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Note (5/2): Due to my need to prepare for Magic: The Gathering’s Pro Tour: Amonkhet, updates to this blog and progress exploring new blogs will be slow for the next two weeks. I will still get to the full list in time, and anticipate finishing in May.
Inspired by posts by and conversations with Alyssa Vance, and the desire to do some tangible things beyond laying out my case, this post will attempt to start fixing the biggest problem that personal blogs have: by default, no one knows about them.
Ideally, this problem is addressed gradually over time, as those who do see such blogs post links to their best posts, and those who follow those links then discover the blogs, resulting in growth. Also helpful is the blogroll, which allows those who like one blog to discover other similar blogs that the author recommends. This is not the worst system, but it is not great either, and right now I am not even doing my part in having a proper blogroll.
I can at least fix that, and while doing so, give those who have blogs I do not know about a chance to find me. So here is the plan:
If you have a blog, comment here with your name, the name and concept of your blog, and a link to either your blog and/or what you consider your best post. I will then read at least one of your posts (at least a few thousand words, unless it is unreadable), leave one comment, and consider adding you to my RSS feed and blogroll.
If you don’t have a blog, but you want to start one, this post will still be around, and I get an email whenever anyone comments. Email me when you feel you have hit your groove and have a few good posts. If we are personal friends, one post is enough to get you on my RSS.
Whether or not you have a blog, you are also encouraged to name and link to one to three additional blogs that you feel are great that no one has mentioned yet, and I will check them out.
If something is R-rated (as in actually inappropriate for kids, not just dropping an occasional f-bomb) please say so. If something is X-rated, do not link to it here, as this is neither the time nor the place.
Note that for now I have turned off approval-first comment moderation for this blog. Let’s make sure I do not regret that!
To avoid getting in too far over my head: These commitments are good for the first 100 people to comment here, although if it gets into the 100-person range it may take me a while to catch up. It is also good for anyone I am friends with regardless of how many people post. If this exercise seems productive, I will keep doing it even beyond 100 people, but I am very careful not to commit to things if I am not willing to follow through.
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My blog is https://entirelyuseless.wordpress.com/
I would be happy to give my name if desired through a private channel but I avoid public association between my name and this online identity.
Officially I have not defined my blog other than as an expression of my personal interests, in order to leave myself free to write about what I want to write about. Among other things, it has some philosophy, some rationality topics, and some Catholicism related topics. The last is largely because 1) as a former believer my interests do not automatically change when my beliefs change, and 2) my former associates are mostly extremely devout believers and have little respect for apostasy. Historically I started the blog in part in order to address this situation.
For various reasons I might not be posting for a while, but I will probably get back to it at some point.
Wow. Strong endorsement based on your first post.
By which I mean most recent
Modified to weak endorsement.
Thanks. I’m curious why you modified it to “weak endorsement,” if that isn’t too sensitive a question?
Other posts are pretty similar to the first post I read in content.
Been interesting so far. I get the sense that your blog would be a better experience if I started at the beginning, since I am not familiar with many of the concepts you are discussing, but definitely would like to learn more.
Yes. Thanks. It was sort of meant, originally, to be read in sequence. I do pretty consistently give back links to previous ideas but it would be a considerable investment of time either to go through everything or to follow all of those links backwards.
My blog is Minds Aren’t Magic https://mindsarentmagic.org/ – there’s no overall concept.
Some good posts:
The long scale of utility https://mindsarentmagic.org/2014/10/12/the-long-scale-of-utility/
The size of the Universe and the Great Filter https://mindsarentmagic.org/2014/09/12/the-size-of-the-universe-and-the-great-filter/
I like it, some good bite-sized ideas to think about. Interestingly, I found a sampling of recent posts to be better than your choices for good posts – it can be tough to know what one’s own best ideas are!
I’m very glad to see such a clearly written critique of Facebook. I’ve had similar feelings for a while, but I’ve never managed to put them into words this effectively.
