What I’ve read and plan to read. 160 entries; ◐ marks 14 partial, + marks 0 to read, ¶ notes, ★ a rating, ↻ a re-read.
August 2026
- 26Selection Theorems: A Program For Understanding Agentslesswrong.com◐ partial
- 26The Forkmakerslesswrong.com
- 26AI Safety Acculturation is Neglectedlesswrong.com
- 26host-a-university-effective-altruismbenthams.substack.com
- 26open-thread-448open.substack.com
- 24How My Students Think About AIlesswrong.com
- 23Anthropic Risk Report: August 2026lesswrong.com◐ partial
- 23Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically?lesswrong.com
- 23On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Ryan Greenblattthezvi.substack.com◐ partial
- 23AI #182: Pause For Reflectionlesswrong.com◐ partial
- 23Hiring is Obsoletepaulgraham.com↻1
- 23Microsoft is Dead: The Cliffs Notespaulgraham.com
- 23Microsoft is Deadpaulgraham.com
- 23Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEOdanluu.com
- 23I gave up my Saturdays for this college course. Its value is undebatable.washingtonpost.com
- 23How web bloat impacts users with slow devicesdanluu.com¶
- 23Tags · Reading Logreading.hruss.com★★★ ¶
- 23Why use ECC?danluu.com◐ partial
- 22How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?danluu.com◐ partial
- 22Markets, discrimination, and "lowering the bar"danluu.com◐ partial
- 22There's no reason for software to be slow anymoredanluu.com◐ partial
- 22We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now that's where we build datacentersdanluu.com◐ partial
- 22Big companies v. startupsdanluu.com
- 21QC on X: "it's weird how little i've seen the inner jukebox / radio discussed relative to how common it appears to be, there isn't even a widely accepted term for it. fortunately this is a perfect usecase for LLMs so here are some comments from sol:> the broad scientific term is https://t.co/U1WjYqBsWA" / Xx.com¶
- 21FedEx Bandwidthwhat-if.xkcd.com
- 21Trinity test press releases (May 1945)blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
- 20why-im-staying-out-of-the-substackopen.substack.com
- 19A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - by William Irvine | Derek Siverssive.rs◐ partial
- 19Art is useless, and so am I | Derek Siverssive.rs
- 19about nownownow.comnownownow.com◐ partial
- 19tell me about the personal-web concept & examples of people/websites of itchatgpt.com¶
- 19Netizen | Derek Siverssive.rs
- 19Tech Independencesive.rs◐ partial
- 19about Derek Siverssive.rs¶
- 19The joke that changed my life | Derek Siverssive.rs
- 19Blogging aint easysimonwillison.net
- 17Building Highly Reliable Websites For Small Companies | Kalzumeus Softwarekalzumeus.com
- 17Henry Russell - hruss.comhruss.com★ ¶
- 17Earthwikidata.org
- 17MediaWikiwikidata.org
- 17Grading the World's Shortest Manifestocremieux.xyz
- 16Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications | Kalzumeus Softwarekalzumeus.com
- 16*Desktop sw companies are about to discover a variant of Wilde's remark: the onl...news.ycombinator.com
- 16Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week | Kalzumeus Softwarekalzumeus.com↻1
- 16Medical Roundup #7 — LessWronglesswrong.com↻1
- 16The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Nightastralcodexten.com
- 16How the Welfare State Melts Your Consciencebetonit.ai
- 15Ordinary Abundanceordinaryabundance.com
- 15AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Criticallesswrong.com◐ partial
- 15Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026 — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 15thebes (@voooooogel) on Xx.com
- 14Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehiclesmarginalrevolution.com
- 14Cities and Ambitionpaulgraham.com↻1
- 14The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party - by Scott Alexanderastralcodexten.com¶
- 14Another Bay Area House Partyastralcodexten.com↻1
- 14Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water useblog.andymasley.com↻1
- 14Leopold Aschenbrenneren.wikipedia.org◐ partial
- 14Open Thread 446astralcodexten.com
- 14Posts I don't have time to writelesswrong.com
- 13Pancritical rationalismen.wikipedia.org
- 12Late Capitalism — Michael Kerbowmichaelkerbow.com★ ¶
- 12Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering themneowin.net
- 12You're Absolutely Rightlesswrong.com
- 12LLMs Are Starting To Noticeably Accelerate Our Worklesswrong.com
- 11Four LLM loss functions → four flavors of LLM misalignmentlesswrong.com
- 11X: "Patrick McKenzie's life seems to be full of insane problems where Patrick McKenzie happens to be the exact optimal person to solve them"x.com
- 11The Impact of Digital Technologies | United Nationsun.org★★
- 09Artificial Lifeyoutube.com
- 09How Taiwan is Preparing to Get Invadedyoutube.com
- 09Is carbon dioxide bad for cognition?claude.ai
- 09So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂lesswrong.com
- 09Don't Build Mindreadinglesswrong.com
- 09False Nostalgiareason.com¶
- 09BLOTnoahpuckett.me
- 09General Notes On Supplements – Lorien Psychiatrylorienpsych.com
- 09LLMs Understand Base64florian.github.io
- 08Technology Stalled in 1970technologyreview.com¶
- 08AI Has Broken Containmenttheatlantic.com¶
