Blogs I've Been Reading

Here are some blogs I’ve been reading. I picked two posts for each blog that I think are particularly great or underrated.

Conrad Bastable

• The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands
• Unequal Growth: The Zero-Sum Games You Don’t See

Slate Star Codex

• The Ideology Is Not The Movement
• Targeting Meritocracy

Gwern

• Conscientiousness & Online Education
• Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency

Marginal Revolution

• What libertarianism has become and will become — State Capacity Libertarianism
• The Gaslighting of Parasite

Pseudoerasmus

• Where do pro-social institutions come from?
• Educational Romanticism & Economic Development

Melting Asphalt

• Startups are Frontier Communities
• Playing God for Fun and Profit

Overcoming Bias

• This is the Dream Time
• Write Your Hypothetical Apostasy

Ben Kuhn

• Grad school is worse for public health than STDs
• Why Nations Fail and the long-termist view of global poverty

Nintil

• On building
• The crumbling public/private distinction

Alexey Guzey

• Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
• How to use your wife/husband/gf/bf correctly

Alex Danco

• Can Twitter Save Science?
• Social Capital in Silicon Valley

Paul Graham

• Life is Short
• What You Can’t Say

Bryan Caplan

• If the Only Way You Can Get Your Great Idea Implemented…
• The Magic of Education

Devon Zuegel

• Singapore: Sovereign City
• We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars

Put A Number On It!

• Kelly Bet on Everything
• The Jordan Peterson Mask

Don’t Worry About the Vase

• Moloch Hasn’t Won
• The Case Against Education: Foundations