I’ll give you my blog: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/
Topics range from fairly technical math/statistics/computing stuff to mainstream amateur economics. I’ll give you the best posts on some different topics:
Best computer post: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html
Best econ post: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/basic_income_vs_basic_job.html
Best math post: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/equal_weights.html (This post might be PG – it includes a picture of two fully clothed beautiful women.)
Best machine learning/AI post: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/alien_intelligences_and_discriminatory_algorithms.html
Thank you! I read the best-of links, and am happy to have done so, but don’t think the blog in general is a good fit for me – it’s aimed at a different level.
The HFT article seems to be talking about pure market making as opposed to what I think of as HFT activity, which is harder (but not impossible) to defend. I also strongly disagree with removing the penny increment, and the debate would be fun, but this is not the place for that debate.
The math post, as per my comment there, I think that you’ve proven something that doesn’t actually imply what you think it does. I do admire your willingness to get into the math and to write code in these spots, but we seem to disagree a lot on the implications.
The AI post is stuff I’ve spent a bunch of time thinking about, so I didn’t learn anything new, but they are points that need to (carefully) be made and not enough people are making them.
I would also advise you that, while nothing in any of the articles bothered me, I think you are spending what one SSC calls ‘heat’ (things that tend to get people mad at you) where it isn’t producing much light/value. You want to spend those points only when they are necessary/central to what you are saying.
I’ve been splitting the difference. My Facebook/Blog can be found and RSSed at http://reddit.com/r/dspeyer (feed link is on the sidebar).
I write about philosophy, statistics, science, politics, personal life, or whatever else I feel like.
Interesting hybrid, giving yourself permission to ‘go shallow’ and ‘go deep’ in the same place. Pretty good hit ratio. What made you decide on reddit?
Thanks for the reminder to put you on my blogroll! FYI I can’t find yours at all.
I blog at http://www.benjaminrosshoffman.com – you already know about it but I’m commenting to help others find it.
My most commonly discussed-in-person post is probably this one: http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/wait-vs-interrupt-culture/
The moral philosophy post I’m proudest of is this one: http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humility-argument-honesty/
Here’s an attempt to directly transfer a bunch of general thinking skills: http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reading-writing-thinking-brain/
Indeed! This post was inspired partly by the fact that I realized I didn’t have one and needed to start, which I am starting to do this afternoon, and will definitely include you. Assuming WordPress and I get along I should have the core stuff up within a day or two.
Got a basic one up now (with just Rationality blogs), will expand upon that as I go through this list, figure out the stuff I’ve missed / neglected, and include other categories of things (primarily economics/politics and gaming, I’m guessing).
For those reading this, I strongly endorse the above referenced blog, and on my (growing faster than it is shrinking) list of things to do here is to expand upon slash reply to a number of his posts including the first two above.
Jacob K, http://thepdv.wordpress.com, weakly about rationality-related topics but mostly just whatever intellectual-ish things I’m thinking about enough to share thoughts on. The most recent post on AI Safety is at least above-average quality for me.
You’ve already got my top recommendations on your blogroll, but I’d add Brienne Yudkowsky’s Agenty Duck: http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/, and also https://frustrateddemiurge.tumblr.com/ (I think that author prefers not to be named.)
Agreed, pretty good stuff. I’ve been thinking about Paul’s position for a while and how to either salvage it or convincingly (to Paul) refute it. I do think he is paranoid. What I worry is that he is playing a switch-game with the word benign. As he replies, strictly speaking there are no benign agents, and the definition of benign is shockingly weak in terms of what it can assure you of, so I don’t buy it as an invariant either. Whole thing is on my to-post stack but won’t get there until June at the earliest, probably.
First time I’ve seen anyone explicitly ask for self-promotion:)
So alright, I write http://everythingstudies.wordpress.com
Title pretty self-explanatory – writing about philosophical, psychological and cultural topics with a particular focus on the mechanics of disagreement, understanding differences and tying disparate ideas together.
