Saturday Links

  1. A research agenda for the Global Priorities Institute: cause prioritisation, cross-cutting considerations, and the scope of effective altruism
  2. Gary Marcus (NYU) on ten problems for deep learning.
  3. Katja Grace wonders, “Why did everything take so long?” People speculate: why everything might have taken so long.
  4. Instead of New Year’s resolutions, monthly resolutions: an excellent list and project.
  5. Ten reasons to read The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
  6. Digital bookshelves! I find these extremely addictive to browse:
    1. https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf
    2. https://danwang.co/books/
    3. http://jsomers.net/#books

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