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
What you can do about AI 2027 — Eli Lifland
The Coalition Is Already Here — Nomads Vagabonds
Child's Play — Sam Kriss
The Sorry State of AI X-Risk Advocacy — Thane Ruthenis
Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk — Orpheus16
How To Hide A Data Center — Jason Hausenloy
AI Auditing 2027 — Miles Brundage
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS — Citrini
Alignment By Default — johnswentworth
Intrinsic Power-Seeking — Alex Turner
To be legible, evidence of misalignment probably has to be behavioral — ryan_greenblatt
The basic reasons I expect AGI ruin — Rob Bensinger
5 ways to improve CoT faithfulness — CBiddulph
the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated — nostalgebraist
So how well is Claude playing Pokémon? — Julian Bradshaw
Epilogue 1 - The End of the World — Royal Road
Why Don't We Just... Shoggoth+Face+Paraphraser? — Daniel Kokotajlo
How can an ordinary person prepare for AGI? — Benjamin Todd
Predictions on AI (2026–2060) — Richard Ren
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
Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Meta-Honesty: Firming Up Honesty Around Its Edge-Cases — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child — 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
Keltham's Lectures in Project Lawful — Morpheus
Rowing vs steering — Saul Munn
Propagating Facts into Aesthetics — Raemon
Towardsness & Awayness Motivation — Malcolm Ocean
The "Think It Faster" Exercise — Raemon
Overcoming Bias: Anthology — overcoming-bias-anthology.com
Challenging the Difficult — Rob Bensinger
Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable — Scott Alexander
Procrastination Drill — silentbob
Popular conceptions of "boundaries" seem wrong to me — Chris Lakin
Humans are not automatically strategic — AnnaSalamon
A Curious Lack of Curiosity — Robin Hanson
Guess/Ask/Tell Culture — Eliezer Yudkowsky
life & work
How can an ordinary person prepare for AGI? — Benjamin Todd
Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Slack — Zvi Mowshowitz
Rowing vs steering — Saul Munn
Procrastination Drill — silentbob
Popular conceptions of "boundaries" seem wrong to me — Chris Lakin
What I Worked On — Paul Graham
Do Things that Don't Scale — Paul Graham
How to Think for Yourself — Paul Graham
The Lesson to Unlearn — Paul Graham
Become a person who Actually Does Things — Neel Nanda
On Slack - Having room to be excited — Neel Nanda
The Skill of Noticing Emotions — Neel Nanda
Seek positive externalities — Neel Nanda
I created muscle tension to avoid my feelings — Chris Lakin
College Advice For People Like Me — henryj
All the best advice we could find on how to get a job — Benjamin Todd
Favorite quotes from "High Output Management" — Nina Panickssery
Why and how to write things on the Internet — benkuhn.net
Half A Month Of Consolation Writing Advice — Scott Alexander
How I do my to-dos — Steph Ango
memory & learning
Timeful Texts — Michael Nielsen
other
Who By Very Slow Decay — Scott Alexander
Style is consistent constraint — Steph Ango
How-To-Succeed-At-MrBeast-Production.pdf — MrBeast
The Bone-Chilling Evil of Factory Farming — Bentham's Bulldog
How to Twitter Successfully — near.blog
How To Increase Twitter Followers in 2025 — George Mastorakis
Let the AI Agents Organize Your Google Drive — Jason Hausenloy
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!)
