Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Am I the baddie?” by Ustice
I am a software engineer. I work for a company that makes software for road construction. Monday last week we were under a bad crunch and we were to…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
“Academic Proof-of-Work in the Age of LLMs” by LawrenceC
Written quickly as part of the Inkhaven Residency.
Related: Bureaucracy as active ingredient, pain as active ingredient
A widely known secret in aca…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
“Positive sum does not mean “win-win”” by loops
A lot of people and documents online say that positive-sum games are "win-wins", where all of the participants are better off. But this isn't true! …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
“Considerations for growing the pie” by Zach Stein-Perlman
Recently some friends and I were comparing growing the pie interventions to an increasing our friends' share of the pie intervention, and at first w…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
″“Following the incentives”” by David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
A few years ago I listened to a fascinating podcast interview featuring former Democratic presidential candidates Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamso…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
“Chicken-Free Egg Whites” by jefftk
Baking has traditionally made extensive use of egg whites, especially the way they can be beaten into a foam and then set with heat. While I eat eg…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
“dark ilan” by ozymandias
The second time Vellam uncovers the conspiracy underlying all of society, he approaches a Keeper.
Some of the difference is convenience. Since Vella…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
“Mean field sequence: an introduction” by Dmitry Vaintrob, Lauren Greenspan
This is the first post in a planned series about mean field theory that we am writing together with Lauren Greenspan (this post was generated by Dmi…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
“Democracy Dies With The Rifleman” by Vaniver
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun -- Mao Zedong
Halfway thru recorded history, Athens became the first state we're sure was a democra…
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“The bar is lower than you think” by XelaP
TL;DR: The efficient market hypothesis is a lie, there are no adults, you don't have to be as cool as the Very Cool People to contribute something, …
2 weeks, 4 days ago