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MuseStack

By Ethan Muse

The smartest person I've ever met, by an order of magnitude.

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Richard Hanania's Newsletter

Foreign policy, American politics, and social science

My favorite conservative writer--Hanania is a delightful contrarian.

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Matter in Motion

By Coase’s Ghost

Thoughts on philosophy of mind, political philosophy, ethics, epistemology and free will. Art criticism.

Brilliant contrarian--frequent defender of particularism, moral realism, illusionism, and infinitism.

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Fake Noûs

By Fake Nous

Reasonable thoughts about philosophy, politics, and other interesting stuff.

Huemer is a great philosopher--full of brilliant insights on almost all topics. Very clear and fun writing style.

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Thing of Things

By Ozy Brennan

One hundred percent committed to never talking about the news.

Ozy has a great blog. A bit like Astral Codex Ten.

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Parrhesia

By Ives Parr

Genetic Enhancement, Bioethics, Cognitive Ability, Culture War, and more...

Similar to ideas sleep furiously--fascinating writer about lots of engaging topics.

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Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Scott is the smartest person on the internet.

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Muddy Clothes

By Julian Hazell

Hi! I'm Julian. I'm an MSc candidate at the University of Oxford where I'm focusing on longterm AI governance. I'm interested in effective altruism, longtermism, AI governance, China, economics, philosophy, rationality, and memes.

Great blog on lots of EA related topics.

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Eunomia

By Daniel Larison

A daily blog on foreign policy and international affairs by Daniel Larison

High quality foreign policy analysis.

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Rarely Certain

By The Rarely Certain newsletter

I used to be sure about everything & now I'm not. I feel better for it. Rarely Certain is stories, ideas & speculations about our relationship with a confusing information landscape and maintaining our wellbeing in the face of relentless controversy.

Title describes what the blog is all about. Very good writing on interesting topics.

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Samstack

By Sam Atis

A newsletter about social science, the future, and why people behave in the way that they do.

All the articles are fascinating--usually about EA topics.

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Aaron's Blog

By Aaron Bergman

Aaron's blog is full of interesting and brilliant stuff! It's on lots of topics--pretty broad--but it's very brilliant.

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David Friedman’s Substack

Ideas about a wide variety of subjects

About what you'd expect from the anarchist son of Milton Friedman.

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Good Thoughts

By Richard Y Chappell

Consequentialist moral philosophy and analysis

Probably my favorite living philosopher. There is no one on earth better at defending utilitarianism from objections--well, that's probably false, earth is big, but I don't know of anyone.

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Aporia

The No.1 Social Science Substack! Social Science. Philosophy. Culture.

Full of fascinating deep dives on lots of empirical topics. Great interviews.

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Overcoming Bias

By Robin Hanson

This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.

Robin is a brilliant economist with a strange, creative, and almost alien intelligence.

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Going Awol

By Amos Wollen

Wolleny Wisdom for a Wayward World

Amos is insanely funny, smart, and interesting.

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Future Matters

Newsletter about longtermism and existential risk by Matthew van der Merwe and Pablo Stafforini.

This is a good general source for all things longtermism.

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