Blogs I like
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These are some of the blogs I like. When this is not otherwise obvious, author names for individual blogs, or for group blogs with a primary author, appear in parentheses. If you think I’m missing something I would enjoy, please let me know. All-time favorites are boldfaced.
- 80,000 Hours. The official blog of a nonprofit dedicated to figuring out how people can do the most good with their careers.
- Andart II (Anders Sandberg). A blog by one of the most impressive polymaths out there and one of the happiest people alive.
- Astral Codex Ten. Much more than you wanted to know about almost any topic.
- Bet on It. (Bryan Caplan)
- Beren Millidge. Great posts on AI macrostrategy.
- De Novo. (Metacelsus)
- Escaping Flatland. (Henrik Karlsson)
- Fantastic Anachronism (Álvaro de Menard). Hard to categorize. See for yourself.
- Fin Moorhouse. Co-host of the excellent podcast Hear This Idea, inter alia.
- Giving Gladly (Julia Wise). “Why well-planned giving is the most important thing you can do — and more fun than you thought.”
- Good Thoughts (Richard Yetter Chappell). The best philosophy blog out there.
- Information Processing (Steve Hsu). Writings on cognitive genomics and other stuff. Host of the Manifold podcast.
- Jeff Kaufman. Writings on a wide-range of topics.
- Jethro Kuan. Creator of my favorite Emacs package.
- Karthinks. (Karthik Chikmagalur)
- Meteuphoric (Katja Grace). Musings about “human behavior, social institutions and rules, anthropic reasoning, personal experimentation and improvement, philanthropy, and the prospect of robots replacing humans.”
- Michael Weissman.
- Nintil (José Luis Ricón). “To estimate, compare, distinguish, discuss, and trace to its principal sources everything.”
- Protesilaos Stavrou.
- Rational altruist (Paul Christiano). In-depth essays about the far future. Sadly, now defunct.
- Reflective disequilibrium (Carl Shulman). A wide-ranging blog by possibly my favorite living thinker.
- Scott Young. One of the few “productivity” gurus I respect.
- Shtetl-Optimized (Scott Aaronson).
- The update. (Stefan Schubert).
- The Polemical Medic (Greg Lewis). “Renaissance man affectations from a jejune junior doctor.”