I like to read about interesting things people are building. I also find AGI goal alignment, writing from the rationality community, defense technology, computers, and privacy law pretty interesting. I spent 10 years at Palantir followed by 2.5 years at Tlon working on Urbit before returning to Palantir.
You can find me at the accounts above and I’ve linked things I’ve read and liked below.
Science Fiction
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
- Turing Test
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
- Stratechery
- The Free Press
- Tablet Magazine
- Pirate Wires
- Call Me back
- Making Sense
- Persuasion
- FIRE
- Money Stuff
- Obscure Dinosaur Facts