All posts
- An analogy between thermodynamics and economics
- Why is food so energy dense?
- Why can't an air conditioner expel heat through the power cord?
- Is fining the victims of crimes just as good as fining criminals at preventing crimes?
- Some thoughts on EA outreach to high schoolers
- Thoughts on criticism
- How good is humanity at coordination?
- Six economics misconceptions of mine which I've resolved over the last few years
- Some thoughts on deference and inside view models
- My personal cruxes for working on AI safety
- Thoughts on doing good through non-standard EA career pathways
- Three underrated science facts
- Bayes Theorem being surprisingly aggressive
- My EA forum AMA
- In what way are CNNs really biologically inspired?
- You can quickly get a sense of a field by hiring tutors who are experts in it
- Reverse physics
- Why aren't the Sun and Jupiter blurry?
- 'Other people are wrong' vs 'I am right'
- Why I'm less of a hedonic utilitarian than I used to be
- A surprisingly hard CS problem: sums of square roots
- The weirdest ideas I take seriously
- Kelly betting and Bayesian inference
- Looking at the Schrödinger equation radially
- Uncontroversial opinion: the internment of Japanese Americans was bad
- Most matter is not made of atoms
- Notes on thermal physics
- Relay programming
- A project to model some aspects of an illusionist account of consciousness
- Unaligned optimization processes as a general problem for society
- Different mechanisms by which humans follow incentives
- Would I survive in a universe made of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics?
- Ways I've changed my mind about effective altruism over the past year
- Cesar Chavez Day
- Why are less intelligent people more racist?
- Hash map implementations in practice
- Wild speculations on the balance of pain and pleasure
- A dynamic programming algorithm for the Gini coefficient
- Optimal resource allocation between manufacturing and research
- Advice on whether you should get a PhD in engineering
- Building a search engine for data structures
- Poor college graduates do much better than rich high-school dropouts
- Left-libertarianism
- Optimal redistribution with a flat tax
- Universal basic incomes disincentivise work
- The great thing about regressive taxes
- Contradictory claims in labor economics
- A mistake in the Cato institute report on risks from refugees
- Objecting to Holden Karnosfky's objections to EA
- Gini coefficient tool
- EA donation amounts
- Should we encourage price discrimination based on income?
- Printers and price discrimination
- Privilege and polite disagreement
- The Armchair Economist on moral philosophy
- Dumb ideas
- Using formatting in writing
- My advice to people about to attend bootcamps
- My advice on studying algorithms
- Counterfactual reasoning
- Do people date less if they have easy access to porn?
- Terse notes on graph algorithms
- SMS vs email responsiveness
- Testing whether two integers are different
- Hash-ordered treaps
- You should work at Triplebyte
- Studying for startup interviews with 'Cracking the Coding Interview'
- A data structure for range kth-smallest queries
- Generalized multi-quickselect
- Quickselect on multiple sorted arrays
- Quickselect on an unordered array and an order statistic tree
- Not thinking of things I can't say
- Optimize dating for non-interference with platonic relationships
- Flinching away from hard things
- My main effective altruism mistakes so far
- The dumbest algorithm problem in the entire world
- Overteaching and overlearning
- Hyperactive Record
- Data structure projects
- DxE at Stanford
- Optimize for fun when you're trying to learn
- Bleg for intro to web architecture
- For Programmers, Giving a Talk at a Conference May Be Worth $100/hr in Career Capital
- Tips for learning to play rock piano
- Poly NP
- Sets as functions
- Saving lives vs improving them
- Birthday post 2015
- Mean, median, mode
- Evaluating lifestyle interventions to reduce environmental impact
- Actuarial tables for romantic relationships?