rsaarelm's blog: Bookmarks

Probably worth noting that mathematicians have an extremely high bar for "deeply understanding." It's not like they're being dumb, the impression that I got is that making progress in number theory is actually just close to the limit of humanity's collective cognitive ability

Elements: The Least Fun Ability Tag in Video Games (reddit.com)

2022-07-16 games, gamedev, crpg

A Pattern Language For Rationality (greaterwrong.com)

2022-07-05 rationality, christopher-alexander

Let's try and understand Brian Cantwell Smith again (drossbucket.com)

2022-07-04 philosophy, computing, ai, brian-cantwell-smith

Japanese article claims that Richard Garriott DID NOT design Ultima IV. Roe R Adams was the primary designer. (reddit.com)

2022-07-03 crpg, games, ultima

Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols (robkhenderson.substack.com)

2022-06-12 social, sensemaking, politics, luxury-beliefs

Quantifying the Effects of Working in VR for One Week (arxiv.org)

2022-06-07 computing, vr, work

@Play: Omega [2] [3] [4] [5] (setsideb.com)

2022-06-07 games, roguelikes, omega

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities (greaterwrong.com)

2022-06-06 ai, alignment, doomed

How can we create healthy geniuses? (drmaciver.com)

2022-06-05 gifted, social

Book Review: Talent (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2022-06-03 books, gifted, effort

Book Review: The Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist (besharamagazine.org)

2022-06-03 cognitive, books, consciousness, iain-mcgilchrist, philosophy, rationality

How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection (quantamagazine.org)

2022-05-17 computing, math, formal-methods, tla, leslie-lamport

Learning to walk through walls (drmaciver.substack.com)

2022-05-16 rationality, will

Business Wargames: Early Complex Text Games (if50.substack.com)

2022-05-10 games, history, wargaming, plaintext

Mechanical Watch (ciechanow.ski)

2022-05-04 computing, technology, cg

permacomputing (permacomputing.net)

2022-05 computing, empowerment

Announcing an automatic theorem proving project (gowers.wordpress.com)

2022-04-28 math, formal-methods, ai, lean

𝔄 Personal Knowledge Management is Bullshit (otherlife.co)

2022-04-27 computing, notetaking, meaning

Elden Ring Is Fair and Just, Except When It Isn't [2] (bottomfeeder.substack.com)

2022-04-27 games, soulslikes

How Normiefication Causes Everyhing to Go to the Dogs (koshka.love)

2022-04-16 social, subcultures, bugmen

Co-design of dynamical systems (topos.site)

2022-04-06 math, category-theory, poly, systems

Heresy (paulgraham.com)

2022-04 politics, social, successor-ideology, the-pale

Christopher Alexander's architecture for learning (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

2022-03-23 architecture, learning, christopher-alexander

Minecraft Is Not What You Think, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Polybenzimidazole (cesspit.net)

2022-03-22 minecraft, weird

Aristocratic tutoring [2] [3] (theintrinsicperspective.com)

2022-03-16 education, gifted, tutoring

The HWFO / Jordan Hall Game B Dialogue (hwfo.substack.com)

2022-03-15 game-b

Bad alignment take bingo (with replies) (twimg.com)

2022-03-14 ai, alignment, discourse

Advice For Unwoke Academic? (astralcodexten.com)

2022-03-10 politics, academia, activism, successor-ideology

So You Want to Study Mathematics… (susanrigetti.com)

2022-03-06 learning, math, reference

Strevens on scientific explanation (thinkingcomplete.com)

2022-02-14 science, rationality, philosophy

alien intelligences (alicemaz.com)

2022-02-14 ai, weird

Heuristics That Almost Always Work (astralcodexten.substack.com)

2022-02-08 sensemaking

/r/antiwork: A Tragedy of Sanewashing and Social Gentrification (tracingwoodgrains.substack.com)

2022-02-06 computing, work, politics, internet, cursed, communities

A Song of Shapes and Words (roonscape.ai)

2022-02-03 shape-rotators, grey-tribe, sensemaking, social, iq

How to Mislead the Facts (consilienceproject.org)

2022-01-30 politics, sensemaking, gaslighting

Derationalizing [2] (sifter.org)

2022-01-25 rationality

The collapse of rational certainty (meaningness.com)

2022-01-23 rationality, meaning, modernity, science, metarationality

Predictions for 2050 (slimemoldtimemold.com)

2022-01-01 future

In Praise of Memorization (pearlleff.com)

2022 learning, spaced-repetition

Probabilistic Numerics (pdf) (probabilistic-numerics.org)

2022 computing, machine-learning, math

The Grug Brained Developer (grugbrain.dev)

2022 computing, complexity

Contexts and capabilities in Rust (gitlab.io)

2021-12-21 computing, rust, plt

The core fannish way of interacting with a story is to pretend that it’s real. (balioc.tumblr.com)

2021-12-15 fiction, worldbuilding

Smooth Voxels (glitch.me)

2021-12-11 cg, computing, voxels

DARPA's explainable AI (XAI) program: A retrospective (doi.org)

2021-12-04 ai, alignment, open-access

Optimal Strategies for Exploring Nearby Stars (centauri-dreams.org)

2021-12-03 space

No cosmic meaning (meaningness.com)

2021-11-30 rationality, meaning, cosmos, religion, metarationality

"the universe is too big to be a cosmos"

The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists” (greaterwrong.com)

2021-11-28 grey-tribe, history

Network Rot (mitigatedchaos.tumblr.com)

2021-11-20 library-of-babel, decentralized, sensemaking

𝔄 Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

2021-11-08 politics, successor-ideology, rectification-of-names

Culture matters (danluu.com)

2021-11 communities, work

Frankfurt Declaration on the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (universalprior.substack.com)

2021-10-24 cognitive, consciousness, rationality, moral-philosophy

How loud is teleportation? (tanadrin.tumblr.com)

2021-10-14 physics, worldbuilding

Six Truths About Video Game Stories (bottomfeeder.substack.com)

2021-10-13 gamedev, writing

Secure homes for digital people (sideways-view.com)

2021-10-10 transhumanism, security, uploads

OK, Socko (nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org)

2021-10-06 social, struggle-sessions, polyamory

Why I was Wrong to Demonize Rationalism (radicalxchange.org)

2021-10-05 grey-tribe

The Drunk Mormon Hypothesis (tracingwoodgrains.com)

2021-10-03 replication-crisis, politics, gaslighting

𝔄 Just taught Nozick’s Experience Machine for the hundredth time. All but one student were immediately and unreservedly in favor of entering the machine for life. Never had that happen before, rather threw off my lesson plan! (twitter.com/freganmitts)

2021-10-01 philosophy, experience-machine, doomed

On Unbeatable Video Games (residentcontrarian.substack.com)

2021-09-30 games, roguelikes, meaning

How rational is Steven Pinker’s world? (unherd.com)

2021-09-27 rationality, cultural-adaptation, politics, steven-pinker

On Solitude (eriktorenberg.substack.com)

2021-09-26 meaning, social

The Perfect Voxel Engine (voxely.net)

2021-09-18 cg, computing, gamedev, voxels

𝔄 The “burnout wave” going on is about a lot of people deciding to stop solving for money. They’ve had enough. What happens when you stop solving for money? You fuck around and find out. (twitter.com/vgr)

2021-09-09 work, burnout

The Electric Demon Hypothesis (mitigatedchaos.tumblr.com)

2021-09-09 computing, ai, demons, weird

How To Be Neurotypical: A Step By Step Guide (authenticallyemily.uk)

2021-09-07 social, shitpost

Superhero comics handbooks (threadreaderapp.com)

2021-09-05 comics, marvel

Liber Augmen (liberaugmen.com)

2021-09-02 religion, ai, rationality, transhumanism, 201, atheism, future, alignment, politics, activism

Some thoughts about raising the profile of Lisp (liam-on-linux.livejournal.com)

2021-08-31 computing, lisp, plt

𝔄 Difficulties of non-autodidacts (threadreaderapp.com)

2021-08-31 computing, learning, computational-thinking

The Rise Of User-Hostile Software (den.dev)

2021-08-23 computing, empowerment

"Circling" and nerd society (graymirror.substack.com)

2021-08-23 circling, grey-tribe, parasociality

Schema on write is better to live by (olickel.com)

2021-08-21 notetaking, organization, databases

You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation (mux.com)

2021-08-18 computing, moderation, social

Queen's Wish: The Conqueror Post-Mortem (bottomfeeder.substack.com)

2021-08-17 games, crpg

𝔄 Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity (samenright.com)

2021-08-09 books, rationality, science

Notes towards a social technology R&D lab (drmaciver.com)

2021-08-07 social-technology

Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers? (constructionphysics.substack.com)

2021-07-29 robotics, architecture

𝔄 The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles (newyorker.com)

2021-07-19 cursed, characters

Side note: this is where the gibberish magic phrase “hocus pocus” came from. (jadagul.tumblr.com)

2021-07-14 games, magic, religion, rpg

Welcome to Year Zero (wesleyyang.substack.com)

2021-07-14 politics, successor-ideology

Winston Churchill, futurist (rootsofprogress.org)

2021-07-11 future, technology

So here's a spooky parallel [2] (balioc.tumblr.com)

2021-07-07 politics, religion, successor-ideology

The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work (bbc.com)

2021-07-05 work, burnout

Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology (georgestrakhov.com)

2021-07-03 technology, weird, solarpunk

Energetic Aliens (stephenmalina.com)

2021-07-01 sleep, work

Difference between Terminal, Console, Shell, and Command Line (geeksforgeeks.org)

2021-06-29 computing, plaintext

when you have come apart (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

2021-06-28 mental-illness, medicine

Entish (github.com/etherealmachine)

2021-06-26 computing, logic-programming, games, datalog, gamedev, rpg

Rereading Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate (everythingstudies.com)

2021-06-23 sensemaking, politics, science, evolution, struggle-sessions

Source Code Readability, Elegance, and Complexity (sacrideo.us)

2021-06-16 computing, apl, complexity

How To Be An Educated Layman (srconstantin.github.io)

2021-06-09 sensemaking, science

Lorien Psychiatry: Depression (lorienpsych.com)

2021-06-05 mental-illness, depression

Motte Quality Vault (themotte.org)

2021-06 politics, struggle-sessions, successor-ideology

I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To. (theatlantic.com)

2021-05-30 work, meaning

How I taught The Iliad to Chinese teenagers (scholars-stage.org)

2021-05-30 literature, china

CodeReps: A Better Way to Communicate Geometry (ntopology.com)

2021-05-25 computing, cg

Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince” (arstechnica.com)

2021-05-24 irc, decentralized, libera

Fierce Nerds (paulgraham.com)

2021-05 social, effort, meaning, grey-tribe

What Became of Atheism? (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

2021-04-26 religion, atheism, meaning, belief-in-belief

"cranks seem to love accusing people who disagree with them of secretly knowing the truth" (jadagul.tumblr.com)

2021-04-25 sensemaking, philosophy, religion

Exploration Pattern Paralysis (crpgaddict.blogspot.com)

2021-04-24 games, gamedev, crpg, level-design

So You Want to Learn Physics... 2nd edition (susanrigetti.com)

2021-04-20 physics, learning, books

The seven programming ur-languages (madhadron.com)

2021-04-16 computing, plt

The French Departments, the History of the Grid Map of France (sensesatlas.com)

2021-04-12 math, france, geometry, cursed

TC 3-22.69 Advanced Situational Awareness (pdf) (fas.org)

2021-04 sensemaking, war

The Insanity Wolf Sanity Test (kennaway.org.uk)

2021-04 grey-tribe, weird, effort, morality

Why is AI hard and Physics simple? (arxiv.org)

2021-03-31 physics, ai, complexity

Rationalism before the Sequences (greaterwrong.com)

2021-03-30 rationality, general-semantics, history, zen, metarationality

Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality (astralcodexten.com)

2021-03-10 rationality, bayesianism, predictive-processing

The Consequences Of Radical Reform (astralcodexten.substack.com)

2021-03-09 cultural-adaptation, politics

The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius (secretorum.life)

2021-03-07 gifted

Pete Walker's Model of CPTSD (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2021-03-01 mental-health

Ultima VIII (or, How to Destroy a Gaming Franchise in One Easy Step) (filfre.net)

2021-02-19 crpg, games, ultima, cursed

Storytelling — Harmon vs. McKee (ribbonfarm.com)

2021-02-16 writing, beginners-mind

Contact with reality (joecarlsmith.com)

2021-02-14 philosophy, experience-machine, reality

Native Type Theory (arxiv.org)

2021-02-09 computing, type-theory

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Plain Text (jeremyhussell.blogspot.com)

2021-02-09 computing, falsehoods, plaintext

A Historical Look at the OSR [2] [3] [4] [5] (osrsimulacrum.blogspot.com)

2021-02-05 games, rpg, osr

If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare (arxiv.org)

2021-02-01 aliens

15 books that will leave you changed (razibkhan.com)

2021-02-01 books, history, genetics, religion, politics, language, rome, china, cultural-adaptation

A Model for Identity in Software (xeiaso.net)

2021-01-31 computing, identity

Where Have All the Great Works Gone? (scholars-stage.org)

2021-01-30 culture, value

How The Hell Do We Create General-Purpose Robots? (sergey.substack.com)

2021-01-24 ai, robotics

Lessons I’ve Learned from Self-Teaching (greaterwrong.com)

2021-01-23 learning, spaced-repetition

Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in the in industry [2] (chriskiehl.com)

2021-01-23 computing

What is going on in the world? (aleph.se)

2021-01-19 future, science, social, technology

Txtar format (go.dev)

2021-01-19 computing, plaintext

My personal information workflow [2] (simblob.blogspot.com)

2021-01-18 notetaking

An Obituary (reddit.com)

2021-01-16 oversocialization, meaning, bugmen, fiction

On the Infestation of Small-Souled Bugmen (hackernoon.com)

2021-01-15 bugmen, oversocialization, meaning, will

Everything is Broken [2] (tabletmag.com)

2021-01-14 equilibria, doomed, collapse

Man Injected Magic Mushrooms Into His Veins, And They Started To Grow In His Blood (iflscience.com)

2021-01-13 body-horror, psychedelics, weird

Tabletop RPGs, There and Back Again [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] (cesspit.net)

2021-01-12 games, crpg, gamedev, history, rpg, solo-rpg

Deadgames and Alivegames (melodicambient.neocities.org)

2021-01-10 gamedev, pink-slime

The Dream of Flight (filfre.net)

2021-01-01 flight-sims, games

Common Historical Settings / Useful Notes (tvtropes.org)

2021 worldbuilding, history

Basilisk collection (suricrasia.online)

2021 cryptography, fiction

Getting started in cognitive science (pdf) (gershmanlab.com)

2021 cognitive

Diátaxis technical document authoring (diataxis.fr)

2021 writing, learning

Systems design explains the world [2] (apenwarr.ca)

2020-12-27 computing, llms, systems

Life-Complete Problems (drmaciver.substack.com)

2020-12-23 social

Review: SAC_2045 (mitigatedchaos.tumblr.com)

2020-12-23 fiction, scifi, anime

The Long Silent Journey of Kyle Choi’s Comer (romchip.org)

2020-12-17 computing, games, outsider-cs

Comprehension of computer code relies primarily on domain-general executive brain regions (doi.org)

2020-12-15 computing, cognitive, open-access

Converting floating-point numbers to integers while preserving order (lemire.me)

2020-12-14 computing, math

Notes and Transcripts for John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (meaningcrisis.co)

2020-12-08 rationality, meaning, metarationality, john-vervaeke, meditation, philosophy, history

𝔄 Personal memory systems: a journey (2020 snapshot) (timot.cool)

2020-12-05 learning, spaced-repetition

A Faint Whiff of Lemonade (ecosophia.net)

2020-12-02 charles-fourier, history, characters, weird

How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding (andymatuschak.org)

2020-12 learning, spaced-repetition

How Apple might completely take over end users' computers (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

2020-11-27 computing, empowerment

Pain is not the unit of Effort (greaterwrong.com)

2020-11-24 rationality, effort

Working in Virtual Reality: A Review (greaterwrong.com)

2020-11-21 computing, work, vr

I should have loved biology (jsomers.net)

2020-11-17 science, systems, biology, complexity

What should you remember? SRSing your life (nintil.com)

2020-11-17 learning, spaced-repetition

A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code (arxiv.org)

2020-11-16 computing, plt, bureaucracy

[Question] Where do (did?) stable, cooperative institutions come from? (greaterwrong.com)

2020-11-04 social, politics, organizations

Great Founder Theory (pdf) (samoburja.com)

2020-11 business, organizations, politics, will, bureaucracy, stagnation, mazes

How to Think for Yourself (paulgraham.com)

2020-11 rationality

sectorlisp (github.com/jart)

2020-10-27 computing, lisp, minimalism

Merriam-Webster dictionary updates 'sexual preference' entry after Amy Coney Barrett hearing (usatoday.com)

2020-10-15 politics, rectification-of-names, datapoint

But. Some of the no-cloning stuff sounds suspiciously like our intuitions about upload ethics when we’re not “biting the bullet,” as the Eclipse Phase setting does. (mitigatedchaos.tumblr.com)

2020-10-08 fiction, transhumanism, physics, scifi, worldbuilding, uploads, quantum-physics

IPFS Free Library (freeread.org)

2020-10-01 ipfs, decentralized, books

The Four Quadrants of Conformism (paulgraham.com)

2020-10 rationality, social, politics

Why Most Intellectuals Are Not “Conservative” (gnxp.com)

2020-09-30 politics, cultural-adaptation, conservatism

Would it be possible to mount a working minigun onto the saddle of a tyrannosaurid dinosaur? (stackexchange.com)

2020-09-25 worldbuilding, dinosaurs, guns

Three Ways to Uncover Your Natural Awareness (lionsroar.com)

2020-09-14 meditation, nonduality

A Whole Bunch of Ways to Think About Emptiness (rationaldharma.com)

2020-09-13 meditation, nonduality, reality

The CRPG Project (keithburgun.net)

2020-09-12 games, gamedev, crpg, immersive-sims

A Taxonomy of Magic (balioc.tumblr.com)

2020-09-08 worldbuilding, fiction, magic

A Deep Dive into K-pop (mattlakeman.org)

2020-09-06 effort, k-pop, media, cursed

Point deer call horse (upenn.edu)

2020-08-30 politics, rhetoric, rectification-of-names

Introduction to the Infra-Bayesianism Sequence (greaterwrong.com)

2020-08-26 rationality, bayesianism, decision-theory

I’ve discovered that almost every single article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots (reddit.com)

2020-08-25 wikipedia, drama

Notes: Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee (ribbonfarm.com)

2020-08-24 fiction, scifi, history, heinlein

What You Learned Before You Were Born (entirelyuseless.com)

2020-08-08 philosophy, evolution, ai

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels (interactionmagic.com)

2020-08 computing, ui, design

𝔄 This incapacity makes the nerds "socially awkward" and leads them to build small enclaves (like "science" or "tech") where people mostly don't lie, so machines work. (threadreaderapp.com)

2020-07-30 social, rationality, grey-tribe

Be impatient (benkuhn.net)

2020-07-23 rationality, work, friction

On the Full Plate Threshold and the Nature of Money (sirpoley.tumblr.com)

2020-07-22 games, rpg

Using a memory palace to memorize a textbook (greaterwrong.com)

2020-07-19 learning, mnemonics

The Enlightenment Interviews (knowingless.com)

2020-07-15 meditation, enlightenment

Learning to use the system (drmaciver.com)

2020-07-10 computing, version-control, learning, empowerment, sensemaking, math, git

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate (harpers.org)

2020-07-07 politics, liberalism, media, struggle-sessions, datapoint

Sivad's Question (fanfiction.net)

2020-07-05 fiction, garfield

Staying Sane While Taking Ideas Seriously [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] (greaterwrong.com)

2020-06-27 rationality

Words Fail (carcinisation.com)

2020-06-26 philosophy, sensemaking

A Satisfactory Way of Building [2] (aphyr.com)

2020-06-20 architecture, games, systems

The New Axial Age (noemamag.com)

2020-06-17 transhumanism, religion, meaning, axial-age

Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop Along Arbitrary Computation Graphs (arxiv.org)

2020-06-07 computing, predictive-processing, machine-learning

UI Designs for Caves of Qud (behance.net)

2020-06-05 computing, caves-of-qud, gamedev, ui

Book Review: Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (slatestarcodex.com)

2020-06-01 cognitive, books, consciousness, bicameral-mind

Burnout as Acedia (drmaciver.substack.com)

2020-05-25 burnout, effort

Bits of History, Words of Advice (gbracha.blogspot.com)

2020-05-24 computing, smalltalk, history

The Rage of Research (posthaven.com)

2020-05-24 learning, science, sensemaking

Mazes Sequence Summary (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2020-05-23 work, meaning, mazes

Musings on A New Interface for Mathematics (jeremykun.com)

2020-05-17 computing, math, rationality

Notes on Acedia (drmaciver.com)

2020-05-16 effort, burnout

Mindfulness, and the Difference Between Attention and Awareness (rationaldharma.com)

2020-05-14 meditation

My current obsession: funding for research (rootsofprogress.org)

2020-05-14 science, funding

Studies on Slack (slatestarcodex.com)

2020-05-12 equilibria, evolution, group-selection, moloch, slack, social, systems, theory-of-firm

Morphic Anti-Resonance (multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com)

2020-05-12 physics, weird, psi

The Most Important Piece of Knowledge (fakenous.substack.com)

2020-05-09 rationality, science, reality

Poly: An abundant categorical setting for mode-dependent dynamics (arxiv.org)

2020-05-05 math, category-theory, poly, systems

𝔄 Dungeons, Jaquays and the Mythic Underworld (stephenpsmith.com)

2020-04-29 games, rpg, osr, underworld

Type-level Programming in Rust (willcrichton.net)

2020-04-24 computing, rust, type-theory

𝔄 The Face of Obligation (alisonair.wordpress.com)

2020-04-23 fiction, rationality, scrupulosity, the-northern-caves, weird, will

Chemistry in Pictures: Drop & Run (acs.org)

2020-04-22 science, cursed

Seedling: A Programming Language for Everyone and Everything (github.com/nagydani)

2020-04-16 computing, plt, bootstrapping

Confessions of a Transhumanist: On Life in Known Space (hivewired.wordpress.com)

2020-04-06 transhumanism, social, will, eve-online

Arai-san Mansion (imgur.com)

2020-04-03 art, kemono-friends

A Meditator's Guide to the Neuroscience of Attention (rationaldharma.com)

2020-03-22 cognitive, meditation, neuroscience

Against Dog Ownership (mattlakeman.org)

2020-03-21 morality, meaning, animals

Do You Feel Lonely? (palladiummag.com)

2020-03-09 atomization, politics

MSNBC's Brian Williams, NYT's Mara Gay Agree Bloomberg Could Have Given Each American $1 Million With Money He Spent (realclearpolitics.com)

2020-03-06 math, politics, media

Terminal Vision (aelkus.github.io)

2020-03-06 computing, plaintext

𝔄 Vorhandenheit und Zuhandenheit (autisticmercury.com)

2020-02-19 social, heidegger, 4chan, effort, will

What can we learn from the perennial philosophy of Aldous Huxley (aeon.co)

2020-02-19 religion, perennialism

Defensiveness, Politeness, and the Presumption of Hostility (srconstantin.github.io)

2020-02-18 social

Jan Bloch's Impossible War (hivewired.wordpress.com)

2020-02-17 war, rationality, history, general-semantics

The reality of the lizard people (esr.ibiblio.org)

2020-02-15 politics, sensemaking, social, reptilians, sociopaths

Why Rust (xeiaso.net)

2020-02-15 computing, rust

Category Theory Without The Baggage (greaterwrong.com)

2020-02-03 math, category-theory

Confessions of an Ex Philosopher (write.as)

2020-02-03 philosophy, diseased-discipline

11 Reasons Not to Become Famous - Tim Ferriss (tim.blog)

2020-02-02 social, doomed, friction, dark-forest

Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Go Next (nngroup.com)

2020-02-02 computing, web, sensemaking, cognitive, ui

Book Review: Human Compatible (slatestarcodex.com)

2020-01-31 ai, books, alignment, stuart-russell

A taxonomy of bullshit jobs (balioc.tumblr.com)

2020-01-30 work, meaning

OK Doomer (aelkus.github.io)

2020-01-30 games, doom

Public Intellectuals Have Short Shelf Lives - But Why? (scholars-stage.org)

2020-01-29 sensemaking

Pixel Art Tutorial - Derek Yu [2] (derekyu.com)

2020-01-28 gamedev, art

The real world is mutable (and consequences for system design) (utoronto.ca)

2020-01-26 computing, decentralized, law

Book Review Review: Little Soldiers (slatestarcodex.com)

2020-01-22 books, education, china, effort

What Is Gender Identity? (medium.com/arc-digital)

2020-01-14 politics, gender, rectification-of-names

The Communicative Value of Using Git Well (jeremykun.com)

2020-01-14 computing, version-control, 101, git

What Intellectual Progress Did I Make in the 2010s? (slatestarcodex.com)

2020-01-08 ai, rationality, predictive-processing, psychedelics, mental-illness, effort, alignment

AlgebraicJulia (algebraicjulia.org)

2020 math, computing, julia, category-theory

Doesn’t everybody jaywalk? On codified rules that are seldom followed and selectively punished 🔒 (doi.org)

2020 sociology, phantom-rules, law

Canceled People (canceledpeople.org)

2020 struggle-sessions, datapoint

Powered by the Apocalypse [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] (lumpley.games)

2019-12-30 games, rpg

Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (benkuhn.net)

2019-12-08 academia, doomed, effort

Fire, Water, and Numbers (entirelyuseless.com)

2019-12-05 reality, philosophy, max-tegmark, math

Game B (gameb.wiki)

2019-12-05 game-b, social

Disappearing polymorphs (wikipedia.org)

2019-11-28 chemistry, weird

Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything (opentheory.net)

2019-11-27 meditation, predictive-processing

das ist ein Game-Boy Advance (distractify.com)

2019-11-18 technology, cursed

Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors (guzey.com)

2019-11-15 sleep, science

𝔄 pictured: not the territory (twitter.com/chaosprime)

2019-11-10 meaning, the-shadow, rationality

Taichi: A Language for High-Performance Computation on Spatially Sparse Data Structures (pdf) (taichi.graphics)

2019-11-08 cg, computing, voxels

Korean Education: A View from the Trenches (reddit.com)

2019-11-08 education, korea

The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567) (publicdomainreview.org)

2019-11-05 art, lorenz-stoer, math

Parse, don’t validate (lexi-lambda.github.io)

2019-11-05 computing

Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating (netmeister.org)

2019-11-01 computing, falsehoods

New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed [2] [3] (slatestarcodex.com)

2019-10-30 religion, politics, atheism, morality, struggle-sessions, successor-ideology

The Varieties Of The Technological Control Problem (aelkus.github.io)

2019-10-26 ai, technology, alignment, systems

Leninthink (newcriterion.com)

2019-10-26 politics, doomed, communism, who-whom

Beating C with 80 lines of Haskell: wc (chrispenner.ca)

2019-10-15 computing, c, haskell

Things worth memorizing? (reddit.com)

2019-10-14 learning, spaced-repetition

The Bel Language (turbifycdn.com)

2019-10-12 computing, plt, lisp

UE4: What is BSP and When Should You Use It? [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] (worldofleveldesign.com)

2019-10-07 cg, computing, gamedev, csg, level-design, architecture, modeling

Von Wokenstein's Monster [2] (mitigatedchaos.tumblr.com)

2019-10-01 politics

The gender syllogism:

Men and women are equal at all good things.

