The Library
Every book here is on my shelf at home in Delhi. Pull one for the short version. And if you have read something on this shelf, email me, I like arguing about books.
Inventory, not claims. Anyone can write "I love reading" on a portfolio; a catalogued shelf with a summary on every book is evidence. Sci-fi framed the thinking; the rest of the room explains the rest.
The Picks
The curated tier: the sixty-second visitor finishes this shelf and has the whole point. Numbered amber dots are Start Here — how I think, in five books, in order.
1–5 = start here. How I think, in five books, in that order.
The Stacks
Complete inventory behind the curated tier. Every theme shows its first row; the dashed tile opens the full shelf. Nobody faces the whole collection uninvited, but all of it is two interactions away.
The Reading Room
Same argument as the shelves: curation is the evidence. Thirteen links with a reason each beats a hundred bookmarks. Static by design: nothing fetches, nothing breaks, every URL checked before shipping.
Sites and papers I keep going back to. These live online, just links.
LessWrong · The Home Shelf · 6 reads
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LessWrong↗
lesswrong.com
My favorite site on the internet. Most of how I argue (update on the pattern, notice what's missing) was tuned here.
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Rationality: A–Z↗
the sequences · yudkowsky
In order, no skipping. The longest read I recommend without apology.
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The Best of LessWrong↗
annual review · community-voted
Posts re-judged after they've aged a year. Start here if the Sequences feel like a commitment.
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality↗
hpmor · yudkowsky
The Sequences wearing a story. One of my favorite things in any medium, and I bring it up unprovoked.
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Roko's Basilisk↗
lesswrong wiki
The thought experiment the site tried to delete. Come for the decision theory, stay for the lesson in what banning an idea does to it.
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Heuristics & Biases↗
lesswrong wiki · after kahneman & tversky
The catalogue of corners a mind cuts. The shortcut is fine; trusting it blind is the sin.
Behind the Mark · Survivorship · 2 reads
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The Famous Survivorship-Bias Image Is a Loose Reconstruction↗
lesswrong
The bullet-hole diagram everyone shares (my mark included) was never Wald's data. Even the story about missing data has missing data.
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Abraham Wald's Work on Aircraft Survivability↗
mangel & samaniego · jasa 1984 · pdf
The best account of what Wald actually did, hosted by its author. Where to go once the diagram has done its job.
AI · The Argument and the Craft · 2 reads
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The Hanson–Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate↗
intelligence.org · pdf · ~700 pages
Two careful people disagreeing about AI takeoff, at length, in public. Watching them show their work beats either one's conclusion.
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Andrej Karpathy↗
karpathy.ai
Neural nets taught zero-to-hero, free, by someone who builds them. The impact I want AI work to have, demonstrated.
The Wider Room · 3 reads
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The EA Forum↗
forum.effectivealtruism.org
Effective altruism's working floor. I'd rather people argue inside this community than admire it from the door; it matters to where we're going.
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From Cosmism to Deism↗
hugo de garis · the kurzweil library · archived
An engineer goes looking for a first cause. The original page has left the web; the argument hasn't.
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Physics for Idiots↗
physicsforidiots.com
I'm a commerce student who loves physics, the science under all the others. This site takes a newbie seriously without dumbing the physics down.