Other good blogs & websites that I think are very under-rated:
Mariven: Very detailed, intricate, and orthogonal-to-everyone-else thoughts, on physics, phenomenology, mathematics, neuroscience &c. Not a blog, but a proper long content site, which I really like. Very gnarly writing that I found tricky to get into at first.
Splitting Infinity: Progress studies, properly construed, with a view on broad interventions to make the world better. Favorite posts:
Traditions of Conflict (substack): Excellent anthropology blog, written by an academic in the area. Dark themes of cults, male dominance, rituals, evolutionary anthropology. Well-written, updates are by now kind of slow. Worth reading the entire archives. Favorite posts:
Other good blogs & websites that I think are very under-rated:
Mariven: Very detailed, intricate, and orthogonal-to-everyone-else thoughts, on physics, phenomenology, mathematics, neuroscience &c. Not a blog, but a proper long content site, which I really like. Very gnarly writing that I found tricky to get into at first.
Splitting Infinity: Progress studies, properly construed, with a view on broad interventions to make the world better. Favorite posts:
Adapting Land Value Taxation to Space (Sam Harsimony, 2023)
Delivering a Revamped Mailbox (Sam Harsimony, 2023)
Black Hole Civilizations (Sam Harsimony, 2022)
Lil’Log: Lilian Weng writing about AI, by now also alignment. Very rare updates, but each post is a giant glittering gem. Favorite posts:
How to Train Really Large Models on Many GPUs? (Lilian Weng, 2021)
Are Deep Neural Networks Dramatically Overfitted? (Lilian Weng, 2019)
Traditions of Conflict (substack): Excellent anthropology blog, written by an academic in the area. Dark themes of cults, male dominance, rituals, evolutionary anthropology. Well-written, updates are by now kind of slow. Worth reading the entire archives. Favorite posts:
Notes on Nggwal (William Buckner, 2019)
Ritual mutilation, human consumption, and contemporary insulation (William Buckner, 2018)
Where are the matriarchies? (William Buckner, 2018)
My blog taste tends long-content, focused on positive over normative claims, detail-rich, specialized.