Men are uniquely violent and/or oppressive.

Then, men are inferior to women (worse downside for the same upside).

How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (numinous.productions)

2019-10 learning, computing, spaced-repetition, empowerment

Sorry macOS users, but Apple has gone too far for some of us devs (gridsagegames.com)

2019-09-29 gamedev, apple

Mathematics as a Cultural Force (longreads.com)

2019-09-27 math, history, sensemaking

Orger: plaintext reflection of your digital self (beepb00p.xyz)

2019-09-26 computing, notetaking, plaintext

Gotta Go Fast (aelkus.github.io)

2019-09-06 rationality, john-boyd, ooda

The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2019-09-06 math, x-risk, probability, future, technology, doomed, open-access

How I Escaped from the Superclusters (rintrah.nl)

2019-09-01 computing, fiction, internet, politics, audience-capture

How to Make a Memex (srconstantin.github.io)

2019-08-28 computing, notetaking, roam

Starwink (elcenia.com)

2019-08-27 fiction, ai, transhumanism, scifi, singularity, alignment, uploads, aliens

You Will Forget, You Have Forgotten (knowingless.com)

2019-08-17 psychedelics, sensemaking

Your ideology – if it gets off the ground at all (balioc.tumblr.com)

2019-08-14 social, politics, subcultures, doomed

𝔄 Between Appendix N and Pink Slime (brainleakage.com)

2019-08-13 games, fiction, rpg, appendix-n, pink-slime

Career review: Philosophy academia (80000hours.org)

2019-08-07 academia, effective-altruism, philosophy

PGP - The Web of Trust is Dead (inversegravity.net)

2019-08-06 cryptography, decentralized, social, library-of-babel, doomed

For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the Familia Toledo (news.ycombinator.com)

2019-07-30 computing, familia-toledo, weird

A study guide for human society (scholars-stage.org)

2019-07-29 history

Book Notes - Strategy: A History (scholars-stage.org)

2019-07-16 books, military, history, politics

Some preliminaries: ngöndro (vividness.live)

2019-07-05 meditation, dzogchen

Moving off the Map: How Knowledge of Organizational Operations Empowers and Alienates (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2019-06-26 business, mazes, systems, social, work, doomed

As part of the map-building process, employees were invited to identify their role on the map and to indicate how it was connected to other roles through either inputs or outputs. Team members recounted that it was difficult to observe employees “go through a real emotional struggle when they see that what they are doing is not really adding value or that what they are doing is really disconnected from what they thought they were doing.” In one case, a finance manager noticed that his role was on the wall but that it was not connected to any other role on the wall. He had been producing financial reports and sending them to several departments because he understood them to be crucial for their decision-making process; however, no one had identified his work as an input to theirs. This realization was, in the end,

devastating for him. He was on the verge of tears... at first, he became very argumentative and was trying to convince people that you go from this Post-it note down here to mine. [Other employees explained] Well no, we don’t do that. It was a two-hour conversation. And he finally sat down, and he said, so why am I doing this? It was devastating.

The Internet Hate Machine (hivewired.wordpress.com)

2019-06-24 struggle-sessions

Three Are The Beliefs By Which Death Will Be Defeated (jdpressman.com)

2019-06-16 rationality, metarationality, religion, trust, meaning, doomed

I think Kaczynski ignorance of technological history is what does him in here, as exemplified by the story of the chimney. (reddit.com)

2019-06-10 ted-kaczynski, meaning, work, technology, motorcycle-zen

Who Goes Nazi? Brooklyn Edition (tumblr.com/bigtittyhimmler-blog)

2019-06-09 struggle-sessions, shitpost, funny

The inside-outness of category theory (plover.com)

2019-06-08 math, category-theory

Treasure Hunting Systems Found in the History of Video Games (probablydance.com)

2019-06-08 games, modding, gamedev

Steelmanning Divination (greaterwrong.com)

2019-06-06 rationality, magic, metarationality

Book Review: The Secret of Our Success (slatestarcodex.com)

2019-06-04 books, cultural-adaptation

Galactic algorithm (wikipedia.org)

2019-05-21 computing

Mimetic traps (briantimar.com)

2019-05-19 work, meaning, physics, academia, girard, burnout, mazes

[Zen] Falling with Style, a Shikantaza Manifesto (reddit.com)

2019-05-18 meditation, shikantaza, nonduality

A guide to Rust graphics libraries 2019 (alopex.li)

2019-05 computing, rust, gamedev, cg

A brief history of liquid computers (doi.org)

2019-04-22 computing, physics, open-access

Why I left philosophy (deponysum.com)

2019-04-20 philosophy, academia, diseased-discipline

𝔄 Listening at the Great Awokening (areomagazine.com)

2019-04-17 politics, successor-ideology, academia, struggle-sessions

Where to Draw the Boundaries? [2] [3] (greaterwrong.com)

2019-04-14 rationality, thingspace

The Mathematics of Text Structure (arxiv.org)

2019-04-06 math, category-theory, language

Appendix D: Dungeon Master Inspiration (antifandom.com)

2019-04-04 fiction, appendix-n

How do you feel about the religion discourse (shieldfoss.tumblr.com)

2019-04-01 religion, rationality, sensemaking

Cursed problems in game design (pdf) (amazonaws.com)

2019-03-22 gamedev, design

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uE6-vIi1rQ

Book Review: Inventing the Future (slatestarcodex.com)

2019-03-18 politics, books, economics, communism, ubi

Notes on the Einstein Fandom (redantsunderneath.tumblr.com)

2019-03-17 physics, social, beginners-mind

The Bitter Lesson (incompleteideas.net)

2019-03-13 ai, bitter-lesson

Under-Toronto (medium.com/@adamwinfield)

2019-03-05 fiction, politics

YA Twitter's Victims and Critics Speak Out [2] [3] [4] (jessesingal.substack.com)

2019-03-04 writing, struggle-sessions

What are some good tiny projects for learning a language or technique? (lobste.rs)

2019-02-26 computing, exercises

How to Find Frontiers (pcmonk.me)

2019-02-19 computing, sensemaking, history, stagnation

On “local” and “global” errors in mathematical papers, and how to detect them (terrytao.wordpress.com)

2019-02-15 math

When 19th-Century Spiritualists Believed a "God Machine" Would Save Humanity (mentalfloss.com)

2019-02-13 religion, weird, characters

Appendix N: Inspirational and Educational Reading (antifandom.com)

2019-02-02 fiction, appendix-n

Dotfile madness (0x46.net)

2019-02-01 computing, organization

Book Trilogy Review: Rembrance of Earth's Past (The Three Body Problem) (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2019-01-30 fiction, books, dark-forest, scifi, china, politics

Marsaglia's Mental RNG (programmingpraxis.com)

2019-01-29 learning, math, mnemonics

What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years — and fail (thehustle.co)

2019-01-26 business, cursed, technology

Why Don't People Use Formal Methods? (hillelwayne.com)

2019-01-21 formal-methods, computing

Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics (cognitivemedium.com)

2019-01-12 learning, math, spaced-repetition

Paradigms All the Way Down (slatestarcodex.com)

2019-01-10 rationality, science, metarationality

Qohelet's Ossuary (samzdat.com)

2019 history, archeology

everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (ʞ.cc)

2019 computing, plaintext

Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology (collapseos.org)

2019 computing, forth, outsider-cs, prepping, bootstrapping

RefPerSys, a free software symbolic artificial general intelligence project (refpersys.org)

2019 computing, ai, outsider-cs, plt

When Is Meditation Non-Meditation? (dpr.info)

2018-12-21 meditation

there is no chance that any useful man+machine combination will work together for more than 10 years, as humans soon will be only a liability (greaterwrong.com)

2018-12-15 ai, alignment, chess, work, meaning

Player vs. Character (srconstantin.github.io)

2018-12-15 rationality

Cozy Kingdoms Generation (thingonitsown.blogspot.com)

2018-12-05 gamedev, procgen

Book Review: Evolutionary Psychopathology (slatestarcodex.com)

2018-12-03 books, mental-illness

Playing Politics (srconstantin.github.io)

2018-12-02 politics, rationality, social

Forever and Again: Necessary Conditions for “Quantum Immortality” and its Practical Implications (doi.org)

2018-12 philosophy, quantum-immortality, open-access

Book Review: The Mind Illuminated (slatestarcodex.com)

2018-11-28 books, meditation

The Pseudo-Time Arrow: Explaining Phenomenal Time With Implicit Causal Structures In Networks Of Local Binding (qualiacomputing.com)

2018-11-28 cognitive, philosophy, psychedelics, time, weird

D-Day: three monster wargames (cesspit.net)

2018-11-24 games, wargaming

Dialog (linusakesson.net)

2018-11-22 computing, games, interactive-fiction, gamedev, logic-programming, inform-7, lisp

My gamedever wishlist for Rust (rust-lang.org)

2018-11-21 computing, gamedev, rust

Is Clickbait Destroying Our General Intelligence? (greaterwrong.com)

2018-11-17 clickbait, culture

Human Readable Archive (.hrx) (github.com/google)

2018-11-14 computing, plaintext

Wireheading as a Possible Contributor to Civilizational Decline (greaterwrong.com)

2018-11-12 transhumanism, wireheading, doomed, great-filter

How the GOP Gave Up on Porn (politico.com)

2018-11-11 politics, history

Rationality Is Not Systematized Winning (thelastrationalist.com)

2018-11-10 rationality

I support the opposite perspective—it was wrong to ever focus on individual winning and we should drop the slogan. (greaterwrong.com)

2018-11-06 grey-tribe, rationality

Why is the Fight for Free Speech Led by the Psychologists? (scholars-stage.org)

2018-11-05 politics, psychology, critical-theory, jonathan-haidt

Treasure Hunting (ribbonfarm.com)

2018-11-02 religion, mormons, buddhism, weird

Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry (vgdensetsu.tumblr.com)

2018-11-01 computing, gamedev, cg, japan

The No Genies Conjecture (drmaciver.com)

2018-10-31 computing, ai, ui, alignment

Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People (reddit.com)

2018-10-27 computing, sensemaking, social, internet

Schools Proliferating Without Practitioners (thelastrationalist.com)

2018-10-25 rationality, grey-tribe, replication-crisis, metis

MLP: Immanetizing The Equestrian (gwern.net)

2018-10-24 social, tv, ponies, subcultures

OOP is dead, long live OOP (gamedev.net)

2018-10-19 gamedev, ecs

How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (twobithistory.org)

2018-10-14 computing, lisp

Eliezer Yudkowsky vs. The Sequences (thelastrationalist.com)

2018-10-13 grey-tribe

The secret intellectual history of mathematics (aeon.co)

2018-10-11 math, philosophy

The Big List of RPG Plots (rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com)

2018-10-11 games, gamedev, rpg

Things I Learned From Working With A Marketing Advisor (srconstantin.github.io)

2018-10-09 business, design

Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer (medium.com/hackernoon)

2018-10-08 computing, exercises

Number Punchers: How Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest handle combat math (gamedeveloper.com)

2018-10-04 games, crpg

The Rocket Alignment Problem (intelligence.org)

2018-10-03 ai, alignment, discourse

Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise? (news.ycombinator.com)

2018-09-30 sensemaking

Atiyah's lecture on the Riemann Hypothesis (reddit.com)

2018-09-24 math, sensemaking

Falling in love with Rust (dtrace.org)

2018-09-18 computing, rust

𝔄 The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0 (medium.com/s)

2018-09-14 social, politics, subcultures

Using Rust for Game Development (kyren.github.io)

2018-09-14 computing, rust, gamedev

Book review: The Doomsday Machine (eukaryotewritesblog.com)

2018-09-09 technology, books, cold-war, nuclear

The Scent of Bad Psychology (putanumonit.com)

2018-09-07 replication-crisis, science

Adversarial Collaboration: Are Islam and Liberal Democracy Compatible? (slatestarcodex.com)

2018-09-05 politics, religion

Polanyi's paradox (wikipedia.org)

2018-09-04 rationality, metarationality

Adversarial Collaboration: Does the Education System Adequately Serve Advanced Students? (slatestarcodex.com)

2018-09-04 education, gifted

nostalgebraist's review of The Book of Why (goodreads.com)

2018-09-03 books, causality

Tradition is Smarter Than You Are (scholars-stage.org)

2018-08-27 cultural-adaptation, joseph-henrich

Introduction to eikosograms (r-project.org)

2018-08-21 math, probability

𝔄 The Forgotten Story of How "Punching Up" Harmed the Science-Fiction/Fantasy (quillette.com)

2018-08-18 social, subcultures, struggle-sessions, requireshate

Why we need a new word for "lazy" (juliagalef.com)

2018-08-16 effort, morality

1/0 = 0 (hillelwayne.com)

2018-08-10 computing, math, plt

Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible (guzey.com)

2018-08-07 work, akrasia, effort

Who Wants The Job? (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2018-07-22 rationality, work, social

A Bridge too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic (vanemden.wordpress.com)

2018-07-21 dijkstra, computing, logic, drama

False Dawn (isi.org)

2018-07-20 politics, books, steven-pinker, liberalism

Centuries Ago The Dark Lord: when and how to dump (weatherfactory.biz)

2018-07-19 gamedev, worldbuilding, writing, pink-slime

𝔄 Linkola, Montana (jacobitemag.com)

2018-07-19 nature, politics, ted-kaczynski, pentti-linkola

The Kek Wars [2] [3] [4] (ecosophia.net)

2018-07-18 politics, magic, egregores

30 Fundamentals (everythingstudies.com)

2018-07-16 politics, rationality, science, liberalism

Interview with Dr. Thomas Biskup, Creator of ADOM (rodneylives.blogspot.com)

2018-07-10 games, roguelikes, adom

𝔄 Catholicism and the Gravity of Horror (jacobitemag.com)

2018-07-05 fiction, religion, horror, weird, mark-fisher

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (pdf) (cses.fi)

2018-07-03 computing, competitive-programming

The Importance of Having Your Pain Be Legible (status451.com)

2018-07-01 social, victimhood-culture, the-pale, moderation, politics, grey-tribe

Augmenting Long-term Memory (augmentingcognition.com)

2018-07 learning, spaced-repetition

How to read (robertheaton.com)

2018-06-25 learning, spaced-repetition

Book Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (slatestarcodex.com)

2018-06-24 books, economics, rent-seeking

Postmodernism vs. The Pomoid Cluster (everythingstudies.com)

2018-06-21 postmodernism, sensemaking, politics

Tales from Underwater (status451.com)

2018-06-18 social, mental-illness, weird

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox (arxiv.org)

2018-06-06 fermi-paradox, drake-equation, space, aliens, bayesianism

Circumscription: a logical farce (metarationality.com)

2018-06-03 rationality, logic, metarationality, ai, frame-problem

The Defeat of Reason (bostonreview.net)

2018-06-01 physics, books, philosophy, reality, quantum-physics, thomas-kuhn, suppression

Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? (twobithistory.org)

2018-05-27 computing, semantic-web

In Defense of Virtue Ethics (dendwrite.blogspot.com)

2018-05-26 morality, virtue-ethics

The Forgotten '80s Home Robots Trend (tedium.co)

2018-05-24 robotics, weird

𝔄 “It Has Come to My Attention…” How Institutional Complaints Procedures are Being Weaponized (quillette.com)

2018-05-24 science, peer-review, politics, statistics, suppression

In Which I Explore a Build-Break Model (sophiegrouchy.wordpress.com)

2018-05-22 social, will

How did music become so unimportant? (getintothis.co.uk)

2018-05-18 culture, music, post-scarcity

Becoming the Trashcan of Ideology (gravitylobby.club)

2018-05-03 economics, georgism

Why Economics Is, And Should Be, Creepy (overcomingbias.com)

2018-05-02 economics, rationality, high-decoupling

Shame & Society (hotelconcierge.tumblr.com)

2018-05-02 social, esoteric

Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual (firstthings.com)

2018-05-01 sensemaking, meaning, research, work, will

Book Review: History of The Fabian Society (slatestarcodex.com)

2018-04-30 politics, books, liberalism, history

A Deep Dive into the Harris-Klein Controversy (everythingstudies.com)

2018-04-26 iq, high-decoupling, politics, sensemaking

Review of Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education (scottaaronson.blog)

2018-04-26 books, education, signalling, politics, doomed

Ten Commandments for Aspiring Superforecasters (greaterwrong.com)

2018-04-25 sensemaking, rationality, forecasting

Wrongology 101 (srconstantin.github.io)

2018-04-24 politics, social, cursed

How the Internet Turned Bad (hackernoon.com)

2018-04-18 computing, internet, social, sociopaths, doomed, communities

The Case Against Education [2] [3] (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2018-04-15 books, education, signalling, iq, politics, doomed

Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult (aeon.co)

2018-04-09 struggle-sessions, sensemaking

Democracy Scales Are Still Bad, and Four Panicked Suggestions (samzdat.com)

2018-04-08 sensemaking, politics

Privilege for Rationalists: Things To Try (gemcode.dreamwidth.org)

2018-04-07 social, politics, the-pale

Deep Laziness (ribbonfarm.com)

2018-04-06 slack, systems, social

𝔄 The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete. Here's What's Next (theatlantic.com)

2018-04-05 computing, science, notebooks, stephen-wolfram

𝔄 What is 'Gender Ideology'? (jacobitemag.com)

2018-04-04 politics, gender, successor-ideology

Just a Whole Bunch of Different Tests (hillelwayne.com)

2018-04-02 computing

Summary of Kegan Stage 5 Principles (theoryengine.org)

2018-04 rationality, kegan, metarationality, play

Pro-Civilization and the New Right (jacobexmachina.blogspot.com)

2018-03-31 politics, sensemaking, liberalism

The successes and failures of conceptual analysis (bayes.net)

2018-03-30 philosophy, sensemaking

Viridian revisited: An interview with Bruce Sterling (greenbiz.com)

2018-03-30 bruce-sterling, solarpunk

𝔄 Amnesiac Nostalgia (jacobitemag.com)

2018-03-28 religion, meaning

The UK Street Grooming Scandals: How the Left has Failed in its Responsibilities (medium.com/@TheWakeful)

2018-03-28 politics, crime

Words Matter (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

2018-03-27 psychotherapy, language, rationality

Book Review: Twelve Rules For Life (slatestarcodex.com)

2018-03-26 books, jordan-peterson, morality, social, religion

Enter a search term, e.g. “democracy” (samzdat.com)

2018-03-26 politics, sensemaking

𝔄 Why You Should Place Limits on Fast Travel (lycheelabs.net)

2018-03-23 games, gamedev, crpg, worldbuilding

My Grand Theory of Jordan Peterson (scholars-stage.org)

2018-03-23 jordan-peterson, meaning, morality

My worldview in 5 books (lukemuehlhauser.com)

2018-03-22 rationality, sensemaking

Naming the Nameless (srconstantin.github.io)

2018-03-22 social, legitimacy, design

Musings on LessWrong Peer Review (greaterwrong.com)

2018-03-18 rationality, moderation

𝔄 We're Teaching Grit the Wrong Way (chronicle.com)

2018-03-18 education, social, effort

Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter (allarsblog.com)

2018-03-16 gamedev, business, management

The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge (greaterwrong.com)

2018-03-15 common-knowledge, rationality

Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory (arxiv.org)

2018-03-14 math, category-theory, systems

The Future of Leisure (democracyjournal.org)

2018-03-12 work, meaning

Six Kinds of Reading (everythingstudies.com)

2018-03-12 learning, sensemaking

𝔄 A Liberal who Remembers (areomagazine.com)

2018-03-11 politics, history, liberalism, successor-ideology

𝔄 "Empathy Culture" (victimhoodculture.com)

2018-03-10 struggle-sessions, victimhood-culture

The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution (arxiv.org)

2018-03-09 ai, evolution, technology

The Steampunk Aesthetic (greaterwrong.com)

2018-03-08 reality, abstraction, objects, sailing, value, motorcycle-zen

Everything is Going According to Plan (samzdat.com)

2018-03-07 religion, doomed, value, meaning, atheism, philosophy

𝔄 The Wasteful Game that We Have to Play (jacobitemag.com)

2018-03-07 education, signalling, bryan-caplan

A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars (ribbonfarm.com)

2018-03-06 politics

God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy (slatestarcodex.com)

2018-03-05 karl-friston, predictive-processing, math

𝔄 There is No Case for Humanities (chronicle.com)

2018-03-04 academia, politics, humanities

Sacred Cash (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2018-03-03 economics, slack, meaning

Luxuriating in Privacy (ribbonfarm.com)

2018-03-01 social, meaning

Meta-tations on Moderation: Towards Public Archipelago (greaterwrong.com)

2018-02-25 grey-tribe, moderation

The Basic Toolbox (regehr.org)

2018-02-22 computing, learning

On Mars (tanadrin.tumblr.com)

2018-02-21 space

Novelty Requries Explanation (drmaciver.com)

2018-02-17 rationality, science

Futures of distributions (joeyh.name)

2018-02-17 computing, foss

Spamming Micro-Intentions to Generate Willpower (greaterwrong.com)

2018-02-13 work, will

Advice for First Time Founders (ycombinator.com)

2018-02-12 business

Low rate loans for ladies, stags pay extra (pdf) (chrisstucchio.com)

2018-02-09 ai, politics, sensemaking, san-francisco-values

𝔄 Increase Interactivity by "Shrinking" Your Game (lycheelabs.net)

2018-02-09 gamedev

UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction (arxiv.org)

2018-02-09 computing, math, machine-learning, category-theory

A practical application of category theory

The Cranky Developer Manifesto (dev.to)

2018-02-08 computing, slack, play

“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback (greaterwrong.com)

2018-02-06 social, rationality

𝔄 A practitioner’s guide to reading programming languages papers (acolyer.org)

2018-01-26 computing, plt, research

The problem with "critical" studies (utoronto.ca)

2018-01-26 postmodernism, politics

How to study (buffalo.edu)

2018-01-25 learning

Shell, Shield, Staff (squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

2018-01-25 rationality, social

NO_COLOR (no-color.org)

2018-01-24 computing, plaintext

Conflict Vs. Mistake (slatestarcodex.com)

2018-01-24 sensemaking, politics

Cozy Games (lostgarden.com)

2018-01-24 gamedev, architecture

Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (tedinski.com)

2018-01-23 computing, objects

I have seen a lot of talk lately about work, idleness, UBI, jobs programs, and the like. (balioc.tumblr.com)

2018-01-23 ubi, meaning, work

Statebox: A Universal Language of Distributed Systems (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

2018-01-22 computing, plt, systems

Professional Haskellers: What are your major pain points? (reddit.com)

2018-01-21 computing, haskell

Book Review: The Secrets of Alchemy (greaterwrong.com)

