1. Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
2. Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
3. Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work
4. Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
5. Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
6. David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
7. Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
8. Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
9. John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and language extinction
10. Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway
11. Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
12. Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
13. Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable
14. Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter

I am sympathetic to:

• effective altruism — roughly, the use of evidence and careful analysis to figure out the best ways of making the world a better place, and;
• the overwhelming importance of AGI — AI that can outclass humans in all domains may well arrive soon, will be capable of recursive self-improvement, and will alter all aspects of science, the economy, international relations, and more.

Some past research interest include:

• how to prioritise the world's problems in order to figure out how to improve it as much as possible;
• reducing the risk of global catastrophes, especially those caused by powerful new technologies, or that might cause human extinction;
• how to increase people's general benevolence towards all beings, including those far away from them, non-human animals, and future generations, and;
• efforts to end factory farming through moral advocacy and food technology.

1. How much does a single vote matter? (2020)
2. Why you shouldn’t tolerate bullying even if your job is really important
3. Things I recommend you buy and use
4. What you think about landfill and recycling is probably totally wrong
5. This widely-promoted trial claimed to show a 4 and 5-day work week are equally productive. It didn’t.
6. Have the attention span of a goldfish? Here’s how to read long things (including books & papers)
7. How I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language and you could too
8. Most people report believing it’s incredibly cheap to save lives in the developing world (2017)
9. Everything you need to know about whether money makes you happy (2016)
10. What are your chances of getting elected to Congress, if you try? (2015)
11. What are the 10 most harmful jobs? (2015)

Here's a checklist of questions I often work through when something unpleasant happens, in order to reframe the situation and get over it as quickly as possible.

I've written about 'Ugh tasks' — tasks that you gradually come to feel terrible about not having done but can't bring yourself to do — which I think are a very underrated mental health issue.

Here are some of my thoughts on exercise, why it's so important, and how to get into it.

Here's a quiz where you can test your ability to predict which psychology studies can be replicated, and which can't, based on a brief description.

I made a 60 second guide to increasing your chance of surviving an imminent nuclear attack.

I love house music — here's a Spotify playlist of 900 tracks I like and a bunch of mixes I love on SoundCloud.