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January 2025 updates
January 15, 2025
Happy new year! Some general updates: I'm going to be visiting the fellas from the book club in New Zealand in late January/early February. If any of you...
November 2024 updates
December 5, 2024
Hope everyone is having a great fall! Some general updates: Vaden Masrani and I were invited onto the Doom Debates show to discuss epistemology and AI (part...
Updates - August 2024
August 21, 2024
Happy summer! New writing Some thoughts on studying things without any immediate practical value. On the importance of norms over policies, where I discuss...
May 2024 Updates
June 10, 2024
Happy summer! News I’ve cheated on Vaden and started a new podcast with two Kiwis: Richard Meadows and Cam Peters. It’s all about fiction (well, it’s mostly...
March 2024 updates
April 3, 2024
Happy March! Writing A new essay about dogmatism. Links and Recommendations Joint statement in support of hepatitis C human challenge studies — a short...
July-Aug 2023 Updates
September 22, 2023
Happy fall! New Writing A new essay on creativity inspired by an essay by Michael Nielsen and the book "Creativity" by John Cleese, which was recommended on...
May-June 2023 updates
July 6, 2023
Happy July! New essays I wanted to write more in order to explore ideas I don't get to think about much during the days, like art, economics, history, etc....
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