2018-01-21 rationality, books, magic, weird, demarcation-problem, metarationality

The cost of games (raphkoster.com)

2018-01-17 gamedev, business, doomed

I don’t trust people whose metaphysics are weirder than their politics. (tumblr.com/raggedjackscarlet)

2018-01-16 rationality, politics, weird

Computational Quadrinitarianism (Curious Correspondences go Cubical) (comonad.com)

2018-01-16 math, computing, type-theory, category-theory, hott

This Review is not about reviewing The Elephant in the Brain (nintil.com)

2018-01-16 social, signalling

𝔄 Improving Ourselves to Death (newyorker.com)

2018-01-15 meaning, effort, doomed

Why I am not a New Atheist (gnxp.com)

2018-01-11 religion, atheism, politics

The Earth is Flat (bartoszmilewski.com)

2018-01-11 math, science, sensemaking, category-theory

𝔄 Postmodernism Isn’t Playing Around Anymore (areomagazine.com)

2018-01-08 postmodernism, politics, philosophy, play

𝔄 Ultraviolent4's Guide to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (ultraviolent4.com)

2018-01-07 games, roguelikes

On a Particularly Difficult Question [2] (samzdat.com)

2018-01-07 math, philosophy

Instant stone (just add water!) [2] (rootsofprogress.org)

2018-01-06 architecture

Superhuman Meta Process (squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

2018-01-03 rationality, weird

I Grew Up Gifted. It Was Terrifying. (academia.com.sg)

2018-01-02 gifted, social

Pluralistic civility (gemcode.dreamwidth.org)

2018-01-01 politics, social, patchwork, the-pale

𝔄 One Hundred Fights of Survival: Patashu's Crawl Tactics Guide (ultraviolent4.com)

2018-01 games, roguelikes

Numerical Renaissance: simulation, optimization & control (pdf) (ucsd.edu)

2018 math

Book of Proof (richardhammack.github.io)

2018 math

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (pdf) (mctb.org)

2018 meditation, buddhism

Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (marctenbosch.com)

2018 math, computing, geometric-algebra, cg

Behavioral Activation for Depression (pdf) (umich.edu)

2018 mental-illness, psychotherapy, depression

Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails (worrydream.com)

2017-12-30 computing, alan-kay, business

Collapsing towers of interpreters (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2017-12-27 computing, plt, open-access

Playing to Win (alicemaz.com)

2017-12-22 minecraft, communities

Euthyphro Dilemmas as Mathematical Objects (samzdat.com)

2017-12-19 philosophy

A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (staltz.com)

2017-12-18 computing, internet, decentralized

Spartan type theory (andrej.com)

2017-12-11 computing, type-theory

𝔄 Design Tour: The Health Jar (lycheelabs.net)

2017-12-08 gamedev

The Impasse Between Modernism and Postmodernism [2] (quillette.com)

2017-12-07 politics, postmodernism, philosophy, successor-ideology

A reply to Francois Chollet on intelligence explosion (intelligence.org)

2017-12-06 ai, singularity, alignment

A priesthood of programmers (alicemaz.com)

2017-12-05 computing, social, ra

𝔄 Everybody Lies: FBI Edition (popehat.com)

2017-12-04 law

Philosophy success stories [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] (bayes.net)

2017-12-03 philosophy, sensemaking

Finite Field Arithmetic (loper-os.org)

2017-12-01 math, cryptography

𝔄 here's some quick Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already (threadreaderapp.com)

2017-12-01 rationality, business, computing

Book Reveiw: Inadequate Equilibria (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-11-30 books, rationality, equilibria, economics, doomed

What caused the dramatic rise of crime and blight in American cities from 1950 to 2000? (devinhelton.com)

2017-11-29 politics, atomization, history, crime

The Right to be Wrong (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-11-28 rationality, social

History Lessons: Nahlakh (waltoriouswritesaboutgames.com)

2017-11-25 games, crpg, tactical-rpg

Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia [2] (intelligence.org)

2017-11-25 ai, rationality, security, alignment

𝔄 The Friendlysock Experiment, Subjective Results (angersock.com)

2017-11-24 computing, social, writing, internet

𝔄 Why Pokemon are like Onions (Making Flexible Games with Content Layering) (lycheelabs.net)

2017-11-24 gamedev, procgen

Metarationality: Further reading (meaningness.com)

2017-11-23 rationality, metarationality, philosophy, meditation, kegan, heidegger

Using a logbook to improve your programming (routley.io)

2017-11-23 computing, notetaking

Civility Is Never Neutral (thingofthings.wordpress.com)

2017-11-22 social, the-pale, moderation

Banish Plump Mouse Deer and Banish All the World (samzdat.com)

2017-11-20 religion, atheism, cultural-adaptation, legibility

The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective (americanaffairsjournal.org)

2017-11-20 china, work

Elephant's Foot (wikipedia.org)

2017-11-13 technology, nuclear, cursed, worldbuilding

The big break in computer languages (esr.ibiblio.org)

2017-11-13 computing, garbage-collection, rust

No, it is not a compiler error. It is never a compiler error. (plover.com)

2017-11-12 computing

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-11-09 fiction, rationality

Skyrim rendered in text (filiph.medium.com)

2017-11-08 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction

The long goodbye to C (esr.ibiblio.org)

2017-11-07 computing, c, rust, golang

The Nerd as the Norm (everythingstudies.com)

2017-11-07 social, grey-tribe

I See Trad People (status451.com)

2017-11-05 social, struggle-sessions, grey-tribe

Psycho-Conservatism (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-11-02 cognitive, politics, meaning, morality, conservatism

Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2017-11-02 morality, rationality, law

The Craft & The Community—A Post-Mortem & Resurrection (greaterwrong.com)

2017-11-02 grey-tribe

Six Dimensions of Operational Adequacy in AGI Projects (greaterwrong.com)

2017-11 ai, alignment, security

Notes on Kill All Normies (quanticle.net)

2017-10-31 books, activism, struggle-sessions

Hard Things in Computer Science: Naming things (250bpm.com)

2017-10-30 computing, language, naming

On Types And Intent - how much can we communicate using types? (jawaninja.com)

2017-10-29 computing, type-theory

What New Atheism Says (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

2017-10-29 religion, politics, social, atheism, liberalism, grey-tribe, the-pale

Can you be a death positive transhumanist? (aleph.se)

2017-10-27 transhumanism, meaning, death

Commencement 101 (status451.com)

2017-10-26 politics, social, meaning

In the cells of the eggplant (metarationality.com)

2017-10-25 rationality, metarationality

whimsy (thesublemon.tumblr.com)

2017-10-24 worldbuilding, play

Inadequate Equilibria (equilibriabook.com)

2017-10-24 rationality, equilibria, economics, progress

How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably? (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-10-24 religion, atheism, politics

Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-10-23 politics, sensemaking, taqiya

My Dinner with Ramez: or, The Identity Landscape (rifters.com)

2017-10-23 transhumanism, identity, uploads, systems

As a child I was told many things about myself, but one embedded itself more deeply than the others: my defining quality is my obliviousness, and this quality morally taints any action I might choose to take, no matter how small. (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

2017-10-22 rationality, social

Fake insights (metarationality.com)

2017-10-19 rationality, sensemaking, metarationality

Having children is not life-affirming: it's immoral (aeon.co)

2017-10-19 morality, philosophy, children

Names vs identifiers in URLs: Which should you use in your API design?

2017-10-18 computing, naming, backend

Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2017-10-18 social, dunbars-number, communities

Extending Scuttlebutt with Annah (joeyh.name)

2017-10-18 computing, decentralized

Defense against discourse (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2017-10-17 ai, rationality, social, politics

On the construction of beacons (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2017-10-16 rationality, meaning, social, sociopaths, communities

Reality is a countably infinite Sierpiński cube (drmaciver.com)

2017-10-14 math, reality, physics, weird

adrixshadow's Guide to Game Design - Definitive Edition (reddit.com)

2017-10-13 gamedev

A statement of philosophical principles (drmaciver.com)

2017-10-13 rationality, sensemaking

There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (intelligence.org)

2017-10-13 ai, alignment, rationality

The Guardian’s Inferno [2] (samzdat.com)

2017-10-13 computing, media, internet, value

Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles (ijdykeman.github.io)

2017-10-12 gamedev, procgen

Handwriting programs in J (hillelwayne.com)

2017-10-10 computing, notetaking, apl

Functor-Oriented Programming (r6.ca)

2017-10-10 computing, haskell

Distinctions in Types of Thought (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-10-10 rationality

Universal Paperclips (decisionproblem.com)

2017-10-09 ai, games, alignment

Thoughts - Divinity: Original Sin 2 (scientificgamer.com)

2017-10-09 games, crpg

𝔄 Universal Basic Income and the Threat of Tyranny (quillette.com)

2017-10-09 politics, ubi

Rescuing Philosophy (opentheory.net)

2017-10-02 philosophy, diseased-discipline, rationality

Truth and/or Justice (drmaciver.com)

2017-10-01 rationality, sensemaking, politics

Predictive Processing (entirelyuseless.com)

2017-10-01 predictive-processing

Slack (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2017-09-30 effort, effort, slack, meaning

Moderator's Dilemma: The Risks of Partial Intervention (greaterwrong.com)

2017-09-29 social, moderation

Notes on 'How to Become a Straight-A Student' (scattered-thoughts.net)

2017-09-29 books, learning, work

How To Be An Adult - Kegan’s Theory of Adult Development [2] [3] (medium.com/@NataliMorad)

2017-09-28 kegan, meaning

Sabbath hard and go home (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2017-09-26 effort, slack

The Last Invention of Man (nautil.us)

2017-09-25 ai, alignment

𝔄 The Pragmatic Case for Understanding Neurodiversity (quillette.com)

2017-09-25 social, rationality

A tale of many nests (fare.livejournal.com)

2017-09-24 computing, plt, lisp

Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be) (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2017-09-23 religion, rationality, equilibria, social, systems

Why Attitudes Matter (thingofthings.wordpress.com)

2017-09-21 social

Meditative States as Feedback Loops (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-09-20 meditation, jhanas, predictive-processing

The Moral Problem of Accelerating Change (philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com)

2017-09-20 philosophy, morality, future, transhumanism

Book Review: Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-09-18 books, meditation

Can Our Democracy Survive Tribalism? (nymag.com)

2017-09-18 politics, successor-ideology

Review of Jean Bricmont's book "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics" (arxiv.org)

2017-09-16 physics, books, quantum-physics, jean-bricmont

How Novelty Ruined the Novel (currentaffairs.org)

2017-09-16 fiction

"Peer review" is younger than you think (sappingattention.blogspot.com)

2017-09-15 science, peer-review

Dealism (bayesianinvestor.com)

2017-09-13 dealism, moral-philosophy, rationality, gary-drescher

Thinking Medieval - Seeking Endarkenment (coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com)

2017-09-13 games, rpg, worldbuilding, premodernity, history

Out to Get You (thezvi.substack.com)

2017-09-13 sensemaking, value

Toward a Predictive Theory of Depression (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-09-12 mental-illness, depression, predictive-processing

The Big List of Existing Things (everythingstudies.com)

2017-09-12 philosophy, rationality, objects, reality, computing

Patriarchy is the Problem (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-09-12 social, morality, religion

Times to Die (status451.com)

2017-09-11 mental-illness, depression, meaning

What's so bad about POSIX I/O (nextplatform.com)

2017-09-11 computing

Here Be Sermons (meltingasphalt.com)

2017-09-11 social, religion, sensemaking

Conceptual integrity: why it matters and how to get it (vanemden.wordpress.com)

2017-09-08 computing, plt, math, rationality

The World As If (ribbonfarm.com)

2017-09-07 rationality, metarationality, philosophy, magic, religion

Under modern post-industrial bureaucratized high-tech capitalism, it is less rewarding than ever before to be a subject. (balioc.tumblr.com)

2017-09-06 social, meaning, atomization, gender, communities, will

Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-09-05 books, predictive-processing

Return of the city-state (aeon.co)

2017-09-05 politics, libertarianism, seasteading, patchwork

𝔄 A Tragedy of Manners (thebaffler.com)

2017-09-05 social, politics, the-pale

𝔄 The Void (autisticmercury.com)

2017-09-04 computing, philosophy, work, alienation, meaning, vr, experience-machine, doomed

passages i highlighted in “the cleanest race” by b.r. myers (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

2017-09-03 north-korea

Collected Advice for Doing Scientific Research (probablydance.com)

2017-09-02 research, rationality

Exploring Premium Mediocrity [2] (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2017-09-02 meaning, value, social

A Systems Approach to Social Disintegration (nationalaffairs.com)

2017-09 systems, sociology, atomization

How I learned to program (danluu.com)

2017-09 computing

Notes on 'Nonviolent Communication' (scattered-thoughts.net)

2017-08-31 social, books, rationality, nonviolent-communication

The Google Memo: The Economist On Nothing (quillette.com)

2017-08-31 social, the-pale, science, james-damore, media

On Artificial Belonging: How Human Meaning is Falling between the Cracks of the AI Debate (rsbakker.wordpress.com)

2017-08-30 ai, library-of-babel, social

Easy Mode / Hard Mode [2] (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2017-08-26 meaning, art, effort

𝔄 Learning How To Learn notes (zain.mu)

2017-08-24 learning

𝔄 A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity (areomagazine.com)

2017-08-22 politics, liberalism

𝔄 How Colleges Are Strangling Liberalism (chronicle.com)

2017-08-20 academia, struggle-sessions

The Anti-Slip Slope (status451.com)

2017-08-19 activism, james-damore

𝔄 Putting Hardcore Activism to Work for You (jacobitemag.com)

2017-08-18 politics, activism

What next? (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

2017-08-18 computing

Living Worlds of Action and Adventure, Part 2: Mercenary, Fairlight, and Spindizzy (filfre.net)

2017-08-18 games

Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System Experience (joshondesign.com)

2017-08-18 computing, empowerment

Decisions as Predictions [2] [3] [4] (entirelyuseless.com)

2017-08-18 rationality, will

Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world (theguardian.com)

2017-08-18 politics, economics

Narrative Domestication (thesublemon.tumblr.com)

2017-08-17 fiction, social

internet explorers (not exploiters) (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

2017-08-17 computing, effort, social, internet

The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial (ribbonfarm.com)

2017-08-17 value, meaning

Fear and Loathing at Effective Altruism Global 2017 (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-08-16 effective-altruism, grey-tribe, moral-philosophy

A Review of Perl 6 (Raku) (evanmiller.org)

2017-08-13 computing, perl

What Is Rationalist Berkeley’s Community Culture? [2] (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2017-08-12 grey-tribe

See also Michael Vassar's comment

𝔄 How Message-Board Culture Remade the Left (jacobitemag.com)

2017-08-12 struggle-sessions

What is a photon? (sigfpe.com)

2017-08-11 physics

Tripsitting Tips and Tricks (knowingless.com)

2017-08-11 psychedelics, social

Notes on 'Breakdown of Will' (scattered-thoughts.net)

2017-08-09 books, effort, cognitive, will

Righteous Callings: Being Good, Leftist Orthodoxy, and the Social Justice Crisis of Faith (medium.com/@ladysintrayda)

2017-08-08 struggle-sessions, social

The Kolmogorov option [2] (scottaaronson.blog)

2017-08-08 politics, sensemaking, taqiya

The Crisis of the Lonely Atoms (ribbonfarm.com)

2017-08-08 social, atomization, meaning, work, neet, doomed

The Craft is Not The Community [2] (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-08-08 rationality, grey-tribe, communities

𝔄 How America Lost Its Mind (theatlantic.com)

2017-08-08 politics, weird, sensemaking

𝔄 The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond (quillette.com)

2017-08-07 politics, gender

Mental Health ‘Disabilities’ as Legal Superpowers (quillette.com)

2017-08-07 academia, struggle-sessions, grey-tribe, free-speech

Why so few women in CS: the Google memo is fundamentally right [2] [3] [4] [5] (nintil.com)

2017-08-07 gender, science, james-damore

Design articles on NetHack wiki (nethackwiki.com)

2017-08-06 games, roguelikes, gamedev, nethack

Something Was Wrong (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2017-08-05 children, education, social, doomed

How a board game company defined video game ads for 20 years (polygon.com)

2017-08-03 games

Write Down Your Process (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2017-07-24 rationality, notetaking

Targeting Meritocracy (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-07-24 politics, meritocracy

Is it fair to say that most social programmes don't work? (80000hours.org)

2017-07-21 sociology

Is "information is physical" contentful? (scottaaronson.com)

2017-07-20 physics, reality

Exploring Egregores (exploringegregores.wordpress.com)

2017-07-20 egregores

Up and Down Definitions (knowingless.com)

2017-07-19 rationality

Everything is worse in China (scholars-stage.org)

2017-07-19 china, politics, stagnation

The order of the soul (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2017-07-19 education, social, rationality, lockharts-lament, math, gunas, meaning, effort, will, richard-feynman

They had effectively been trained to think of reasoning explicitly about goals as something where you have to follow someone else's rules, and has little to do with getting what you actually want. It should be easy to see how this might poison the whole thing. If someone's had enough experiences like that, where something that sort of looks like explicitly reasoning about goals is forced on them in nonsense ways, they might be ruined for goal factoring – and for many other things.

Geometers, Scribes, and the structure of intelligence (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2017-07-17 computing, rationality, law

What happened to John Carmack after the book Masters of Doom? (habrador.com)

2017-07-16 gamedev, computing, business, john-carmack

Slaves to the Machine: Understanding the Paradox of Transhumanism (philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com)

2017-07-15 philosophy, transhumanism

𝔄 Worth the Candle (archiveofourown.org)

2017-07-14 fiction

What Criminologists Don’t Say, and Why (city-journal.org)

2017-07-14 politics, sociology, crime

Ok, broad question ... why are nations a desirable end state? (mitigatedchaos.tumblr.com)

2017-07-12 politics, nationalism, crime, systems, open-borders

Classic Traveller: Making a World from the Universal World Profile (talestoastound.wordpress.com)

2017-07-11 games, gamedev, rpg, traveller, space, procgen

Radical Book Club [2] [3] (status451.com)

2017-07-11 books, politics, activism

nostalgebraist On Cerebral Cortex by T. Rolls (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

2017-07-09 cognitive, neuroscience

The Mad Genius Mystery (psychologytoday.com)

2017-07-04 grothendieck, math

Hotel Concierge - The Tower (hotelconcierge.tumblr.com)

2017-07-03 social, meaning, esoteric

The Culture Of Reasoning: The Ummah Shall Not Agree Upon Error (gnxp.com)

2017-07-03 rationality, religion, metarationality

𝔄 Debts and Deferences (ucla.edu)

2017-07-02 economics, david-graeber, rectification-of-names

Why Post-Millennial Movies Are So Bad (collativelearning.com)

2017-07 movies, worldbuilding

A warning to others (moonstoneequation.com)

2017-07 gamedev, engines

There are no hidden rules (drmaciver.com)

2017-06-29 rationality, social

The Closing of the American Mind Now (jewishreviewofbooks.com)

2017-06-28 politics, books, academia, meaning, religion, allan-bloom, successor-ideology

Physical Data Security (toughsf.blogspot.com)

2017-06-27 computing, decentralized, ai, internet, security, technology

Dataspace: Those Memex Dreams Again [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] (natecull.org)

2017-06-26 computing, notetaking, logic-programming, lisp

Your Indie Game Will Flop and You Will Lose Money (positech.co.uk)

2017-06-23 gamedev, business, doomed

Jonathan Kay on the tyranny of Twitter: How mob censure is changing the intellectual landscape (nationalpost.com)

2017-06-22 struggle-sessions

Change is Bad / Choices are Bad [2] [3] [4] (thezvi.substack.com)

2017-06-20 choices, sensemaking, complexity

Career path: Machine Learning PhD (80000hours.org)

2017-06-19 computing, academia, machine-learning, ai

Attention Is All You Need (arxiv.org)

2017-06-12 ai, llm

Bayes: a kinda-sorta masterpost (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

2017-06-09 rationality, bayesianism

Blockbench: A low-poly 3D model editor (blockbench.net)

2017-06-08 cg, computing, gamedev, modeling

Revisiting "well-typed programs cannot go wrong" (siek.blogspot.com)

2017-06-07 computing, type-theory

𝔄 Mathematics for Computer Science (pdf) (mit.edu)

2017-06-05 math

Software Foundations (upenn.edu)

2017-06-04 computing, formal-methods, type-theory

The Origin Sequence (hivewired.wordpress.com)

2017-06-04 rationality, communities, dath-ilan, weird

Things I Hate About Roguelikes [2] [3] [4] (goldenkronehotel.com)

2017-06-01 games, gamedev, roguelikes

Growing up exclusively among normies can damage a high-IQ kid (greaterwrong.com)

2017-05-31 iq, gifted, psychology

How Merkle Trees Enable the Decentralized Web (taravancil.com)

2017-05-31 decentralized

Using a Yubikey 4 for ensafening one's encryption (liw.fi)

2017-05-31 security, computing

The Face of the Ice (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-05-30 rationality, social, stoic, scout-mindset, will

The Good, the True and the Undefined (everythingstudies.com)

2017-05-29 philosophy, rationality, diseased-discipline

Alternatives to Voronoi diagrams (redblobgames.com)

2017-05-28 gamedev, math, procgen, geometry, computing

Highly Advanced Tulpamancy 101 for Beginners [2] (hivewired.wordpress.com)

2017-05-27 tulpas, weird, rationality

Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17 (isocpp.org)

2017-05-26 c++, c-64

The Mitigated Chaos Plan for School (mitigatedchaos.tumblr.com)

2017-05-26 learning, education, spaced-repetition, empowerment

Antipsychotics Might Cause Cognitive Impairment (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-05-25 psychiatry

Blockchains Never Forget (ribbonfarm.com)

2017-05-25 physics, decentralized, social, entropy, code-is-law

So You Want To Upload Yourself Into A Computer: A Primer (imgur.com)

2017-05-25 transhumanism, uploads, future

𝔄 A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism (jacobitemag.com)

2017-05-25 accelerationism, politics

Are we about to witness the most unequal societies in history? (theguardian.com)

2017-05-24 transhumanism, ai, future

How a 64k intro is made (lofibucket.com)

2017-05-21 computing, demoscene, cg

The Documentation System (divio.com)

2017-05-19 computing, writing

Dwelling in Possibility (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-05-18 rationality, social, leadership

Planet of Cops (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

2017-05-17 struggle-sessions

Does Your Video Game Have Too Many Words? (Yeah, Probably.) (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)

2017-05-17 gamedev, writing

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (johnsalvatier.org)

2017-05-13 rationality, reality, abstraction, motorcycle-zen

The Uruk Series [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] (samzdat.com)

2017-05-08 rationality, metarationality, metis, meaning, social, cultural-adaptation, esoteric

Some Notes on Haskell Pedagogy (medium.com/@sjsyrek)

2017-05-05 computing, haskell, learning

What a Haskell Study Group is Not (bitemyapp.com)

2017-05-03 computing, haskell, learning

Trump Is ‘Murder Weapon’ To Kill Establishment - Charles Murray (dailywire.com)

2017-05-01 politics, donald-trump

The Civilization Before History (gnxp.com)

2017-04-24 history, archeology, uruk, bronze-age

𝔄 The formal structure of paranoid leftism (why there is no such thing as a noble error) (jmrphy.net)

2017-04-24 struggle-sessions, sensemaking

Mastodon WTF timeline (sooke.bc.ca)

2017-04-23 japan, decentralized, social-media, moderation, politics

𝔄 On AI || AI on (xynchroni.city)

2017-04-22 ai, alignment, doomed, rationality

𝔄 Moldbug 10 Years On: A Critical Retrospective (thermidormag.com)

2017-04-22 politics

On compositionality (julesh.com)

2017-04-22 computing, plt, systems

Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future (waitbutwhy.com)

2017-04-20 cognitive, neuroscience, transhumanism

Facebook Spaces: A New Way To Connect With Friends In VR (fb.com)

2017-04-18 computing, vr, facebook, cursed, bugmen

Thoughts: Battle Brothers (scientificgamer.com)

2017-04-17 games, tactical-rpg

On Drama (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-04-15 social, drama, nazis

𝔄 On turning left into darkness (jmrphy.net)

2017-04-11 politics, sensemaking

When rationalists remade the world (noahpinionblog.blogspot.com)

2017-04-08 history, rationality, science

Why Rationality? (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2017-04-08 rationality, grey-tribe

If I was going to name the entire thing, I think I might call it “Outsider Science” (taking a cue from “Outsider Art” and contrasting it with “Vannevarian Science”). (greaterwrong.com)

2017-04-07 grey-tribe, science

Are Adult Developmental Stages Real? (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-04-06 kegan, psychology

Book Review: 15 Books on Evolution [2] [3] [4] (reddit.com)

2017-04-05 books, evolution, daniel-dennett, cultural-adaptation, religion, stephen-jay-gould, nietzsche

Consciousness and its discontents (nintil.com)

2017-04-04 cognitive, consciousness, philosophy

Evidence-based advice on how to be more successful in any job (80000hours.org)

2017-04 work, rationality

Conventional Commits (conventionalcommits.org)

2017-04 computing

On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (arxiv.org)