Best posts in my own view are probably https://everythingstudies.wordpress.com/science-the-constructionists-and-reality/, https://everythingstudies.wordpress.com/partial-derivatives-and-partial-narratives/ and maybe https://everythingstudies.wordpress.com/reactions-to-infinite-jest (if one is interested in that book).
I’d also throw in a recommendation for http://liskantope.wordpress.com and http://www.suspendedreason.com
How can I say no to someone pioneering Erisology? All hail discordia. Loved your Infinite Jest post in particular, I had different but highly related reactions. You’re on my RSS and good chance you make the expanded blogroll when I get to doing that.
I am Grognor. my blog is at grognor.blogspot.com
the blog doesn’t have a name. it appears to have a name at any given time, but I keep changing it. it doesn’t have a concept, either, though in practice I write just about myself or rationality. I don’t update very often
one good post is Detachment Examined: http://grognor.blogspot.com/2016/12/detachment-examined.html
the strongest endorsement I can point to is being on meteuphoric’s blogroll
Interesting mixed bag. I especially appreciated the history of Weird Sun Twitter, which included a lot of great new information about how things developed, and also pointed me to the list you keep which is quite neat, I hadn’t put in the time to create a high-quality list or even find all the good ones.
My blog is here: http://particularvirtue.blogspot.com/
Not very regular, and so far it’s mostly about software engineering.
(I know you IRL but I’m not sure I’d count as a “personal friend.” I’m somewhat leery of connecting my blog directly to my real identity for now.)
Strong endorsement of this one! Reliably says interesting things, and even contained the best (very qualified and partial) defense of Facebook I have seen so far. When it gets too deep into software engineering details I skipped over those parts, but that is fine, and the pars about dealing with management and with knowledge gaps and other non-technical aspects universalize quite well.
I write Eukaryote Writes Blog. The content varies a lot but tends to be fact-level research posts, with a lot of variance. A lot of it is about microbiology or existential risk. The tags are accurate if you want to sort.
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/
My favorite x-risk post is this one: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2016/08/07/biotic-replacement-and-evolutionary-innovation-as-a-global-catastrophic-risk/
In terms of “less research-y, more riffing on a concept” posts, this one: https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2017/02/03/when-youre-expecting-the-weird/
I think this is a good idea and also that I should get around to putting a blogroll on my blog.
Some blogs not mentioned here so far that I like:
https://mhollyelmoreblog.wordpress.com/
http://briantomasik.com/feed/
I think there’s quality content here, and I feel vaguely bad about not being able to get motivated to engage with it, but I think somewhere along the line I got turned off to microbiology and similar areas and I don’t think I’m going to get that back. Definitely keep it up, but not for me.
My blog is here: https://venam.nixers.net/
I just recently stumbled upon your blog and quite enjoy it so far. I like the introspection you’re doing into the subjects that fascinate/annoy you.
One of my good post is this one: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/programming/2015/09/25/group-work.html
My blog is mostly about introspection, thoughts, some psychology.
It’s to take lightly.
I write [Put a Number on It](https://putanumonit.com/), the unifying theme of which is applying rationality and math in places your mom told you not to, like [optimizing shopping
habits](https://putanumonit.com/2016/05/11/shopping-for-happiness/) or deciding [which girl to date](https://putanumonit.com/2017/03/12/goddess-spreadsheet/). Other recurring themes are [how not to get fooled by bad statistics](https://putanumonit.com/category/defense-against-the-dark-arts/), [policy and economics](https://putanumonit.com/category/policy-and-economics/), pictures of hedgehogs and bad puns.
Yep, I know it (and you) quite well. Definitely a good one and it’s clear you put in the effort to maintain high quality even when pretending not to.
I write Put a Number on It, the unifying theme of which is applying rationality and math in places your mom told you not to, like optimizing shopping
habits or deciding which girl to date. Other recurring themes are how not to get fooled by bad statistics, policy and economics, pictures of hedgehogs and bad puns.
I blog at bayesianinvestor.com on general topics of interest to rationalists, with a few too many book reviews. I’ve tagged 6 posts as best: http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/tag/best-posts/.
– Peter McCluskey
Definitely my speed. It’s always interesting to see other smart people take their own approach to investing and markets, and I very much enjoyed your book reports (I wish I had the time to read that many thoughtful books!) Like many other bloggers, I enjoyed your average post as much as your best posts.
I can’t get into the details of my investing opinions for regulatory reasons (anything that would sound like investment advice is right out) but I will say that I was surprised how big you think the long-term returns can be from doing things others are biased against, especially with trends others have noticed (e.g. low volatility), and less concerned with expense ratios. You also seem much less concerned with the ‘everyone knows about this now’ phenomenon, which does match my experience in other areas that everyone hears tons of good ideas and then doesn’t act on them.
I blog at weird.solar. A sample post: https://weird.solar/judgement-as-fake-explanation-da0483dc8a82
Definitely will be adding this one on the next revision. Lots of good, concrete stuff to chew on. The thing that stood out to me here is that it drives home the idea that even if you’ve thought about concepts, hearing someone state them well and cleanly in their own words, with their own take on where they matter most and how they use the insight, is still really valuable and worth one’s time. There’s certainly a danger of having ‘too much’ of that type of thing in one’s intellectual diet, but it’s not clear to me that there’s enough high-quality content of this type to allow an overdose.
It also made me think about the value of focus. I built up a Twitter following in part by avoiding things that would be ‘off-topic’ to someone in the Magic community, but that makes me sad in some ways, so I wonder what things you have to say that you don’t say because you feel like they wouldn’t fit, and how we generally can solve the ‘diversity in content drives people away’ problem.
i blog at Agenty Duck. most of my blogging is me talking about stuff i’m learning, usually in the realm of rationality. here’s a sample post: http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-its-like-to-notice-things.html
Been keeping an eye on it for a while. Your brain and my brain work quite differently! It’s cool to see someone actually trying different techniques in a coherent and logical fashion, even if I would never use or suggest those techniques myself, and occasionally there will be something that does seem worth exploring on top of it.
http://Www.bearlamp.com.au
Best post: list of common human goals
Or – currently writing series on exploration exploitation.
My name is, uh, I’m not sure if this using real names on the blogroll is even a good idea
http://squirrelinhell.blogspot.com/
The content is pretty mixed (I try to really follow the advice to not worry too much). Sometimes I roll up my sleeves and try to write about some interesting idea like this one (but most of the time I’m overwhelmed with how communication is broken and how I can’t get any of the fun ideas across anyway): http://squirrelinhell.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-ai-alignment-problem-has-already.html
My blog is https://drossbucket.wordpress.com
It’s mainly a workbook for my own benefit, and not necessarily very well laid out for general consumption, but I really like your ‘get your writing off Facebook’ call to action so I thought I’d list it. I moved my blog off Tumblr recently, partly for similar reasons.
The main obsession is mathematical intuition, but I also write about anything else that I’m trying to get clearer on.
You don’t seem to think much of your plan; I think it is better than most plans, and having a plan at all already puts the whole reference class a step ahead!
Thanks! But I’m not sure what plan you’re referring to here – the plan to get off tumblr and get a real blog, or a specific plan I talk about in a post, like the ‘becoming a crackpot physicist’ one?
Those two plans are going well and I’m very happy with them. I like to take the piss out of my plans/myself when writing about them, though, and that tone doesn’t always cross the Atlantic well, so maybe that hasn’t come across :)
Primarily here I was referring to becoming a crackpot physicist, but getting off of tumblr definitely would also count!
I’m srconstantin.wordpress.com
In case anyone doesn’t know, this blog is great and should basically be considered required reading. I keep meaning to respond to a number of posts and haven’t done it yet. So much time and so little to do, etc.
My blog is http://malcolmocean.com
It generally say that it’s about metacognition, mental models, and cultural change.
Here’s a solid candidate for best post: http://malcolmocean.com/2016/05/honing-mode-vs-jamming-mode/ (it certainly has more & better comments than any of my other posts)
There’s also this page — http://malcolmocean.com/best-posts — you can skim the sections/titles til you get to something that seems intriguing to you.
