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<p><em>author: niplav, created: 2022-06-18, modified: 2024-10-21, language: english, status: draft, importance: 2, confidence: log</em></p>
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<p>Idea & format stolen shamelessly from <a href="https://www.gleech.org/favs/all/">Gavin
Leech</a>.</p>
</blockquote><div class="toc"><div class="toc-title">Contents</div><ul><li><a href="#Texts">Texts</a><ul><li><a href="#Poems">Poems</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Blogposts">Blogposts</a><ul><li><a href="#Insightful">Insightful</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Practical">Practical</a><ul></ul></li></ul></li><li><a href="#Books">Books</a><ul></ul></li></ul></li><li><a href="#Audio">Audio</a><ul><li><a href="#Musicians">Musicians</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Music">Music</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Podcasts">Podcasts</a><ul></ul></li></ul></li><li><a href="#Video">Video</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Websites">Websites</a><ul><li><a href="#Sites">Sites</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Blogs">Blogs</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Wikis">Wikis</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Newspapers">Newspapers</a><ul></ul></li></ul></li><li><a href="#Mathematics">Mathematics</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Computers">Computers</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#Ideas">Ideas</a><ul></ul></li><li><a href="#More">More</a><ul></ul></li></ul></div>
<h1 id="Favorite_Things"><a class="hanchor" href="#Favorite_Things">Favorite Things</a></h1>
<h2 id="Texts"><a class="hanchor" href="#Texts">Texts</a></h2>
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<p>My favorite poems are <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl">Howl (Allen Ginsberg,
1955)</a>, Spinoza (Jorge
Luis Borges, 1964), <a href="https://www.textlog.de/17824.html">Hyperions Schicksalslied (Friedrich Hölderlin,
1797)</a>, and An die Freude (Friedrich
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<h3 id="Blogposts"><a class="hanchor" href="#Blogposts">Blogposts</a></h3>
<h4 id="Insightful"><a class="hanchor" href="#Insightful">Insightful</a></h4>
<p>My favorite insightful blogposts/online essays are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re/p/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A">Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences) (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2007)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/17/Engineers-solve-problems.html">Software engineers solve problems (Drew DeVault, 2020)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/140529495929/how-to-be-attractive">How To Be Attractive (Hotel Concierge, 2016)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/">Meditations on Moloch (Scott Alexander, 2013)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XvN2QQpKTuEzgkZHY/being-the-pareto-best-in-the-world">Being the (Pareto) Best in the World (johnswentworth, 2019)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4zGWYzh6ZiG85b2z">The Curse Of The Counterfactual (pjeby, 2019)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://musingsandroughdrafts.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/my-current-high-level-strategic-picture-of-the-world/">My current high-level strategic picture of the world (Eli Tyre, 2021)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PBRWb2Em5SNeWYwwB/humans-are-not-automatically-strategic">Humans are not automatically strategic (Anna Salamon, 2010)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KHunHoNd2fckwaRxz">The Forces of Blandness and the Disagreeable Majority (sarahconstantin, 2019)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://everythingstudies.com/2017/03/06/science-the-constructionists-and-reality/">Science, the Constructionists, and Reality (John Nerst, 2017)</a></li>
</ul>
<h4 id="Practical"><a class="hanchor" href="#Practical">Practical</a></h4>
<p>The most practical/action-guiding posts I've read so far are (these
might not be practical/applicable to anyone else, and often were just
final pushes for me to do something in a particular direction):</p>
<ul>
<li>Melatonin:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/">Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (Scott Alexander, 2018)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin">Melatonin (Gwern Branwen, 2019)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Meditation:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://qualiacomputing.com/2019/04/03/investing-time-and-resources-in-happiness/index.html">Investing Time and Resources in Happiness (Andrés Gomez Emilsson, 2019)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Cryonics:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yKXKcyoBzWtECzXrE/you-only-live-twice">You Only Live Twice (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2008)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html">Why Cryonics Makes Sense (Tim Urban, 2016)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/CryoFAQ.html">Cryonics − Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) (Ben Best, 2018)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Pickup