2017-03-31 ai, singularity, alignment, rationality, discourse, shitpost

𝔄 How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained (areomagazine.com)

2017-03-27 foucault, postmodernism, sensemaking, politics

Straussian Reading (lacker.io)

2017-03-26 strauss

Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket (just yet) (fare.livejournal.com)

2017-03-25 computing, lisp

Guided By the Beauty of Our Weapons (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-03-24 politics, rationality, asymmetric-weapons

An Infinitely Large Napkin (evanchen.cc)

2017-03-23 math

Notes on 'Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action' (scattered-thoughts.net)

2017-03-21 social, politics, dunbars-number, communities

Window into American criminal justice system from the daycare sexual abuse trials of the 1980s (greenspun.com)

2017-03-18 history, satanic-panic, law, weird

Identity and its Discontents (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-03-17 social, subcultures, meaning, personality-tests

Sanity on the Weird Timeline (ribbonfarm.com)

2017-03-14 rationality, metarationality, weird

The Unreasonable Destructiveness of Political Correctness in Philosophy (doi.org)

2017-03-14 philosophy, diseased-discipline, postmodernism, open-access

The frightening infinite spaces: apeirophobia (aleph.se)

2017-03-11 transhumanism, longevity

Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (nayuki.io)

2017-03-08 notetaking, organization, tags

The Coming of the Second Dark Ages (jmetz.com)

2017-03-07 philosophy, sociology, postmodernism, stagnation, diseased-discipline

Science, the Constructionists, and Reality (everythingstudies.com)

2017-03-06 rationality, science, postmodernism, inverted-cosmos

What I Believe (status451.com)

2017-03-05 politics, rationality, sensemaking, liberalism

Phenomenological Complexity Classes (mapandterritory.org)

2017-03-02 rationality, philosophy, phenomenology, metarationality, weird, cognitive, kegan

Peter Norvig's Python etudes (github.com/norvig)

2017-03-01 computing, exercises, python, advent-of-code

Hunting the shadow (buddhism-for-vampires.com)

2017-02-28 meaning, jung

System design primer (github.com/donnemartin)

2017-02-26 computing, backend, systems

Thought on the STEM "class" (vaniver.tumblr.com)

2017-02-25 rationality, social, class, military, grey-tribe, communities, will

Strong AI Isn't Here Yet (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-02-21 computing, ai, machine-learning

Did anyone notice how quickly the internet turned into a Lovecraftian horror scenario? (astercrash.tumblr.com)

2017-02-19 computing, fiction, internet, magic, horror

Book Review: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell (thezvi.wordpress.com)

2017-02-18 books, politics, economics

Inventing the enemy on social media (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

2017-02-15 computing, internet, drama

Best problems to work on? (aleph.se)

2017-02-13 science, rationality

Considerations on Cost Disease (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-02-09 cost-disease

The goal of their simulations was to determine an algorithm that would optimally allocate food, water, and electricity to 3 crew members (lobste.rs)

2017-02-05 ai, alignment

Smaller code, better code (sacrideo.us)

2017-02-03 computing, apl, minimalism

Buddhist tantra is not about techniques (vividness.live)

2017-02-03 magic, tantra, meditation

𝔄 Social science and the radical politics of not knowing (jmrphy.net)

2017-02-02 politics, sensemaking, sociology

After Temporality (ribbonfarm.com)

2017-02-02 sensemaking, time, weird

Against Worldbuilding (gamesindustry.biz)

2017-02-02 games, fiction, gamedev, crpg, worldbuilding, fantasy, tolkien, pink-slime

Not a good decade for thinking (meaningness.com)

2017-02-01 rationality, atomization, meaning

On Social States (samzdat.com)

2017-02-01 social, politics

In Defense of Individualist Culture (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-01-26 rationality, communities, atomization, meaning, religion, effort

Specialist maths schools – some facts (dominiccummings.com)

2017-01-23 math, education, politics

Can you please explain this go syntax to me? I thought go doesn't have generics. (reddit.com)

2017-01-23 computing, golang, plt, cursed

Understanding the Experience Machine Argument (philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com)

2017-01-23 philosophy, experience-machine

The RPG Scrollbars: The genius in the inventory (rockpapershotgun.com)

2017-01-23 crpg, games, ultima, immersive-sims

Donald Trump Is The First President To Turn Postmodernism Against Itself (thefederalist.com)

2017-01-23 politics, donald-trump, postmodernism

𝔄 Metarationality Repository (lesswrong.com)

2017-01-22 rationality, metarationality

Introduction to Precision Farming (regehr.org)

2017-01-20 technology, farming

Days of Rage (status451.com)

2017-01-20 politics, 1970s

Foundations of Data Science (pdf) (cornell.edu)

2017-01-17 computing, data-science, math, statistics

Effective Altruism Has A Lying Problem (srconstantin.github.io)

2017-01-17 grey-tribe, effective-altruism

𝔄 Near Future of Programming Language (pdf) (stephendiehl.com)

2017-01-15 computing

The Line of Death (textslashplain.com)

2017-01-14 computing, ui, security

Heuristics Work Until They Don't (slatestarcodex.com)

2017-01-11 sensemaking

Max Headroom (adamcadre.ac)

2017-01-11 fiction, scifi, max-headroom, tv

Rolling Your Own Culture and (Not) Finding Community (ribbonfarm.com)

2017-01-10 social, atomization, kegan, meaning, subcultures

Tendrils of Mess in our Brains (ribbonfarm.com)

2017-01-05 philosophy, sensemaking, objects, systems, thingspace

Why read old philosophy? (meteuphoric.com)

2017-01-04 philosophy

Did academic philosophy satisfy the expectations you had when you first chose that subject? (reddit.com)

2017-01-02 philosophy, diseased-discipline

What concept ought to be more widely known: State (edge.org)

2017 computing, philosophy, state

From Nand to Tetris (nand2tetris.org)

2017 computing

Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering (pdf) (zinkevich.org)

2017 computing, machine-learning

Tune Your Motor Cortex (bewelltuned.com)

2017 meditation, skills

Learn TLA+ (learntla.com)

2017 formal-methods, tla

Avoid hidden complexity (tylerneylon.com)

2017 computing, complexity

𝔄 Translator's Note to The Odyssey (poems.com)

2017 literature, language

Reverse Design: Diablo 2 [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] (thegamedesignforum.com)

2017 games, crpg, gamedev

Fuck Nuance (pdf) (kieranhealy.org)

2017 sociology, sensemaking

The Three Languages of Politics (cato.org)

2017 politics, libertarianism, liberalism, sensemaking

Mind Games: Game Engines as an Architecture for Intuitive Physics 🔒 (doi.org)

2017 games, engines, naive-physics, computing, cognitive

Upgrade your cargo cult for the win (metarationality.com)

2016-12-31 rationality, metarationality, metis, science

On persuasion and anger (drmaciver.com)

2016-12-29 social

The engineer and the diplomat (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2016-12-27 rationality, social

The Computational Condition (slideshare.net)

2016-12-21 hannah-arendt, philosophy, meaning

Four Layers of Intellectual Conversation (rationalconspiracy.com)

2016-12-20 rationality

What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics? (nautil.us)

2016-12-19 effort, meaning, physics, academia, girard, burnout

Some Thoughts on Forth vis-a-vis Oracle and Java SE (sam-falvo.github.io)

2016-12-18 computing, forth

The Gunas (srconstantin.github.io)

2016-12-16 meaning, effort, gunas

The Shame of Work (philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com)

2016-12-15 work, meaning, social, communities

Thought vectors and the dimensionality of the space of concepts (infoproc.blogspot.com)

2016-12-14 ai, concepts

Notes on 'Intelligence: All That Matters' (scattered-thoughts.net)

2016-12-14 iq, 101

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries, Sheets, and Saddled Scenes (qualiacomputing.com)

2016-12-12 psychedelics, math, cognitive, weird

The World According to Stanisław Lem (lareviewofbooks.org)

2016-12-10 fiction, scifi, stanislaw-lem

Minimum Viable Citizen (status451.com)

2016-12-06 social, politics, communities

Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills (aeon.co)

2016-12-05 education, critical-thinking

A Pseudoethnography of Egregores (ribbonfarm.com)

2016-12-01 egregores

What does the universal prior actually look like? (ordinaryideas.wordpress.com)

2016-11-30 computing, ait, philosophy

The Phantom Men-Ness (balioc.wordpress.com)

2016-11-30 gender, social

What they don’t teach you at STEM school (metarationality.com)

2016-11-27 rationality, metarationality, kegan, science

A Return To Discussion (srconstantin.github.io)

2016-11-27 computing, internet, politics, grey-tribe, rationality, communities

If we can’t lie to others, we will lie to ourselves (sideways-view.com)

2016-11-26 rationality, social

What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? (aeon.co)

2016-11-25 work, meaning, ubi

Industry Matters (srconstantin.github.io)

2016-11-19 technology, business, economics

Go fonts (go.dev)

2016-11-16 computing

This Election Marks The End Of America’s Racial Détente (thefederalist.com)

2016-11-14 politics, successor-ideology

The RPG Scrollbars: Questing at the speed of light (rockpapershotgun.com)

2016-11-14 games, crpg, space, starflight, gamedev, worldbuilding

marx/engels masterpost (edwad.tumblr.com)

2016-11-08 politics, communism

A Bad Carver (ribbonfarm.com)

2016-11-03 objects, technology, systems, meaning

The Second Sage (aeon.co)

2016-10-31 philosophy, morality, mencius, china

Adam Cadre reviews Permutation City (adamcadre.ac)

2016-10-28 fiction, books, scifi, greg-egan

Humans are the urban fae (roachpatrol.tumblr.com)

2016-10-28 weird, fae, animals

The Cyberpunk Sensibility (ribbonfarm.com)

2016-10-27 doomed, future, cyberpunk

Engines of Evidence A Conversation With Judea Pearl (edge.org)

2016-10-24 rationality, causality

Open and Interconnected Systems (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

2016-10-23 math, category-theory, systems

Ra (srconstantin.github.io)

2016-10-20 social, egregores, legitimacy, ra

Visions of the Semantic Apocalypse: A Critical Review of Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus (rsbakker.wordpress.com)

2016-10-20 books, yuval-noah-harari, semantic-apocalypse, transhumanism

Nothing Remains Interesting If Anything Can Happen (deltasdnd.blogspot.com)

2016-10-17 games, worldbuilding, rpg

Tough SF: How to live on other planets [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] (toughsf.blogspot.com)

2016-10-13 science, space, worldbuilding

Descriptive variable names: A code smell (degoes.net)

2016-10-10 computing, naming

𝔄 What is a type, and how do you think about it? (vermillionazure.com)

2016-10-05 computing, type-theory, philosophy

R notebooks (posit.co)

2016-10-05 computing, data-science, notetaking, r, notebooks

The Enlightened Madness of Philip K. Dick: The Black Iron Prison and Wetiko (realitysandwich.com)

2016-09-29 philip-k-dick, weird, gnosticism, reality

Guest Post: Why the Economy Sucks in the SSI Gold Box Games [2] (crpgaddict.blogspot.com)

2016-09-27 games, crpg

Making your game speedrunner-friendly (speeddemosarchive.com)

2016-09-22 gamedev

A Very Long Post About How to Become a Creator (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)

2016-09-21 gamedev

Competitive Cognitive Artifacts and the Demise of Humanity: A Philosophical Analysis (philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com)

2016-09-18 philosophy, computing

The Feed [2] [3] [4] (ribbonfarm.com)

2016-09-15 computing, politics, internet, economics, social, trust, library-of-babel

Social Gentrification (status451.com)

2016-09-15 social, grey-tribe, subcultures, politics

The difference between employment and independent contracting (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

2016-09-14 work, business

OSR aesthetics of ruin (udan-adan.blogspot.com)

2016-09-08 games, rpg, osr, worldbuilding

In praise of choicelessness (meaningness.com)

2016-09-08 choices

A gigantic chart that explains absolutely everything (meaningness.com)

2016-09-07 rationality, metarationality, cultural-adaptation

How studying mnemonics changed the way I learn (agentyduck.blogspot.com)

2016-09-06 learning, mnemonics

Formal proofs are not just deduction steps (andrej.com)

2016-08-30 math

Haida-Love Relationship (srconstantin.github.io)

2016-08-26 moral-philosophy, stoicism, politics, jonathan-haidt

Wireheading Done Right: Stay Positive Without Going Insane (qualiacomputing.com)

2016-08-20 transhumanism, wireheading, value, cognitive

The RPG Scrollbars: Adventures In Spaaaaaaace! (rockpapershotgun.com)

2016-08-15 games, space

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (aeon.co)

2016-08-11 physics, sensemaking, crackpots, weird, sabine-hossenfelder

Swiss Referee Style Manual (alexschroeder.ch)

2016-08-10 games, rpg, osr

Just Use Bears (talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com)

2016-08-10 games, rpg, gamedev

Too Late for the Pebbles to Vote [2] [3] (status451.com)

2016-08-09 social, sociopaths

Voxel Quest source code (github.com/gavanw)

2016-08-05 cg, computing, gamedev, voxels

The Quality Without a Name at the Betsy Ross Museum (ribbonfarm.com)

2016-08-04 art, value

Back in the day when they used to market cocaine (vintag.es)

2016-08-01 drugs, 1970s, weird

Habits of highly mathematical people (medium.com/@jeremyjkun)

2016-07-28 math

The Babysitters Club (reallifemag.com)

2016-07-27 social, technology, neoteny, empowerment

A first lesson in meta-rationality (metarationality.com)

2016-07-22 rationality, bongard-problems, ai, metarationality

Notation and thought (github.com/kai-qu)

2016-07-22 notation, math, philosophy

On Systems of Survival (transientpetersen.tumblr.com)

2016-07-19 moral-philosophy, merchants-and-warriors, jane-jacobs

Architecture patterns for larger Haskell programs (reddit.com)

2016-07-14 computing, haskell

Why It Took Social Science Years to Correct a Simple Error About ‘Psychoticism’ (thecut.com)

2016-07-14 sensemaking, social-psychology, politics

I myself know enlightening beings’ method of reckoning (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

2016-07-08 weird, buddhism, math

Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (medium.com/@yegg)

2016-07-06 sensemaking, business

A Few Useful Mental Tools from Richard Feynman (fs.blog)

2016-07-05 richard-feynman, rationality, estimation

"analytic philosophy just tends to feel wrong to me" (lapsarianalyst.tumblr.com)

2016-07-05 philosophy, diseased-discipline

A parable about not "getting" analytic philosophy (lapsarianalyst.tumblr.com)

2016-07-04 philosophy, diseased-discipline

Report likelihoods not p-values (greaterwrong.com)

2016-07-01 statistics, sensemaking

On the Habitability of Our Universe (arxiv.org)

2016-06-29 space, evolution, abiogenesis, aliens

Group cognition (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2016-06-24 social, sensemaking, subcultures

Why are humans soft? (meteuphoric.com)

2016-06-20 social, science, rationality

OSR House Rules Wiki: Location-Based Resources (campaignwiki.org)

2016-06-19 games, rpg, osr

Review: Vipassana Center silent meditation retreat (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2016-06-06 meditation

Notes on 'Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die' (scattered-thoughts.net)

2016-06-03 books, learning

How to read a mathematics textbook (drmaciver.com)

2016-05-30 math, learning

Urbit: A Solid-State Interpreter (pdf) (urbit.org)

2016-05-26 urbit, decentralized, computing, weird

Miller’s Law in the Archipelago of Weird (status451.com)

2016-05-24 grey-tribe, social

The GRIM test — a method for evaluating published research (jamesheathers.medium.com)

2016-05-23 computing, statistics, data-science, sensemaking, replication-crisis

The Holy Grail of Crackpot Filtering: How the arXiv decides what’s science – and what’s not (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2016-05-19 science, crackpots, demarcation-problem, social

Why NOT teach critical thinking (uwindsor.ca)

2016-05-18 critical-thinking, education, rationality

Curv: a language for making art using mathematics (curv3d.org)

2016-05-13 computing, cg, code-cad

Unnecessariat (morecrows.wordpress.com)

2016-05-10 work, class, atomization, doomed

How do you solve a problem like MIRI? Ah… (jadagul.tumblr.com)

2016-05-10 ai, alignment, grey-tribe, academia, research

Extensional and intensional definitions (wikipedia.org)

2016-05-07 sensemaking, philosophy

The Tale of the Aristotelian Clock-Mender (kennypearce.net)

2016-04-29 science, history, philosophy

Jane Jacobs' Monstrous Hybrids: Guardians vs Commerce (jebkinnison.com)

2016-04-29 moral-philosophy, merchants-and-warriors, jane-jacobs

Immortality Begins at Forty (ribbonfarm.com)

2016-04-28 social, meaning

Why Were Early Psychedelicists So Weird? (slatestarcodex.com)

2016-04-28 psychedelics, weird

A bridge to meta-rationality vs. civilizational collapse (metarationality.com)

2016-04-26 rationality, kegan, metarationality, technology

Measures of Awesomeness (srconstantin.github.io)

2016-04-25 progress, technology, history

The Interface Series (reddit.com)

2016-04-21 fiction, weird

Useful Notes on Tumblr Rationalist Culture (thingofthings.wordpress.com)

2016-04-14 grey-tribe

Notes on 'Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work' (scattered-thoughts.net)

2016-04-10 books, rationality

The Doom Movement Bible (doomworld.com)

2016-04-10 games, doom

What's awful about being a {software engineer, tech lead, manager}? (onebigfluke.com)

2016-04-10 computing, work, social

The Peril Of The Sublime (srconstantin.github.io)

2016-04-08 art, rationality

Business as Magic (ribbonfarm.com)

2016-04-07 business, work, meaning

Programming by Poking: Why MIT Stopped Teaching SICP (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

2016-04-04 computing, learning, lisp

The Ideology Is Not the Movement (slatestarcodex.com)

2016-04-04 social, politics, subcultures

Umberto Eco and his legacy in open-world games (killscreen.com)

2016-03-30 games

𝔄 A Guide for Young Ladies Entering the Service of the Fairies (hanginggardenstories.tumblr.com)

2016-03-28 fiction

Why Cryonics Makes Sense (waitbutwhy.com)

2016-03-24 transhumanism, cryonics

Instead of asking for definitions (nancylebov.dreamwidth.org)

2016-03-23 rationality, social

Book Review: The Ego and Its Own (reddit.com)

2016-03-19 books, max-stirner, philosophy

Vectored Signatures, or the Elements of a Possible V-Algebra (loper-os.org)

2016-03-18 decentralized, security, trust

The Second Rule of Status (tumblr.com/raggedjackscarlet)

2016-03-17 social

Human Enhancement as Paradigmatic Crash Space (rsbakker.wordpress.com)

2016-03-17 transhumanism, cognitive, semantic-apocalypse, doomed

I’m starting to get the sense that there’s a zero-sum tradeoff between “Keeping Biff Tannen out of your community” and “Keeping Dolores Umbridge out of your community” (tumblr.com/raggedjackscarlet)

2016-03-14 social, moderation

How to be Attractive (hotelconcierge.tumblr.com)

2016-03-05 social

We only hire the trendiest (danluu.com)

2016-03 work, social

What is Tough Science Fiction (toughsf.blogspot.com)

2016-02-27 fiction, space, scifi

Stellar Consensus Protocol (stellar.org)

2016-02-25 decentralized, computing

When did the self-help movement lose its ethical seriousness (aeon.co)

2016-02-23 self-improvement, meaning

Secret Wars and the psychology of the Marvel mega event (redantsunderneath.tumblr.com)

2016-02-22 comics, marvel

Nonfiction writing advice (slatestarcodex.com)

2016-02-20 writing, sensemaking

Building 2D worlds (cesspit.net)

2016-02-19 gamedev, level-design

Stepping down from maintaining DynaHack (tung.github.io)

2016-02-18 games, roguelikes, gamedev, nethack, complexity, burnout, computing, postmortem

𝔄 Paranoid rant (slatestarcodex.com)

2016-02-14 politics

Instilling Novel Thought Patterns and Making Your Long-Term Memory Accountable with Anki (guzey.com)

2016-02-13 learning, spaced-repetition

Gray Man Theory (thebugoutbagguide.com)

2016-02-10 social

Book Review: Superforecasting (slatestarcodex.com)

2016-02-04 sensemaking, books, forecasting

Jury nullification IRL: Keeping someone who was violent against someone subverting the social order out of jail (kontextmaschine.tumblr.com)

2016-02-04 social, law

Staying Classy (slatestarcodex.com)

2016-01-30 class, social

Notes on 'What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought' [2] (scattered-thoughts.net)

2016-01-29 books, rationality, cognitive

Notes on 'Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking' (scattered-thoughts.net)

2016-01-28 rationality

Productivity for Precious Snowflakes (ribbonfarm.com)

2016-01-28 rationality, work, effort, metarationality

Why did D&D switch from ten-foot squares to five-foot squares? How was this intended to change the way the game was played? (reddit.com)

2016-01-28 games, rpg

"People occasionally ask me about signs that the remaining timeline might be short." (news.ycombinator.com)

2016-01-27 ai, alignment, eliezer-yudkowsky, bitter-lesson

Class (American) (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

2016-01-25 class, social

Dungeon Checklist (goblinpunch.blogspot.com)

2016-01-18 games, rpg, gamedev, osr, level-design

Bayes' rule (greaterwrong.com)

2016-01-15 rationality, bayesianism, 101

Prometheanism, Intelligence, Self-Determination - Reza Negarestani (socialecologies.wordpress.com)

2016-01-13 philosophy

ln The 3D Line Art Engine (github.com/fogleman)

2016-01-10 computing, cg

How to C (as of 2016) (matt.sh)

2016-01-07 computing, c, 101

Splain it to Me (status451.com)

2016-01-06 social, the-pale, grey-tribe

Dota 2 Workshop - Character Art Guide (steampowered.com)

2016 art, design, gamedev

Life on the Infinite Farm (pdf) (brown.edu)

2016 math, weird

Graphics Programming Projects (graphicscodex.com)

2016 computing, cg, exercises

David Alger's Rules of Improv [2] (improvencyclopedia.org)

2016 improv

It's Stan Lee's Universe (vulture.com)

2016 comics, marvel, business, characters

Reverse Design: Half-Life [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] (thegamedesignforum.com)

2016 gamedev

Unsong (unsongbook.com)

2015-12-28 fiction

A Modern Architecture for Functional Programming [2] (degoes.net)

2015-12-28 computing, haskell

The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world (ieet.org)

2015-12-27 computing, internet-of-things, equilibria, privacy, security, doomed

How Bad are Things? (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-12-24 social, doomed

Tell Me Who You Are (medium.com/@Consensys)

2015-12-23 identity, computing, security

Miss Marple and the Problem of Modern Identity (thenewatlantis.com)

2015-12-22 social, atomization, history, identity

Truthcoin white paper (pdf) (truthcoin.info)

2015-12-14 prediction-markets, decentralized, computing

Limits of morphological freedom (aleph.se)

2015-12-14 transhumanism, identity, philosophy

Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s University But Don’t (lareviewofbooks.org)

2015-12-09 academia, politics, empowerment, doomed

The Reasoned Lisper - Bridging Discrete and Continuous Logic in Automated Reasoning Systems (chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com)

2015-12-08 computing, lisp, logic-programming

Book Review: Hive Mind (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-12-08 books, economics, iq, systems, hiveminds

What happens if the explanatory and response variables are sorted independently before regression? (stackexchange.com)

2015-12-07 statistics, cursed, funny

Learn To Code, It’s Harder Than You Think (mikehadlow.blogspot.com)

2015-12-04 computing, learning, effort

A Trackless Path: Dzogchen in plain English (vividness.live)

2015-12-01 meditation, books, dzogchen

Can You Hear Me Now? (ribbonfarm.com)

2015-12-01 social, atomization, meaning, subcultures

Setting The Default (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-12-01 social, rationality, the-pale, common-knowledge

Perfectionism, Toxic and Otherwise (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

2015-12-01 social, perfectionism, effort

Normalization of deviance (danluu.com)

2015-12 sensemaking, business, mazes, social

The predator in the herd (benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2015-11-17 rationality, social

What is Philosophy? - Reza Negarestani [2] (e-flux.com)

2015-11-01 philosophy

Crash Space 🔒 (doi.org)

2015-11 cognitive, rationality, neuroscience, philosophy, semantic-apocalypse, future, transhumanism, doomed, friction

Hieratic documentation (esr.ibiblio.org)

2015-10-30 writing, computing

The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 (archive.org)

2015-10-29 computing, future, technology

EverQuest expansions (wikipedia.org)

2015-10-15 mmo, weird

Several types of types in programming languages (arxiv.org)

2015-10-13 computing, type-theory

Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence (vividness.live)

2015-10-12 rationality, metarationality, kegan

Time Travel System (aleph.se)

2015-10-10 games, gamedev, rpg, time

To destroy the Earth (qntm.org)

2015-10-04 fiction, physics, transhumanism, space

Simple, Upstream, and Decisive (srconstantin.github.io)

2015-10-04 medicine, technology

Where do pro-social institutions come from? (pseudoerasmus.com)

2015-10-04 sociology, cultural-adaptation, elua, systems

Compressionism: A Theory of Mind Based on Data Compression (pdf) (ceur-ws.org)

