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Gems on the Internet

Documenting some of my finds across the internet, with various overlaps with my interests. Not including many of the more mainstream ones: Slate Star Codex (Now Astral Codex Ten on Substack). The blog of an essayist/psychiatrist, who talks about almost any topic under the sun. I often cite his articles ...

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Documenting some of my finds across the internet, with various overlaps with my interests. Not including many of the more mainstream ones:

  • Slate Star Codex (Now Astral Codex Ten on Substack). The blog of an essayist/psychiatrist, who talks about almost any topic under the sun. I often cite his articles to friends!
    • Was introduced to his blog through Unsong, an... extremely creative, fantastical take on religion and the interpretability of religious texts (specifically the kabbalah). I'm not religious, but this was a particular treat.
    • Tangentionally related are the various interests to the r/rational subreddit: some common authors include Eliezer Yudkowsky and DaystarEld (rational fiction writing).
  • A delightful reddit community called The Motte, which tries to eliminate biases and encourage reasoned, measure debate between community members.
  • Marginal Revolution - Economics blog, often citing other articles of interest.
  • Effective Altruism - A movement about optimizing one's "bang for your buck" in philantrophy
  • Matt Levine - Excellent financial journalism.
  • Hindenburg Research - A company which discovers shortable companies through thorough research. Not exactly a news publication, but essentially a profit-driven investigative journalism outfit.
  • Vitalik Buterin - Founder of Ethereum; he blogs about many of his ideas on the effective infrastructural design of decentralized platform, along with the many ensuing challenges.
  • Dan Wang - a global macro researcher focused on China. He blogs on economics, geopolitics, scifi, sociopolitics, and many other topics in a similar vein. Discovered this while reading up on China's recent crackdowns within their Education and Tech sectors

Some perhaps less credentialed but still fun discoveries:

As part of an effort to make myself more accountable I might start actually blogging about my thoughts on various articles I come across!

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