Blog Posts

• Minimizing Effort
• Sympathetic, Capable, Proactive
• [Letter] You're the smartest kid in your high school. Now what? #3
• [Letter] You Cannot Buy Self-Reliance
• [Letter] You're the smartest kid in your high school. Now what? #2
• [Letter] You're the smartest kid in your high school. Now what? #1
• Re: Competent Elites
• The Commitment Form
• Propose Things
• 2021 Junk Media Resolution V2.1
• The Dark Night of the Soul
• How to Contact Me
• Bikepacking to Anacortes
• MeetUp is like Facebook
• Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 7
• [Letter] Imperialism in the Rationalist Community
• Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 6
• Four Components of Audacity
• Happiness Ruins My Writing
• Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 5
• Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 4
• Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 3
• Bayeswatch 6: Mechwarrior
• [Book Review] Blueprint for Revolution
• Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 2
• Tracey Davis and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Part 1
• Seattle Robot Cult
• 2021 Junk Media Resolution V2
• [Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050
• Entropy-Based Calibration will Solve the Overfitting Problem
• Ratchet Programming
• Proposal for a Bayesian Conspiracy
• The Entropy of a Dataset Obeys the Triangle Inequality
• Historical Validation Misses Black Swans
• Bayeswatch 5: Hivemind
• Re: Fierce Nerds
• Bayeswatch 4: Mousetrap
• How to compute the probability you are flipping a trick coin
• Deliberately Vague Language is Bullshit
• Zvi's Law of No Evidence
• Hypothesis Space Entropy
• The Nuclear Energy Alignment Problem
• [Writing Exercise] A Guide
• Why quantitative finance is so hard
• Bayeswatch 3: A Study in Scarlet
• Martingales
• Bayeswatch 2: Puppy Muffins
• Bayeswatch 1: Jewish Space Laser
• [Letter] Advice for High School #2
• [Letter] Advice for High School #1
• Anger
• Place-Based Programming - Part 2 - Functions
• Hell is wasted on the evil
• Training the YouTube Algorithm
• Place-Based Programming - Part 1 - Places
• I Trained a Neural Network to Play Helltaker
• Vim
• Predictive Coding has been Unified with Backpropagation
• [Book Review] Destiny Disrupted
• [Book Review] Ancillary Justice
• Conversation Exchange Statistics
• Clubhouse
• Blue is Arbitrary
• How I come up with ideas
• [Prediction] The Consequences of Radical Reform
• Contrarian Writing Advice
• The Flexibility of Abstract Concepts
• Economic Class
• We should not raise awareness
• Media Bias
• Science Fiction
• The Kelly Criterion in 3D
• Race and Nationality
• Chinese History
• The Median is Less than the Average
• This is my 100ᵗʰ post on Less Wrong
• The Economics of Media
• Sunzi's《Methods of War》- The Army's Form
• Help your rivals when they are numerous
• Reflections on "Psycho-Pass"
• [Book Review] The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
• Praying to God
• Conviction ⚖️ Skepticism
• How do you measure conformity?
• Wuwei
• The Future of Biological Warfare
• Deconditioning Aversion to Dislike
• Overconfidence
• 2021 Media Restrictions
• Logic Like a Lawyer
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 13
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 12
• The 4-Hour Social Life
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 11
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 10
• Sunzi's《Methods of War》- Planning Attacks
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 9
• Haters
• Decentralization
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 8
• Hermione Granger and Newcomb's Paradox
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 7
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 6
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 5
• The Darwin Game - Conclusion
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 4
• 12 Rules for Life
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 3
• My Fear Heuristic
• The Mutant Game - Rounds 91 to 247
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 2
• Thomas Anderson
• The Mutant Game - Rounds 31 to 90
• Matryoshka Faraday Box
• Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets - Part 1
• Success Buys Freedom
• Pain is the unit of Effort
• Evading Mind Control
• Transparent Technologies
• Manifesto of the Silent Minority
• The Mutant Game - Rounds 11 to 30
• Survey of Deviant Ideas
• The Darwin Game - Rounds 21-500
• Sunzi's《Methods of War》- War
• Sunzi's《Methods of War》- Introduction
• The Darwin Game - Rounds 10 to 20
• The Darwin Game - Rounds 3 to 9
• The Darwin Game - Rounds 1 to 2
• The Born Rule is Time-Symmetric
• Aim to explain, not persuade
• The Darwin Game - Round 1
• On the Dangers of Time Travel
• The Darwin Game - Rounds 0 to 10
• Quantum Gravity
• Developing Business Mindset
• Alpha α and Beta β
• The Darwin Game
• How to Price a Futures Contract
• Business Mindset
• Communicate Authentically
• Emptiness and Form
• Negativity
• Speak in the Positive
• Mysticism
• Feeds and Archives
• News Makes You Stupid
• [Letter] Willpower and Akrasia
• A Hierarchy of Abstraction
• Intuitive Noether Current
• 7 Months Without Junk Media
• List of Unusual Beliefs
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• Intuitive Lagrangian Mechanics
• The Illusion of Ethical Progress
• Life at Three Tails of the Bell Curve
• Life at Three Tails of the Bell Curve
• News ⊂ Advertising
• Deriving General Relativity
• [Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media: Six-Month Update
• Intuitive Lagrangian Mechanics
• Status-Regulating Emotions
• lsusr's Shortform
• Orthogonality
• Small Data
• Re: Some Heroes
• Plans for COVID-19?
• I do not like math
• I Do Not Like Math
• Forbidden Technology
• The Inefficient Market Hypothesis
• The History of Color in Chinese
• The History of Color in Chinese
• What Surprised Me About Entrepreneurship
• 3 Interview-like Algorithm Questions for Programmers
• Importing masks from China
• What I'm doing to fight Coronavirus
• 4 Kinds of Learning
• How do you do hyperparameter searches in ML?
• [Personal Experiment] Training YouTube's Algorithm
• [Book Review] The Trouble with Physics
• Defining "Antimeme"
• How to Talk About Antimemes
• The Arrows of Time
• [Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media
• Confabulation
• Symbiotic Wars
• Antimemes
• [Personal Experiment] Counterbalancing Risk-Aversion
• Indescribable
• Self-Keeping Secrets
• The Technique Taboo
• Prospecting for Conceptual Holes
• Mediums Overpower Messages
• Invisible Choices, Made by Default
• Invisible Choices, Made by Default
• Mediums Overpower Messages
• Integrating the Lindy Effect
• Integrating the Lindy Effect
• Zeno walks into a bar
• Zeno Walks Into a Bar