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“The Existential Risk of Math Errors”, Gwern 2012

The Existential Risk of Math Errors

“Interpreting ‘Suzanne Delage’ As Dracula”, Gwern 2009

Interpreting ‘Suzanne Delage’ as Dracula

“Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”, Gwern 2018

Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding

“Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners?”, Gwern 2018

Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners?

“Everything Is Correlated”, Gwern 2014

Everything Is Correlated

“Newton’s System of the World and Comets”, Gwern 2016

Newton’s System of the World and Comets

“My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s”, Gwern 2018

My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

“Surprisingly Turing-Complete”, Gwern 2012

Surprisingly Turing-Complete

“Epigrams”, Gwern 2014

Epigrams

“How Often Does Correlation=Causality?”, Gwern 2014

How Often Does Correlation=Causality?

“Why Do Hipsters Steal Stuff?”, Gwern 2022

Why Do Hipsters Steal Stuff?

“What Is The Collecting Mindset?”, Gwern 2021

What Is The Collecting Mindset?

“Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement”, Gwern 2018

Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement

“One Man’s Modus Ponens”, Gwern 2012

One Man’s Modus Ponens

“Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media”, Gwern 2018

Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media

“The Scaling Hypothesis”, Gwern 2020

The Scaling Hypothesis

“Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert’s Dune-Verse”, Gwern 2018

Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert’s Dune-verse

“Evolution As Backstop for Reinforcement Learning”, Gwern 2018

Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning

“Fashion Cycles”, Gwern 2021

Fashion Cycles

“How Many Computers Are In Your Computer?”, Gwern 2010

How Many Computers Are In Your Computer?

“On Seeing Through and Unseeing: The Hacker Mindset”, Gwern 2012

On Seeing Through and Unseeing: The Hacker Mindset

MLP: Immanetizing The Equestrian”, Gwern 2018

MLP: Immanetizing The Equestrian

“Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems”, Gwern 2020

Technology Holy Wars are Coordination Problems

“Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation”, Gwern 2014

Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation

“Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab”, Gwern 2012

Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab

“How Complex Are Individual Differences?”, Gwern 2010

How Complex Are Individual Differences?

“On Having Enough Socks”, Gwern 2017

On Having Enough Socks

“The Narrowing Circle”, Gwern 2012

The Narrowing Circle

“The Melancholy of Subculture Society”, Gwern 2009

The Melancholy of Subculture Society

“Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs”, Gwern 2016

Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs

“‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story”, Gwern 2012

‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story

“The Algernon Argument”, Gwern 2010

The Algernon Argument

Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy”, Gwern 2011

Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy