalism-dating-relationships.html> — The Trouble with Wanting Men

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://calv.info/openai-reflections> — reflections on OpenAI

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["decision","work culture"]

- <https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/the-week-in-ai-governance/> — The EU AI Code of Practice, The Week in AI governance, Aug 1st

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["policy"]

- <https://ambrook.com/offrange/technology/like-farming-on-the-moon> — If you are a farmer, NASA would like a word

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["interplanetary"]

- <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/97351.97360> — Human Values and the Futures of Technology: A Declaration of Empowerment, Ben Shneiderman

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["technologist","advancements"]

- <https://kevinlu.ai/the-only-important-technology-is-the-internet> — The Only Important Technology is the Internet

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["advancements"]

- [Speed Matters for Google Web Search](/thoughts/papers/google_delayexp.pdf)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["search","engineering"]

  - latency from 100ms to 400ms reduces number of search per users by 0.2% to 0.6%

  - Injecting server-side delay for pre-header and post-header delay

- <https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/hjMy4ZxS5ogA9cTYK/how-i-think-about-my-research-process-explore-understand> — How I Think About My Research Process: Explore, Understand, Distill

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["research","longermism"]

- <https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/50-things-i-know> — 50 things i know \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["life","advices"]
    - highlighted: true

  - 33. If you always let people in in traffic, no one can cut you off.

  - 36. “You are ruined by your gifts” — the traits that make you exceptional are the very same traits that show up in your neuroses and limitations. Learning to love the upsides, if undertaken with clarity and gentleness, also creates more space to address the downsides. This is what makes the [Enneagram](https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/there-are-nine-wolves-inside-of-you) tremendously potent.

  - 38. There is no grand unifying theory of morality, nothing that doesn’t break down in any edge cases — so avoid totalizing ideologies, or else. If you take anything too seriously, it can make you crazy. Related: Utilitarianism is a perfect program that doesn’t run on human hardware.

  - 45. If you can train yourself to ask “is there a better way to do this?” at random intervals ten times a day, you will become unstoppable.

- <https://velvetnoise.substack.com/p/the-key-to-love-is-understanding> — The key to [love](/tags/love) is understanding

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["love"]

- <https://velvetnoise.substack.com/p/attention-is-love> — Attention is love \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["love"]
    - highlighted: true

  - To reach out and remain unseen is its own kind of anti-conversation, a silence where love should be.

- <https://illustrated.substack.com/p/grief-maybe> — Grief, maybe (ILLUSTRATED)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["eschatology"]

- <https://fishinapool.substack.com/p/everyone-holds-a-set-of-questions> — conversational compatibility is the chemical reaction between questions

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/02/2025
    - tags: \["relationship"]

- <https://www.scopeofwork.net/aquatic-achievements/> — Aquatic Achievements

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["gardening"]

- <https://kayserifserif.place/carry> — I carry your website with me (i carry it in my website)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["web poetics"]

  - (In the quiet aftermath of the most wonderful and exhausting gathering at your home, you find traces of your friends everywhere. A strand of hair draped across the couch, every extra chair commandeered, lingering perfume… echoes of presence in the console.)

- <https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-catalog-fall-1968?format=spreads&index=0> — Whole Earth Index

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/03/2025
    - tags: \["interplanetary"]

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/a-constellation-of-lookers> — A constellation of lookers \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/03/2025
    - tags: \["love"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/> — Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/04/2025
    - tags: \["engineering"]

- <https://kenliu.substack.com/p/layers> — Layers

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

  - Faulkner was absolutely right: The past is never dead. It’s not even past

  - It’s worth remembering that this is not true—or at least not true to the same degree—for cultures that built with perishable materials: wood, bamboo, paper, rammed earth. Unless actively maintained, these structures will perish in fire, flood, war, often lasting no more than decades, much less centuries.

- <https://shreniks-subconscious.super.site/journal/impermanence-bay-area-musings> — Impermanence (Bay Area Musings)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/05/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

  - I notice how I’m feeling a kind of tenderness for things that don’t last. It shows up in unexpected places, like the bruised-purple petals scattered on the sidewalk after a windy night, or the quick glimmer of someone’s laughter on a street corner before it disappears into the ordinary quiet.

  - Impermanence makes things precious. The fleetingness of a perfect moment is what gives it color and weight.

  - I remember thinking, almost with a twinge of sadness even as it was happening, how none of us would be able to return to that exact constellation of people and feeling again. And yet, maybe that’s what made it matter so much.