2015-09-25 cognitive, computing, ai, consciousness, ait, integrated-information-theory

An Extremely Personal Rant On Tolstoy (srconstantin.github.io)

2015-09-21 literature, rationality

Tufte CSS (edwardtufte.github.io)

2015-09-20 web

Anarcho-ecologies and the Problem of Transhumanism (rsbakker.wordpress.com)

2015-09-18 philosophy, transhumanism, semantic-apocalypse

Mythic Values/Folk Values (tumblr.com/raggedjackscarlet)

2015-09-17 rationality, grey-tribe

Towards A More Mature Atheism (dividuals.wordpress.com)

2015-09-17 religion, atheism, rationality, social

The Why and the Wherefore (dtsheffler.com)

2015-09-17 computing, version-control, notetaking, git

“We Own You” – Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play Producer (toucharcade.com)

2015-09-16 games, skinner-boxes, business, privacy

The Asshole Filter (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

2015-09-15 social

The RPG Scrollbars: The Lost Magic Of Magic (rockpapershotgun.com)

2015-09-14 games, crpg, magic, worldbuilding

Cult of the cosmic: how space travel became the unofficial religion of the USSR (new-east-archive.org)

2015-09-10 space, russia, politics, history

Git for Zettelkasten (dtsheffler.com)

2015-09-10 computing, version-control, notetaking, git, zettelkasten

HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (blog.neocities.org)

2015-09-08 computing, decentralized, ipfs

The Fall of the Meritocracy (quadrant.org.au)

2015-09-07 politics, meritocracy, iq, genetics

Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming (colah.github.io)

2015-09-03 computing, type-theory, machine-learning

Probability theory does not extend logic (metarationality.com)

2015-09-01 rationality, bayesianism

The Psychonaut Field Manual (deviantart.com)

2015-08-30 magic

Energetics of the brain and AI (aleph.se)

2015-08-28 cognitive, neuroscience, physics, ai

Common knowledge (logic) (wikipedia.org)

2015-08-25 common-knowledge, rationality

What caused the LW diaspora, and when did it start? (slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com)

2015-08-22 grey-tribe, history

Science As Radicalism (humaniterations.net)

2015-08-18 science, politics, philosophy, sensemaking

Extending Galactic Habitable Zone Modelling to Include the Emergence of Intelligent Life (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2015-08-14 space, aliens

A Science Critique of Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (centauri-dreams.org)

2015-08-14 fiction, scifi, space, kim-stanley-robinson

Going From Reading To Notes (dtsheffler.com)

2015-08-11 learning, notetaking

Reading Notes (dtsheffler.com)

2015-08-10 notetaking, learning

The Essence of Peopling (ribbonfarm.com)

2015-08-08 social

One Thought Per Note (dtsheffler.com)

2015-08-05 notetaking, organization

Houyhnhnm Computing (ngnghm.github.io)

2015-08-02 computing, weird

Forbearance (srconstantin.github.io)

2015-07-31 social, politics

Executable philosophy (greaterwrong.com)

2015-07-31 ai, rationality, philosophy

My favorite class of posts on r/nootropics (slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com)

2015-07-23 drugs, mental-illness

The General Factor of Correctness (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-07-23 rationality, sensemaking, estimation

Johnny Decimal (johnnydecimal.com)

2015-07-20 notetaking, organization

Levels of Reading (dtsheffler.com)

2015-07-06 learning, minimalism

The RPG Scrollbars: RPG Vs. Adventure (rockpapershotgun.com)

2015-07-06 games, crpg, immersive-sims

𝔄 The Perfect Language (inference-review.com)

2015-07 computing, math, plt, ait, philosophy

The Definitive Glossary of Higher Math Jargon (mathvault.ca)

2015-06-28 math

The Logic of Surveillance Capitalism (philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com)

2015-06-25 computing, business, privacy

The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics (gwern.net)

2015-06-24 moral-philosophy, rationality

The Tragedy of the Common Lisp, or, Why Large Languages Explode (esdiscuss.org)

2015-06-18 computing, lisp

On the problem of normative sociology (utoronto.ca)

2015-06-16 politics, sociology

Creating a language using only assembly language (speakerdeck.com)

2015-06-11 computing

Puzzle Theory (ribbonfarm.com)

2015-06-04 art, meaning, rationality, play

A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum (theawl.com)

2015-06-04 web, cursed, clickbait

The RPG Scrollbars: The Declining Magic Of MMOs (rockpapershotgun.com)

2015-06-01 mmo

Where Do The Failed 0.1% Go? (pdf) (t3x.org)

2015-06 iq, gifted, doomed, alienation

Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (meaningness.com)

2015-05-30 social, sociopaths, politics, subcultures

No time like the present for AI safety work (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-05-29 ai, alignment

"engineers can teach calculus, but their students cannot go on to teach calculus" (news.ycombinator.com)

2015-05-28 math, calculus, learning

Epistemology Sequence [2] [3] [4] [5] (srconstantin.wordpress.com)

2015-05-27 rationality, concepts

AI Researchers on AI Risk (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-05-22 ai, alignment, stuart-russell

Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking (nautil.us)

2015-05-21 cognitive, bicameral-mind, consciousness, weird

Final Version Perfected time management system (squarespace.com)

2015-05-21 work

Siderea Reads Watership Down [2] [3] (siderea.dreamwidth.org)

2015-05-20 books, fiction

The Douglas Adams Silmarillion (lintamande.tumblr.com)

2015-05-16 fiction, funny, tolkien

The Enemy Control Ray (thingofthings.wordpress.com)

2015-05-15 politics, rationality, asymmetric-weapons

𝔄 A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art (dinofarmgames.com)

2015-05-12 gamedev, art

Physicists Are Philosophers, Too (scientificamerican.com)

2015-05-08 philosophy, platonism, science

Divisions Within the LW-Sphere (thingofthings.wordpress.com)

2015-05-07 rationality, grey-tribe

Maybe the real rationalism was the friends we made along the way (nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

2015-05-04 grey-tribe, cfar

𝔄 When Daydreaming Replaces Real Life (theatlantic.com)

2015-04-29 cognitive, mental-health, paracosm, weird

Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (fogus.me)

2015-04-27 computing

We need to sing about mental health. (hotelconcierge.tumblr.com)

2015-04-19 mental-health, social

Implementing Morton ordering for chunked voxel data (volumesoffun.com)

2015-04-17 math, cg, computing, geometry, voxels

The death of optimizing compilers (pdf) (yp.to)

2015-04-16 computing, plt, djb

Bringing magic back to technology (countercomplex.blogspot.com)

2015-04-09 computing, music, bytebeat, minimalism

The Fifteen Fundamental Properties (carcinisation.com)

2015-04-01 design, value, art, christopher-alexander, architecture

See Hear Feel: An Introduction (pdf) (shinzen.org)

2015-04 meditation

The Exterior Algebra and Central Notions in Mathematics (doi.org)

2015-04 math, geometric-algebra, open-access

A Networked World [2] [3] (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

2015-03-27 math, category-theory, systems

Book Review: THe Machinery of Freedom (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-03-18 politics, books, libertarianism

Some people have questioned the term “sneer culture”. (slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com)

2015-03-17 grey-tribe, struggle-sessions

Answer to Job (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-03-15 religion, value, weird

Half-assing it with everything you've got (mindingourway.com)

2015-03-12 rationality, effort, value

Continuous functions are those which preserve approximate measurements (drmaciver.com)

2015-03-07 math, estimation

Worldbuilding - Atomic Rockets (projectrho.com)

2015-03-07 worldbuilding, space

A cascade of Dunbar numbers (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-03-05 dunbars-number, politics, grey-tribe

Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty (ribbonfarm.com)

2015-03-04 social, systems

𝔄 How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life (nytimes.com)

2015-02-12 struggle-sessions, social-media

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, Second Edition (mit.edu)

2015-02-06 computing, physics, lisp

Some notes on Rust, the language (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

2015-02-01 computing, rust

The Parable of the Talents (slatestarcodex.com)

2015-01-31 gifted, effort

The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic - Walter Pitts (nautil.us)

2015-01-29 cognitive, ai, neuroscience, characters

Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones (creativedeletion.com)

2015-01-28 computing, falsehoods, time

Retiring Python as a Teaching Language (dadgum.com)

2015-01-20 computing, learning, python, javascript, empowerment

On the Design of Escaped Realities (ribbonfarm.com)

2015-01-16 computing, games, rationality, simulacra, ego, realism, vr

The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp (jackmorris.xyz)

2015-01-11 math

Replication crisis (wikipedia.org)

2015-01-09 science, doomed, replication-crisis

Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture (ribbonfarm.com)

2015-01-08 cognitive, bicameral-mind, religion, consciousness, social, meaning

Cliodynamics (peterturchin.com)

2015 history, peter-turchin

Rob Pike's poop page (robpike.io)

2015 computing, poop, web, weird, rob-pike, scraping

Use to test web scrapers

Category theory: online lecture notes, etc. (logicmatters.net)

2015 math, category-theory

How to get good at math contests (markan.net)

2015 math, exercises

Advent of Code (adventofcode.com)

2015 computing, exercises, advent-of-code

The algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data types (recurse.com)

2015 computing, haskell

Paul Almond article archive (reducing-suffering.org)

2015 religion, rationality, ai, atheism, philosophy

Haskell Fan Site (stanford.edu)

2015 computing, math, haskell, geometric-algebra

A Collection of Quick Observations - Brian Tomasik (briantomasik.com)

2015 learning, sensemaking

EVA Wiki (semantic-mediawiki.org)

2015 semantic-web, space, wiki

How to Make an RPG: Stats (howtomakeanrpg.com)

2015 games, gamedev, crpg

Google Common Lisp Style Guide (google.github.io)

2015 computing, lisp

Immutability Changes Everything (pdf) (cidrdb.org)

2015 computing, databases

Functional Education (bitemyapp.com)

2014-12-31 computing, learning, haskell

Math Kills the Analogies, a Good Thing (gnxp.com)

2014-12-31 math, biology, sensemaking

Fact-checking unreality, fancy, and fantasy (zompist.wordpress.com)

2014-12-20 worldbuilding, writing

The Monster (grognor.blogspot.com)

2014-12-16 social, effort, will, doomed

The Infamous Windows "Hello World" Program (charlespetzold.com)

2014-12-08 computing, c, cursed, history

Ask HN: How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles? (news.ycombinator.com)

2014-12-04 math, learning

Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind (bbc.com)

2014-12-02 ai, alignment

Book Review: On The Road (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-12-02 books, social, trust, friction, modernity, atomization

How to Be an Expert in a Changing World (paulgraham.com)

2014-12 rationality

How You Know (paulgraham.com)

2014-12 rationality, cognitive, learning

Propositions as Types (pdf) (ed.ac.uk)

2014-11-29 computing, type-theory

Dragon’s Dogma and the Mythic Underworld (persenche.medium.com)

2014-11-24 games, crpg, underworld

The Generalist (thebigquestions.com)

2014-11-17 math, grothendieck

𝔄 Humans should learn maths (scattered-thoughts.net)

2014-11-15 math, learning

Handmade Hero (handmadehero.org)

2014-11-13 computing, gamedev, engines, empowerment

Doing Business in Japan (kalzumeus.com)

2014-11-07 business, japan

𝔄 A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names (laurajmixon.com)

2014-11-06 social, subcultures, struggle-sessions, characters, requireshate

Building C Projects (nethack4.org)

2014-11-05 computing, c

The Art Of Insight In Science And Engineering: Mastering Complexity (mit.edu)

2014-11 estimation, science, math, rationality

Literature review on the benefits of static types (danluu.com)

2014-11 computing, plt

Tribe color matrix (imgur.com)

2014-10-28 grey-tribe, blue-tribe, politics, religion

Book Review: A Future for Socialism (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-10-23 politics, books, communism, economics

𝔄 Safe spaces and competing access needs (theunitofcaring.tumblr.com)

2014-10-20 social, the-pale, moderation

Uncertainty and confidence (srconstantin.github.io)

2014-10-16 estimation, rationality, bayesianism, knightian-uncertainty

𝔄 I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-09-30 rationality, politics, grey-tribe

Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services (pdf) (glat.info)

2014-09-29 computing, formal-methods, backend

Why No Science of Nerds? (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-09-25 grey-tribe, sociology

𝔄 Oxbridge Notes Guide To Autodidactism (oxbridgenotes.com)

2014-09-21 learning

Delacian's Scrapbook (delacian.tumblr.com)

2014-09-20 gamedev, procgen, architecture

Creating Epic-Scale Games on an Indie Budget (gamedeveloper.com)

2014-09-18 gamedev, procgen, space, minimalism

Zero to One: Secrets (businessinsider.com)

2014-09-15 business, rationality, peter-thiel

Book Review: Singer on Marx (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-09-13 politics, books, history, communism

What the Hell, Hegel? (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-09-12 philosophy, diseased-discipline, hegel

The Book No One Read (nautil.us)

2014-09-11 books, transhumanism, systems, stanislaw-lem

"Cyranoids": Stanley Milgram's Creepiest Experiment (discovermagazine.com)

2014-09-06 social, psychology, weird

The Crazyist Metaphysics of Mind 🔒 (doi.org)

2014-09 cognitive, consciousness, philosophy, weird

The Future Programming Manifesto (alarmingdevelopment.org)

2014-08-27 computing, complexity, empowerment, minimalism

Ebola-chan (knowyourmeme.com)

2014-08-26 egregores, 4chan, weird

A paper algorithm notation (canonical.org)

2014-08-26 notetaking, computing

Christopher Thomas Knight (wikipedia.org)

2014-08-24 weird, social, characters

The Invisible Nation - Reconciling Utilitarianism and Contractualism (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-08-24 politics, dealism, economics, libertarianism

How to Balance an RPG (kotaku.com)

2014-08-22 games, gamedev, crpg

Black Triangles (rampantgames.com)

2014-08-12 computing, gamedev

The resource leak bug of our civilization (countercomplex.blogspot.com)

2014-08-05 computing, minimalism, alienation, efficiency

The Fame Trap (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)

2014-08-04 academia, social

Meditations on Moloch (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-07-30 rationality, equilibria

Chronological Association (dtsheffler.com)

2014-07-28 notetaking, organization

Notebook Annotation (dtsheffler.com)

2014-07-26 notetaking

Refactoring the Internet: Taking Down the Walls (sifter.org)

2014-07-24 computing, decentralized

Chaos Magic in a Nutshell (specularium.org)

2014-07-24 magic, physics, weird

The fatal attraction of FRP (t0yv0.blogspot.com)

2014-07-22 computing, frp

Thoughts: Divinty - Original Sin (scientificgamer.com)

2014-07-21 games, crpg

Two Goals of Note-taking (dtsheffler.com)

2014-07-21 notetaking, learning

Tegmark's Vast Math (overcomingbias.com)

2014-07-21 transhumanism, physics, math, max-tegmark, reality, uploads, systems, many-worlds, simulation-argument

𝔄 The Story of Doom (richardcobbett.com)

2014-07-18 games, doom

𝔄 IQ Shredders (xenosystems.net)

2014-07-17 evolution, iq, doomed

Growing Children for Bostrom's Disneyland (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-07-13 future, meaning, transhumanism

Interactive scientific computing; of pythonic parts and goldilocks languages (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

2014-07-12 computing

Strategy headroom in roguelikes (nethack4.org)

2014-07-07 games, roguelikes, gamedev

Dzogchen and Glennzgchen (meditationstuff.wordpress.com)

2014-06-26 meditation, dzogchen

Stop whining and accept these axioms (pienaarspace.wordpress.com)

2014-06-24 physics, quantum-physics

Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation (gwern.net)

2014-06-24 rationality, causality

𝔄 How we play RTS and what is wrong (competitivegamedesign.net)

2014-06-23 games, rts

Eigenmorality (scottaaronson.blog)

2014-06-18 social, trust-networks, systems, math, politics, morality

Understanding Heidegger on Technology (thenewatlantis.com)

2014-06-10 heidegger, technology, philosophy

𝔄 Archipelago and Atomic Communitarism (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-06-07 politics, patchwork

Complexity no Bar to AI (gwern.net)

2014-06-01 ai, computing, singularity, complexity

Norris Numbers (teamten.com)

2014-06-01 computing, complexity

How to become a good theoretical physicist (goodtheorist.science)

2014-06 physics, learning, books

Keep a Changelog (keepachangelog.com)

2014-05-31 computing

Why I Am Not An Integrated Information Theorist (or, The Unconscious Expander) (scottaaronson.blog)

2014-05-21 cognitive, consciousness, integrated-information-theory, physics, complexity, systems

Fnords (nithgrim.wordpress.com)

2014-05-21 politics, shitpost, grey-tribe, suppression

The Metropolitan Man (fanfiction.net)

2014-05-19 fiction

Chasing the Dragon (eurogamer.net)

2014-05-18 gamedev, chris-crawford

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (jsomers.net)

2014-05-18 writing, language

Pain we forgot (scattered-thoughts.net)

2014-05-17 computing, usability, learning

Types, and two approaches to problem solving (sigfpe.com)

2014-05-17 computing, math, type-theory

Map homunculus (simblob.blogspot.com)

2014-05-12 math, gamedev, geometry

Roguelike AI [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] (dillingers.com)

2014-05-10 games, roguelikes, gamedev

Congratulations! You just won millions of dollars in the lottery! Now you're fucked. (reddit.com)

2014-05-06 money, social, doomed, lotteries

Epigrams · Gwern.net (gwern.net)

2014-04-30 rationality

Right is the New Left (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-04-22 politics, social, luxury-beliefs

The Door Problem (lizengland.com)

2014-04-21 gamedev

Old Watch Towers of Ingushetia (englishrussia.com)

2014-04-19 architecture, worldbuilding, russia

tptacek reviews Practical Cryptography With Go (news.ycombinator.com)

2014-04-13 books, computing, cryptography

𝔄 The five kinds of nanotechnology (metamodern.com)

2014-04-04 nanotechnology

My April Fools' Day Confession (yudkowsky.tumblr.com)

2014-04-01 dath-ilan, rationality, worldbuilding

Univalent Foundations (pdf) (ias.edu)

2014-03-26 computing, type-theory, math, hott

When the serpent bites (kundalini.se)

2014-03-23 meditation, kundalini, weird

Typical Mind and Disbelief in Straight People (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-03-20 sensemaking, social, weird

Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction (slehar.wordpress.com)

2014-03-18 math, computing, geometric-algebra, cg

Memory management in C programs (nethack4.org)

2014-03-16 computing, c, 101

Can It Be Wrong to Crystallize Patterns? (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-03-15 rationality, rectification-of-names, egregores, language

Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years (qz.com)

2014-03-11 politics, war, drones, progress, ai

Global Village Construction Set (opensourceecology.org)

2014-03-02 technology, decentralized, farming

Tim Oren's User Interface Advice (rath.ca)

2014-03-01 computing, ui

Ohm parsing toolkit (github.com/ohmjs)

2014-02-27 computing, parsing

In Favor of Niceness, Community and Civilization (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-02-23 politics, social, liberalism, the-pale, elua

Book Review: Linear Algebra Done Right (MIRI course list) (greaterwrong.com)

2014-02-17 books, math

Torus-Earth (aleph.se)

2014-02-04 math, geometry, physics, space

The Not Rocket Science Rule Of Software Engineering (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

2014-02-02 computing, devops

Lure of the Void (pdf) (themigrationperiod.wordpress.com)

2014-02 space, future, politics, economics, energetics

Wirehead Gods on Lotus Thrones (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-01-28 transhumanism, meaning, wireheading, value, uploads

There are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All! (randomascii.wordpress.com)

2014-01-27 computing, floating-point

The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (theguardian.com)

2014-01-19 science, math, psychology, sensemaking, alan-sokal

On Neuromancer (a rant) (firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com)

2014-01-18 fiction, cyberpunk, scifi

𝔄 Innovation on the App Store (imgur.com)

2014-01-16 games, mobile, cursed, library-of-babel

A Response to Apophemi on Triggers (slatestarcodex.com)

2014-01-12 social, struggle-sessions, the-pale, grey-tribe

Some design docs and code samples from Starflight (github.com/tangentforks)

2014-01-09 computing, starflight, forth

Consciousness as a State of Matter (arxiv.org)

2014-01-06 cognitive, physics, reality, objects, consciousness, max-tegmark, systems

The Pannini Projection (tksharpless.net)

2014 math, geometry, art

𝔄 Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine - Reflections on the Developer Productivity (lispm.de)

2014 computing, lisp

Smarter policymaking through improved collective cognition? (pdf) (aleph.se)

2014 rationality, politics, systems, decentralized

The 7date specification (tylerneylon.com)

2014 time, weird

Little Languages for Relational Programming (pdf) (schemeworkshop.org)

2014 computing, lisp, logic-programming

How did we get here from there? The transformation of analytic philosophy (pdf) (ox.ac.uk)

2014 philosophy, reality

Dungeon Crawlers (dungeoncrawlers.org)

2014 games, crpg

Art of Screenshake notes (reddit.com)

2013-12-17 gamedev

The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction (linkedin.com)

2013-12-16 computing, backend

40 comics by Alan Moore (adamcadre.ac)

2013-12-15 comics, alan-moore

You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (qntm.org)

2013-12-09 time, cursed

A Something Sort of Like a Left-Libertarianish Manifesto (slatestarcodex.com)

2013-12-08 politics, libertarianism

The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe (arxiv.org)

2013-12-02 space, evolution, abiogenesis, aliens

Star Control II - Adam Cadre (adamcadre.ac)

2013-11-23 games, space, starflight

𝔄 Exiting the Vampire Castle (thenorthstar.info)

2013-11-22 social, struggle-sessions, mark-fisher

Book Review: Computability and Logic (greaterwrong.com)

2013-11-21 books, computing, logic

Lindy effect (wikipedia.org)

2013-11-19 lindy, history, estimation

𝔄 Dark Souls review (thratchen.com)

2013-11-15 games, soulslikes

On learning difficult things (greaterwrong.com)

2013-11-12 rationality, learning

Commentary on the Ax spec (github.com/mnemnion)

2013-11-02 computing, weird

Some thoughts on education and political priorities (pdf) (dominiccummings.com)

2013-11 education, science, future, politics, grey-tribe

The Night Watch (pdf) (harvard.edu)

2013-11 computing, funny

Prototyping Challenge: 3D Modeling Tool for 2.5D RPG Art (lostgarden.com)

2013-10-24 cg, computing, gamedev, modeling

Noether: Symmetry in Programming Language Design (pdf) (tahoe-lafs.org)

2013-10-22 computing, symmetry

Mental Context for Model Theory (greaterwrong.com)

2013-10-20 books, logic, philosophy

Book Review: Naïve Set Theory (MIRI course list) (greaterwrong.com)

2013-09-30 books, math

When does a physical system compute? (arxiv.org)

2013-09-30 computing, physics, philosophy

Notes on Soviet life, on discussing Cryo's KGB game [2] (lparchive.org)

2013-09-26 russia, games

Book Review: Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (MIRI course list) (greaterwrong.com)

2013-09-19 math, books, category-theory

Book Review: Cognitive Science (MIRI course list) (greaterwrong.com)

2013-09-09 books, cognitive

Raging Swan's dungeon design advice [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] (raging-swan.livejournal.com)

2013-09-03 games, rpg

Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found (the-toast.net)

2013-09-03 doomed, space, funny

Book Review: Heuristics and Biases (MIRI course list) (greaterwrong.com)

2013-09-02 books, replication-crisis, rationality

Stephen Hsu on Cognitive Genomics (intelligence.org)

2013-08-31 genetics, iq

How to do foreground/background meditation (meditationstuff.wordpress.com)

2013-08-25 meditation

Leaving Go (bitbucket.io)

2013-08-23 golang, critical

Beautiful Native Libraries (pocoo.org)

2013-08-18 computing

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs (strikemag.org)

2013-08-17 work, meaning

The Shape of Rome (exurbe.com)

2013-08-15 rome, architecture, history

Things to commit just before leaving your job (gist.github.com/aras-p)

2013-08-13 computing, c, funny

Towards being able to ignore $TERM (nethack4.org)

2013-08-12 computing, plaintext

How To Think Real Good (metarationality.com)

2013-08-09 rationality, metarationality

𝔄 Gigantic Pentagram Found in Kazakhstan (vigilantcitizen.com)

2013-08-03 worldbuilding, weird

Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (dkriesel.com)

2013-08-02 computing, security, weird

Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you (coding2learn.org)

2013-07-29 computing, empowerment

Accuracy in historical fiction (exurbe.com)

2013-07-26 fiction, history

Applied Cryptography Engineering (sockpuppet.org)

2013-07-22 learning, computing, cryptography

Fallout: Equestria (fimfiction.net)

2013-07-22 games, fiction, ponies

On Knowledge Representation [2] [3] (sifter.org)

2013-07-13 computing, ai, type-theory

Friction (stratechery.com)

2013-07-08 business, social, friction

Post-Atheism [2] (meltingasphalt.com)

2013-07-08 religion, atheism, social

The Hierarchy of Requests (celandine13.livejournal.com)

2013-07-03 social

Review of Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-Physics (pdf) (kerrymckenzie.org)

