I like to read about interesting things people are building and I spend too much time on Hacker News. I also find AI goal alignment, writing from the rationality community, and privacy law pretty interesting. I spent 10 years at Palantir, currently at Tlon working on Urbit.
- Posts
- Hacker News
- GitHub
- Urbit: ~dovsem-bornyl
I update this site pretty infrequently when I feel like I have something to say.
Books and articles I’ve read and liked:
Science Fiction
- Permutation City
- After Life
- True Names
- Exhalation
- Stories of your Life and Others (Liking What You See: A Documentary)
Rationality
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality
- Meditations on Moloch
- The Toxoplasma Of Rage
- The Undoing Project
- The God Delusion
- The Relativity of Wrong
- Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided
- Disputing Definitions
- Belief in Belief
- The Bottom Line
- Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization
- Feeling Rational
- Science as Attire
- How to Seem (and Be) Deep
- Pretending to be Wise
- Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
- Beware Isolated Demands for Rigor
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence
- Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps
- The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
- That Alien Message
Science
Politics
Computers, Software, and Companies
- Hackers
- Dan Romero’s Crypto Reading List
- Paul Graham Essays
- Code
- The Phoenix Project
- Zero to One
- The Dream Machine
- Facebook: The Inside Story
- Crypto
Fiction
- The Nix
- Lake Success
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Lonesome Dove
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Memoir
Podcasts, Mailing Lists, and Substacks
Blogs
- Pixel Poppers - My friend’s videogame analysis blog, I like this post.
- Obscure Dinosaur Facts - My wife’s blog on a variety of interesting natural history and dinosaur related topics.
Services
- Bottomless - A coffee subscription service I like
- NextDNS - A nice encrypted DNS provider (good way to block ads and tracking)
- 1Password - My favorite password manager