Ask HN: What are some high signal blogs?

Thanks for mentioning my blog :-). By the way, anyone who is interested should try decapping a chip. Modern epoxy chips are hard to decap, but you can get an older chip in a ceramic package on eBay for a few dollars. Decapping one is simply a matter of tapping it with a chisel. To see complete details of the die, you need a special metallurgical microscope, but a generic microscope will still show a lot. Even with the naked eye you can see a lot of interesting structures.

Rambling is probably the right word, though for other readers here, you can probably get that yourself from reading the About page[1] or even just casually scan the newest post[2] for 5 seconds.

>> once i threw a party for the bay area rationalists, and the rules to attend were you had to be wearing a full-face coverage mask, and be naked. Many came; they all bravely stripped, donned weird masks... and then proceeded to sit in a polite circle and debate global trade.

Ah, OK. It's clear why this blog is recommended so frequently here now.

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/about

[2]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/theres-a-time-for-ever...

Instead, I will recommend https://astralcodexten.substack.com/

Along with HN, it is the only other place I can find altruistic and intellectual discussion. Blind has some intellectual people but a dearth of morals ($ and status obsession). HN even can be a bit too cynical and sneer-like sometimes.

Scott is one of the smartest people I've encountered and has a very good way with words. I find myself laughing out loud sometimes with the special way he phrases things. I related to how curious he is about many different topics and you can tell he deeply means well. He constantly brings up things I've had hunches about but puts it so eloquently.

I think saying "some of their circles would drive people out if they expressed disbelief in quasireligious concepts such as superhuman a.i., cryonics" is inaccurate. I've seen plenty of debated skepticism. Ffs there's a guy making 20 low quality comments about Marxism every other thread.

Interested? Start with https://slatestarcodex.com/about/

On preferred pronouns: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...

On Tragedy of the Commons / coordination problems: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

On government: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic...

On finding uncomfortable truths in the pursuit of it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...

That's a feature, not a bug. I've got hundreds of youtube channels I've subscribed to, that are VERY low frequency, but interesting when something does show up.

For example:

Impulse Manufacturing Laboratory at Ohio State

CSS Tricks is one of those websites I never regret seeing in the search results

+1 on Mr. Money Mustache. They guy comes off as a know-it-all and kind of a jerk, but he knows his stuff. The Mr. Money Mustache blog did more to help me build a healthy relationship with money than absolutely anything else I've read on the topic of money and finances.

Matt Levine is funny and interesting. He can be hard to follow, but only because he talks about really complicated things. No one can explain it better than he does.