2013-07 philosophy, books, diseased-discipline, physics, colin-mcginn

Dirty Game Development Tricks (gamedeveloper.com)

2013-06-24 gamedev

𝔄 Last Call (newyorker.com)

2013-06-24 atomization, meaning, death, zen, japan, burnout

Flight rules for Git (github.com/k88hudson)

2013-06-22 computing, version-control, git

Social psychology is a flamethrower (slatestarcodex.com)

2013-06-22 social-psychology, politics

The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine (arxiv.org)

2013-06-02 computing, transhumanism, quantum-computing, uploads, philosophy

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (mjt.me.uk)

2013-05-29 computing, falsehoods

The type system of mathematics (qchu.wordpress.com)

2013-05-28 computing, math, type-theory

Jasen Murray on tranquility meditation (kajsotala.fi)

2013-05-15 meditation

Hockett's design features (wikipedia.org)

2013-05-11 linguistics

Posts on Raikoth [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] (slatestarcodex.com)

2013-05-06 worldbuilding, raikoth

Against The Seriousness Of Theology (gnxp.com)

2013-04-24 rationality, religion, social

On OD&D's Setting [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] (initiativeone.blogspot.com)

2013-04-24 games, rpg, worldbuilding, osr

F.D.C. Willard (wikipedia.org)

2013-04-20 science, cats

Causal Entropic Forces (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2013-04-19 physics, entropy, systems, ai

A Comparison of Decision Algorithms on Newcomblike Problems (pdf) (intelligence.org)

2013-04-19 decision-theory

Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Years in an Alternate Universe (slatestarcodex.com)

2013-04-15 worldbuilding, social, raikoth

Personality: The Body in Society [2] [3] (meltingasphalt.com)

2013-04-15 social, personality, evopsych

The Myth of the Self: Neurology Weighs In (emptinessteachings.com)

2013-04-14 books, meditation, cognitive, thomas-metzinger, identity

Life Before Earth (arxiv.org)

2013-03-28 genetics, evolution, physics, space, aliens

The largest computer ever built (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

2013-03-28 computing, history, technology

Why You Don't Want Vipassana (muflax.church)

2013-03-12 meditation

A Thrive/Survive Theory of the Political Spectrum (slatestarcodex.com)

2013-03-04 politics, progress, luxury-beliefs

Reactionary Philosophy in an Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell [2] (slatestarcodex.com)

2013-03-03 politics

Making Platforming Games (subtractivedesign.blogspot.com)

2013-02-28 gamedev

Decision Theory FAQ (greaterwrong.com)

2013-02-28 decision-theory

Why there is no Hitchhiker's Guide to Mathematics for Programmers (jeremykun.com)

2013-02-08 math, computing

Four hours of concentration a day (johndcook.com)

2013-02-04 math, work

𝔄 Single Income No Kids: A Supernormal Stimulus Benevolently Exploiting Ancestral Patterns (theviewfromhell.blogspot.com)

2013-02-01 social, children, meaning

Preference falsification (wikipedia.org)

2013-01-31 decision-theory, sensemaking, common-knowledge

Focusing Creativity: RPG Genres (gamedeveloper.com)

2013-01-24 games, gamedev, crpg

Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat (nohello.com)

2013-01-16 social

Senses Initiated Lucid Dream (SSILD) (cosmiciron.blogspot.com)

2013-01-16 lucid-dreaming, sleep

Guide to Making Metroidvania Style Games [2] (subtractivedesign.blogspot.com)

2013-01-15 gamedev

Gold Box: Spells and their Uses [2] (crpgaddict.blogspot.com)

2013-01-11 games, crpg

Schemaless Data Structures (martinfowler.com)

2013-01-07 computing, backend

Constructive developmental framework (wikipedia.org)

2013-01-03 kegan

𝔄 Lords of Chaos and Chaos Reborn (gollopgames.com)

2013-01-02 games, crpg, lords-of-chaos

Plaintext Productivity (plaintext-productivity.net)

2013 plaintext, notetaking, organization

The Descent to C (greenend.org.uk)

2013 computing, c, 101

Alex Alaniz' math study notes (pdf) (ucr.edu)

2013 learning, math

Alex Alaniz' math and physics syllabus (pdf) (ucr.edu)

2013 learning, math, physics

Project Oberon The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer (ethz.ch)

2013 computing

Avernum 4 Annotated Maps (harehunter.info)

2013 games, gamedev, crpg, level-design

NandGame - Build a computer from scratch (nandgame.com)

2013 learning, computing, games

HackerRank (hackerrank.com)

2013 computing, exercises

wj = work journal (tylerneylon.com)

2013 work, notetaking

If brains are computers, what kind of computers are they? - Daniel Dennett (greaterwrong.com)

2013 computing, cognitive, philosophy

A Detailed Game-Design Analysis of The Reliques of Tolti-Aph (inky.org)

2013 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction, crpg

The Egg of the Phoenix: a computational time capsule (canonical.org)

2013 technology, computing

Rethinking set theory (arxiv.org)

2012-12-28 math

The root of the problem is that in the framework of ZFC, the elements of a set are always sets too. Thus, given a set X, it always makes sense in ZFC to ask what the elements of the elements of X are. Now, a typical set in ordinary mathematics is R. But accost a mathematician at random and ask them ‘what are the elements of π?’, and they will probably assume they misheard you, or ask you what you’re talking about, or else tell you that your question makes no sense.

𝔄 What, proper old-fashioned jaguars aren't good enough for you people? (squid314.livejournal.com)

2012-12-20 singularity, timewave-zero, weird

Utopian for Beginners (newyorker.com)

2012-12-16 conlang, politics, weird, john-quijada

On Seeing Through and Unseeing: The Hacker Mindset (gwern.net)

2012-12-09 physics, computing, rationality, security

hledger (joeyh.name)

2012-12-03 computing, haskell, accounting

Friendship is Optimal (fimfiction.net)

2012-11-13 ai, fiction, singularity, alignment

Ray Tracing in Real-Time Games (pdf) (jbikker.github.io)

2012-11-06 computing, gamedev, cg

Uses This / Joey Hess (usesthis.com)

2012-10-30 computing, minimalism

𝔄 Building Your Own Memex (gradhacker.org)

2012-10-10 notetaking

Moving Parts: the Aesthetic of Intricacy (celandine13.livejournal.com)

2012-10-05 art, rationality

Technology will destroy human nature (kajsotala.fi)

2012-10-05 transhumanism, biology, value, thingspace

The Fifth Problem: Math & Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union (ruthfullyyours.com)

2012-10-04 russia, math, politics

Learning D [2] [3] [4] (probablydance.com)

2012-10-03 computing, d

𝔄 The Sixth Meditation on Superweapons (squid314.livejournal.com)

2012-09-16 rationality, politics

The Yudkowsky Ambition scale (news.ycombinator.com)

2012-09-12 future, ai, transhumanism, eliezer-yudkowsky

In Search of a Bigger Boom (nuclearsecrecy.com)

2012-09-12 technology, physics, edward-teller, nuclear

If You Meet Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the Road, Kill Him. (rifters.com)

2012-09-06 science, politics, media, rationality

Crapshoot: Sentient, the game where every NPC has independent AI, and they all hate you (pcgamer.com)

2012-08-28 games, weird, space

The Fragile Foundation of Skills (rdonoghue.blogspot.com)

2012-08-23 games, rpg, gamedev

Learning to Read Causal Loop Diagrams (systemsandus.com)

2012-08-15 causality, systems, research

Motivation and methods for math self-study (stackexchange.com)

2012-08-11 math

What do startup founders want? (aaronsw.com)

2012-08-05 business, value, meaning

Crash Course on Notation in Programming Language Theory (siek.blogspot.com)

2012-07-26 computing, type-theory

A Tall Tail (reactormag.com)

2012-07-20 fiction, red-mercury

Opinions on college education (celandine13.livejournal.com)

2012-07-18 education, academia

Master's thesis on homotopy type theory (pdf) (homotopytypetheory.org)

2012-07-06 computing, type-theory, hott

The Rockwell International Integrated Space Plan (Vector Redux Version) (makezine.com)

2012-07-06 space, systems

Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)

2012-06-27 computing

Everything I know about digital preservation (jmac.org)

2012-06-24 games, computing, interactive-fiction

Falsehoods programmers believe about time [2] (infiniteundo.com)

2012-06-18 computing, falsehoods, time

Porting POWDER (pdf) (gamesofgrey.com)

2012-06-02 gamedev

Hexcrawl (thealexandrian.net)

2012-06-01 games, rpg, worldbuilding

Dissociated Mechanics – A Brief Primer (thealexandrian.net)

2012-05-31 games, rpg, gamedev

The Fake Magazines Used in Blade Runner Are Still Futuristic, Awesome (theatlantic.com)

2012-05-26 fiction, scifi, art

Extreme reading (fogus.me)

2012-05-23 learning

Engelbart's Violin (loper-os.org)

2012-05-23 computing, keyboards

Famous Programers on How Common Lisp Sucks (xahlee.info)

2012-05-12 computing, lisp

Reviewing As Thinking (yourawesomememory.com)

2012-05-11 learning, spaced-repetition

Of Smart Rednecks and Low Church Libertarians (chariotofreaction.blogspot.com)

2012-05-11 politics, class, technology, social, libertarianism

How Flashcards Fail: Confessions of a Tired Memory Guy (yourawesomememory.com)

2012-05-05 learning, spaced-repetition

One Man’s Modus Ponens (gwern.net)

2012-05-01 sensemaking, modus-tollens

Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity (celandine13.livejournal.com)

2012-04-29 social, rationality

Flowcharts, the once and future programming language (vanemden.wordpress.com)

2012-04-08 computing

Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World (greaterwrong.com)

2012-04-05 transhumanism, rationality, uploads, identity, cryonics, weird

𝔄 Science on the Rampage (nybooks.com)

2012-04-05 science, crackpots

Altruistic punishment (wikipedia.org)

2012-04-05 rationality, social, law

A Forth story (groups.google.com)

2012-04-04 computing, forth

Semantic Linefeeds (rhodesmill.org)

2012-04-03 plaintext, writing

Game Structures [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] (thealexandrian.net)

2012-04-02 games, rpg

A cheap version of nonstandard analysis (terrytao.wordpress.com)

2012-04-02 math, nonstandard-analysis

jrnl (jrnl.sh)

2012-03-29 notetaking, plaintext

Sigils Reboot (runesoup.com)

2012-03-22 magic

Schelling fences on slippery slopes (greaterwrong.com)

2012-03-17 schelling-points, rationality

Entity Systems: what makes good Components? good Entities? (t-machine.org)

2012-03-16 gamedev, ecs

The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

2012-03-12 games, borderlands

𝔄 Ontological Therapy (muflax.com)

2012-03-08 ai, doomed, demons, rationality, weird

Tribute to Vladimir Arnold (pdf) (ams.org)

2012-03 math

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (paulgraham.com)

2012-03 business, computing, will

Co-dfns compiler (github.com/Co-dfns)

2012-02-24 computing, apl

Reading for the Rushed (fogus.me)

2012-02-22 learning, notetaking

𝔄 The End of Rationality (muflax.com)

2012-02-22 cognitive, rationality, weird, consciousness, muflax

𝔄 Psychopathy and superficial reliability (michaelochurch.wordpress.com)

2012-02-11 social, effort, sociopaths, trust

Challenges for Brain Emulation: Why is Building a Brain so Difficult? (pdf) (cornell.edu)

2012-02-05 cognitive, transhumanism, neuroscience, uploads

Programming as collaborative reference (pdf) (okmij.org)

2012-01-28 computing, social

Deconcentration of Attention: addressing the complexity of software engineering (arxiv.org)

2012-01-27 computing, cognitive, complexity

If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? (michaelnielsen.org)

2012-01-23 science, causality, statistics

IBNIZ (github.com/viznut)

2012-01-03 computing, demoscene

The Fantastic Four: The Great American Novel (tedagame.com)

2012 comics, fantastic-four, marvel, weird

The Nature of Code (natureofcode.com)

2012 computing, processing, empowerment

Simple pathtracing (iquilezles.org)

2012 computing, cg

The Credence Calibration Game (acritch.com)

2012 sensemaking, rationality, forecasting

suckless.org philosophy (suckless.org)

2012 computing, minimalism, suckless

LeetCode - The World's Leading Online Programming Learning Platform (leetcode.com)

2012 computing, exercises

The Leprechauns of Software Engineering (leanpub.com)

2012 computing

Writing about Philosophy (tylerneylon.com)

2012 philosophy, writing

Utter elitism: French mathematics and the system of classes prépas (pdf) (demorgangazette.wordpress.com)

2012 education, math, france

Review of The Meaning of Disgust (pdf) (ucl.ac.uk)

2012 philosophy, books, diseased-discipline, poop, colin-mcginn

How to Program IF (inky.org)

2012 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction

𝔄 Glorious Murder Cube (antifandom.com)

2012 guns, 4chan, weird

Respecting Science - Atomic Rockets (projectrho.com)

2012 science, space

Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import (pdf) (intelligence.org)

2012 ai, singularity, alignment

Structures, Learning and Ergosystems (pdf) (ihes.fr)

2011-12-30 ai, cognitive, math, weird

𝔄 Their Noonday Demons, and Ours (nytimes.com)

2011-12-23 books, effort, burnout, religion

One Night in Skyrim Makes a Strong Man Crumble (grantland.com)

2011-12-08 games, crpg

More shell, less egg (leancrew.com)

2011-12-04 computing, unix, donald-knuth, minimalism

How Doctors Die (zocalopublicsquare.org)

2011-11-30 doomed, death, medicine

Why Hypercard Had to Die (loper-os.org)

2011-11-29 computing, empowerment

How to Write a 21st Century Proof (pdf) (azurewebsites.net)

2011-11-23 math, tla, formal-methods

Training in 'concrete thinking' can be self-help treatment for depression (sciencedaily.com)

2011-11-18 rationality, cognitive, mental-health

The Twelve-Factor App (12factor.net)

2011-11-17 computing, backend

The curse of identity (greaterwrong.com)

2011-11-17 social, identity

𝔄 A Status Effect Stacking Algorithm (fortressofdoors.com)

2011-11-01 games, gamedev, crpg

Principles of Solomonoff Induction and AIXI (pdf) (hutter1.net)

2011-11 computing, ai, ait, bayesianism, minimalism

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (dadgum.com)

2011-10-30 computing, minimalism

The Movie Set That Ate Itself (gq.com)

2011-10-27 movies, weird

RIP jmc. (loper-os.org)

2011-10-25 computing, lisp

Deep Intellect - Inside the mind of the octopus (orionmagazine.org)

2011-10-25 cognitive, tentacles

𝔄 On Reality (pdf) (paul-almond.com)

2011-10-25 philosophy, reality

Design mistakes in mixed C/C++ and Lua projects (lua-users.org)

2011-10-20 gamedev, lua, c++

2 is a smell (puredanger.github.io)

2011-10-12 computing, clojure

Steve Yegge's Platforms Rant (gist.github.com/chitchcock)

2011-10-11 computing, backend

Tidy Data (pdf) (had.co.nz)

2011-09-23 computing, data-science, dataframes

The First Law of Complexodynamics (scottaaronson.blog)

2011-09-23 physics, systems, entropy

𝔄 Who killed videogames? (a ghost story) (insertcredit.com)

2011-09-22 games, business, skinner-boxes, doomed

Idiosyncrasy credit (wikipedia.org)

2011-09-20 social

How to Study Mathematics (uh.edu)

2011-09-19 math

Scruffies and Neats in Artificial Intelligence (vanemden.wordpress.com)

2011-09-11 ai, history

10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) (fogus.me)

2011-09-08 computing

Video Games Killed the Video-Game Star (grantland.com)

2011-09-06 games

Achron review (rockpapershotgun.com)

2011-09-05 games, time, rts

Learning to Swim by Reading a Book (nyaruka.com)

2011-09-01 computing, academia

𝔄 Seasteading Tyranitopia (lukeparrish.rationalsites.com)

2011-08-30 politics, seasteading, libertarianism, grey-tribe

The Calculus of Grit (ribbonfarm.com)

2011-08-19 meaning, effort, rationality, will

Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (pdf) (scottaaronson.com)

2011-08-08 philosophy, computing

Hindley-Milner type system (wikipedia.org)

2011-08-02 computing, plt

Yago Project (yago-knowledge.org)

2011-08-01 ai, knowledge-base, datasets

Is 0 a decimal literal or an octal literal? (stackoverflow.com)

2011-08-01 computing, c, cursed

Blind Geometers (onionesquereality.wordpress.com)

2011-07-31 cognitive, math, weird

7 Rules for Designing Great Stats (choiceofgames.com)

2011-07-27 games, gamedev, crpg

The Rise of Experiential Games (filfre.net)

2011-07-22 games, immersive-sims, wargaming

𝔄 Localization: Why We Do What We Do (carpefulgur.com)

2011-07-22 gamedev, writing, language

List of common 3D test models (wikipedia.org)

2011-07-18 computing, cg

How to fit an elephant (johndcook.com)

2011-06-21 math

Worm (parahumans.wordpress.com)

2011-06-11 fiction

The MIT style in Artificial Intelligence 1958 – 1985 (vanemden.wordpress.com)

2011-06-07 ai, history

Distance Estimated 3D Fractals [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] (hvidtfeldts.net)

2011-06-03 computing, cg

Existing Absurd Technologies (greaterwrong.com)

2011-05-30 rationality, technology

Cycles in family tree software (stackoverflow.com)

2011-05-28 computing, weird

Science fiction is no place for dabblers - Iain M. Banks (theguardian.com)

2011-05-13 fiction, scifi

What Is The Morning Writing Effect? (gwern.net)

2011-05-11 writing

On short URLs (qntm.org)

2011-05-10 web, uris, organization

The German School of Lisp (fogus.me)

2011-05-03 computing, lisp

Notes on a New Philosophy of Empirical Science (arxiv.org)

2011-04-28 computing, ait, science

Science is data compression

Meditation, insight, and rationality [2] (greaterwrong.com)

2011-04-28 meditation

The Consequentialism FAQ (archive.org)

2011-04-26 rationality, consequentialism

Some Guidelines for Fun Games (archive.org)

2011-04-22 gamedev

Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians (greaterwrong.com)

2011-04-21 rationality, grey-tribe

Cryonics, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism: Utopia Then and Now (chronopause.com)

2011-04-19 transhumanism, cryonics, nanotechnology

The Lisp Curse (winestockwebdesign.com)

2011-04-15 computing, lisp, social

Current and Future programming languages for Videogames (c0de517e.blogspot.com)

2011-04-03 computing, gamedev, plt

Very early mention of Rust here

Maru (piumarta.com)

2011-04-01 computing, lisp, minimalism, bootstrapping

Suntzuanime reviews (suntzuanime.wordpress.com)

2011-04-01 anime

Maneki Neko (lightspeedmagazine.com)

2011-04 fiction, scifi, social, decentralized, ai, bruce-sterling

Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline (greaterwrong.com)

2011-03-28 philosophy, diseased-discipline, rationality

Procedural Generation and User-Generated Content [2] (archive.org)

2011-03-23 gamedev, procgen

Five ways to know yourself: An introduction to basic mindfulness (pdf) (shinzen.org)

2011-03-11 meditation, noting

The Return of the Barbarian (ribbonfarm.com)

2011-03-10 history, merchants-and-warriors, legibility, technology

Archiving URLs (gwern.net)

2011-03-10 computing, internet, notetaking

Accounting for Computer Scientists (kleppmann.com)

2011-03-07 accounting

Network Theory (ucr.edu)

2011-03-04 math, category-theory, systems

Tuple Spaces (or, Good Ideas Don't Always Win) (carpentries.org)

2011-03-01 computing, tuple-spaces

Taproot Texts: The Sources of Modern Fantasy Fiction in World Religions and Mythologies (pilgrimpathways.wordpress.com)

2011-02-23 games, fiction, rpg, mythology

Does Personal Identity Survive Cryopreservation? (chronopause.com)

2011-02-23 transhumanism, cognitive, cryonics, identity, philosophy, neuroscience, consciousness

Ultima Underworld Bugs (dfan.org)

2011-02-21 crpg, games, ultima, gamedev

Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (km-515.livejournal.com)

2011-02-20 tolkien, fiction

Goodbye academia, I get a life (devicerandom.org)

2011-02-18 academia, effort, work

From the Chronicles of Scruffy Versus Neat: the Lighthill Affair (vanemden.wordpress.com)

2011-02-18 ai, history

On the Slaying of Spherical Cows (thealexandrian.net)

2011-02-17 games, rpg, gamedev

The Cognitive Style of Unix (vivekhaldar.com)

2011-02-17 computing, unix

Adaptive tile refresh (wikipedia.org)

2011-02-15 gamedev, historical, john-carmack

𝔄 The 15 Golden Rules of UI design and flow (altdev.co)

2011-02-10 computing, gamedev, ui

Space Stasis (slate.com)

2011-02-02 space, technology, neal-stephenson

Analysis: The Eight Rules Of Roguelike Design (gamedeveloper.com)

2011-02-02 games, gamedev, roguelikes

The Art of Checking (tanyakhovanova.com)

2011-01-29 math

Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge (greaterwrong.com)

2011-01-20 self-improvement, rationality

The Best Textbooks on Every Subject (greaterwrong.com)

2011-01-16 learning, science, math

Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger Debate at Davos (newrepublic.com)

2011-01-13 philosophy, heidegger

The Yogi Toolbox: Riding The Jhanic Arc via The Witness (thehamiltonproject.blogspot.com)

2011-01-13 meditation, jhanas, identity

Voxatron Preview (youtube.com)

2011-01-04 cg, computing, gamedev, voxels

nested (dashnet.org)

2011-01 gamedev, space, procgen

3D Cube World Level Generation (sourceforge.net)

2011 gamedev, cg, computing, procgen, voxels, minecraft

The Best of edw519 (amazonaws.com)

2011 computing, business, edw519

Why Isn’t There More Progress in Philosophy? (pdf) (consc.net)

2011 philosophy

Reversing the Design: Final Fantasy 6 [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] (thegamedesignforum.com)

2011 games, crpg, gamedev

Reading Strauss in Beijing (newrepublic.com)

2010-12-17 strauss, china, politics

Confidence levels inside and outside an argument (greaterwrong.com)

2010-12-16 estimation, rationality

Gwern's anime reviews (gwern.net)

2010-12-14 anime

𝔄 Minecraft like rendering experiments in OpenGL 4 (codeflow.org)

2010-12-09 cg, computing, gamedev, voxels

Can you do the double slit experiment with a cat cannon? (askamathematician.com)

2010-12-01 physics, quantum-physics, weird

What Went Wrong with Civ5? (sullla.com)

2010-12 games

𝔄 Things I see in student code (po8.org)

2010-12 computing, learning

Hypersigil (cyborganthropology.com)

2010-11-26 egregores, weird

𝔄 A brief foray into vectorial semantics (jsomers.net)

2010-11-08 computing, machine-learning, notetaking, tagging

I Survived /r/anarchism's ShitStorm of 2010 and I Didn't Even Get a Lousy T-Shirt. [2] (dbzer0.com)

2010-11-02 anarchism, politics, struggle-sessions

The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) (multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com)

2010-10-29 ai, alignment, singularity

State of the Art Game Objects (gbgames.com)

2010-10-27 gamedev, objects

What's it like to be Peter Hacker? (metafilter.com)

2010-10-25 philosophy, diseased-discipline, language, peter-hacker

Dead children unit of currency (archive.org)

2010-10-14 morality, effective-altruism

Algorithmic Thermodynamics (arxiv.org)

2010-10-11 physics, computing, entropy, ait, systems

GNU Recutils (gnu.org)

2010-10-08 computing, notetaking, plaintext

Mathematical Intuition—What Is It? (rjlipton.com)

2010-10-01 math

Species and functors and types, oh my! 🔒 (doi.org)

2010-09-30 computing, type-theory

𝔄 Knowledge is a (pre)sheaf (sixwingedseraph.wordpress.com)

2010-09-28 math, science, category-theory

Chrono Trigger review [2] (socksmakepeoplesexy.net)

2010-09-26 games

Unplayable (brainygamer.com)

2010-09-22 crpg, games, ultima

Mitchell Heisman's Suicide Note (archive.org)

2010-09-18 sensemaking, politics, weird, characters

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism (greaterwrong.com)

2010-09-14 rationality, sensemaking, politics, social, luxury-beliefs

Suppose “uneducated” and “contrarian” opinion are two independent random (e.g. normal) variables with the same mean representing the truth... (greaterwrong.com)

2010-09-14 rationality, sensemaking, politics

My history with Forth & stack machines (yosefk.com)

2010-09-10 computing, forth

Polygonal Map Generation for Games (stanford.edu)

2010-09-04 gamedev, procgen

A Journey Across the Main Stream: Games for My Mother-in-Law (gamedeveloper.com)

2010-09-01 gamedev, testing

The sad evolution of wikis (apenwarr.ca)

2010-09-01 wiki, wikipedia, social, empowerment

Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing (loper-os.org)

2010-08-26 computing, empowerment

Where we went wrong (antipope.org)

2010-08-20 computing, empowerment, doomed

Visualizing the Creative Process (lostgarden.com)

