gavin leech @gl@schelling.pt

'Posts labeled "בבל" are experimental, unreliable, poetic, prophetic, metaphoric, contradictory, false, confused, incoherent, unclear, inchoate, incontinent, insane, repetitive, low-effort, pointless, cringe, fringe, binge, silly, facile, babbling, ...'

https://tsvibt.blogspot.com/

on the psychology of shame

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zh6pZTZisqWq7AgnD/on-being-compromised

brutalism to my rococo

https://e2eml.school/

I can always tell when someone spends Too Much Time designing their blog. It is extremely endearing

https://nisch.netlify.app/

"in comparison to less fluid research areas, adaptability is more important than experience. Before the Transformer, NLP relied on insights from linguistics... now... irrelevant. The Transformer was five years ago, so nobody has >5 years of experience."

https://aiwatchtower.substack.com/

blogs I found in 2023

Icon my graphic designer picked for Alignment. Nice but unintended ironies:

the two systems begin with the same orientation then there's a drastic orientation shift; they converge *with equal gravity*, & then the values handshake completes, merging them into one effective agent

The Tbilisi Wedding Palace / Palace of Rituals. A complete dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dwlF3OYoJ4

And meta-bullshit:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xomFCNXwNBeXtLq53/bad-omens-in-current-community-building
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GqGvCSjyTAxRcpa5G/research-deprioritizing-external-communication
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/av7MiEhi983SjoXTe/some-core-assumptions-of-effective-altruism-according-to-me
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AjxqsDmhGiW9g8ju6/effective-altruism-in-the-garden-of-ends
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZkhABk4rRMqsNmwvf/changing-the-world-through-slack-and-hobbies

EA on nuclear war and expertise

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bCB88GKeXTaxozr6y/ea-on-nuclear-war-and-expertise

A visit to the idea-machine fair

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Kv2sTdBF2FczLEktn/a-visit-to-the-idea-machine-fair

Base rates for terrorist attacks

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/iW3SwugjjbpyFqz8q/how-big-are-risks-from-non-state-actors-base-rates-for

Five [planet-sized] steps for quantifying speculative interventions

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/3hH9NRqzGam65mgPG/five-steps-for-quantifying-speculative-interventions

Useful Vices for Wicked Problems

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yPsG9fr3coczCm7Ku/useful-vices-for-wicked-problems

Perspectives on Transformative AI Governance

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/isTXkKprgHh5j8WQr/strategic-perspectives-on-transformative-ai-governance#In__oversimplified__slogan_form

Does putting kids in school now put money in their pockets later?

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oZCPayvcxkDHubcDv/does-putting-kids-in-school-now-put-money-in-their-pockets

Critical review of givewell's 2022 cost effectiveness model

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6dtwkwBrHBGtc3xes/a-critical-review-of-givewell-s-2022-cost-effectiveness

April 2222

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xnPhkLrfjSjooxnmM/forecasting-newsletter-april-2222

What happens on the average day?

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rXYW9GPsmwZYu3doX/what-happens-on-the-average-day

best EA Forum posts of 2022