Luke Muehlhauser

Media I’m looking forward to, May 2016 edition

May 1, 2016 by Luke

Books

* = added this round

  • *Trout, Wondrous Truths (May 2016)
  • *Greely, The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction (May 2016)
  • *Scahill et al., The Assassination Complex (May 2016)
  • *Kurz, Economic Thought: A Brief History (May 2016)
  • Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
  • *Weisburd et al., What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation (May 2016)
  • Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz (May 2016)
  • Tapscott & Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution (May 2016)
  • Mukherjee, The Gene (May 2016)
  • Kelly, The Inevitable (Jun 2016)
  • Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
  • Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
  • *Field, An Adventure in Statistics (Jul 2016)
  • Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
  • *Arbesman, Overcomplicated (Jul 2016)
  • Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
  • Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
  • Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
  • Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
  • Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
  • *Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
  • Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
  • Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
  • Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
  • Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
  • *Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
  • *Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Nov 2016)
  • *Pigliucci, The Nature of Philosophy (TBD 2016)
  • Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (TBD 2016)
  • Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (TBD 2016)
  • Ogden, Experimental Conversations (TBD 2016)
  • Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD 2016)
  • *Cowen, The Great Social Stagnation (Feb 2017)
  • Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
  • Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
  • Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
  • Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
  • Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
  • Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
  • Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
  • Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
  • Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
  • Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
  • Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
  • Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
  • Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
  • Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
  • Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
  • Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
  • Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
  • Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
  • Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)

Movies

(only including movies which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

  • Russo & Russo, Captain America: Civil War (May 2016)
  • Stanton, Finding Dory (Jun 2016)
  • Liu, Batman: The Killing Joke (Jul 2016)
  • Cianfrance, The Light Between Oceans (Sep 2016)
  • Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
  • Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
  • Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
  • Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
  • Villeneuve, Story of Your Life (TBD 2016)
  • Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (TBD 2016)
  • Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
  • Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
  • Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
  • Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
  • Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
  • Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)

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Books, music, etc. from March 2016

April 1, 2016 by Luke

Books

  • Kaplan, Dark Territory

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

  • Neil Ardley, Kaleidoscope of Rainbows (1976)
  • Mike Westbrook, Metropolis (1971), On Duke’s Birthday (1984)
  • Michael Gibbs, Tanglewood 63 (1971)
  • Anna von Hausswolff, The Miraculous (2015)
  • John Surman, Way Back When (rec. 1969, rel. 2005), Coruscating (2000), Invisible Nature (2002)
  • Mason Bates, Mothership (2015), Works for Orchestra (2016)
  • Anna Meredith, Varmints (2016)
  • Nucleus, Labyrinth (1973), Under the Sun (1974)
  • Soft Head, Rogue Element (1978)
  • Dudu Pakwana, In the Townships (1974)
  • Terje Rypdal, Odyssey (1975)
  • Eberhard Weber, The Colours of Chloë (1973)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

  • [none this month]

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Some books I’m looking forward to, April 2016 edition

April 1, 2016 by Luke

* = added this round

  • Parcelle, The Humane Economy (Apr 2016)
  • *de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Apr 2016)
  • Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (Apr 2016)
  • Macchi et al., Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (Apr 2016)
  • *Frank, Success and Luck (Apr 2016)
  • *Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (spring 2016)
  • Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
  • *Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz (May 2016)
  • Tapscott & Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution (May 2016)
  • Biondi-Zoccai, Umbrella Reviews (Mar 2016)
  • Mukherjee, The Gene (May 2016)
  • *Kelly, The Inevitable (Jun 2016)
  • Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
  • Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
  • Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
  • Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
  • Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
  • Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
  • Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
  • Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
  • Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
  • *Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
  • Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
  • Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (TBD 2016)
  • Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (TBD 2016)
  • Ogden, Experimental Conversations (TBD 2016)
  • Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD 2016)
  • Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
  • Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
  • Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
  • Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
  • Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
  • Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
  • Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
  • Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
  • Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
  • Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
  • Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
  • *Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
  • Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
  • Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
  • Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
  • Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
  • Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
  • Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
  • Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)

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Macrohistorians and their theories

March 21, 2016 by Luke

Macrohistory and Macrohistorians (1997) summarizes and evaluates the macrohistorical theories of 20 major macrohistorians (Augustine, Hegel, Comte, Marx, Weber, etc.), and ends with some fascinating visual descriptions of their theories (PDF).