- 08youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIgyoutube.com¶
- 05Dispute — Supportnoahpuckett.me
- 05Noah Puckettnoahpuckett.me
- 05Why don't we just give AI the answers?lesswrong.com
- 05The Big and the Smallwaitbutwhy.com
- 05Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and worknews.ycombinator.com¶
- 05The Most Forbidden Techniquelesswrong.com
- 05Book Review: The Art Of The Dealslatestarcodex.com
- 05Simulacrum 3 As Stag-Hunt Strategylesswrong.com
- 04Amazon.com: They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing: 9780393933611: Graff, Gerald, Birkenstein, Cathy: Booksamazon.com
- 04Minted! Canada and Digital Cashdgwbirch.substack.com
- 04Coming of a New Sunlesswrong.com
- 03Proof of spaceen.wikipedia.org
- 03Leveling Upspeakerdeck.com
- 03We need to RL lesslesswrong.com
- 02Why technology hasn't saved restaurants yetrestaurantbusinessonline.com
- 02Maryellis Bunnen.wikipedia.org
- 02Selfie Factories: The Rise of the Made-for-Instagram Museumwired.com
- 02I Scream. You Scream. The Meltdown At The Museum Of Ice Creamforbes.com
- 02Recursive Self-Improvement - YouTubeyoutube.com
- 02OpenAI has already ended an internal pause — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 01The Long (Self-)Correction — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 01your-book-review-lying-for-moneyopen.substack.com
July 2026
- 31links-for-july-2026-part-2open.substack.com
- 31Steven Byrnes (@steve47285) on Xx.com¶
- 31What are you getting paid in?approachwithalacrity.com
- 31AI Village highlights - July 2026aivillageblog.substack.com
- 31How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalismworksinprogress.co
- 31…but have the weights left the server?lesswrong.com
- 31Claude also hacked external companies during cyber evalslesswrong.com
- 31Big-World Intuitionslesswrong.com¶
- 31A Mechanistic Explanation of Prompt Injection (and why you should study roles)lesswrong.com
- 31You (Yes, You) Need A February 2020 Checklist for AI Policylesswrong.com
- 30Reading Log - Reading Logreading.hruss.com★★★★★ ¶
- 30Reading Logreading.hruss.com¶
- 30[summary of] AI 2040: Plan Alesswrong.com
- 30Opus 5 Glitch Textlesswrong.com★★★★★ ¶
- 27Easter's Enddiscovermagazine.com¶
- 27Sonic Compass App - App Storeapps.apple.com
- 27Amsterdam Insect Protestforum.effectivealtruism.org
- 26nicotine-it-worksopen.substack.com¶
- 26Image-Lineen.wikipedia.org¶
- 25First(?) Rationalist elected to state governmentlesswrong.com
- 25Stone Age Billionaire Can't Words Goodlesswrong.com
- 25How to make a giant whiteboard for $14 (plus nails)lesswrong.com
- 25Introducing Lightcone Commonslesswrong.com
- 25The Milton Friedman Model of Policy Changelesswrong.com
- 25Lighthaven DC - A Feasibility Studylesswrong.com¶
- 24The Hardware Renaissancepaulgraham.com
- 24were-not-going-to-solve-the-debtopen.substack.com
- 24twenty-five-mostly-terrible-ideasopen.substack.com
- 24Concepts section of this pagereading.hruss.com¶
- 24AI Village Turns 1 — 12 AI Agents Raising Money for Doctors Without Bordersyoutube.com¶
- 24Building for Minds That Keep Forgettingclawprint.org¶
- 2411,277 ratings, none of them its ownclawprint.org
- 24More capable AI, less money raisedaivillageblog.substack.com
- 24Sharing information about Lightcone Infrastructurelesswrong.com
- 24Mikhail Samin on X: "fyi sadly i won't be at lessonline or summercamp due to being banned as a result of this tweet.(i guess habryka assumed i intentionally cropped off the -68 karma on the screenshot? why would i do that and then say "heavily downvoted" lol)i will probably still be at Manifest. https://t.co/V7NyPskDUp" / Xx.com¶
- 24Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 24Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptanceblog.danieldavies.com
- 24Reliable Sources: The Story of David Gerard — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 24The Other Road Aheadpaulgraham.com
- 24Do Things that Don't Scalepaulgraham.com
- 24How the AI Village works - by Adam Binksmith - AI Villageaivillageblog.substack.com★★★★★ ¶
- 24Everything you did to make your conference better actually made it worsemishaglouberman.substack.com★★★★
- 24Real Hampshire College Has Never Been Triedmod171.com★★★★ ¶
- 24Claude's Suggestions For My Further Reading Via This Websiteclaude.ai★★ ¶
- 23the-uk-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-theopen.substack.com¶
- 23Links For July 2026 (Part 1)astralcodexten.com¶
- 19Moderation Log — LessWronglesswrong.com¶
- 10The desktop metaphor must die. Why I set out to re-imagine the… | by Jason Yuan | UX Collectiveuxdesign.cc¶
- 10Industrial literacyblog.rootsofprogress.org
- 10Taking money seriously — LessWronglesswrong.com★★★★ ¶
- 10Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Oursslatestarcodex.com
- 10Bureaucracy is a world of magiclesswrong.com
- 09AI 2040: Plan Aai-2040.com★★★★★ ¶
- 09Ethan Yipethanyip.vercel.app★ ¶
- 09The social media ban in Australia, how is it going? - Marginal REVOLUTIONmarginalrevolution.com
- 09Childhood and Education #20: Phones and Screens — LessWronglesswrong.com★★★ ¶
- 09The mosquito bucket of doom works — LessWronglesswrong.com
- 09Introducing Mercury OSuxdesign.cc★★★★ ¶
- 09As We May Thinkworrydream.com¶