Compass Rose

Exploitation as a Turing test

Automemorial

Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale

The engineer and the diplomat

Improve comments by tagging claims

Canons (What are they good for?)

Be secretly wrong

Mic-Ra-finance and the illusion of control

On Philosophers Against Malaria

This is not what the 21st century wanted to be doing with its anxiety.

GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 6

It's crying wolf all the way down

Sample means, how do they work?

Social vs objective respect

On just not getting it

Don't panic.

Authenticity vs factual accuracy

2016 election endorsements and decisions

Matching-donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest

GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 5

Vote-trading and personal honor

On writing more

GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 4

Costs are not benefits

GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 3

GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 2

It is not a scandal that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a child onstage.

GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 1

Locker room talk

Six principles of a truth-friendly discourse

Frank Loesser and corruption in America

Increase bottleneck throughput by shortening queues?

Puppy love and cattachment theory.

Minimum viable impact purchases

Some excerpts from Catistotle's Kittycatean Ethics

Lessons learned from modeling AI takeoffs, and a call for collaboration

Yell at Mars to call swans

Why have my parents gotten wiser as I have gotten older?

Effective Altruism is not a no-brainer

Modeling intelligence as a project-specific factor of production

PSA on outing

Copernican revolutions, lordship, and bondage

Group cognition

Projects of philosophers

Backwards and in feels

Solve your problems by fantasizing

Emotional qualia are mediated by somatic responses

Reading, writing, and thinking, with your brain

Exploding the sociability binary

Admonition