The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend

The Escalation of Commitment to a Course of Action (1981)

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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better (2011)

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People who often signal their victimhood are more likely to lie, cheat, and engage in other unethical behaviors in order to get ahead, even at others’ expense.

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Spaced Repetition (2019)

How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996)

Archiving URLs (2019)

Easy Cryptographic Timestamping of Files

The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law

Stereotype accuracy: One of the largest, most replicable effects in psychology

Signaling Virtuous Victimhood as Indicators of Dark Triad Personalities

GPT-3 Creative Fiction

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)

Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems

What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011)

Gwern on GPT-3

“Pain Is the Only School-Teacher”

Climb Mount Improbable: Richard Dawkins's Evolvable Critters in JavaScript

Harnessing Vision for Computation (2008)

In Defense of Inclusionism (2018)

Generating MIDI Music with GPT-2

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