Rudolf's writing
Intro
This is a minimalist repository of my writing.
I also publish my writing on Substack at No Set Gauge, which is where you can subscribe for updates.
(An external non-Substack site was a necessity caused by Substack's lack of support for inline LaTeX, though the idea was also fanned by my cranky perfectionism about high-performance, zero-bloat web design.)
Archive
2024
- Survival without dignity
- AI & wisdom 3: AI effects on amortised optimisation
- AI & wisdom 2: growth and amortised optimisation
- AI & wisdom 1: wisdom, amortised optimisation, and AI
- Investigating an insurance-for-AI startup
- Positive visions for AI
- Me, Myself, and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs
- A model of research skill
2023
2022
- Deciding not to found a human-data-for-alignment startup
- AI risk intro 2: solving the problem
- AI risk intro 1: advanced AI might be very bad
- EA as a Schelling point
- Effective Altruism in practice
- Information Theory 3
- Information Theory 2
- Information Theory 1
2021
- Understanding and controlling auto-induced distributional shift
- Death is bad
- Short reviews - biographies - 1
- Lambda calculus
- Nuclear power is good
- Technological progress
- Review: Where is my Flying Car?
- Data science 2
2020
- Data science 1
- Review: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
- EA ideas 4: utilitarianism
- EA ideas 3: uncertainty
- EA ideas 2: expected value and risk neutrality
- EA ideas 1: rigour and opportunity in charity
- Short reviews - nonfiction - 1
- Short reviews - fiction - 1
- Review: The Doomsday Machine
2019
- Classical physics
- Growth and civilisation
- Review: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Review: The Pleasures of Counting
- Review: From NAND To Tetris
- Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Two proofs
- The Ultimate Literary Essay
- Review: Diaspora
2018
book reviews — fiction
book reviews — nonfiction
- Short reviews - biographies - 1
- Review: Where is my Flying Car?
- Review: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
- Short reviews - nonfiction - 1
- Review: The Doomsday Machine
- Review: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Review: The Pleasures of Counting
- Review: From NAND To Tetris
- Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Review: Seeds of Science
- Review addendum: More energy and more civilization
- Review: Energy and Civilization: A History
- Review: Enlightenment Now
- Review: The Internationalists
- Review: Gödel, Escher, Bach
fiction
general
- AI & wisdom 3: AI effects on amortised optimisation
- AI & wisdom 2: growth and amortised optimisation
- AI & wisdom 1: wisdom, amortised optimisation, and AI
- Positive visions for AI
- A model of research skill
- AI risk intro 2: solving the problem
- AI risk intro 1: advanced AI might be very bad
- EA as a Schelling point
- Effective Altruism in practice
- Death is bad
- Nuclear power is good
- Technological progress
- EA ideas 4: utilitarianism
- EA ideas 3: uncertainty
- EA ideas 2: expected value and risk neutrality
- EA ideas 1: rigour and opportunity in charity
- Growth and civilisation
humour
project reports
- Investigating an insurance-for-AI startup
- Me, Myself, and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs
- Deciding not to found a human-data-for-alignment startup
technical
civilisation
- AI & wisdom 3: AI effects on amortised optimisation
- AI & wisdom 2: growth and amortised optimisation
- AI & wisdom 1: wisdom, amortised optimisation, and AI
- A Disneyland Without Children
- Death is bad
- Nuclear power is good
- Technological progress
- Review: Where is my Flying Car?
- Review: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
- Growth and civilisation
- Review: Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Review: Seeds of Science
- Review addendum: More energy and more civilization
- Review: Energy and Civilization: A History
- Review: Enlightenment Now
computing
- Understanding and controlling auto-induced distributional shift
- Lambda calculus
- Data science 2
- Data science 1
- Review: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Review: The Pleasures of Counting
- Review: From NAND To Tetris
- Two proofs
- Review: Permutation City
- Review: Gödel, Escher, Bach
AI
- AI & wisdom 3: AI effects on amortised optimisation
- Investigating an insurance-for-AI startup
- Positive visions for AI
- Me, Myself, and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs
- Deciding not to found a human-data-for-alignment startup
- AI risk intro 2: solving the problem
- AI risk intro 1: advanced AI might be very bad
- Understanding and controlling auto-induced distributional shift
EA
- EA as a Schelling point
- Effective Altruism in practice
- EA ideas 4: utilitarianism
- EA ideas 3: uncertainty
- EA ideas 2: expected value and risk neutrality
- EA ideas 1: rigour and opportunity in charity
history
- Review: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
- Review: The Doomsday Machine
- Review addendum: More energy and more civilization
- Review: Energy and Civilization: A History
- Review: The Baroque Cycle
- Review: The Internationalists
misc
- A model of research skill
- Short reviews - biographies - 1
- Short reviews - nonfiction - 1
- Short reviews - fiction - 1
maths
satire
physics
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