  - Maybe that’s the secret to contentment: finding beauty in the not-lasting. Cherishing moments for their brevity, saying thank you to every sunset you happen to catch, every ordinary dinner that feels like home.

- <https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/rationalists-and-the-cultic-milieu> — Rationalists and the Cultic Milieu \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/21/2025
    - tags: \["reductionism"]
    - highlighted: true

  - The “cultic milieu” is the subculture from which new religious movements usually emerge.

- <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/rationalists-ai-lighthaven.html> — The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/05/2025
    - tags: \["reductionism"]

  - [Roko's Basilisk](/thoughts/Roko's-Basilisk)

  - “All of this feels mythic,” she said. “Even the non-Rationalist scientists find this compelling — the same way the Manhattan Project was compelling. We want to work on something mythic.”

- <https://ryanandrewlangdon.com/2020/01/28/today-i-learned-that-not-everyone-has-an-internal-monologue-and-it-has-ruined-my-day/> — Today I learned that some people doesn’t have an internal monologue

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["psychology"]

- <https://ifp.org/biotechs-lost-archive/> — Biotech’s Lost Archive

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/12/2025
    - tags: \["biology"]

- <https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/01/25/AI-Slop-Suspicion-and-Writing-Back/> — AI Slop Suspicion and Writing Back.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/13/2025
    - tags: \["writing","llm"]

- <https://www.sherryning.com/p/what-should-you-do-when-youre-madly> — What should you do when you’re madly in love \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/13/2025
    - tags: \["love"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://jewishcurrents.org/beyond-grievance> — Beyond Grievance

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/16/2025
    - tags: \["eschatology"]

- <https://web.archive.org/web/20031029211844/http://www.frostbytes.com/~jimf/informing.html> — Informing Ourselves To Death \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/16/2025
    - tags: \["information theory","web"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - After all, anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure.

  - Now, there are several conclusions that might be drawn from these results, one of which was expressed by H. L. Mencken fifty years ago when he said, there is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it. This is more of an accusation than an explanation but in any case I have tried this experiment on non-professors and get roughly the same results.

  - Another possible conclusion is one expressed by George Orwell—also about 50 years ago—when he remarked that the average person today is about as naive as was the average person in the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages people believed in the authority of their religion, no matter what. Today, we believe in the authority of our science, no matter what.

- <https://milky.substack.com/p/moderation> — moderation, by molly mielke mccarthy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/16/2025
    - tags: \["life","marriage","love"]

- [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/12/how-the-world-works/305854/](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/12/how-the-world-works/305854/) — How the world works

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/16/2025
    - tags: \["capitalism","society"]

- <https://carly.substack.com/p/designers-designers-designers> — Designers! Designers! Designers!

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/16/2025
    - tags: \["design"]

- <https://www.personalcanon.com/p/how-to-begin> — How to begin

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/16/2025
    - tags: \["life"]

- <https://sfpc.study/blog/falling-failing-feeling-freeing> — Falling, Failing, Feeling, Freeing \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["love","web poetic"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.are.na/kristoffer-tjalve/poetic-web-calendar> — Poetic Web Calendar

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/16/2025
    - tags: \["web poetic"]

- <https://grugbrain.dev/> — The Grug Brained Developer

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["engineering","simplicity"]

- <https://research.contrary.com/deep-dive/building-an-american-tsmc> — Building an American TSMC \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["silicon","hardware"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://jzmazlish.substack.com/p/ak-or-just-okay-ai-and-economic-growth> — AK or just okay? AI and economic growth

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/18/2025
    - tags: \["ai","economics"]

- <https://sharif.io/anna-alexei> — Always invite Anna \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/26/2025
    - tags: \["love"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://archive.is/ilTr1> — The Economist, How to spot a genius

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/26/2025
    - tags: \["being"]

- <https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/mountains> — Why Warm Countries Are Poorer \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["economic"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://lananhngvu.substack.com/p/how-to-become-gently-interesting> — how to become gently interesting

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life","society"]

  - My first suggestion: sit with something long enough.

  - Just simple, unassuming places, like a park you’ve never visited, a station or a random indie bookstore that is not aesthetic by normal standard.

  - When your attention stretches beyond the usual, you start seeing patterns, questions, and connections that others miss. Your perspective deepens. And with that depth comes a quiet magnetism, because interestingness isn’t a performance, it’s the result of a mind that’s been gently reshaped by new experiences and curiosity.

