12/31/2023 0 Comments Julia galef lukeI wrote in January about Think Again by Adam Grant, which discusses how to rethink your own views and details the sometimes dramatic cost-the Space Shuttle tragedies, for example-of making decisions based on false beliefs and assumptions. So it’s perhaps not surprising that there’s a wave of new books that cover how to make better decisions. (Less so perhaps for classic assembly line factory work or moving packages around a warehouse.) On this post, or any other aspect of this website.Good decision making is arguably the most critical skill for the modern knowledge worker or business leader. Created by Zach Weinersmith who recently illustrated a book written by Bryan Caplan: Open Borders.Īgain, please let me know if you think this can be added to. Brainchild of Glen Weyl and Eric Posner: a movement based around ideas in their recent book.Katja runs AI Impacts and writes about many many things in a characteristically and consistently illuminating way, often through a game-theoryish lens.Eclectic mashup of self-experimentation, cryptocurrency, statistics, psychology, fiction, and more.Endless interviews with interesting people about the tools they use.An enormous bank of documentary recommendations and reviews.Two of his many and diverse projects stand out for special consideration: Kevin Kelly is the founding editor of Wired magazine and general polymath / fascinating human.Keeps his own list of interesting people to follow here. Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and now into long-termism and lots of other things. Not quite a blog, but lots of interesting and frequently updated info to plunder.Blog is mostly startup advice and tech stuff. Former president of Y Combinator and current CEO of OpenAI (that’s some CV).Has since spent much time and energy imparting his wisdom unto the world. Worked on Lisp (God’s programming language of choice), and cofounded Y Combinator and Hacker News. Superforecasting explains what this kind of thing is about. A massive reputation-based prediction aggregator. Somewhat pushing what counts as a ‘forum’.But full of like-minded nerds and fun ideas. Not EA-oriented, but closely intersects.Origin of ‘deep work’, ‘digital minimalism’, and other buzzwords. His website also contains links to recommended articles by other authors. Productivity guru, author of the excellent Atomic Habits.Asides from anything else, this is just a really pretty site.Diane Coyle - The Enlightened Economist.The link above is specifically for his posts about EA, but all sorts of interesting things to say. Former poker pro turned cryptocurrency evangelist and effective altruist.Author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, The Case Against Education and most recently Open Borders. Prodigious creator of Ethereum, and it turns out a very prolific thinker about all things ‘cypherpunk’.Known for writing about prediction markets, signaling, brain emulation, weird social science.Trivia: Tyler became the youngest ever New Jersey state chess champion at the age of 15.Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok - Marginal Revolution.Richard Chappell - Philosophy, et cetera.Not EA-oriented either, but I have to include it because it’s amazing. Lumped in with philosophy blogs but so much more.Experimental philosophy has a shaky reputation among philosophers, but if you’re into it you’re into it.Particularly well-known for his (skeptical) views about introspection, and some research about whether philosophers of ethics are especially ethical (no, it turns out). He writes about sci-fi, some very empirically-oriented philosophy, and some experimental philosophy. Eric is a philosopher, mostly of mind, at U.Eric Schwitzgebel - The Splintered Mind.Some episodes are nearly four hours long, but it totally works. Animal consciousness, superintelligence, movie reviews, and jazz.Writes about all aspects of effective altruism. A recent series on this blog about ‘replacing guilt’ was recently recommended to me, and I found it super useful. Founder of the Foundational Research Institute. The phrase ‘welfare biology’ summarises nicely. Scrupulous and encyclopedic resource mostly about animals and ethics.Please email me if you have more suggestions. I hope someone finds this useful, and discovers at least one blog or writer they didn’t know about. Some are in fact not remotely EA related but seem to fit in with the vibe and are likely to appeal to EA types, at least to my own lights. I will revisit this and add to it when I have more to add. I thought it might be useful to organise the EA-related blogs I have discovered and enjoyed so far, roughly arranged by topic.
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