For example, here is the Marx visualization:

Marx

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Some books I’m looking forward to, March 2016 edition

March 1, 2016 by Luke

* = added this round

  • Corbett, A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation (Mar 2016)
  • Häggström, Here Be Dragons (Mar 2016)
  • Herculano-Houzel, The Human Advantage (Mar 2016)
  • Parcelle, The Humane Economy (Apr 2016)
  • Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (Apr 2016)
  • Macchi et al., Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (Apr 2016)
  • Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
  • Tapscott & Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution (May 2016)
  • Biondi-Zoccai, Umbrella Reviews (Mar 2016)
  • Mukherjee, The Gene (May 2016)
  • Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
  • Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
  • Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
  • Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
  • Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
  • Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
  • Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
  • Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
  • Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
  • Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
  • Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (TBD 2016)
  • Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (TBD 2016)
  • Ogden, Experimental Conversations (TBD 2016)
  • Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD 2016)
  • Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
  • Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
  • Caplan, The Case Against Education (TBD)
  • Bengio et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
  • Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
  • Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
  • Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
  • Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
  • Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
  • Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
  • Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
  • Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
  • Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
  • Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
  • Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
  • Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
  • *Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
  • *Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)

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Books, music, etc. from February 2016

March 1, 2016 by Luke

Books

  • Wittes & Blum, The Future of Violence
  • Ross, The Industries of the Future

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

  • Johann Johansson, Virthulegu Forsetar (2004)
  • Billy Cobham, Spectrum (1973), Total Eclipse (1974)
  • Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Old Money (2009)
  • Jack DeJohnette, Album Album (1984)
  • Oregon, Together (1976)
  • Cosmic Echoes, Astral Traveling (1973)
  • Jean-Luc Ponty, Aurora (1975), Upon the Wings of Music (1975), Imaginary Voyage (1976), Enigmatic Ocean (1977)
  • David Friesen, Star Dance (1976), Waterfall Rainbow (1978)
  • Sonny Sharrock, Black Woman (1969), Paradise (1975)
  • Pat Metheny, The Way Up (2005)
  • Thundercat, Apocalypse (2013)
  • Steve Tibbetts, The Fall of Us All (1994)
  • Neil Ardley, A Symphony of Amaranths (1972)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

  • Crowley, Brooklyn (2015)
  • McCarthy, Spotlight (2015)
  • Perry, Queen of Earth (2015)
  • Brice, The Overnight (2015)
  • Haley, I’ll See You in My Dreams (2015)
  • Baumbach, Mistress America (2015)
  • Zahler, Bone Tomahawk (2015)
  • Boyle, Steve Jobs (2015)
  • Baker, Tangerine (2015)
  • Muylaert, The Second Mother (2015)
  • Schipper, Victoria (2015)
  • White & Jones, Generation Kill (2008)

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If you want to write about intelligence explosion…

February 27, 2016 by Luke

Toby Walsh has published a short new paper on the likelihood of intelligence explosion. Unfortunately, it doesn’t engage with three of the most detailed and thoughtful previous analyses on the topic.

If you want to write about the likelihood and nature of intelligence explosion, I consider the following sources required reading, in descending order of value per page (Walsh’s paper misses 2, 3, and 5):

  1. Bostrom (2014), chapter 4
  2. Yudkowsky (2013)
  3. AI Impacts‘ posts on intelligence explosion: one, two (both 2015)
  4. Chalmers (2010)
  5. Hanson & Yudkowsky (2013)

There are many other sources worth reading, e.g. Hutter (2012), but they don’t make my cut as “required reading.”

(Note that although I work as a GiveWell research analyst, my focus at GiveWell is not AI risks, and my views on this topic are not necessarily GiveWell’s views.)

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Stuart Russell and MIRI seek post-doc to study AI corrigibility

February 5, 2016 by Luke

UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity has funded a UC Berkeley post-doc position to work under Stuart Russell on AI corrigibility (project details). Patrick LaVictoire of MIRI will also collaborate. If you’re interested, contact alex@intelligence.org.

