Move Fast and Write Things

Hacking away at p(doom)

How we ran an AI safety hackathon, what we learned, and How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Profit Motive

Sep 16 • 

Josh Muthu

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Prince

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February 2025

Notes on Replacing Guilt

Life advice* for people wanting to get their shit together [*TW: slightly EA-coded]

Feb 16 • 

Josh Muthu

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September 2024

Summary of Metascience 101 - Introduction

The state of science in the USA - What's going right? What's going wrong? And how can we do science better?

Sep 18, 2024 • 

Josh Muthu

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Buying Non-Use Rights for Coal Mines

Coal is the deadliest and dirtiest major energy source on the planet. Buying one-year non-use rights for coal mines is sound from the perspective of…

Sep 13, 2024 • 

Josh Muthu

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The Jeweller of Mordor

How knowledge and tech affect the economy

Sep 2, 2024 • 

Josh Muthu

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July 2024

To Boldly Grow

How the space economy can launch Earth's prosperity to new frontiers

Jul 27, 2024 • 

Josh Muthu

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September 2023

Off the bloody rails

WHY AREN'T RAILROADS STANDARDISED

Sep 3, 2023 • 

Josh Muthu

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November 2022

Soil, Settlers, and States

Deep determinants of economic growth

Nov 30, 2022 • 

Josh Muthu

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October 2022

From Agrarian Rags to Industrial Riches

The World Economy as We Know It™, est. c.1700

Oct 27, 2022 • 

Josh Muthu

September 2022

"Ukraine": not "the Ukraine", and definitely not "Little Russia"

What's in a name? Quite a lot actually.

Sep 19, 2022 • 

Josh Muthu

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August 2022

Comparison of the transition process in the former Soviet Union and China

I wrote this essay in January 2020, as an assignment for an online course called “Economics of Transition and Emerging Markets”. It’s very simplistic…

Aug 30, 2022 • 

Josh Muthu

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Why is Niger the world’s least developed nation, and what can be done to accelerate its development in the future? A critical analysis.

En français, écrit en février 2021

Aug 30, 2022 • 

Josh Muthu

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