Posts have been intermittent lately but I have a backlog of stuff that I *am* making progress on (wrote several thousand words today!) so I expect it to be much more active during the second half of this year than the first! :D
My blog is https://zerosaur.wordpress.com/
It is tightly focused on a single philosophical consideration and its implications, and has few entries at the moment, but I happen to like it.
I am not a fan of the consideration in question, so I’ll take a pass on it, but I still appreciate the attempt.
My blog, An Algorithmic Lucidity, specializes in cutsey dialogues and idiosyncratic philosophical commentary or technical exposition.
I also (pseudonymously, for branding and market segmentation purposes) write The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought, a blog on gender and transgender issues from a perspective that is perhaps less commonly seen.
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I had been told you were important, but I didn’t understand why. I now understand – I devoured an entire year’s worth today, pretty great stuff. I’m regretting that we haven’t become friends at some point, perhaps this can be fixed in the future.
Just as you hold two brands, I hope you can, or can learn to, hold other outlooks and use other filters, and inhabit them when it is useful to you, and still be you. One must see things as they are, but even more than we cannot afford to hate the player, we cannot afford to hate the game.
Thanks! ❤❤ Any outlooks/filters to suggest?
I really should write the answer to that up at some point, because it’s a really interesting question, and applies to pretty much everyone. I’ve been tanking on this question for a while; there’s a LOT of them that have proven useful to me, and I need to think about it more. I feel like there’s two important ones for you. One of them is a version of “Everything is awesome”, think Louis CK’s bit about how everything is awesome and no one is happy. The other is hard to describe concisely; it feels like if I can answer this correctly I’ll have something important, and this is not right yet. Best I can do right now is, the one where the obviously stupid things that are about horrible social failure spirals or what not are instead to be accepted at face value of the actual local dynamics, and dealt with as useful and interesting things: it’s the ability to, for any given game (in the ‘don’t hate the player’ sense of the word game), inhabit the game, care about the game, play the game, to try to win the game, for the love of the game, and X really is about Y. This mode has never met an uninteresting person, and so on. At some point, I’ll figure out a good way to say it.
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Heyas I’m Hive,
I blog at https://hivewired.wordpress.com/
I write about topics including, rationality, plurality, metaethics, politics, community building and organisation, and transhumanism.
Let no one say you lack ambition!
I think rechecking now that you’ve posted the whole template was much more enlightening than when you started out with a story. Your template is in its own way quite detailed, and I was surprised given its level of detail that I could not find more disagreement than I did. On many levels that is good, but it also might mean you’re not biting enough real bullets slash being sufficiently concrete. It wasn’t clear what the concrete steps were going to be, but I often don’t know what my concrete steps are going to be either. It’s a problem.
Reminded me of Leverage.
I am very glad this is happening and am eager to see what becomes of it.
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Hi.
I’m currently blogging at briefliteraryabandon.wordpress.com. Someday I’ll get my own url and etc. I’ve got formal schooling in education and law, but have never let my schooling get in the way of my education. I blog books I read, and mostly that’s it, and mostly the point right now is to develop my own ability to think to completion on small topics, in preparation for thinking to completion on larger ones, and maybe someday writing for a living.
Cheers.
And shoot, missed some steps. My best post is likely this one: https://briefliteraryabandon.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/in-which-i-borrow-popehat-coms-sock-puppet-and-attempt-to-explain-12b6-motions-and-crappy-journalism/.
I find it interesting that everyone who blogs about books thinks (so far, in my experience) that their posts about books are not as good as their posts not about books, whereas my experience is that their posts about books are usually much better, on average, than their posts not about books. I wonder if people are afraid that talking about someone else’s book is somehow derivative/unoriginal.
I’m also wondering if the “treat every extra word like it costs you $100” thing is something I got from Adams or not; I’ve definitely been trying to follow that with my posts and I think it’s helped a lot.