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Books, music, etc. from January 2016

February 1, 2016 by Luke

Books

  • Howick, The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Prasad & Cifu, Ending Medical Reversal

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

  • Sarah Kirkland Snider, Unremembered (2015)
  • Missy Mazzoli, Vespers for a New Dark Age (2015)
  • Billy Bang, The Fire From Within (1985), Vietnam: The Aftermath (2001), and Vietnam: Reflections (2005)
  • Dave Holland, Gateway (1975), Overtime (2005), Pass it On (2008), Prism (2013)
  • Hans Reichel, Yuxo (2002)
  • Gerry Hemingway, A Perfect World (1996)
  • Willem Breuker, In Holland (1982), Psalm 122 (1999), Hunger (2000), Thirst (2000), Misery (2002)
  • Joe Zawinul, Dialects (1986)
  • Weather Report, everything from Weather Report (1971) through Domino Theory (1984)
  • Nana Vasconcelos, “Ondas” (1979)
  • John McLaughlin, Extrapolation (1969), My Goal’s Beyond (1970), Devotion (1970), Shakti (1976)
  • James Welburn, Hold (2015)
  • Moon Duo, Shadow of the Sun (2015)
  • Franz Koglmann, Schlaf Schlemmer Schlaf Magritte (1984), The Use of Memory (1990), L’Heure Bleue (1991)
  • Joe Harriott & John Mayer, Indo Jazz Fusions (1967)
  • Circle, Miljard (2006)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

  • Villeneuve, Sicario (2015)
  • Tarantino, The Hateful Eight (2015)
  • Iñárritu, The Revenant (2015)
  • McKay, The Big Short (2015)
  • McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
  • Scott, The Martian (2015)
  • Spielberg, Bridge of Spies (2015)
  • Abrahamson, Room (2015)
  • Kaufman, Anomalisa (2015)
  • Szifrón, Wild Tales (2014)
  • Heller, Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
  • Ronit & Schlomi Elkabetz, Gett (2014)
  • Nichols, Shotgun Stories (2007)
  • Zellner, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
  • Demos & Ricciardi, Making a Murderer (2015)

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Some books I’m looking forward to, February 2016 edition

February 1, 2016 by Luke

* = added this round

  • Corbett, A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation (Feb 2016)
  • *Clark, The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism (Feb 2016)
  • Helfand, A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age (Feb 2016)
  • *Weisburd et al., What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation (Feb 2016)
  • Keren & Wu, Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (Feb 2016)
  • Häggström, Here Be Dragons (Mar 2016)
  • Herculano-Houzel, The Human Advantage (Mar 2016)
  • *Kryger et al., Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 6th edition (Mar 2016)
  • Boldizzoni & Hudson, Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History (early 2016)
  • Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Apr 2016)
  • Parcelle, The Humane Economy (Apr 2016)
  • Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (Apr 2016)
  • *Macchi et al., Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (Apr 2016)
  • Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
  • Tapscott & Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution (May 2016)
  • *Biondi-Zoccai, Umbrella Reviews (Mar 2016)
  • *Mukherjee, The Gene (May 2016)
  • Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
  • Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
  • Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
  • *Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
  • Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
  • Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
  • Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
  • *Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
  • Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
  • Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (TBD 2016)
  • Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (TBD 2016)
  • Ogden, Experimental Conversations (TBD 2016)
  • Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD 2016)
  • Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
  • Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
  • Caplan, The Case Against Education (TBD)
  • Bengio et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
  • Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
  • Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
  • Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
  • Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
  • Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
  • Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
  • Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
  • Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
  • Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
  • Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
  • Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
  • Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)

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The most-acclaimed new classical music of 2015

January 24, 2016 by Luke

Barney Sherman’s 2015 classical music mega-meta-list is now up (part 1, part 2), pulling together the results of 64 different “best of the 2015” lists from classical music critics.

Most of the selections are new performances of older works. Here, I want to highlight the contemporary classical pieces that were recorded for the first time in 2015 (and usually composed in the last few years), and that were included in 6 or more of the lists in Sherman’s analysis:

  1. Anna Thorvaldsdottir: In the Light of Air
  2. Andrew Norman: Play / Try
  3. Julia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields
  4. Various composers: Render
  5. Various composers: Clockworking
  6. John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
  7. John Adams: Absolute Jest

The links go to Spotify. If you’re relatively new to contemporary classical music, my guess is that Absolute Jest is the most widely accessible selection here, followed by Render.

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Musical shiver moments, 2015 edition

January 14, 2016 by Luke

Back in 2004, I wrote a list of (what I now call) “musical shiver moments.” A musical shiver moment is a moment in a musical track that hits you with special emotional force (perhaps sending a shiver down your spine). It can be the climax of a pop song, or the beginning of a catchy riff, or a particularly well-conceived mood shift, etc.

A classic example is the moment the drums finally enter in Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” Another is the chord shift for the final performance of the chorus in Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”

(Note that for most of these shiver moments to have their impact, you need to listen to all or most of the track up to that point, first. You can’t just jump right to the shiver moment.)

