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Cool Things
Some of my favorite things, in no particular order.
Favorite Blogs / Essays:
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by Scott Alexander, especially:
Against Tulip Subsidies
Book Review: Albion's Seed
Beware the Man of One Study
I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
My Left Kidney
The Sequences
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The AI-Box Experiment
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Are Experts Real
by Alvaro de Menard
Shelling Out: The Origins of Money
by Nick Szabo
Self-Locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem
by Adam Elga
Favorite Podcasts:
Dwarkesh Patel Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
Hardcore History
(Dan Carlin)
How to Take Over the World
(Ben Wilson)
EconTalk
(Russ Roberts)
Serial (Season 1)
80,000 Hours
(Robert Wiblin)
Jocko Podcast
The Drive
(Peter Attia)
Favorite Books:
Freakonomics
by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
Superforecasting
by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
The Signal and the Noise
by Nate Silver
Bloodlands
by Timothy Snyder
The Founders
by Jimmy Soni
The Scout Mindset
by Julia Galef
Science Fictions
by Stuart Ritchie
The Emperor of All Maladies
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Malignant
by Vinay Prasad
Conscious
by Annaka Harris
The End of Faith
by Sam Harris
Waking Up
by Sam Harris
The Road to Serfdom
by F.A. Hayek
Thinking in Bets
by Annie Duke
Favorite Movies:
The Prestige
The Great Escape
Fargo
Ex Machina
End of Watch
First Man
The Social Network
Memento
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
No Country for Old Men
The Wolf of Wall Street
Pi
Primer
Europa Report
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