Internet Essays

Thinking

• Nabeel Qureshi. Understanding
• Nabeel Qureshi. Puzzles
• Paul Graham. How to Think for Yourself
• Scott Alexander. Heuristics That Almost Always Work
• Scott Alexander. Contra Everyone On Taste
• Scott Alexander. Who By Very Slow Decay
• Scott Alexander. Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable
• Ben Kuhn. Staring into the Abyss as a Core Life Skill

Writing

• Paul Graham. Good Writing
• Dan Luu. Some Thoughts on Writing

Career

• Paul Graham. How to Do Great Work
• Paul Graham. Superlinear Returns
• Paul Graham. How to Get New Ideas
• Ben Kuhn. Searching for Outliers
• Ben Kuhn. You Don't Need to Work on Hard Problems
• Ben Kuhn. How I've Run Major Projects
• Alexey Guzey. On Impact
• Alexey Guzey. Omens of Exceptional Talent
• Surya Midha The Virtues of Looking Stupid

Intelligence Race

• Gwern. The Scaling Hypothesis
• Eric Jang. All Roads Lead to Robotics
• Shunyu Yao. The Second Half
• Alexey Guzey. Why I Believe in AGI (Again)
• Citadel Securities. AI-merican Exceptionalism
• Citadel Securities. The Frontier Is Not for Everyone

Machine Learning

• Gwern. Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning
• Eric Jang. Just Ask for Generalization
• Eric Jang. Uncertainty: A Tutorial
• Horace He. Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr From First Principles
• Hazy Research. GPUs Go Brrr
• Dario Amodei et al. Concrete Problems in AI Safety

Miscellaneous

• Headlands Tech. Rationalizing Latency Competition in HFT