It’s been over a decade since I made my original list. Here are a few more I’ve discovered since then:

  • “Solo begins” – Carla Bley – Escalator Over the Hill: Hotel Overture – 7:45
  • “The world crumbles” – Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa: Ludus – 7:20
  • “I knew nothing of the horses” – Scott Walker – Tilt: Farmer in the City – 5:22
  • “The riff enters” – Justice – Cross: Genesis – 0:38
  • “Desperate cry” – Osvaldo Golijov – The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Agitato – 7:00
  • “Sudden slices” – Klaus Schulze – Irrlicht: Ebene – 9:30
  • “The theme enters” – John Adams – Grand Pianola Music: On the Great Divide – 2:20
  • “Swelling” – M83 – Hurry Up We’re Dreaming: My Tears Are Becoming a Sea – 1:11
  • “The sweet” – Anna von Hausswolff – Ceremony: Red Sun – 2:10
  • “Drums enter” – The Shining – In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster: Goretex Weather Report – 1:05
  • “Entrance” – Ryan Power – Identity Picks: Sweetheart – 0:05
  • “Tone added” – Jon Hopkins – Immunity: We Disappear – 2:20
  • “Verse 2 begins” – The Fiery Furnaces – EP: Here Comes the Summer – 1:30
  • “Tonight” – Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE: Pyramids – 5:22
  • “Electronic instruments solo” – James Blake – James Blake: I Never Learnt to Share – 3:40
  • “Guitar solo peaks” – Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid: Cold War – 2:11
  • “Surprising transition” – Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: Lost in the World – 0:59
  • “Soprano rising” – Henryk Górecki – Symphony No. 3: 1st movement – 15:57
  • “New instrument enters” – Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport: Surf Solar – 5:18
  • “Into the final stretch” – Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go Too: Where You Go I Go Too – 22:46
  • “New instrument” – Modeselektor – Happy Birthday!: Sucker Pin – 3:10
  • “Rising” – Glasvegas – Glasvegas: Ice Cream Van – 3:30
  • “Quiet after the storm” – Howard Shore – The Fellowship of the Ring: The Bridge of Khazad Dum – 4:57
  • “Finale” – John Adams – Harmonielehre: Part I – 17:01
  • “Chorus” – Phantom Planet – Phantom Planet: Knowitall – 1:06
  • “Suddenly, a groove” – Herbie Hancock – Crossings: Sleeping Giant – 11:09
  • “You thought this track couldn’t get any more epic. You were wrong.” – Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!: We Drift Like Worried Fire – 18:48
  • “One of my favorite melodies, 2nd time” – Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5: 3rd movement – 1:55

(The time markings for the classical pieces will be off for some performances/recordings, naturally.)

What are some of your musical shiver moments?

…added after initial publication of this post:

  • “From percussion to melody” – Nils Frahm – Spaces: For / Peter / Toilet Brushes / More – 14:49
  • “Final atmospheric passage” – Dave Douglas – Dark Territory: Loom Large – 4:57
  • “One last time” – John Murphy – Adagio in D Minor: Adagio in D Minor (2012 Remaster) – 3:04
  • “Building groove” – Tonbruket – Forevergreens: First Flight of a Newbird – 3:19
  • “Is this the climax yet?” – Blanck Mass – World Eater: Rhesus Negative – 7:44
  • “Panic” & “Double time” – The Algorithm – Polymorphic Code: Panic – 3:32 & 6:51
  • “Explosion” – The Great Harry Hillman – Tilt: 354° – 2:37
  • “Voices rise” – Eskaton – 4 Visions: Ecoute – 5:52
  • “After a brief pause” – Frederik Magle – Anastasis-Messe: Tenebrae / Lux Aeterna – 2:41
  • “Solo peaks” – Phish – A Live One: Stash (Clifford Ball 1994) – 11:05 & 11:32
  • [more to come]

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Some 2016 movies I’m looking forward to

January 1, 2016 by Luke

I’m only counting films to be first released in 2016 according to IMDB. In descending order of how confident I am that I’ll rate it as “really liked” or “loved”:

  1. Coen brothers, Hail, Caesar!
  2. Stanton, Finding Dory
  3. Linklater, Everybody Wants Some
  4. Nichols, Midnight Special
  5. Villeneuve, Story of Your Life
  6. Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl
  7. Farhadi, Seller
  8. Scorsese, Silence

For all other movies coming out in 2016 that I’ve seen mentioned, I’m <70% confident I’ll rate them as “really liked” or “loved.”

