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Applications
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AI Safety & Alignment
AI Safety & EA Author Index
80 author profiles across 336 topics with 413 key writings — views, stances, and reading guides.
Updated 2026-03-06
AI Governance
EU AI Act, US legislation, China, institutions, key people, policy debates, and timeline.
Updated 2026-03-06
MIRI
25 years of AI alignment research — Friendly AI, logical induction, embedded agency, and the turn to policy.
Updated 2026-03-03
Decision Theory
A survey of decision theory from classical expected utility to functional decision theory.
Updated 2026-03-02
Model Attractor States
A field guide to behavioral basins in LLMs — Claude bliss, GPT sycophancy, Sydney, MechaHitler, Truth Terminal, and others, with a five-part taxonomy.
Updated 2026-05-23
Soft Contamination & Shallow Generalization
Slide deck — 78–100% of benchmarks have semantic duplicates in training data, inflating scores without real capability gains.
Updated 2026-03-23
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Rationality & Culture
Rationalist Fiction Guide
The canon, 9 author profiles, thematic analysis, community guide, and reading recommendations.
Updated 2026-03-06
My Ethical Framework
Metaethics, consequentialism, axioms, population ethics, autonomy, AI, veganism — with limitations for each.
Updated 2026-03-08
Drowning Differently
Editorial presentation of the Jake and Emma vignette, with the supplied text set into a cleaner reading layout.
Updated 2026-04-14
The Physics of Inkhaven
Field study of a walled, closed-time, information-porous writing compound. Ownership ontology, the 4am reset, vanishing as row-deletion, and what the god wants.
Updated 2026-04-20
Gwern.net Sitemap + RSS
300+ essays across 30 topics, from AI scaling to anime to poetry. Per-section RSS feeds.
Updated 2026-03-07
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Economics & Ireland
Energy Markets & Battery Arbitrage
Temporal arbitrage, supply-demand forecasts, and investment economics for Ireland.
Updated 2026-03-06
Ireland Home Battery Arbitrage
Deep-dive on whether selling home batteries in Ireland works as a real business, with tariffs, hardware families, import economics, and adversarial review.
Updated 2026-04-13
The Price of Permission
How Ireland's planning regulations add ~25% to housing costs.
Updated 2026-02-27
Renewable Land Calculator
How much of Ireland & the UK would solar, wind, or an optimal mix need? Interactive calculator with seasonal storage analysis.
Updated 2026-03-20
Rail Systems Compared
Monorail vs conventional rail — why the future never arrived, plus 14 transit types compared by cost, capacity, and use case.
Updated 2026-03-15
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Health & Body
Hantavirus 2026 Field Report
MV Hondius Andes-virus cluster, the Hackman case, Mammoth Lakes, prediction markets ($4.7M+ vol), rationalist discourse, virology — with C1–C5 sourcing.
Updated 2026-05-10
Longevity & Anti-Aging
15 key figures, theories of aging, interventions ranked by evidence, and what actually works today.
Updated 2026-03-06
Skin Health: What Actually Matters
432 evidence-rated claims across 14 topics — effect sizes, costs, and what doesn't work.
Updated 2026-03-04
UV Filter Atlas
36 photoprotective actives — UV/visible absorption spectra, photodegradation half-lives, λmax×stability scatter, and global regulatory status. Includes iron oxides for HEV / visible-light protection.
Updated 2026-05-07
Peptide Research Compendium
53 compounds across 8 categories — dosing, evidence tiers, safety, and Ireland/UK lab testing.
Updated 2026-03-27
The Comorbidity Cluster
ADHD, Autism, OCD, EDS, POTS — 10 conditions, 19 pairwise correlations, interactive heatmap.
Updated 2026-03-26
Journalling & Mental Health
Evidence review of journalling for mental health — meta-analyses, effect sizes, methods compared, plus LessWrong/rationalist takes.
Updated 2026-04-07
Alcor Deep Dive
Cryonics research — complete Alcor writing catalog, timeline, news coverage (good & bad), and fact-checked key questions.
Updated 2026-04-06
Organ Sacs & Bodyoids
Brainless body growth — R3 Bio, the science, full media catalog, multi-framework ethics analysis, and connections to cryonics.
Updated 2026-04-06
The Biohacking Atlas
The ecosystem editing the human body — grinders, grown organs, brain interfaces, mind-uploading & the experience machine — read as a map of what's missing & needed, with an AGI-this-decade vs slow-world toggle. Cross-checked by two AI models.
Updated 2026-05-31
Cooking Queries
A growing food knowledge base — each entry added from a question, with tags and timestamps.
Updated 2026-03-06
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Tools & Experiments
RunPod GPU Availability
Live heatmap of GPU stock across RunPod secure & community cloud, polled every 5 min. Low/Medium/High tiers from RunPod's own API, ~8 days of history, prices included.
