Scott Alexander has put up one of his greatest posts ever, a 10,000-word eulogy to Dilbert creator Scott Adams, of which I would’ve been happy to read 40,000 words more. In it, Alexander trains a […]
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This deserves to become one of the iconic images of human history, alongside the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square and so forth. Here’s Sharifi Zarchi, a computer engineering professor at Sharif University in Tehran, posting […]
The blog-commenters come at me one by one, a seemingly infinite supply of them, like masked henchmen in an action movie throwing karate chops at Jackie Chan. “Seriously Scott, do better,” says each henchman when […]
I woke up yesterday morning happy and relieved that the Venezuelan people were finally free of their brutal dictator. I ended the day angry and depressed that Trump, as it turns out, does not seek […]
Merry Christmas, everyone! Ho3! Here’s my beloved daughter baking chocolate chip cookies, which she’ll deliver tomorrow morning with our synagogue to firemen, EMTs, and others who need to work on Christmas Day. My role was […]
These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn’t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is imminent. Why have you […]
This (taken in Kiel, Germany in 1931 and then colorized) is one of the most famous photographs in Jewish history, but it acquired special resonance this weekend. It communicates pretty much everything I’d want to […]
Not long ago William MacAskill, the founder of the Effective Altruist movement, visited Austin, where I got to talk with him in person for the first time. I was a fan of his book What […]
The following is based on a talk that I gave (remotely) at the UK AI Security Institute Alignment Workshop on October 29, and which I then procrastinated for more than a month in writing up. […]
Scott’s foreword: Today I’m honored to turn over Shtetl-Optimized to a guest post from Michigan theoretical computer scientist Seth Pettie, who writes about a SOSA Best Paper Award newly renamed in honor of the late […]
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