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Meet the Meetups Czar
Astral Codex Ten (and its predecessor Slate Star Codex) is a wildly popular blog by psychiatrist Scott Alexander about "a sort of hidden node at the center of art and harmony and rationality and the rest". Scott's writing has been described by The New Yor
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A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came up with by Looking at the List of Specification Gaming Behaviours
Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over. An evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory and crash. A game-playing agent accrues points by falsely in
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Links for July 2026
"Blogs have shaped our philosophical worldviews, found us careers and friends, and changed our lives." Write Carol and Austin Chen. "But many great bloggers have stopped blogging. … So we're launching the Blog Revival Project, to crowdfund $1,000+ bountie
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Homework for SMTM-6941: Lithium Problem Sets
Reference Reading A Chemical Hunger, Part VII and Interludes C, G, and H U.S. Geological Survey, Public Water Supplies of the 100 Largest Cities in the United States, 1962 U.S. Geological Survey, Lithium in U.S. Groundwater, 2021 Ferensztajn-Rochowiak, E.
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You Can Discover the Drives
Humanity has mapped the earth, so you can't discover any new continents, mountains, oceans, or rivers. We've mapped the stars, and though we haven't named every single asteroid, the major planets and comets are already taken. We've filled in the periodic
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Links for June 2026
Vesuvius Challenge: An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time Prove You Are Worthy to Post About Diets: People make a lot of claims about digestion, nutrition, and diet on the internet. … It is helpful, then, to have a heuristic to tel
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Links for May 2026
Para-academia is the future - Bold enough to use the word "sucks" in the first sentence. Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us "Potatoes and cottage cheese for dinner" diet Leaking Abandoned Well in West Texas (h/t A. Weis) Age of Invention:
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Corn Holes
Extreme corn allergies aren't common, but over the course of our lives we've happened to meet two people who have them.
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Links for April 2026
The big news in blogging this month is Inkhaven 2 (sponsored by WordPress dot com). The first Inkhaven happened back in November 2025, and this one is even more. Wow. This time, about 55 residents (it's hard to count exactly since some staff members are a
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Links for March 2026
My journey to the microwave alternate timeline 14-year-old running for governor is the first teen to get on Vermont's general election ballot I can't stop yelling at Claude Code "Imagine being a typical person living in England from 1520 to 2020 (500 year
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