Hi!
I blog at Yahweh Memorial School for Error Correction in Signal Processing. It’s a Bible commentary blog from a Rationalist-adjacent perspective. Probably my highest-value-per-word post so far is Flood-resistant lineages, though each post builds on prior ones.
Moshe
If one did not already know what one knows, would one know it anyway? Always tricky.
Hi,
I write at the untitled blog on my personal website: http://www.jdpressman.com/blog.html
General themes include:
* Computer history, especially the history of the word ‘hacker’
* Becoming more effective as a person
* Politics
* The history of various niche subcultures I belonged to at one point
I too am somewhat curious about the word hacker. I know that at work we have to not use it because of its negative associations, so for example we can’t do a “hackathon” even when a thing is pretty obviously a hackathon, and have to call it something else so it doesn’t end up sounding bad out of context. This makes me sad because it has a true name and not calling things by their right names when you damn well know their right names is pretty terrible.
For use in my own thinking and with my friends, though, I don’t consider it ruined at all, I just use it to mean what it actually means (and thus, I reveal my diehard perscriptivist streak).
My personal blog:https://flightfromperfection.com/
It’s about whatever is catching my attention at the moment – often history, art criticism, gonzo social theory
Some posts that have withstood my withering standards over time:
– https://flightfromperfection.com/motorcycle-risk.html
– https://flightfromperfection.com/online-dating-frustrations.html
– https://flightfromperfection.com/the-fading-of-older-relatives.html
– https://flightfromperfection.com/vegas-dispatch.html
Here’s my blog.
My blog is socratic-form-microscopy.com
I cover many things, but if you want a representative sample of the most common topics, I’d suggest the following.
Self-improvement: http://socratic-form-microscopy.com/2017/12/17/improvement-without-superstition/
Practical advice: http://socratic-form-microscopy.com/2017/10/29/housework/
Political Economy: http://socratic-form-microscopy.com/2017/06/03/whose-minimum-wage/
Current political events that people are high uncertainty about: http://socratic-form-microscopy.com/2017/01/30/trump-is-marius-not-caesar/
Book Reviews: http://socratic-form-microscopy.com/2017/05/20/book-review-sitol/
Nuclear weapons: http://socratic-form-microscopy.com/2017/01/22/nuclear-weapons-1-0-introduction/
alok.blog (redirects to alok.github.io)
These are a few of the more popular posts:
https://alok.github.io/2017/06/22/avoid-distraction/
https://alok.github.io/2017/11/21/solving-a-problem-according-to-john-baez/
https://alok.github.io/2017/09/13/eigen-do-if-i-try/
https://alok.github.io/2017/07/23/deep-learning-book-chapter-1-notes/
I blog at aarongertler.net. A mishmash of humor, fiction, and more serious essays on a variety of topics. A sample of posts that have gotten a lot of readers and/or that I’ve shared a lot myself:
http://aarongertler.net/edge-2015/ (on AI)
http://aarongertler.net/david-edmondson/ (on college and signaling)
http://aarongertler.net/thesis/ (an attempt to turn my undergraduate thesis into something that might actually be useful for real people, which isn’t what usually happens for those theses)
http://aarongertler.net/punching-nazis/
http://aarongertler.net/giving-thanks/
My blog is thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com. There’s a mix of philosophy, CS, history, and a variety of other topics. This has been my most popular post so far: http://thinkingcomplete.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/all-souls.html
Most of the posts aren’t directly aimed at rationalists. Out of those which are, I’m fairly proud of this one: http://thinkingcomplete.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/is-death-bad.html
If you’ve already seen that on LesserWrong, where I cross-posted it, try this book review: http://thinkingcomplete.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/book-review-happiness-by-design.html
I blog about maths, ethics, social statistics, and so on at https://www.gleech.org/best/ . I am inordinately proud of the computer post, which I like to think solves a vexed historical question forever. https://www.gleech.org/first-computers/
My favourite blogs I’ve found recently are
– Jamie Brandon (slack and computing)
http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2014/11/15/humans-should-learn-maths/
– Freya (phenomenology, social dynamics of EA)
https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/leaving-our-bodies-behind/
– The mighty Nintil (powerful economic analysis)
https://nintil.com/
https://nosiarch.wordpress.com/ is my blog.