Updated 2026-05-26
Noise Cancelling Headphones Guide
Over-ear and in-ear ANC headphones ranked by noise cancellation, with dB data, UK pricing, and eBay used prices.
Updated 2026-03-07
AR & Smart Glasses Buyer's Guide
40 products across display, AI, and interactive AR — with images, brand logos, 3+ verified reviews per product, and a tech primer. Most interactive AR is still mediocre; here's what to actually buy in May 2026.
Updated 2026-05-13
Claude Code Productivity Tools
MCP servers, hooks, IDE integrations, SDK patterns, workflows, and benchmarks.
Updated 2026-02-21
X.com Management Tools
~85 tools across 15 strategies for filtering the X feed and managing follows — LLM filters, browser automation, archive ecosystem, friction tools, platform shifts. Flags zombies that 2026 listicles still recommend.
Updated 2026-05-21
PartyBench: Can AI Throw a Party?
121 sourced claims across 10 areas on automating house parties with Claude Code.
Updated 2026-02-22
MCSR Ranked Guide
Minecraft speedrun ranked — bastion types & routing, modern meta, glossary, and how to get started.
Updated 2026-03-08
Slay the Spire 2
Questions, scraped sources, and notes on STS2 — mechanics, strategies, and meta.
Updated 2026-03-10
Windows Games on Mac in 2026
Whisky is dead — what to use now. CrossOver 26, Sikarugir, Merlot, GPTK, cloud streaming, anti-cheat compatibility table.
Updated 2026-05-03
Firefox TTS Extensions
22 extensions compared — voice quality, LaTeX handling, pricing, and why Read Aloud + WaveNet beats $20/mo NaturalReader.
Updated 2026-03-30
STT on Mac & Android
Better than Wispr Flow? Scribe v2, Superwhisper, free OSS clones (Handy / OpenWhispr / MacParakeet), Android (FUTO Voice Input, Gboard Smart Dictation), TCO math & adversarial critique.
Updated 2026-05-07
Apple Silicon: The Full Lineup
Every M-series laptop chip from M1 to M5 Max — specs, Geekbench scores, and generation comparisons.
Updated 2026-03-28
Trains of the World
20 countries + metros compared on network, HSR, ridership, punctuality (with thresholds because they aren't comparable), and price. Per-country pages themed to each rail aesthetic — Swiss, Bauhaus, Mondrian, Vienna Secession, Frecciarossa carmine, Shinkansen-quiet, etc.
Updated 2026-05-25
Wiki Software Research
Rated 2026 guide to wiki software: static docs, self-hosted team wikis, PKM gardens, SaaS options, SEO, and complexity tradeoffs.
Updated 2026-04-14
Web Design Style Samples
Design style gallery — brutalist, glassmorphism, editorial, dark luxury, vaporwave, and more.
Updated 2026-03-06
Hackathons 2026
High-bounty hackathons across Web3, AI, climate, fintech — verified and quality-rated with iterative red-team validation.
Updated 2026-03-18
A Day in 2015 — Time Audit
130-entry minute-by-minute log from a thursday in feb 2015, categorised into 15 activities with pie chart, bar breakdown, and 13-hour timeline strip.
Updated 2026-04-18
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Media & Generation
AI Fiction Writing Guide
Getting AI to write good fiction — model rankings, prompting techniques, LLM-ism catalog, agent workflows, and battle-tested prompt templates.
Updated 2026-03-30
Image Generation Models Compared
GPT Image, Flux, Midjourney, SD, Ideogram, Recraft — quality, pricing, and reference image support.
Updated 2026-03-04
TTS on LessWrong
Posts on text-to-speech — narration projects, audio workflows, and the Nonlinear Library.
Updated 2026-03-03
TTS Tools & Models (Reddit)
Best TTS models and services — open-source and commercial, with benchmarks and pricing.
Updated 2026-03-03
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Geopolitics & Current Events
Israel-Palestine Conflict
Oct 2023 Hamas attack through March 2026 — Gaza war, diplomacy, regional escalation, casualties, and analysis with 230+ sources.
Updated 2026-03-18
Iran: Recent Developments
Protests, military strikes, regional war — timeline and analysis of the Iran crisis, late 2025 through March 2026.
Updated 2026-03-18
Russia-Ukraine War
Four years of war — timeline, military situation, diplomacy, sanctions, internal politics, and analysis with 150+ sources.
Updated 2026-03-18
Sudan Civil War
The world's worst humanitarian crisis — timeline, actors, genocide in Darfur, humanitarian data, and why the world is looking away.
Updated 2026-03-18
China-Taiwan & US-China Relations
Pelosi visit through 2026 — military escalation, tech decoupling, trade war, alliance building, and conflict analysis with 120+ sources.
Updated 2026-03-18