Performative Bafflement
Fitness, non-fiction book reviews, and study-backed deep dives into topics as diverse as policing, peak physical and mental performance, obesity, and paleoanthropology.
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Building muscle back - rebound hypertrophy and strength
I have lost and regained 20-35 pounds of muscle at least 7-8 times in my life for a variety of reasons, including “startup,” “hedonism” “6 months RV-ing/climbing/hiking,” “hospitalization,” “triathlon training,” and “travel.” Those are the...
Why wanking isn't an answer to the Tyranny of Legibility
So recently I finished a book that brought me to the realization that we can now gradient descent everything, and to thinking about why that’s one of the hugest deals ever for humanity. I wrote about that here.
That post started off as a...
Links Post #5
Half free before the paywall, as always
- Hilarious banger of a post where Vishal Prasad parodies 4 common styles of Substack post. This was literally an “instant subscribe” for me - anyone that can pull this off has a mind worth hearing...
Galaxy brains, post-scarcity economics, and selfishness
I recently reread Max Tegmark’s oeuvre, sadly only 2 books, and the one that was the most fun was his Life 3.0, because it was written back in 2017, before LLM’s, and was about AI’s inevitability and various possible future scenarios.
It...
Contra Plan A, Scott, and others - let’s not increase existential risk millionsfold quite yet
Alright, so the good folks at the AI Futures Institute have written Plan A and has written several explainers on why we should do Plan A to avoid an AI dystopia.
Moreover, other luminaries in the AI strategy space, like and (superforec...
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