Samstack

What do I believe?

1) One boring meta-point: I believe that nobody should have much certainty about their beliefs.

Nov 14 • 

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Things you should know about London

After I wrote my post about things you should know, a commenter suggested writing a list specifically about London, which I thought was a rather good…

Nov 10 • 

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Notes on forecasting strategy

Becoming a top forecaster may not work exactly how you think it does...

Nov 5 • 

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October 2025

Things you should know

Lots of writing is filled with amusing stories and other types of pleasant noise.

Oct 15 • 

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April 2025

Where are we headed?

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Dry Socket and Love o3

Apr 17 • 

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May 2024

Recommendations (and thoughts about those recommendations)

[Status: haven’t written anything in months, feeling guilty, wrote this in 20 minutes, don’t expect quality].

May 10, 2024 • 

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December 2023

Stuff I found interesting in December

1) How often does correlation equal causation? One neat example is Wilde and Hollister (2002):

Dec 31, 2023 • 

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Stuff I found interesting in November

Welcome to the monthly ‘Stuff I Found Interesting’ post.

Dec 2, 2023 • 

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November 2023

Weird people doing good things

Scott Alexander and Freddie DeBoer both published articles on Effective Altruism in the past few days.

Nov 29, 2023 • 

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Two more random studies I found interesting

This is the third part of a series looking at random interesting studies.

Nov 14, 2023 • 

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October 2023

Stuff I found interesting in October

Note: This links round-up (and all future links round ups) also doubles up as an Open Thread, so comment whatever you want, no need to make it relevant…

Oct 30, 2023 • 

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Can we cure Alcoholism?

I. It wouldn’t be particularly surprising if we cure obesity soon.

Oct 25, 2023 • 

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