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		Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022) (gwern.net)
		86 points by james_impliu 4 days ago \| past \| 99 comments
		Population Density and Social Pathology (1962) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		4 points by simonebrunozzi 5 days ago \| past \| discuss
		LLM Challenge: Write Non-Biblical Sentences (gwern.net)
		2 points by demadog 13 days ago \| past \| discuss
		The Scaling Hypothesis (2020) (gwern.net)
		2 points by jxmorris12 20 days ago \| past
		The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance (1993) [pdf] (gwern.net)
		1 point by Tomte 29 days ago \| past
		Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? (2001) (gwern.net)
		3 points by JPLeRouzic 31 days ago \| past \| 3 comments
		Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs (2016) (gwern.net)
		11 points by ctoth 36 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Littlewood's Law and the Global Media (2022) (gwern.net)
		1 point by rzk 37 days ago \| past
		On Having Enough Socks (2019) (gwern.net)
		2 points by rzk 45 days ago \| past \| 2 comments
		Magnesium Self-Experiments (gwern.net)
		193 points by rzk 49 days ago \| past \| 131 comments
		Time-Lock Encryption (gwern.net)
		37 points by rzk 52 days ago \| past \| 4 comments
		Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement (gwern.net)
		1 point by jxmorris12 53 days ago \| past
		LLM Can Be Faster Than You (Can) Think (gwern.net)
		5 points by surprisetalk 56 days ago \| past
		You and Your Research (gwern.net)
		2 points by cbracketdash 65 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – A Physical Mathematician [pdf] (gwern.net)
		1 point by joebig 88 days ago \| past
		Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement (gwern.net)
		2 points by jonbaer 89 days ago \| past
		Are Sunk Costs Fallacies? (2012) (gwern.net)
		1 point by krykp 3 months ago \| past
		A Christmas Protestation (gwern.net)
		2 points by lunarcave 3 months ago \| past
		Silk Road 1: Theory and Practice (gwern.net)
		2 points by OuterVale 3 months ago \| past
		Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (gwern.net)
		2 points by bentcorner 3 months ago \| past
		"Better for you if you take me off" – The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)
		12 points by barry-cotter 3 months ago \| past \| 2 comments
		Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs [pdf] (gwern.net)
		1 point by pcfwik 3 months ago \| past
		Bitcoin is Worse is Better (2011-2018) (gwern.net)
		4 points by bookofjoe 3 months ago \| past
		Peter Thiel – The Straussian Moment [pdf] (gwern.net)
		2 points by surrTurr 3 months ago \| past
		Towards Benchmarking LLM Diversity and Creativity (gwern.net)
		1 point by FergusArgyll 3 months ago \| past
		200B Weights of Responsibility: The Stress of Working in Modern AI [pdf] (gwern.net)
		1 point by saliagato 3 months ago \| past
		Towards Benchmarking LLM Diversity and Creativity (gwern.net)
		1 point by thorum 3 months ago \| past
		Towards Benchmarking LLM Diversity and Creativity (gwern.net)
		2 points by iNic 4 months ago \| past
		Dual N-Back FAQ (gwern.net)
		1 point by tosh 4 months ago \| past
		Reasons of State: Why Didn't Denmark Sell Greenland? (gwern.net)
		3 points by Apocryphon 4 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
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