reading

currently reading

Antifragile
Permutation City
The Gentle Romance
The Courage to Be Disliked
Barbarian Days
Influence — Robert Cialdini
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Re-reading: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
All Paul Graham essays
Project Lawful
The Sun Also Rises

favorite articles

synced from my Readwise favorites

ai & safety

The Company Man — Tomás B.
Why America Wins — Scott Alexander
My Takeaways From AI 2027 — Scott Alexander
The Coalition Is Already Here — Nomads Vagabonds
Child's Play — Sam Kriss
How To Hide A Data Center — Jason Hausenloy
AI Auditing 2027 — Miles Brundage
Alignment By Default — johnswentworth
Intrinsic Power-Seeking — Alex Turner
ryan_greenblatt's Shortform — ryan_greenblatt
Macroeconomics is scary, but… — Eliezer Yudkowsky (tweet)
Tips On Empirical Research Slides — James Chua et al.
Tips and Code for Empirical Research Workflows — John Hughes, Ethan Perez
Explainer: How AI Chips Are Made — Peter Wildeford

rationality

Original Seeing — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Inner Goodness — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Final Words — Eliezer Yudkowsky
A Sense That More Is Possible — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Trying to Try — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The 5-Second Level — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Slack — Zvi Mowshowitz
Ugh fields — Roko
Mnestics — LessWrong
Rowing vs steering — Saul Munn
Overcoming Bias: Anthology — overcoming-bias-anthology.com
Challenging the Difficult — Rob Bensinger
Procrastination Drill — silentbob
A Curious Lack of Curiosity — Robin Hanson
Guess/Ask/Tell Culture — Eliezer Yudkowsky

memory & learning

finished books

2022

The Code Breaker
How to Change Your Mind
A Moveable Feast
Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson (a second time)
The Old Man and the Sea
The Great Gatsby
Moby Dick
Robinson Crusoe
The Bell Jar
The Innovators
Whole Earth
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Taking the Path of Zen
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
The Hidden Life of Trees

2023

The Hidden Life of Trees
The Beautiful and Damned
The Catcher in the Rye
The Sequences (in its entirety)
A Beautiful Question
Superforecasting

2024

Inadequate Equilibria
Project Hail Mary
Unsong
HPMOR
Algorithms to Live By
Replacing Guilt

2025

Red Heart
Jab Jab Jab Right Hook
Words That Work
Blueprint for Revolution
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

(Here's my bookshelf. Lmk if you ever want to borrow any!)

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