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Some books I’m looking forward to, January 2016 edition

January 1, 2016 by Luke

* = added this round

  • *Weiner, The Geography of Genius (Jan 2016)
  • *Pittampalli, Persuadable (Jan 2016)
  • *Peters, The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet (Jan 2016)
  • *Konnikova, The Confidence Game (Jan 2016)
  • Corbett, A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation (Feb 2016)
  • *Helfand, A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age (Feb 2016)
  • *Keren & Wu, Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (Feb 2016)
  • Häggström, Here Be Dragons (Mar 2016)
  • *Herculano-Houzel, The Human Advantage (Mar 2016)
  • Boldizzoni & Hudson, Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History (early 2016)
  • Zinsmeister, The Almanac of American Philanthropy (early 2016)
  • Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Apr 2016)
  • *Parcelle, The Humane Economy (Apr 2016)
  • Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (Apr 2016)
  • Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
  • *Tapscott & Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution (May 2016)
  • Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
  • *Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
  • Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Events (Jul 2016)
  • Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
  • Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
  • Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
  • Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
  • Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (TBD 2016)
  • Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (TBD 2016)
  • Ogden, Experimental Conversations (TBD 2016)
  • Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD 2016)
  • Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
  • Hanson, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
  • Caplan, The Case Against Education (TBD)
  • Bengio et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
  • Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
  • Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
  • Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
  • Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
  • Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
  • Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
  • Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
  • Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
  • Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
  • Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
  • *Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
  • *Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)

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Books, music, etc. from December 2015

January 1, 2016 by Luke

Books

  • Revill, The Roaring Silence, 2e
  • Senor & Singer, Start-Up Nation

Music

Spotify playlist for all of 2015 here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

  • Afiara Quartet and Skratch Bastid, Spin Cycle (2015)
  • Roomful of Teeth, Render (2015)
  • Marvin Peterson, Hannibal (1975)
  • Wreckmeister Harmonies, Night of Your Ascension (2015)
  • Marvin Peterson, “Victor Nelson’s Cotton Field, Elgin, Texas, 1940” (1996)
  • David Murray, “Sarah’s Lament” (1988)
  • Olga Bell, Incitation (2015)
  • Hans Reichel, Shanghaied on Tor Road (1992)
  • Cecil McBee, Music from the Source (1977)
  • Vijay Iyer, Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi (2014)
  • Duane Pitre, Bayou Electric (2015)
  • James Newton, Water Mystery (2015)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

  • Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold)

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Some books I’m looking forward to, December 2015 edition

December 6, 2015 by Luke

* = added this round

  • Boldizzoni & Hudson, Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History (Dec 2015)
  • Corbett, A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation (Feb 2016)
  • Häggström, Here Be Dragons (Mar 2016)
  • Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (Mar 2016)
  • *Zinsmeister, The Almanac of American Philanthropy (early 2016)
  • Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Apr 2016)
  • Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (April 2016)
  • Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
  • Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
  • Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Events (Jul 2016)
  • Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
  • *Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
  • Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2016)
  • Ogden, Experimental Conversations (2016)
  • Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (2016)
  • Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (2016)
  • Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (2016)
  • Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (late 2016)
  • Hanson, The Elephant in the Brain (spring 2017)
  • Caplan, The Case Against Education (TBD)
  • Bengio et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
  • Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
  • Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
  • Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
  • Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
  • Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
  • Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
  • Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
  • *Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
  • *Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
  • *Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)

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Books, music, etc. from November 2015

December 1, 2015 by Luke

Books

  • Ross, The Rest is Noise (2nd read-through)
  • Seabrook, The Song Machine
  • Glass, Words Without Music
  • Miller et al., Agenda Setting
  • Smith, Epic Measures
  • Bosso, Environment, Inc.