<ul>
<li><a href="https://looksmax.org/threads/cold-approach-why-its-a-massive-cheat-code-to-the-dating-life-you-desire.330030/">Cold Approach: Why It’s a Massive Cheat Code to the Dating Life You Desire</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEAQ8dB4_R4">video version</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://theredquest.wordpress.com/2019/02/07/you-only-see-the-tip-of-the-spear/">You only see the tip of the spear (TheRedQuest, 2019)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://theredquest.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/a-lot-of-guys-are-pussies-but-that-means-opportunity-for-the-few-who-arent/">A lot of guys are pussies, but that means opportunity for the few who aren’t (TheRedQuest, 2022)</a></li>
<li><a href="./doc/game/guide_to_texting_girls_mr_v_2020.pdf">Guide to Texting Girls (Mr. V, 2020)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Finance
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-zero-to-hero-in-one-blog-post/">Getting Rich: from Zero to Hero in One Blog Post (Mr. Money Mustache, 2013)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-simple-math-behind-early-retirement/">The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement (Mr. Money Mustache, 2012)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Air quality
<ul>
<li><a href="https://dynomight.net/air/">Better air quality is the easiest way not to die (dynomight, 2021)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dynomight.net/better-DIY-air-purifier.html">The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (dynomight, 2021)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Light
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7izSBpNJSEXSAbaFh/why-indoor-lighting-is-hard-to-get-right-and-how-to-fix-it">Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it (Richard Korzekwa, 2020)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Effective Altruism
<ul>
<li><a href="https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/19/nobody-is-perfect-everything-is-commensurable/">Nobody is Perfect, Everything is Commensurable (Scott Alexander, 2014)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/s/pvim9PZJ6qHRTMqD3/p/p5DmraxDmhvMoZx8J">Church vs. Taskforce (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2009)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Websiting
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/s/pvim9PZJ6qHRTMqD3/p/NnQbfLo868wgnHF4n">Collective Apathy and the Internet (Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2009)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.gwern.net/About">About This Website (Gwern Branwen, 2021)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://reducing-suffering.org/history-of-this-website/">History of This Website (Brian Tomasik, 2019)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://guzey.com/personal/why-have-a-blog.html">Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now (Alexey Guzey, 2021)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>People in general and tolerance
<ul>
<li><a href="https://everythingstudies.com/2017/04/24/people-are-different/">People Are Different (John Nerst, 2017)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/baTWMegR42PAsH9qJ/generalizing-from-one-example">Generalizing From One Example (Scott Alexander, 2009)</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Learning
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition">Spaced Repetition (Gwern Branwen, 2019)</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="Books"><a class="hanchor" href="#Books">Books</a></h3>
<p>My favorite books are <a href="https://www.elephantinthebrain.com/">The Elephant in the
Brain</a>
(Hanson & Simler 2017), <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54870256-there-is-no-antimemetics-division">There is no Antimemetics
Division</a>
(Hughes 2020), <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61439040-1984">1984</a>
(Orwell 1948) and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves">House of
Leaves</a>
(Danielewski 2000) (it does the whole postmodern literature shtick, but
it does it really enjoyably! This trend did <em>not</em> continue with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40152.Only_Revolutions">Only
Revolutions</a>
and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23012473-one-rainy-day-in-may">The
Familiar</a>…).</p>
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<h4 id="Musicians"><a class="hanchor" href="#Musicians">Musicians</a></h4>
<p>My favorite musicians are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach">Johann Sebastian
Bach</a>,
<a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/">Patricia Taxxon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich">Steve
Reich</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus">Charles
Mingus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Clark">Sonny
Clark</a>, and <a href="https://vincentel.bandcamp.com/">Vincent
E. L</a>.</p>
<h3 id="Music"><a class="hanchor" href="#Music">Music</a></h3>
<p>My favorite pieces of music are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO9lSd5NdvU">Gavotte en
Rondeau</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach">Johann
Sebastian Bach</a>),
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTiWbzlwZGw">Gyermektánc</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k">Béla
Bartók</a>),
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0345c6zNfM">Piano Phase</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich">Steve
Reich</a>), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UStCXLNVtGY">Electric
Counterpoint: III. Fast</a>
(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich">Steve Reich</a>), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXxZCSAWUP8">The
Well Tuned Piano</a>
(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Monte_Young">La Monte Young</a>),
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzyLZXm3y-4">This Goes To</a>
(<a href="https://vincentel.bandcamp.com/">Vincent E. L.</a>), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeiqxNH3W0">Reconstructing
More Science</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Morasky">Mike
Morasky</a>), <a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/diamond-sky">Diamond
Sky</a> (<a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/">Patricia
Taxxon</a>), <a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-mary-sweet-midi">Sweet Mary / Sweet
Midi</a> (<a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/">Patricia
Taxxon</a>), <a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/castle-sinclair-girnigoe">Castle Sinclair
Girnigoe</a>
(<a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/">Patricia Taxxon</a>),
<a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/alien">Alien</a>
(<a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/">Patricia Taxxon</a>), <a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/pack-my-box">Pack
My Box</a>
(<a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/">Patricia Taxxon</a>), and
<a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/track/pack-my-box">Hellbulb</a>
(<a href="https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/">Patricia Taxxon</a>) (I might be
a <em>little bit</em> of a Taxxon fan).</p>
<h3 id="Podcasts"><a class="hanchor" href="#Podcasts">Podcasts</a></h3>
<p>My favorite podcast episodes are <a href="https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/tara-mac-aulay-operations-mindset/">Tara Mac
Aulay</a>,
<a href="https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/paul-christiano-ai-alignment-solutions/">Paul Christiano
(1)</a>
and <a href="https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/paul-christiano-a-message-for-the-future/">Paul Christiano
(2)</a>
on <a href="https://80000hours.org/podcast/">80,000 hours</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6MYsKeTjKk">Romeo Stevens'
talk about "Attractors in the Space of Mind Architectures and the Super
Cooperation Cluster"</a>,
<a href="https://cre.fm/">Chaos Radio Express</a> on
<a href="https://cre.fm/cre218-diamanten">Diamonds</a>
(unfortunately in German), <a href="https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2019/05/manifold-episode-11-joe-cesario-on.html">Joe
Cesario</a>
on <a href="https://www.manifold1.com/">Manifold</a>, <a href="https://lexfridman.com/lee-cronin/">Lee
Cronin</a> on the
<a href="https://lexfridman.com/podcast/">Lex Fridman Podcast</a>,
<a href="https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/carl-shulman#details">Carl</a>
<a href="https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/carl-shulman-2#details">Shulman</a>
on the <a href="https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/">Dwarkesh Podcast</a>, <a href="https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep12-bhante-jason-guru-viking-interviews">Bhante
Jason</a>
and the series of <a href="https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/tag/Shinzen+Young+Dialogues">dialogues between Chelsea
Fasano, Jay Sanguinetti, Shinzen Young and various
guests</a>
on <a href="https://www.guruviking.com/podcast">Guru Viking</a>.</p>
<h2 id="Video"><a class="hanchor" href="#Video">Video</a></h2>
<p>My favorite movies are <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1192628/">Rango</a>,
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/">District 9</a>,
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/">The Big Short</a>,
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/">Koyaanisqatsi</a>, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070904/">Die
Welt am Draht I</a> and
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070904/">II</a>, and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087280/">The Element of
