Icosian Reflections

…a tendency to systematize and a keen sense

that we live in a broken world.

Reading Feed (February 2022)


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | How much expected surplus do we want Putin to have?

Blog: The Grumpy Economist | The U.S. and NATO must fight

Blog: Giving What We Can | The value of small donations from a longtermist perspective

Blog: Future Fund | Announcing the Future Fund


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Blog: Future Fund | Our 2022 Plans


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Compensation sentences to ponder


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Comic: xkcd | Greek Letters

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Elite high school TJ will continue as it was

Blog: Future Fund | Massively Scalable Projects


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | My Conversation with Chuck Klosterman

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 2/24/22: The Next War

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Less Lightning Links at Length #1

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Trudeau has turned off the invocation of the Emergencies Act


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Comic: xkcd | Rounding

Blog: Marginal Revolution | A big thank you to Jane Street


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Blog: Gates Notes | Paul Farmer’s legacy is the lives he saved

Blog: Marginal Revolution | What is so great about Pet Sounds?

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Will Our Military State Fail Us? II

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Redistribution sentences to ponder


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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Convoy Crackdown

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Who has the power?

Blog: Schneier on Security | Stealing Bicycles by Swapping QR Codes


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Blog: The Grumpy Economist | More infrastructure snafu

Blog: Marginal Revolution | The new culture that is Virginia public high school


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Blog: JeffTK | Microcovid Becoming Less Useful


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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Encouragement to Instill Confidence?

Comic: xkcd | Chorded Keyboard


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Blog: Market Design | Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design at MSRI Berkeley in Fall of 2023

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 2/17/22: Coasting Downwards

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Fishy Results on Ocean Acidification


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Against alcohol, part #6437

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Convoy Continued


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | What are the costs of the megadrought in the Southwest?


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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Rock is Strong

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Bram Stoker, Dracula, and Progress Studies


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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | The Long Long Covid Post

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 2/10/22: Happy Birthday

Blog: Marginal Revolution | The emergency is over. It’s time to pivot to preparedness

Blog: Marginal Revolution | “Context is that which is scarce”


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | The Jesuits: A History

Blog: Market Design | Stability in Matching Markets with Complex Constraints by H. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, and A. Teytelboym


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Blog: Gates Notes | My new pandemic book is coming soon

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Netflix economics and the future of Netflix


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Blog: The Grumpy Economist | Covid tests parable


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Blog: Shtetl-Optimized | AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English


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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Convoy

Blog: Marginal Revolution | How good are your answers?

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Yellow Vests, Pessimistic Beliefs, and Carbon Tax Aversion

Blog: Shtetl-Optimized | Scott Aaronson Speculation Grant WINNERS!


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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | On Bounded Distrust

Blog: Overcoming Bias | Wait To Marry A Cause


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | How to start art collecting