2010-08-17 gamedev, work, creativity

𝔄 The “I used to be an atheist” Claim (pdf) (paul-almond.com)

2010-08-10 religion, rationality, atheism

Design a Magic System Redux [2] [3] [4] (roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)

2010-08-08 games, crpg, gamedev

How to win a million dollars (deanradin.blogspot.com)

2010-08-02 psi, science

Topless data (conal.net)

2010-08-02 computing, type-theory

Meditation acutely improves psychomotor vigilance, and may decrease sleep need (doi.org)

2010-07-29 meditation, sleep, open-access

Xandering the Dungeon [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] (thealexandrian.net)

2010-07-23 games, rpg

𝔄 Programming for a culture approaching singularity (lukepalmer.wordpress.com)

2010-07-22 computing, singularity, systems, plt

Computation in Physical Systems (stanford.edu)

2010-07-21 computing, philosophy, physics

𝔄 World War II was unrealistic (squid314.livejournal.com)

2010-07-11 history, funny

We're all Jason Bourne now. (metafilter.com)

2010-07-07 work, social, fiction

The Acceleration of Addictiveness (paulgraham.com)

2010-07 computing, social, internet

The Top Idea in Your Mind (paulgraham.com)

2010-07 rationality, business

Morphic Pilot Theory: Toward an Extension of Quantum Physics that Better Explains Psi Phenomena (pdf) (goertzel.org)

2010-06-24 physics, psi, weird

That Sounds Smart (aaronsw.com)

2010-06-18 social, rationality

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (kalzumeus.com)

2010-06-17 computing, falsehoods, naming

WARC (file format) (wikipedia.org)

2010-06-16 computing, archiving

23 Things Not To Write In An E-mail (npr.org)

2010-06-14 business

Measure-theoretic Probability: Why it should be learnt and how to get started (jmanton.wordpress.com)

2010-06-04 math, probability, measure-theory

𝔄 Humanfood (lukepalmer.wordpress.com)

2010-06-04 nutrition, soylent

Hiding Behind the Screen - Roger Scruton (thenewatlantis.com)

2010-06 computing, internet, philosophy, atomization

Matters Computational (pdf) (jjj.de)

2010-06 computing

Proceduralism [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] (roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)

2010-05-31 gamedev, procgen

The Culture Bomb (firstchurchofspacejesus.blogspot.com)

2010-05-19 fiction, egregores, scifi

Atheism Conquered (wikipedia.org)

2010-05-11 religion, atheism, historical, strauss

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus side-by-side edition (pdf) (umass.edu)

2010-04-14 philosophy, wittgenstein

Energy Rate Density as a Complexity Metric and Evolutionary Driver (pdf) (harvard.edu)

2010-04-05 physics, entropy, systems, complexity

Porting from DOS to Windows (solhsa.com)

2010-04 gamedev

Runequest Appendix N (peopletobe.blogspot.com)

2010-03-26 games, rpg, fiction, runequest, appendix-n

Robert Ettinger on uploads (cryonet.org)

2010-03-24 transhumanism, cryonics, uploads, identity

Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning (arxiv.org)

2010-03-23 math, ai, category-theory, language, meaning

Video games: the addiction (theguardian.com)

2010-03-21 games, drugs

“Hello World!” (gowers.wordpress.com)

2010-03-20 computing, math, c, empowerment

TrechBroom (trenchbroom.github.io)

2010-03-14 cg, computing, gamedev, architecture, modeling

Theory of Change (aaronsw.com)

2010-03-14 social, rationality

HOWTO: Read more books (aaronsw.com)

2010-03-02 learning

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (hpmor.com)

2010-02-28 fiction, grey-tribe

Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom (vectorpoem.com)

2010-02-28 gamedev, games, doom, level-design, empowerment

The Anatomy of a Shmup (gamedeveloper.com)

2010-02-18 gamedev

The CRPG Addict (crpgaddict.blogspot.com)

2010-02-15 games, crpg

A survey of anti-cryonics writing (greaterwrong.com)

2010-02-08 transhumanism, sensemaking, cryonics

Me And The Abstracted Persona of the Anti-Ism Community At Large (alicorn24.livejournal.com)

2010-02-03 struggle-sessions

Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment? (mathoverflow.net)

2010-01-27 learning, math

Stock and flow (snarkmarket.com)

2010-01-18 economics

Applied Algebraic Topology & Sensor Networks (pdf) (upenn.edu)

2010 math, topology, art

A country of which nothing is known but the name (pdf) (xahlee.info)

2010 math, grothendieck

Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World (cornell.edu)

2010 systems

Kaggle: Your Home for Data Science (kaggle.com)

2010 computing, exercises, data-science

J1: a small Forth CPU Core for FPGAs (pdf) (excamera.com)

2010 computing, forth

The Non-Libertarian FAQ (slatestarcodex.com)

2010 politics, libertarianism

TSR & WotC Font Usage FAQ (hahnlibrary.net)

2010 games, rpg, fonts

The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis (pdf) (consc.net)

2010 ai, singularity, alignment, philosophy, transhumanism, david-chalmers

Timeless Decision Theory (pdf) (intelligence.org)

2010 rationality, decision-theory, time

Qoob (weebly.com)

2010 cg, computing, modeling, demoscene

The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com)

2009-12-21 business, social, stagnation

Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report 🔒 (doi.org)

2009-12-15 medicine, body-horror

filesystem hierarchy standard for game developers (groups.google.com)

2009-12-10 gamedev

You have made your bedrock, now lie in it (loper-os.org)

2009-12-07 computing, empowerment, minimalism

Hierarchies in Dictionary Definition Space (arxiv.org)

2009-11-30 computing, language, grounding-kernels

Thoughts on semantics for 3D graphics (conal.net)

2009-11-22 computing, math, haskell, cg, geometry

Another model of geometric primitive is a function from 2D space to 3D space, i.e., the “parametric” representation of surfaces. Along with the function, we’ll probably want some means of describing the subset of 2D over which the surface is defined, so as to trim our surfaces. A simple formalization would be type Surf = R2 -> Maybe R3

Information Geometry and Evolutionary Game Theory (arxiv.org)

2009-11-09 math, systems

The Ten <username> Rules of Fic Writing (spacebattles.com)

2009-11-09 writing, fiction

Polymath and the origin of life (gowers.wordpress.com)

2009-11-07 systems, math, abiogenesis

The chat room/forum problem (scobleizer.blog)

2009-11-02 social-media, blogs

What's the most harmful math heuristic you've seen? (mathoverflow.net)

2009-10-24 math, rationality, cursed

A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database (jonudell.net)

2009-10-23 computing, literate-databases, time

djb (aaronsw.com)

2009-10-19 djb, computing, security

The Quest for Quests [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] (roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)

2009-10-18 gamedev

High Anxiety (braythwayt.com)

2009-10-10 learning, baduk

The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office" (ribbonfarm.com)

2009-10-07 gervais-principle, work, social

Teaching linear algebra (bentilly.blogspot.com)

2009-09-28 learning, math, spaced-repetition

The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover (fanfiction.net)

2009-09-20 fiction, transhumanism, scifi, uploads

jonesforth.S (github.com/AlexandreAbreu)

2009-09-11 computing, forth, bootstrapping, asm

Causal inference in statistics: An overview - Judea Pearl (pdf) (ucla.edu)

2009-09 causality, statistics

The Anatomy of Determination (paulgraham.com)

2009-09 business, effort

Yes (vividness.live)

2009-08-29 meaning, buddhism, will

Starglider's Mini-FAQ on Artificial Intelligence (stardestroyer.net)

2009-08-28 ai, alignment

No yes. Either HELL YEAH! or no. (sive.rs)

2009-08-26 business, rationality

Dirty Coding Tricks (gamedeveloper.com)

2009-08-20 gamedev

Experiential Pica (greaterwrong.com)

2009-08-17 sensemaking, mental-illness, akrasia

Thomas C. Schelling’s “Strategy of Conflict” (greaterwrong.com)

2009-07-28 rationality, schelling-points

Robert Edgerton’s ‘Sick Societies’ (1992) Revisited: Is Culture Adaptive? (brusselsjournal.com)

2009-07-16 social, politics

Goodbye, Paul Panks (textfiles.com)

2009-07-15 games, social, interactive-fiction, characters

Battlestar's "Daybreak:" The worst ending in the history of on-screen science fiction (4brad.com)

2009-07-13 fiction, worldbuilding, scifi

Am I Conscious Now? (psychologytoday.com)

2009-07-09 cognitive, consciousness, mindfulness

Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)

2009-07-08 transhumanism, longevity

"Mimetic Fiction" (mumpsimus.blogspot.com)

2009-07-01 fiction, worldbuilding, scifi, reality

Thumbs Down for Clojure (loper-os.org)

2009-06-25 computing, lisp

On Really Trying (gwern.net)

2009-06-23 effort

Butugychag (wikipedia.org)

2009-06-15 cursed, russia

𝔄 How to Learn About Everything (metamodern.com)

2009-05-27 rationality, science, learning

The Git Parable (preston-werner.com)

2009-05-19 computing, version-control, git, learning

Categories for the practising physicist (arxiv.org)

2009-05-19 math, category-theory, physics

Citizen Naruto (item economies in games) (clicknothing.typepad.com)

2009-05-18 gamedev, economics

𝔄 How to Understand Everything (and why) (metamodern.com)

2009-05-17 rationality, science, learning

A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies (greaterwrong.com)

2009-05-14 religion, rationality, politics, atheism, nazis

RaceFail '09 (fanlore.org)

2009-05-14 fiction, social, scifi, subcultures, struggle-sessions

My theory about time travel is as follows: If your story is not about time travel, but it has time travel in it, then your story sucks. (jwz.org)

2009-05-10 fiction, scifi, writing, jwz, time

Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction (eblong.com)

2009-05-03 games, computing, gamedev, interactive-fiction, logic-programming

Sid [Meier’s] Rules (designer-notes.com)

2009-05-01 gamedev

Gunk (wikipedia.org)

2009-04-10 philosophy, mereology

Dual n-Back FAQ (gwern.net)

2009-03-25 intelligence-augmentation, iq

Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate (greaterwrong.com)

2009-03-20 grey-tribe, social

The Least Convenient Possible World (greaterwrong.com)

2009-03-14 rationality

𝔄 Attacked from Within (kuro5hin.org)

2009-03-13 computing, social, internet, moderation

Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning (gwern.net)

2009-03-11 learning, spaced-repetition

FOGBANK (wikipedia.org)

2009-03-09 technology, stagnation

The Bobbit Worm Chronicles (michiganreefers.com)

2009-03-08 biology, body-horror

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org)

2009-03-02 math, computing, type-theory, category-theory, physics, topology, logic, curry-howard

High Gygaxian (grognardia.blogspot.com)

2009-02-19 games, rpg

Reactions to OD&D (thealexandrian.net)

2009-02-18 games, rpg, osr

Is Partial Compendium Latvian Humor Joke (chrisconnollyonline.com)

2009-02-11 funny

Keep Your Identity Small (paulgraham.com)

2009-02 social, identity

A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (arxiv.org)

2009-01-26 computing, identity

Kirk Allen (wikipedia.org)

2009-01-25 fiction, scifi, mental-illness, characters

The Melancholy of Subculture Society (gwern.net)

2009-01-12 social, meaning, subcultures

Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (byorgey.wordpress.com)

2009-01-12 computing, learning, sensemaking, haskell, burritos

3D rendering as functional reactive programming (conal.net)

2009-01-11 computing, haskell, cg

Rendering is a function from something to something else. Let’s call these somethings (3D) “Geometry” and (2D) “Image”, where Geometry and Image are types of functional (immutable) values.

Concatenative Programming: An Overlooked Paradigm in Functional Programming (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2009 computing, plt

How to Read a Technical Paper (jhu.edu)

2009 learning, math, science

Reading for graduate students (might.net)

2009 science, computing, research

There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (terrytao.wordpress.com)

2009 math, beginners-mind

colorForth Source Compression (colorforth.github.io)

2009 computing, forth

A Mathematician's Lament (wikipedia.org)

2009 education, math, will, lockharts-lament

𝔄 What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell (stephendiehl.com)

2009 computing, haskell

David Marr (wikipedia.org)

2008-12-31 cognitive, neuroscience, characters

Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0 (pdf) (yp.to)

2008-11-02 computing, security, qmail, djb

Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap (pdf) (ox.ac.uk)

2008-10-31 cognitive, transhumanism, neuroscience, uploads

The Problem With URLs (codinghorror.com)

2008-10-29 computing, internet

Project Oilsand (wikipedia.org)

2008-10-23 technology, nuclear, weird, worldbuilding

The Universal Design Pattern (prototype inheritance) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

2008-10-20 computing, gamedev, properties

𝔄 Japanese Neon Lamp Fights (odditycentral.com)

2008-10-08 japan, weird

StokeKnifeForth (github.com/kragen)

2008-10-04 computing, plt, forth, bootstrapping

Dorothy Eady (wikipedia.org)

2008-09-26 characters, weird, history, psi

The String Theory (esquire.com)

2008-09-17 meaning

Gygaxian "Naturalism" (grognardia.blogspot.com)

2008-09-04 games, rpg, osr, realism

Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (pdf) (ams.org)

2008-09 math, grothendieck, characters

Life, gravity and the second law of thermodynamics 🔒 (doi.org)

2008-08-22 physics, entropy, systems, evolution

Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU in 4096 bytes (pdf) (iquilezles.org)

2008-08-22 computing, cg

Acme editor team responds to feature requests (groups.google.com)

2008-08-19 computing, plan-9, minimalism, management

John Carmack interviews from 1996 to 2007 (pdf) (fabiensanglard.net)

2008-08-02 gamedev, computing, business, john-carmack

High Level Architecture (wikipedia.org)

2008-07-17 games, wargaming, weird, bureaucracy

John Carmack Slashdot comments (pdf) (fabiensanglard.net)

2008-07-06 john-carmack, computing, gamedev

𝔄 Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (ycombinator.com)

2008-07 business, computing

OMeta#: Who? What? When? Where? Why? (moserware.com)

2008-06-24 computing

𝔄 The Itch (newyorker.com)

2008-06-23 cognitive, body-horror, neuroscience

𝔄 The Little Manual of API Design (pdf) (tum.de)

2008-06-19 computing

Limbo Of The Lost - An Astonishing Tale (rockpapershotgun.com)

2008-06-12 games, weird

Research program (wikipedia.org)

2008-06-11 science, rationality

𝔄 Civilization-Level Quantum Suicide (paul-almond.com)

2008-06-02 rationality, weird, quantum-immortality, philosophy

Machine Super Intelligence (pdf) (vetta.org)

2008-06 ai, alignment, singularity

How to Recognize a Dark Age (loper-os.org)

2008-05-30 computing, stagnation

Teaching Programming Languages in a Post-Linnaean Age (pdf) (brown.edu)

2008-05-29 computing, plt, learning

Truth as value and duty: lessons of mathematics (arxiv.org)

2008-05-27 math

The Neanderthal correlation (doi.org)

2008-05-22 fiction, scifi, genetics, open-access

Designing a Magic System [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] (roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)

2008-05-03 games, gamedev, crpg

Disconnecting Distraction (paulgraham.com)

2008-05 computing, effort, akrasia, effort, internet

𝔄 Transhumanism still at the crossroads (metamagician3000.blogspot.com)

2008-04-22 transhumanism, activism, greg-egan

𝔄 Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm (wired.com)

2008-04-21 learning, spaced-repetition

The Art of Memetics (archive.org)

2008-04-09 egregores, weird

Arithmetic derivative (wikipedia.org)

2008-04-09 math

Trollman's Tomes (pdf) (4pcdn.org)

2008-03-30 games, rpg, osr

German Tank Problem (wikipedia.org)

2008-03-24 statistics

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit (swtch.com)

2008-03-14 computing

where is everybody? (jwz.org)

2008-03-07 social, mmo

Lifelogging, an Inevitability (kk.org)

2008-02-21 computing, identity, future, lifelogging

The mediocrity of local peaks (gnxp.com)

2008-02-18 social, subcultures

Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test? (moserware.com)

2008-02-16 computing

Dinos on the Moon (overcomingbias.com)

2008-02-12 archeology, reptilians, weird, aliens

Three-hour-a-week language (johndcook.com)

2008-01-31 perl, cognitive

Infinitesimal Methods in Mathematical Economics (pdf) (berkeley.edu)

2008-01-20 math, nonstandard-analysis, economics, logic

Stuff White People Like (stuffwhitepeoplelike.com)

2008-01-18 funny, politics, blue-tribe

Code design basics (roguelike development) (roguebasin.com)

2008-01-11 games, gamedev, roguelikes, 101

On the offered skills in Heroes of Might and Magic III (pdf) (ou.edu)

2008-01-06 computing, games, math

What does topology have to do with computability? (sigfpe.com)

2008-01-06 math, computing, topology

Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong (scottaaronson.blog)

2008-01-05 math, research, crackpots, funny

The Book (Architecture of Symbolic Computers) (loper-os.org)

2008-01-04 books, computing

The Basic AI Drives (pdf) (selfawaresystems.com)

2008-01 ai, alignment

𝔄 For example - if you came in here asking "how do I use a jackhammer" we might ask "why do you need to use a jackhammer" (bash.org)

2008 xy-problem

𝔄 The Berlin Interpretation (roguebasin.com)

2008 games, roguelikes

The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans (pdf) (agi-conf.org)

2008 ai, alignment, mad-science, accelerationism

How to Write a Great Game (inky.org)

2008 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction

Android Arts (androidarts.com)

2008 gamedev, art

Mathematics and the Psychedelic Revolution (pdf) (maps.org)

2008 math, psychedelics, history

single-file public domain (or MIT licensed) libraries for C/C++ (github.com/nothings)

2008 gamedev

The Most Rapid and Direct Means to Eternal Bliss (selfdefinition.org)

2008 meditation, weird

𝔄 A View of Mathematics - Alain Connes (pdf) (alainconnes.org)

2008 math

SuperMegaMonkey's Marvel Comics Chronology (supermegamonkey.net)

2008 comics, marvel

No Myth Roleplaying Summary (inky.org)

2008 games, rpg, worldbuilding

Advice to the Beginner - Alain Connes (pdf) (oregonstate.edu)

2008 math, physics

The first observation is that each mathematician is a special case, and in general mathematicians tend to behave like “fermions” i.e. avoid working in areas which are too trendy whereas physicists behave a lot more like “bosons” which coalesce in large packs and are often “overselling” their doings, an attitude which mathematicians despise."

Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk (pdf) (intelligence.org)

2008 ai, alignment

Dragon Quest / Dragon Warrior (kontek.net)

2007-12-18 games, crpg

Einstellung effect (wikipedia.org)

2007-12-03 rationality, cognitive

STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming progress reports (pdf) [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] (tinlizzie.org)

2007-12 computing, plt, ui, empowerment, vpri

The story of LoperOS [2] (loper-os.org)

2007-11-25 computing, empowerment

𝔄 Did NSA put a secret backdoor in new encryption standard? (wired.com)

2007-11-15 cryptography, politics

The Early Bird gets the Caffeine Pill (aleph.se)

2007-11-03 sleep

Make Category Theory Intuitive! (j-paine.org)

2007-11 math, category-theory

OMeta: an Object-Oriented Language for Pattern Matching (pdf) (tinlizzie.org)

2007-10-22 computing

Instructions for Generating Access Concentration (leighb.com)

2007-10-15 meditation, jhanas

Sabine Hossenfelder on The Mathematical Universe (backreaction.blogspot.com)

2007-10-11 physics, max-tegmark, reality

How to read a (good) book in one hour (savageminds.org)

2007-10-01 learning, research

Shut up and calculate (arxiv.org)

2007-09-25 physics, max-tegmark, reality

We have lost control of the apparatus (raganwald.com)

2007-09-12 computing

What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? (metafilter.com)

2007-09-08 learning, science, research

How to Do Philosophy (paulgraham.com)

2007-09 philosophy, diseased-discipline, rationality

Derinkuyu, or: the allure of the underground city (bldgblog.com)

2007-08-19 architecture, worldbuilding

𝔄 Inventing Fundamental New Computing Technologies (vpri.org)

2007-08-18 computing, empowerment

Demon core (wikipedia.org)

2007-08-14 physics, cursed

Compression by descent (groups.google.com)

2007-08-11 computing, outsider-cs, compression, funny

What's wrong with CS research (unqualified-reservations.org)

2007-08-02 computing, stagnation

Holding a Program in One's Head (paulgraham.com)

2007-08 computing, minimalism, cognitive, complexity

Nakar's Ultima Let's Plays [2] [3] (lparchive.org)

2007-07-14 crpg, games, ultima, funny

How to Read a Paper (pdf) (sigcomm.org)

2007-07 learning, research, science

Career advice - Terence Tao (terrytao.wordpress.com)

2007-07 math, learning

The High Frontier, Redux (antipope.org)

2007-06-16 fiction, scifi, space, doomed, science

𝔄 When is one thing equal to some other thing? (pdf) (harvard.edu)

2007-06-12 math, category-theory, identity

Total functional programming (wikipedia.org)

2007-06-05 computing

Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach? (readingrockets.org)

2007-06 critical-thinking, rationality, education

How Much LSD Does It Take to Kill an Elephant (scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle)

2007-05-30 psychedelics, weird

Finger Induced Lucid Dream (FILD) (dreamviews.com)

2007-05-19 lucid-dreaming, sleep

Fired With Enthusiasm (red-gate.com)

2007-04-30 computing, business, work

Learning From Sudoku Solvers (ravimohan.blogspot.com)

2007-04-24 computing, sudoku, peter-norvig, ron-jeffries, testing

The Mathematical Universe (arxiv.org)

2007-04-05 transhumanism, physics, math, reality, max-tegmark, uploads, systems

Nerds are nuts (gnxp.com)

2007-04-04 social, crackpots, religion, science, rationality

The Majority Is Always Wrong (greaterwrong.com)

2007-04-03 rationality

Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian (doi.org)

2007-04 rationality, logic, ai, heidegger, metarationality, frame-problem, philosophy, open-access

If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula... (pdf) (coffeeintotheorems.com)

2007-04 bureaucracy, math, shitpost

Archimedes’s Chronophone (greaterwrong.com)

2007-03-23 rationality, asymmetric-weapons

Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (fliptomato.wordpress.com)

2007-03-19 math, science, cursed

John Carmack .plan archive 1996 - 2007 (pdf) [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] (fabiensanglard.net)

2007-03-18 john-carmack, computing, gamedev

Mathematical knowledge: internal, social and cultural aspects (arxiv.org)

2007-03-14 math

D&D: Calibrating Your Expectations (thealexandrian.net)

2007-03-13 games, rpg

Permutation City - The Dust Theory: Frequently Asked Questions (gregegan.net)

2007-03-11 fiction, transhumanism, greg-egan, scifi, identity, uploads

Watching faces on TV in the morning may cure depression (columbia.edu)

2007-02-28 mental-illness, depression, social

Why Can't Programmers.. Program? (codinghorror.com)

2007-02-26 computing

The History of Computer Role-Playing Games [2] [3] (gamedeveloper.com)

2007-02-23 games, crpg

What is good mathematics? (arxiv.org)

2007-02-13 math

A Case of the MUMPS (thedailywtf.com)

2007-02-13 computing, mumps, bureaucracy, cursed

𝔄 Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding. (uzwi.wordpress.com)

2007-01-27 fiction, scifi, worldbuilding

The Unapologetic Mathematician (unapologetic.wordpress.com)

2007-01-15 math

Running the gauntlet - NetHack vs. Angband (iconbar.com)

2007-01-14 games, roguelikes, nethack, angband

Blue zone (wikipedia.org)

2007-01-10 transhumanism, longevity

Evolve Your Hierarchy (cowboyprogramming.com)

2007-01-05 gamedev, ecs, objects

Git for Computer Scientists (eagain.net)

2007 computing, version-control, git, learning

Aro Dzogchen Meditation Course (arocourse.neocities.org)

2007 meditation, dzogchen

Philotomy's musings (pdf) (grey-elf.com)

2007 games, rpg, osr, underworld

Three Hundred Mechanics (squidi.net)

2007 gamedev

Incursion Tech Doc (roguebasin.com)

2007 gamedev

𝔄 I can has rezearch Papar? (cylegage.com)

2007 computing, internet, 4chan

Levels of Organization in General Intelligence (pdf) (intelligence.org)

2007 ai, alignment

Tonc: Whirlwind Tour of ARM Assembly (coranac.com)

2007 computing, arm, asm

Mertonian norms (wikipedia.org)

2006-12-13 sensemaking, science, mertonian-norms

OLPC Human Interface Guidelines (laptop.org)

2006-11-28 computing, ui

Max Headroom signal hijacking (wikipedia.org)

2006-11-25 tv, max-headroom, weird

The Less Wrong Sequences (readthesequences.com)

2006-11-22 ai, rationality, belief-in-belief, thingspace, alignment

List of fallacies (wikipedia.org)

2006-11-21 rationality

Dwarf Fortress - Boatmurdered (lparchive.org)

2006-11-10 games, dwarf-fortress

𝔄 Helix — a 1D skyscraper with a single corridor (free.fr)