Crime</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="Websites"><a class="hanchor" href="#Websites">Websites</a></h2>
<blockquote>
<p>A proposal, dear reader: Create a list of bookmarks linking
to websites you find interesting, and publish it for the world
to see. You decide what constitutes "interesting". The model
is as recursive as it is simple. There is nothing preventing a
list of bookmarks from linking to another list of bookmarks.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><em>— <a href="https://memex.marginalia.nu/">Memex</a>, <a href="https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/19-website-discoverability-crisis.gmi">The Small Website Discoverability Crisis</a>, 2021</em></p>
<h3 id="Sites"><a class="hanchor" href="#Sites">Sites</a></h3>
<p>My favorite form of online expression is the <a href="https://www.gwern.net/About">long
site</a>, best exemplified by
<a href="https://www.gwern.net/">Gwern</a>, <a href="https://reducing-suffering.org">Essays on Reducing
Suffering</a>, <a href="https://www.gleech.org">Gavin
Leech</a> and <a href="https://n.cohomology.group/">Mariven</a>.</p>
<p>These are the people engaged in the Great Work, I shall emulate their
striving.</p>
<h3 id="Blogs"><a class="hanchor" href="#Blogs">Blogs</a></h3>
<p>My favorite general knowledge blogs are <a href="https://nintil.com/">Nintil</a>,
<a href="https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/">Splitting Infinity</a>
and <a href="https://dynomight.net/">Dynomight</a>; my favorite blogs about
rationality <a href="https://everythingstudies.com/">Everything Studies</a>,
<a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/">Overcoming Bias</a>, <a href="http://slatestarcodex.com/">Slate Star
Codex</a>, and <a href="https://unremediatedgender.space">☆✦ The Scintillating But
Ultimately Untrue Thought ✦☆</a>
(which is highly focused on a rather irrelevant topic,
but the lessons are generalizable); my favorite programming
blogs are <a href="https://blog.codinghorror.com/">Coding Horror</a>,
<a href="https://drewdevault.com/">Drew DeVault's Blog</a>,
<a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/">Joel On Software</a>
and <a href="http://nullprogram.com/">Null Program</a>; my favorite
mathematics blogs are <a href="http://bit-player.org/">Bit-Player</a>,
<a href="https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog">Shtetl-Optimized</a> and <a href="http://zackmdavis.net/blog/">An
Algorithmic Lucidity</a>; my favorite
philosophy blogs are <a href="https://entirelyuseless.com/">Entirely Useless</a>
and <a href="http://metamoderna.org/?lang=en">Metamoderna</a>.</p>
<p>I don't read many blogs about politics per se,
but I like the (in different ways) spicy <a href="https://therealmovement.wordpress.com/">The Real
Movement</a> and <a href="https://unqualified-reservations.org/">Unqualified
Reservations</a>; good insight porn is
hard to come by these days, but I have made good catch by trawling through
the archives of <a href="https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/">Hotel Concierge</a>,
<a href="https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/">The Last Psychiatrist</a>,
<a href="https://samzdat.com/">sam[]zdat</a>, <a href="http://zackmdavis.net/blog/">An Algorithmic
Lucidity</a> and <a href="https://traditionsofconflict.com">Traditions of
Conflict</a>.</p>
<p>Meditation is better done than read about, but if you have to,
<a href="https://meditationstuff.wordpress.com">Meditation Stuff</a> and <a href="https://neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com">Neurotic
Gradient Descent</a>
are great places to; similar with pickup and <a href="https://theredquest.wordpress.com">The Red
Quest</a>/<a href="https://daysofgame.com">Days of
Game</a>.</p>
<p>My favorite blogs about Effective Altruism are <a href="https://reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com">Reflective
Disequilibrium</a>
and <a href="https://rationalaltruist.com">Rational Altruist</a>
(both unfortunately inactive), the <a href="https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/allposts">Effective Altruism
Forum</a> is of
course widely known & loved, and I like the <a href="https://qualiaresearchinstitute.org/research-publications">Qualia Research
Institute</a>
and <a href="https://rethinkpriorities.org/research">Rethink Priorities</a>
(if just because I actually read the stuff they put out).</p>
<p>As for fiction, <a href="https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/">Zero HP
Lovecraft</a> and <a href="https://qntm.org">Things of
Interest</a> present two very different (but both
delightful) options. The <a href="http://www.scp-wiki.net/">SCP Wiki</a> is one of
a kind, a true product of the internet age.</p>
<h3 id="Wikis"><a class="hanchor" href="#Wikis">Wikis</a></h3>
<p>My favorite wikis are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>,
<a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/">Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a>, the
<a href="https://en.xen.wiki/">Xenharmonic Wiki</a> and the <a href="https://arbital.org/explore/ai_alignment">Arbital AI Alignment
Domain</a> (sadly abandoned); my
favorite social media site is <a href="https://schelling.pt">schelling.pt</a>
and my favorite forecasting/news sites are still the good
ol' reliable <a href="https://www.metaculus.com">Metaculus</a> and
<a href="https://manifold.markets/">Manifold Markets</a>.</p>
<p>† <a href="https://predictionbook.com">Predictionbook</a>.</p>
<h3 id="Newspapers"><a class="hanchor" href="#Newspapers">Newspapers</a></h3>
<p>I don't read the news, except for <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/">Quanta
Magazine</a>, where I'm working through the
archives (I'm currently up to early 2014). Favorite articles, 10 per year,
<a href="./notes.html#Favorite_Quanta_Magazine_Articles">here</a>.</p>
<h2 id="Mathematics"><a class="hanchor" href="#Mathematics">Mathematics</a></h2>
<p>My favorite mathematical structures are
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_set">∅</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post's_lattice">Post's
lattice</a>,
my favorite theorem is the <a href="https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1440/lectures/2022/bulow_klemperer.pdf">Bulow-Klemperer
theorem</a>,
and my favorite proof is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_simple_groups">Classification of finite simple
groups</a>
(not that I understand it).</p>
<p>My <em>least</em> favorite mathematical mathematical technique is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_clustering">spectral
clustering</a>,
and I am incredibly suspicious of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_graph_theory">spectral graph
theory</a> in
general.</p>
<p>My favorite algorithms are the <a href="https://rpatrik96.github.io/posts/2021/11/2021-11-22-poc8-ic-ic-ic">IC*
algorithm</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_subarray_problem#Kadane's_algorithm">Kadane's
algorithm</a>,
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bron%E2%80%93Kerbosch_algorithm">Bron-Kerbosch
algorithm</a>,
and
<a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sleep-sort-king-laziness-sorting-sleeping/">sleepsort</a>.</p>
<h2 id="Computers"><a class="hanchor" href="#Computers">Computers</a></h2>
<p>My favorite unicode characters are</p>
<ul>
<li>⍼ and the other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_characters">ghost characters</a></li>
<li>ꙮ</li>
<li>🬥</li>
<li>␅</li>
<li>𒈙</li>
<li>123456⁄123456 (fraction slash)</li>
<li> ﷽ and ﷺ</li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="Ideas"><a class="hanchor" href="#Ideas">Ideas</a></h2>
<p>My favorite ideas in policy are
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futarchy">futarchy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harberger_Tax">Harberger
taxes</a>, <a href="https://www.overcomingbias.com/2006/12/the_80_forecast.html">track
records</a>,
and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_border">open borders</a>
(though I've become <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/@niplav/109077595423869299">less certain of their
goodness</a>,
and see also the <a href="https://openborders.info/">dedicated site</a>).</p>
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<h2 id="More"><a class="hanchor" href="#More">More</a></h2>
<p>My favorite non-extinct animals are octopuses, my favorite extinct
animals are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Glyptodon">glyptodons</a>,
my favorite type of art is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_abstraction">geometric
abstraction</a>, my
favorite type of biome is flat deserts, my favorite type of meditation
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasi_Sayadaw">Mahasi Sayadaw</a> style
<a href="./meditation/practical_insight_meditation_sayadaw_1971.pdf">noting</a>,
my favorite kitchen appliance is the microwave, my favorite
food is kimchi, my favorite non-alcoholic drink is tap water
(with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayran">ayran</a> being a
close second), my favorite alcoholic beverage is none (although
beer is enjoyable on dates), my favorite flags are the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Uganda">flag of
Uganda</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Barbados">flag of
Barbados</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Albania">flag
of Albania</a> (I may have a
thing for birds on flags), my favorite anthem is the one of Kazakhstan
(unfortunately most anthems are bad), my favorite mode of transport is
by Zeppelin (primarily æsthetically, train is much more practical and
nearly as cool), my favorite solution to moral disagreement is trade.</p>
<p>My favorite activities are
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_session">jamming</a>, standing in front
of a whiteboard with two other people boggling at a hard problem, taking
MDMA in the presence of effective altruists after an EA conference,
and executing a really clean daygame approach (all of these involve
other people, hm…).</p>
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