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

  • John Adams, Absolute Jest (written 2010, rel. 2015)
  • A.D.D. Trio, Instinct (1996)
  • Make a Rising, Infinite Ellipse and Head with Open Fontanel (2008)
  • Trio 3, “Summit Conference” (2013)
  • Hannibal Lokumbe, Dear Mrs. Parks (2009)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

  • Show Me a Hero (2015, Paul Haggis)
  • What We Do in the Shadows (2014, Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)
  • White God (2014, Kornél Mundruczó)
  • A Brilliant Young Mind (2014, Morgan Matthews)
  • The Tribe (2014, Miroslav Slaboshpitsky)
  • About Elly (2009, Asghar Farhadi)

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Some books I’m looking forward to, November 2015 edition

November 10, 2015 by Luke

* = added this round

  • Jones, Hive Mind (Nov 2015)
  • Munroe, Thing Explainer (Nov 2015)
  • *Sumner, The Midas Paradox (Dec 2015)
  • *Boldizzoni & Hudson, Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History (Dec 2015)
  • Corbett, A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation (Feb 2016)
  • Häggström, Here Be Dragons (Mar 2016)
  • Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (Mar 2016)
  • Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Apr 2016)
  • Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (April 2016)
  • Carroll, The Big Picture (May 2016)
  • Hanson, The Age of Em (Jun 2016)
  • Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Events (Jul 2016)
  • Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
  • Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2016)
  • *Ogden, Experimental Conversations (2016)
  • Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (2016)
  • Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (2016)
  • Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (2016)
  • Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (late 2016)
  • Hanson, The Elephant in the Brain (spring 2017)
  • Caplan, The Case Against Education (TBD)
  • Bengio et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
  • Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
  • Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
  • Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
  • Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
  • Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
  • Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
  • *Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)

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Books, music, etc. from October 2015

November 1, 2015 by Luke

Books

  • Tetlock & Gardner, Superforecasting
  • Jacobsen, The Pentagon’s Brain
  • Li, Blockbuster Drugs
  • Ross, Listen to This
  • Powell, How Music Works

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

  • Keith Jarrett, “Beginning” (1976, from The Survivor’s Suite)
  • Wadada Leo Smith, Golden Hearts Remembrance (1997)
  • Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage (1967)
  • Michael Mantler, Movies (1980)
  • Carla Bley, Social Studies (1981)
  • Joanna Newsom, Divers (2015)
  • Gato Barbieri, almost everything from The Third World (1969) through Alive in New York (1975)
  • Ray Anderson, It Just So Happens (1987)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

  • Alfonso Gomez-Rajon, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

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Job openings in the EA-sphere, October 2015

October 13, 2015 by Luke

There are lots of job openings in the effective altruism world right now. Many of these positions will be hard to fill, and I’m sure the hiring organizations would appreciate you sending their job ads to people who might be a good fit, or sharing the job ad on social media if your followers might be particularly likely to include some candidates who might be good fits.

Most of what you see below is re-organized from a recent EA newsletter. Jobs are listed by organization; organizations are listed alphabetically. Jobs that can be done remotely from any location are marked “(remote),” though I probably missed a few of these.

If you work at an explicitly EA-motivated organization and you have additions or corrections to the job openings listed below, please let me know.

 

80,000 Hours (Oxford, UK) wants a full-stack web developer with an eye for design. $1000 for successful referrals. Deadline is Oct. 18.

Animal Charity Evaluators (San Diego, USA) wants an Advocacy Research Program Officer. No deadline specified.

The Centre for Effective Altruism (Oxford, UK) wants an Event Manager, a Project Manager, an Office Manager, a Director of US Operations, a Finance Manager, a Full-Stack Marketer, a Strategy Fellow, and a Development Manager. Deadlines are Oct. 18.

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (Cambridge, UK) wants four post-docs and an Academic Project Manager to work on extreme technological risk. Deadlines are Nov. 12.

The Future of Life Institute (Boston, USA) wants a Project Coordinator and a News Website Editor. Deadlines not specified.

GiveWell (San Francisco, USA) wants Summer Research Analysts for 2016, Research Analysts, Outreach Associates, Operations Associates, and (remote) Conversation Notes Writers. Deadlines not specified.

Giving What We Can (Oxford, UK) wants a Director of Growth and multiple Research Analysts. Deadlines are Oct. 18.

The Global Priorities Project (Oxford, UK) wants a Director of Policy and multiple Research Fellows. Deadlines are Oct. 18.

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (Berkeley, USA) wants Research Fellows to work on technical problems related to superintelligence alignment.

The Open Philanthropy Project (San Francisco, USA) wants a Biosecurity Program Officer, Advisors and Senior Advisors for its Life Sciences program category, and (remote) Social Sciences Research Assistants. Deadlines not specified.

Sentience Politics (Basel, Switzerland) wants a Project Manager to establish the organization in Germany. Deadline is Oct. 31.

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