Here’s a list of blogs that I enjoy written by friends. This doesn’t include blogs by people I haven’t met (eg. Marginal Revolution), or anonymous blogs. Of course, the topics and posting frequency vary a lot, so the categories are rough.
Hard science, physics, biology, etc.:
– Andart, Anders Sandberg
– Semantic Scribblings, Chelsea Voss
– Eukaryote Writes Blog, Georgia Ray
– ForeXiv, Jess Riedel
– AI Impacts, Katja Grace
– AI Alignment, Paul Christiano
– Otium, Sarah Constantin
– Parenting With Evidence, Sarah Constantin
– Shtetl Optimized, Scott Aaronson
– Geroscience, Tegan McCaslin
– Deep Safety, Victoria Krakovna
Soft science, economics, sociology, etc.:
– Reflective Disquilibrium, Carl Shulman
– Overcoming Bias, Robin Hanson
– Slate Star Codex, Scott Alexander
– Optimize Everything, Spencer Greenberg
– Don’t Worry About the Vase, Zvi Mowshowitz
Politics and morality:
– Pedestrian Observations, Alon Levy
– Almost No One is Evil, Almost Everything is Broken, Jai Dhyani
– Concept Space Cartography, Jim Babcock
– Giving Gladly, Julia Wise
– The Unit of Caring, Kelsey Piper
– The Consequentialist, Matthew Gentzel
– Nothing is Mere, Rob Bensinger
– Fire and Pulse, Roxanne Heston
General thoughts and philosophy:
– Compass Rose, Ben Hoffman
– Teal Tensor, Elizabeth Morningstar
– Aceso Under Glass, Elizabeth van Nostrand
– Unstable Ontology, Jessica Taylor
– Meteuphoric, Katja Grace
– Minding Our Way, Nate Soares
– Minds Aren’t Magic, Paul Crowley
– Saner Than Lasagna, Sam Rosen and Eloise Rosen
– Apophany, Tegan McCaslin
– Becoming Eden, Will Eden and Divia Eden
Personal:
– Ben Kuhn
– Buck Shlegeris
– Eliezer Yudkowsky
– Holly Elmore
– Jeff Kaufman
– Luke Muehlhauser
– Malcolm Ocean
– Nancy Hua
– Paul Christiano
– Satvik Beri
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