I don’t know if I could necessarily explain it all at once. I’m really interested in social critique, psychology (especially the nuttier/less quantitative edges of it), philosophy, religious studies and literature (including film). I suppose you could just call it a collection of essays that try and take content from those subjects and make them applicable to the problem of modern living.
I’m not big on talking about things that I don’t see as having some practical application, or making someone’s life better if they tried the perspectives on for a bit.
This is my one of my favorite posts (it’s a dialogue! Why doesn’t anyone write dialogues nowadays?): https://nosiarch.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/is-there-suffering-if-theres-no-person-present-to-suffer/
Here’s my most popular post: https://nosiarch.wordpress.com/2019/04/26/the-world-is-a-dream-and-all-of-it-comes-for-free/
I also do poems and short fiction. Here’s a poem: nosiarch.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/lost-moon-poem/
My blog / website is https://jeffreyladish.com
Going forward, posts are mainly about global risks, especially related to nuclear war. Also includes practical opsec guides.
My blog is at https://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/ but unfortunately many of the conversations I take part in have moved to Twitter, which is inferior in every way relevant to me. WordPress oddly doesn’t seem to have an easy way to find my most popular post in the history of my blog, but the most commented one is here:
https://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/i-translate-hopefully-anonymous-for-will-wilkinson/
I personally think my best posts are the ones where I use GSS data:
https://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/?s=GSS
Hello! I’ve been going to some OBNYC meetups, though I’m not sure we’ve met. Not sure if your offer is still out, but I have a blog: https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/
I write about various things that interest me, including math, puzzles, statistical modeling, and elections.
My most popular post, “Beyond the mean, median, and mode”, is about generalizations of medians: https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2019/12/26/beyond-the-mean-median-and-mode/
I’ve listed a selection of some of my posts below, but maybe the right thing to do is to link you the page listing all of my posts and let you judge which ones to look at based on their titles: https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/all-posts/
Some other highlights:
– “My favorite puzzles from the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt” might be interesting if you like puzzles: https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2020/01/24/my-favorite-puzzles-from-the-2020-mit-mystery-hunt/ . I also wrote my own puzzle recently: https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/puzzle-a-choral-arrangement/
– I have a three-part series on scoring rules, which starts here: https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/scoring-rules-part-1-eliciting-truthful-predictions/
– In a pretty speculative post that’s been hit-or-miss but a fair number have liked, I argued that expected values of real-world quantities are infinite: https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/lofty-expectations/ . This at least in theory poses a problem for decision theory, and here I talk about how to partially resolve the problem: https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/what-to-do-about-undefined-expectations/
– And here’s my most ridiculous post, “Finding Shawn Mendes”: https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/finding-shawn-mendes/
I started a blog a few months ago at thechaostician.com .
It contains posts on a wide variety of topics. The ones I think this community would find most interesting are the ones on book reviews ( http://thechaostician.com/category/books/ ) and on the philosophy of science ( http://thechaostician.com/tag/philosophy-of-science/ ). I also write descriptions of science for a popular audience, posts about Mormonism, and occasionally posts on history.
I am currently updating every Monday and Thursday.
I hope you can find something interesting there !
Under 100 replies, so let’s see if this is still active!
I have a blog at https://magehat.wordpress.com/. It has no clear theme beyond a place for me to practice writing, but they tend to center around how to reason effectively, lessons I’ve learned, or short fiction on occasion. I blog once a day every April, and sporadically throughout the rest of the year.
Example serious post: https://magehat.wordpress.com/2021/04/29/experts-and-coronavirus/
Example less serious post: https://magehat.wordpress.com/2021/04/28/ode-to-my-baking-soda/
Example fiction: https://magehat.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/subject-delta-1/