  - _Let yourself be bored_

- <https://sundogg.substack.com/p/have-you-put-down-your-bags> — Have you put down the bags?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/30/2025
    - tags: \["fruit","toronto","life"]

- <https://theshadowedarchive.substack.com/p/an-existential-guide-to-making-friends> — An Existential Guide to: Making Friends \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["friends","relationship"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://theshadowedarchive.substack.com/p/an-existential-guide-to-loneliness> — An Existential Guide to: Loneliness

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["dread","lonesome"]

- <https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e17b4d3834ea27accf7ef85/t/6837d373c8563c07dea5e115/1748489076368/Anderson%2C+Phenomenology+and+the+Ethics+of+Love+article+Symposium.pdf> — Love Symposium

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/21/2025
    - tags: \["philosophy","love"]
    - pinned: true

- <https://archive.ph/MegKQ> — How AI is changing the office \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["ai","labour market"]

- <https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/how-i-read> — Henrik Karlsson, How I Read \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["books","pedagogy"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://emotional.codes/dtr/> — Defining the Relationship \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["relationship","life"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://huyenchip.com/2021/02/27/why-not-join-a-startup.html> — Chip Huyen, 7 reasons not to join a startup and 1 reason to

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["startup"]

  - Reason 1. Goodbye work-life balance

  - Reason 4. You won’t get rich

  - If you want to get rich, join a big company and climb their rank.

- <http://www.martinacecilia.com/place-vanishing-points/> — How to place vanishing points

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["photography"]

- <https://map.simonsarris.com/p/breadcrumbs> — Breadcrumbs

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["life","advices"]

- <https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/ShgAxjgN55gmq47ou/trustworthy-and-untrustworthy-models-1> — Trustworthy and untrustworthy models \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["ai","alignment"]
    - highlighted: true

  - see also: [on trustworthiness of models](/thoughts/Alignment#trustworthy-and-untrustworthy-models)

- <https://www.betonit.ai/p/shes-the-one> — She’s the One

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/04/2025
    - tags: \["love","relationship"]

  - Figure out your top priorities - and be flexible about everything else

  - Giving looks a high priority and personality a low priority. This is beyond foolish

  - Ask to hold hands on the first date. \[…] My goal, rather, is to help ordinary shy guys out of the Friend Zone.

    > If a woman refuses to hold hands on the first date, you’re probably in her Friend Zone for life. Bitter to learn, but good to know.

  - Bitter truth: Even if a woman sincerely considers you supremely deserving of nice treatment now, the treatment you receive will almost certainly get worse.

  - If you want kids, remember that virtually _all traits are heritable._

- <https://www.betonit.ai/p/i-want-to-hold-your-hand> — I want to hold your hand

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/04/2025
    - tags: \["love","dating"]

- <https://benjaminfspector.com/writing/tgg> — The Generation Game

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/04/2025
    - tags: \["longtermism","ai"]

- <https://roonscape.ai/p/agi-futures> — AGI futures

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/04/2025
    - tags: \["agi","longtermism"]

  - Neuralink Third Impact

  - Simulation Theory

  - If God were to visit this world, he would destroy it. An unbounded resource gatherer was summoned; a demon of the Platonic ether forged through incredible optimization pressures that created instrumental convergence to power-seeking behavior. One by one, the stars are blinking out in the heavens as their energy is harnessed to further the Fiend’s profane purpose.

- <https://selvaradov.net/select/> — You can select as well as be selected

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/04/2025
    - tags: \["agency"]

- <http://joschu.net/blog/opinionated-guide-ml-research.html> — An Opinionated Guide to ML Research \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/04/2025
    - tags: \["research"]
    - pinned: true
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  - _Honing Your Taste_: Your ability to choose the right problems to work on is even more important than your raw technical skill.

  - 1. Read a lot of papers, and assess them critically. If possible, discuss them with others who have a deeper knowledge of the subject.

  - 2. Work in a research group with other people working on similar topics. That way you can absorb their experiences as well as your own.

  - 3. Seek advice from experienced researchers on what to work on. There’s no shame in working on ideas suggested by other people. Ideas are cheap, and there are lots of them in the air. Your skill comes in when you decide which one to work on, and how well you execute on it.

  - 4. Spend time reflecting on what research is useful and fruitful. Think about questions like

       > a. When is theory useful? b. When are empirical results transferable? c. What causes some ideas to get wide uptake, whereas others are forgotten? d. What are the trends in your field? Which lines of work will make the other ones obsolete?

- <https://numinous.productions/ttft/> — How can we develop transformative tools for thought? \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["tool for thoughts"]
    - pinned: true
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    - importance: 8

  - By Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen