The 7 Best High-Protein Breakfast Cereals

January 17, 2025

http://mdickens.me/2025/01/17/high_protein_breakfast_cereals/ (I write listicles now) (there are only 7 eligible high-protein breakfast cereals, so the ones...

Charity Cost-Effectiveness Really Does Follow a Power Law

December 25, 2024

http://mdickens.me/2024/12/25/charity_cost_effectiveness_power_law/ Conventional wisdom says charity cost-effectiveness obeys a power law. To my knowledge,...

"You can't calculate the expected utility of a communist revolution"

December 6, 2024

http://mdickens.me/2024/12/06/expected_utility_of_communist_revolution/ Leftist critics of effective altruism like to say this. Well, it’s not true, and I...

Thoughts on My Donation Process

December 4, 2024

http://mdickens.me/2024/12/04/thoughts_on_my_donation_process/ I have some observations and half-baked ideas about my recent donation process . They weren’t...

Where I Am Donating in 2024

November 18, 2024

http://mdickens.me/2024/11/18/where_i_am_donating_in_2024/ Summary It’s been a while since I last put serious thought into where to donate. Well I’m putting...

Subjects in Pysch Studies Are More Rational Than Psychologists

October 15, 2024

http://mdickens.me/2024/10/15/subjects_are_more_rational_than_psychologists/ Psychologists have done experiments that supposedly show how people behave...

My submission for Worst Argument In The World

October 12, 2024

http://mdickens.me/2024/10/12/worst_argument_in_the_world/ Scott Alexander once wrote : David Stove once ran a contest to find the Worst Argument In The...

Outlive: A Critical Review

September 26, 2024

http://mdickens.me/2024/09/26/outlive_a_critical_review/ Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia (with Bill Gifford 1 ) gives Attia’s...

I have whatever the opposite of a placebo effect is

September 2, 2024

http://mdickens.me/2024/09/02/I_have_the_opposite_of_placebo/ Two personal stories: A story about caffeine When I first started working a full-time job, I...

Protein Quality Calculator

August 29, 2024

http://mdickens.me/2024/08/29/DIAAS_calculator/ You may know that complete proteins are good because they contain every essential amino acid. But you might...