2006-11-08 architecture, worldbuilding, weird

Marchetti's constant (wikipedia.org)

2006-11-06 architecture, systems

Computational Thinking and Outreach (ed.ac.uk)

2006-11-04 computing, computational-thinking

The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective (pdf) (mit.edu)

2006-11-01 computing, gamedev

Collaborative Diffusion: Programming Antiobjects (pdf) (colorado.edu)

2006-10-26 gamedev, objects

How to Organize Your Files (jhu.edu)

2006-10-17 computing, organization

Warning Signs for Tomorrow (aleph.se)

2006-10-07 fiction, scifi, nanotechnology, transhumanism

Outline of thought (wikipedia.org)

2006-10-02 cognitive

Interview with Thomas Ligotti (teemingbrain.com)

2006-10 fiction, thomas-ligotti, horror

𝔄 Atheism, Heresy and Hesychasm (scienceblogs.com/gnxp)

2006-09-13 religion, atheism, rationality, evopsych

𝔄 VPRI Proposal to NSF (pdf) (vpri.org)

2006-08-31 computing

A new way to look at networking (video) (youtube.com)

2006-08-30 computing, decentralized, internet

Mundane science fiction (wikipedia.org)

2006-08-11 fiction, scifi, space

Dual process theory (wikipedia.org)

2006-08-03 cognitive, system-1

And they say complexity has no philosophical implications (scottaaronson.blog)

2006-07-23 math, ultrafinitism

Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats (codinghorror.com)

2006-07-14 computing

Elastic tabstops (nick-gravgaard.com)

2006-07-02 plaintext

Wizard School (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

2006-07-01 computing, education, empowerment

todo.txt (github.com/todotxt)

2006-06-23 work, notetaking, plaintext

abstractmath.org (abstractmath.org)

2006-06-21 math, learning

My First BillG Review (joelonsoftware.com)

2006-06-16 computing, work

My favourite interview question (raganwald.com)

2006-06-12 computing

Wieliczka Salt Mine (wikipedia.org)

2006-06-11 worldbuilding, underworld

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (marktarver.com)

2006-04-28 computing, social, lisp

Exhaustive Essential Fantasy Reading Lists - Jeff VanderMeer (vanderworld.blogspot.com)

2006-04-21 fiction, fantasy, books

Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

2006-04-14 computing, lisp

Zooko's triangle (wikipedia.org)

2006-04-10 computing, decentralized, naming

Ten things everyone should know about philosophy (philosophyetc.net)

2006-04-06 religion, philosophy, atheism, sensemaking

𝔄 Elite: Frontier reverse engineering notes (jongware.com)

2006-04-01 gamedev, space, reverse-engineering

Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

2006-03-30 computing

Blåvitt (wikipedia.org)

2006-03-09 design, business, marketing

Computational Thinking (pdf) (cmu.edu)

2006-03 computing, computational-thinking, empowerment, rationality

Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality (wikipedia.org)

2006-02-24 transhumanism, longevity

Broken Koans and other Zen debris (davidchess.com)

2006-02-22 funny, buddhism

Out of the Tar Pit (pdf) (curtclifton.net)

2006-02-06 computing

That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger (gwern.net)

2006-02-05 cycling, characters, body-horror

Foozles: A retrospective (pdf) (hh.se)

2006-01-27 computing, funny

The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model (pdf) (edolstra.github.io)

2006-01-18 computing, nix, decentralized

NixOS author's PhD thesis

Fecal microbiota transplant (wikipedia.org)

2006-01-18 medicine, weird, poop

Holocene calendar (wikipedia.org)

2006-01-11 history, notetaking

eForth Overview (pdf) (exemark.com)

2006 computing, forth

𝔄 Jorma Ollilan kunto-ohjelma (pdf) (talentum.com)

2006 calisthenics

When Slide Rules Ruled (pdf) (uvm.edu)

2006 math, technology

DeathOnAStick (nethackwiki.com)

2006 games, roguelikes, nethack

Higher order truths about chmess (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2006 philosophy, diseased-discipline

Marvel Universe Power Grid (marvunapp.com)

2006 comics, fiction, worldbuilding, marvel

𝔄 Review of Image Works' Gravity (demon.co.uk)

2006 games, space

World History Timeline (fsmitha.com)

2006 history

Sol on Immediate Mode GUIs (IMGUI) (iki.fi)

2006 computing, ui, gamedev

Bracewell probe (wikipedia.org)

2005-12-31 space, aliens, worldbuilding

GopherVR (wikipedia.org)

2005-12-29 computing, cg, 1990s, vr

Bambi meets Godzilla (programming language wars) (google.com)

2005-12-29 computing, plt, smalltalk

Tunnel of Eupalinos (wikipedia.org)

2005-12-10 architecture, worldbuilding, history

Reddit and Lisp psychosis (findinglisp.com)

2005-12-09 computing, lisp, social

Rewriting Reddit (aaronsw.com)

2005-12-06 computing, reddit, python, lisp, history

Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester (wikipedia.org)

2005-12-06 physics, quantum-physics

Kaihōgyō (wikipedia.org)

2005-11-15 zen, running, weird

Baumol effect (wikipedia.org)

2005-11-10 cost-disease

Last man (wikipedia.org)

2005-11-06 philosophy, meaning, oversocialization, doomed, nietzsche, will

A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity (bactra.org)

2005-10-21 books, stephen-wolfram, science

General-purpose technology (wikipedia.org)

2005-10-18 technology

Seven Kill Stele (wikipedia.org)

2005-10-15 worldbuilding, weird

General revelation (wikipedia.org)

2005-10-12 religion

Algorithmic information theory (wikipedia.org)

2005-10-04 computing, ait

Difficult People (producingoss.com)

2005-10 computing, work, social, foss

Making COLAs with Pepsi and Coke (Combined Object-Lambda Architectures) (pdf) (piumarta.com)

2005-09-30 computing, plt

World of Warcraft Interview "Responses" (slashdot.org)

2005-09-22 mmo, bugmen

Bonnacon (wikipedia.org)

2005-09-15 worldbuilding, weird, poop

Dunbar's number (wikipedia.org)

2005-09-14

Floyd–Steinberg dithering (wikipedia.org)

2005-07-31 computing, cg

𝔄 What is a low-level language (paul-almond.com)

2005-07-17 computing, plt, ait

Bateman's principle (wikipedia.org)

2005-07-09 gender, evopsych

Review: Rhem 2 (eblong.com)

2005-07 games

How to read a paper (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

2005-06-23 research, computing

Khecarī mudrā (wikipedia.org)

2005-06-12 yoga, body-horror

Understanding brute force (pdf) (yp.to)

2005-04-25 computing, cryptography, djb

Notes on Ancient Domains of Mystery (gamedevblog.com)

2005-04-23 games, gamedev, crpg, experiential-density

You Can Write FORTRAN in any Language (codinghorror.com)

2005-04-22 computing, plt

Natural Language, Semantic Analysis and Interactive Fiction (pdf) (tufts.edu)

2005-04-10 games, interactive-fiction, gamedev, linguistics, inform-7

The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2005-04-08 philosophy, sensemaking, diseased-discipline, postmodernism

𝔄 A really, really, really long post about gay marriage that does not, in the end, support one side or the other (janegalt.net)

2005-04-02 politics, social, libertarianism, law

Drowning Mr. M (scientificamerican.com)

2005-04-01 cognitive, will, meditation, athymhormia

The Submarine (paulgraham.com)

2005-04 media, marketing, gaslighting

Intel BCD opcodes (wikipedia.org)

2005-03-30 computing, asm, cursed

The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions (google.com)

2005-03-29 computing, recruiting, work

Self-replicating machine (wikipedia.org)

2005-03-13 ai, robotics, systems, nanotechnology

Jacques Vallée (wikipedia.org)

2005-02-28 aliens, psi, weird, characters

Reversible computing (wikipedia.org)

2005-02-24 computing, physics

Language Grubbing (google.com)

2005-02-16 computing, plt

I've had lots of interesting insights and realizations about Java lately, but probably the most interesting one is that Java code-base size grows superlinearly as a function of your feature set. Java has almost no abstraction facilities, so refactoring Java code almost always makes it larger (by line count, token count, class count, or just about any other measure of code "size".)

NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality (arxiv.org)

2005-02-12 computing, physics

scheming-is-believing (google.com)

2005-02-07 computing, lisp

Functional Differential Geometry (pdf) (mit.edu)

2005-02 computing, math, lisp

ShockFrost (roguebasin.com)

2005-01-30 games, gamedev, roguelikes

One Laptop per Child (wikipedia.org)

2005-01-28 computing, empowerment

Rex Nemorensis (wikipedia.org)

2005-01-25 religion, worldbuilding

Twat v. Browning (upenn.edu)

2005-01-19 robert-browning, poetry, history, weird

AD&D Rules FAQ (gamespot.com)

2005-01-17 games, crpg

What You'll Wish You'd Known (paulgraham.com)

2005-01 social, meaning, effort, will

The wheel of reincarnation in computer hardware (cap-lore.com)

2005 computing

Frag (haskell.org)

2005 computing, gamedev, haskell, frp

Think Like a Player! (inky.org)

2005 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction

Installing DJBDNS (example outline file) (troubleshooters.com)

2005 notetaking, outliners, computing, djb

Wittgenstein's "Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough" (roangelo.net)

2005 wittgenstein, religion, magic

A Non-Philosopher's Guide to Philosophical Terms (consc.net)

2005 philosophy, funny

How to Accuse the Other Guy of Lying with Statistics (doi.org)

2005 science, peer-review, politics, statistics, suppression, open-access

A Conversation with Alan Kay (doi.org)

2004-12-27 computing, alan-kay, open-access

Pentti Linkola (wikipedia.org)

2004-12-19 pentti-linkola, nature, characters

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata (adammathes.com)

2004-12 computing, internet, tagging

Central Place Theory (wikipedia.org)

2004-11-29 math, architecture, systems, geometry

𝔄 Remembering Ken Iverson (keiapl.org)

2004-11 computing, apl

CHIP-8 (wikipedia.org)

2004-10-31 virtual-machine

Food Plant (localroger.com)

2004-10-26 work, farming

Neal Stephenson Slashdot interview (slashdot.org)

2004-10-20 neal-stephenson, funny

LenPEG (dangermouse.net)

2004-10-01 computing, compression, funny, outsider-cs

Science wars (wikipedia.org)

2004-09-17 science, politics, alan-sokal

Ted Nelson's ZigZag (lambda-the-ultimate.org)

2004-09-01 computing, ted-nelson, outsider-cs

PEP 20 – The Zen of Python (python.org)

2004-08-19 computing, python

Crimes Against Mimesis (rickandviv.net)

2004-08-18 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction

Demarcation problem (wikipedia.org)

2004-08-06 science, demarcation-problem

Montauk Project (wikipedia.org)

2004-08-04 conspiracies, weird

Cache Directory Tagging Specification (bford.info)

2004-07-19 computing

Cerne Abbas Giant (wikipedia.org)

2004-07-01 worldbuilding, weird

If you killed somebody, how would you dispose of the body without getting caught? (metafilter.com)

2004-06-13 funny

Fix Your Timestep! (gafferongames.com)

2004-06-10 gamedev

Loschmidt's paradox (wikipedia.org)

2004-06-08 thermodynamics, systems

Marvin Heemeyer (Killdozer rampage) (wikipedia.org)

2004-06-04 weird, characters

What is Golden Age Science Fiction? (ntnu.no)

2004-06 fiction, games, scifi, buck-rogers, rpg

Ford Nucleon (wikipedia.org)

2004-05-29 technology, nuclear

You can't tell people anything (habitatchronicles.com)

2004-04-22 computing, social, design

George R. Price (wikipedia.org)

2004-04-11 evolution, characters

Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern (pdf) (bruno-latour.fr)

2004-04-07 philosophy, postmodernism, sensemaking, objects, diseased-discipline

Lexicographic order (wikipedia.org)

2004-03-31 computing

Fourth International Posadist (wikipedia.org)

2004-02-27 politics, communism, aliens, weird

Spiral of silence (wikipedia.org)

2004-02-17 sensemaking, suppression, common-knowledge

Karig's commentary on ColorForth (trstn.net)

2004-02-14 computing, forth

What You Can't Say (paulgraham.com)

2004-01 social, politics, the-pale

The Future of Human Evolution (nickbostrom.com)

2004 ai, future, transhumanism, singularity, alignment, evolution

Problems for children from 5 to 15 (pdf) (imaginary.org)

2004 math, learning

The Ruthless Guide to 80s Action (ruthlessreviews.com)

2004 movies

All Things Devours (amirrorclear.net)

2004 games, interactive-fiction, time

Articles from The Inner Product (number-none.com)

2004 computing, plt, gamedev

Lectures on Theoretical Physics - David Tong (cam.ac.uk)

2004 physics

Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference (wikipedia.org)

2003-12-17 computing, ai, ait, bayesianism, minimalism

Jennifer Ringle (JenniCam) (wikipedia.org)

2003-12-17 computing, characters, parasociality, internet, historical

Negative temperature (wikipedia.org)

2003-11-10 physics

The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview (karmak.org)

2003-11-07 semantic-web, notetaking

Dead Right (examinedlife.typepad.com)

2003-11-07 politics, struggle-sessions, libertarianism, conservatism

Sluggish schizophrenia (wikipedia.org)

2003-10-04 politics, mental-illness, gaslighting, communism

Basics of the Unix Philosophy (catb.org)

2003-09-19 computing, unix

Extreme thinking (michaelnielsen.org)

2003-09-08 rationality, science

Whig history (wikipedia.org)

2003-08-14 politics, history, progress, liberalism

How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (pdf) (speakeasy.net)

2003-07-26 writing, notetaking, organization, weird

The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology (microsoft.com)

2003-07-21 computing, math

Explanatory gap (wikipedia.org)

2003-07-07 cognitive, consciousness

Curry-Howard correspondence (wikipedia.org)

2003-06-28 computing, type-theory, curry-howard

Limyaael's Fantasy Rants (elldimensional.wordpress.com)

2003-05-24 worldbuilding

Emanuel Swedenborg (wikipedia.org)

2003-05-09 religion, psi, weird, characters

Abilene paradox (wikipedia.org)

2003-05-09 decision-theory, sensemaking

Unix philosophy (wikipedia.org)

2003-05-08 computing

Declarative programming (wikipedia.org)

2003-04-14 computing, declarative-programming

How to destroy the Earth (qntm.org)

2003-04-03 space, physics

𝔄 The best qualities of high- and low-level languages (tlb.org)

2003-04-02 computing, plt

The Hundred-Year Language (paulgraham.com)

2003-04 computing, plt

Siddhi (wikipedia.org)

2003-03-25 buddhism, magic

Ultimate fate of the universe (wikipedia.org)

2003-03-07 space, cosmology, physics

The Continuous World of Dungeon Siege (archive.org)

2003-03-04 games, computing, gamedev, crpg, cg

Appropriate technology (wikipedia.org)

2003-03-02 technology, amistics

Petersen graph (wikipedia.org)

2003-03 math

Baldur's Gate 2 cheese guide (sorcerers.net)

2003-02-15 baldurs-gate, games

Dymaxion map (wikipedia.org)

2003-02-08 math, worldbuilding, maps, weird

Why Nerds are Unpopular (paulgraham.com)

2003-02 social, grey-tribe, will, effort

MIX (wikipedia.org)

2003-01-23 virtual-machine, donald-knuth

Rete algorithm (wikipedia.org)

2003-01-22 computing, logic-programming

𝔄 Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics (pdf) (asu.edu)

2003-01-10 math, geometric-algebra

Design and Research (paulgraham.com)

2003-01 science, design

Introduction to Principia Cybernetica (vub.ac.be)

2003 philosophy, wiki, weird, evolution, systems

The Google File System (research.google)

2003 computing, backend

Lemurian Time War (ccru.net)

2003 weird, william-burroughs, time

𝔄 Turning the Universe Inside-Out (lhup.edu)

2003 hollow-earth, crackpots, weird

Transhumanist values (nickbostrom.com)

2003 rationality, transhumanism, value, philosophy

VimOutliner HOWTO (troubleshooters.com)

2003 notetaking, outliners, plaintext

Functional Images (conal.net)

2003 computing, cg, haskell

Rotten Library mirror (gwern.net)

2003 weird, historical

How To Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (pdf) (ic.ac.uk)

2002-12-16 computing, empowerment

Universalis review (indie-rpgs.com)

2002-12-16 games, rpg

Conspiracy and prospiracy (esr.ibiblio.org)

2002-11-14 social, decentralized

The Role of Programming in the Formulation of Ideas (pdf) (mit.edu)

2002-11 computing, scheme, math, learning, plt, physics

Rupert Sheldrake (wikipedia.org)

2002-10-30 biology, psi, characters

Total Depravity (wikipedia.org)

2002-10-18 religion

Feature comparison of Avernum 3, Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewind Dale 2 (groups.google.com)

2002-10-17 games, crpg, baldurs-gate

Westermarck effect (wikipedia.org)

2002-10-04 social, evopsych

List of games that Buddha would not play (wikipedia.org)

2002-09-13 buddhism, weird

Emic and etic (wikipedia.org)

2002-08-11 sensemaking, sociology

Teaching To See Like a Mathematician 🔒 (doi.org)

2002-07 math, computing, geometry, cg, learning

Patterns for Personal Web Sites (rdrop.com)

2002-06-18 computing, writing, internet

Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements (joelonsoftware.com)

2002-06-12 business, computing

Succinctness is Power (paulgraham.com)

2002-05 computing, minimalism

Brain Bugs (stardestroyer.net)

2002-04-27 fiction, scifi, worldbuilding, realism, simulacra

𝔄 Russian Tea HOWTO (fazekas.hu)

2002-04-01 cooking

Shavian alphabet (wikipedia.org)

2002-03-20 language, writing

Mnemonic major system (wikipedia.org)

2002-02-26 learning, mnemonics

How I Lost Faith in Lisp (groups.google.com)

2002-02-19 computing, lisp, python

On Lisp on line (comment section spontaneously turns into support forum) (lemonodor.com)

2002-02-02 computing, lisp, internet, historical

Raymarching terrains (iquilezles.org)

2002 computing, cg

History of T - Olin Shivers (paulgraham.com)

2002 computing, lisp

The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics (vanderbilt.edu)

2002 math, learning

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (localroger.com)

2002 fiction, ai, transhumanism, scifi, alignment, singularity, uploads

Lisping at JPL (flownet.com)

2002 computing, lisp, space, nasa

The World of Blind Mathematicians (pdf) (ams.org)

2002 math, geometry, cognitive

𝔄 How to Read Mathematics (vcu.edu)

2002 math, learning

Instruction for Entering Jhana (leighb.com)

2002 meditation, jhanas

The Kokatrix 2D RPG project (sourceforge.net)

2002 games, computing, gamedev, crpg, ocaml

𝔄 Reform of the English Language (tlb.org)

2002 language

The Antic Cyber Graphics Software (doudoroff.com)

2002 cg, computing, modeling, historical

Pattern Identity Theory (orionsarm.com)

2001-12-19 transhumanism, identity, uploads

Paxos Made Simple (microsoft.com)

2001-12 computing, decentralized

The World's Most Toxic Value System (stevedutch.net)

2001-11-19 social, politics, honor-culture, merchants-and-warriors

Arc (paulgraham.com)

2001-11-17 computing, plt, lisp

Project Euler (projecteuler.net)

2001-10-05 computing, exercises, math

Chorded keyboard (wikipedia.org)

2001-09-14 computing, keyboards

Probability axioms (wikipedia.org)

2001-09-13 math, probability

UTD: Universal Text Data (jkorpela.fi)

2001-08-31 markup, notetaking

Fred Hoyle (wikipedia.org)

2001-08-22 physics, space, characters

𝔄 A mad day's work: From Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich (pdf) (msri.org)

2001-07-12 math, grothendieck

𝔄 Postmortem: Lionhead Studios' Black & White (gamasutra.com)

2001-06-13 games, rts, postmortem

𝔄 Baldur's Gate II: The Anatomy of a Sequel (gamasutra.com)

2001-05-02 games, crpg, postmortem, baldurs-gate

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? (simulation-argument.com)

2001-05 simulation-argument, philosophy

𝔄 Postmortem: Micro Forte's Fallout Tactics (gamasutra.com)

2001-04-20 tactical-rpg, postmortem

Super Metroid – FAQ/Speed Guide (gamespot.com)

2001-04-17 games, plaintext

Likely To Be Eaten By A Bottomless Pit (eblong.com)

2001-04-03 caves

Beating the Averages (paulgraham.com)

2001-04 computing, lisp, business

Economic calculation problem (wikipedia.org)

2001-03-30 politics, communism, economics, computing

Ted the Caver (angelfire.com)

2001-03-21 fiction, caves

Is Life Analog or Digital? (edge.org)

2001-03-13 science, biology, freeman-dyson

Tacit Knowledge, Trust and the Q of Sapphire (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2001-02 science, physics, metis

Developing a Setting for Fantastical IF (brasslantern.org)

2001 games, gamedev, worldbuilding, interactive-fiction

Atomic Rockets (projectrho.com)

2001 fiction, space, scifi, science

Misbehaving in the Ultima Games (it-he.org)

2001 crpg, games, ultima, funny

How To Become A Hacker (catb.org)

2001 computing, empowerment, foss

How To Criticize Computer Scientists (purdue.edu)

2001 computing, funny

Existential Risks (nickbostrom.com)

2001 x-risk, doomed

𝔄 Postmortem: Ion Storm's Deus Ex (gamasutra.com)

2000-12-06 games, crpg, postmortem

Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (pdf) (dreamsongs.com)

2000-12-02 computing, lisp

𝔄 Postmortem: Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo II (gamasutra.com)

2000-10-25 games, postmortem

𝔄 Postmortem: Sierra Studios' Gabriel Knight 3 (gamasutra.com)

2000-10-11 games, postmortem

Paul O'Brian's Interactive Fiction page (colorado.edu)

2000-06-18 games, interactive-fiction

Orion's Arm Universe Project (orionsarm.com)

2000-06-10 fiction, space, scifi, orions-arm

𝔄 Postmortem: Ensemble Studios’ Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (gamasutra.com)

2000-03-07 games, rts, postmortem

The Slaughterhouse of Literature (pdf) 🔒 (doi.org)

2000-03 culture, literature, library-of-babel, fiction

LinkChecker (wummel.github.io)

2000-02-26 computing, scraping

The Problem of Predicting What Will Last (upenn.edu)

2000-01-04 culture, lindy

Self-Determination - The Tyranny of Freedom (pdf) (swarthmore.edu)

2000-01 choices, meaning, will

Generative Design (generativedesign.com)

2000 computing, cg, architecture

Plumbing Stanley Kubrick - Ian Watson (visual-memory.co.uk)

2000 fiction, scifi, movies

Trigonometry? No Way: These Teens Would Rather Toss a Ball (scottaaronson.com)

2000 media, education, math, funny

𝔄 Nikolai Kingsley's Stuff (very.net)

2000 fiction, weird

Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts (pdf) (ucr.edu)

2000 math

𝔄 Postmortem: Irrational Games' System Shock 2 (gamasutra.com)

1999-12-07 games, immersive-sims, postmortem

Why C++ is not very fit for GUI programming (okmij.org)

1999-11-05 computing, ui, c++

Outlines: The Do Everything Tool (troubleshooters.com)

1999-11 notetaking, outliners, plaintext

Ultimate physical limits to computation (arxiv.org)

1999-08-13 computing, physics

Postmortem: Thief: The Dark Project (gamedeveloper.com)

1999-07-09 games, postmortem

A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux [2] [3] [4] (muppetlabs.com)

1999-07-02 computing, asm

Knowledge Hydrant: A Pattern Language for Study Groups (pdf) (industriallogic.com)

1999-07-01 learning, social

𝔄 Playing the Open Source Game (demon.co.uk)

1999-07 computing, foss, gamedev

Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org)

1999-06-26 computing, complexity

Review: The Killing Star (christian-sauve.com)

1999-04-01 fiction, books, scifi, space, aliens, dark-forest

High-Quality Software Through Semiformal Specification and Verification 🔒 (doi.org)

1999-03 formal-methods

𝔄 Frequently Asked Questions about the Meaning of Life (sysopmind.com)

1999-02-18 ai, computing, rationality, alignment, singularity, internet, historical

Ask Jeeves is an Internet search company that provides natural-language parsing of questions, combined with a database of questions to which "Jeeves" knows the answer. They license their technology to AltaVista (though recently AltaVista seems to have stopped using it). This is the answer Ask Jeeves has in their database for "What is the meaning of life?"

Backgrounds to Players Who Suit MUDs (mud.co.uk)

1999-01-21 games, social, mmo

Remodeling RPGs for the New Millennium (gamedeveloper.com)

1999-01-15 games, crpg, gamedev

In the Beginning was the Command Line (stanford.edu)

1999 computing, empowerment, neal-stephenson

Tools for Thought (rheingold.com)

1999 computing, technology, history

Java on the Brain applets (javaonthebrain.com)

1999 games, java, historical

𝔄 Viridian design principles (viridiandesign.org)

1998-10 bruce-sterling, solarpunk