nunosempere.github.io/reading-log/Jan-2019.md

## 11/Jan/2019

*Una gran lección sobre qué sea poesía. Gastón Baquero comenta un poema de Lezama Lima*, [Enlace](http://ccm-cidehamete.blogspot.com/2019/01/una-gran-leccion-sobre-que-sea-poesia.html), [Archivado](https://web.archive.org/web/20190112073755/http://ccm-cidehamete.blogspot.com/2019/01/una-gran-leccion-sobre-que-sea-poesia.html). Sobre los diferentes niveles de lectura de un poema de vanguardia.
 
*Rithmomachy*. [Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmomachy), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20170402165335/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmomachy). A mathematical game with some similarities to chess.
 
*Sane thinking about mental health problems*. [Link](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/sane-thinking-about-mental-problems/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20170618223222/https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/sane-thinking-about-mental-problems/). Skillfully navigating different categories relating to mental illness.

*Mastering the Core Teachings of the Budha*. Onwards to enlightenment. [Free online version](https://www.mctb.org/).

## 12/Jan/2019
*The Ends don't justify the means among humans*. [Link]( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K9ZaZXDnL3SEmYZqB/ends-don-t-justify-means-among-humans), *No archive link*. Your answer to the trolley problem changes if you don't trust yourself not to be corrupted in real life situations.

John Wick. Violent, mindless movie. Exactly what I wanted at that point.

*The Product Management of Mathematics*, Alon Amit. [Link](https://affinemess.quora.com/The-Product-Management-of-Mathematics), [Archive.today](http://archive.is/zcfte). A point on the pedagogy of maths. Not only what it does, but why we want to do that.

## 13/Jan/2019
*The Mundality of Excellence*. [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/afjy3a/the_mundanity_of_excellence/), [Archive link](https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/afjy3a/the_mundanity_of_excellence/) On how the difference between different levels of excellence is qualitative.

*Advice to a young demon concerning the Rationalist movement* [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/adxug8/advice_to_a_young_demon_concerning_the/) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/adxug8/advice_to_a_young_demon_concerning_the/)

*CS Lewis for the outgroup* [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/aeb0d1/cs_lewis_for_the_outgroup/) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190112052858/https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/aeb0d1/cs_lewis_for_the_outgroup/). 

## 14-15/Jan/2019
*Methods for Treating Depression* [Link](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sagbSbm3KdH6tHQKP/methods-for-treating-depression) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190116125918/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sagbSbm3KdH6tHQKP/methods-for-treating-depression). 
*Advice in fighting depression* [Link](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qGyrtXgqYKpwZvLSn/advice-in-fighting-depression) 
*Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist* [Link](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GKpiSeLuGWYTGu4CC/emotional-tools-for-the-beginner-rationalist) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190116125736/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GKpiSeLuGWYTGu4CC/emotional-tools-for-the-beginner-rationalist). 
*The Feeling Good Handbook*
*Russia Buys Quarter of World Yuan Reserves in Shift From Dollar* [Link](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-dumps-101-billion-dollar-085753166.html) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190110141641/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-dumps-101-billion-dollar-085753166.html). 
*Ureshiku Naritai* [Link](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xnPFYBuaGhpq869mY/ureshiku-naritai) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20180101000000*/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xnPFYBuaGhpq869mY/ureshiku-naritai)
*The Shield of Achilles*, Auden, and in particular the following verses:

A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,  
Loitered about that vacancy; a bird  
Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:  
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,  
Were axioms to him, who’d never heard  
Of any world where promises were kept,  
Or one could weep because another wept.  

## 16-19/Jan/2019
*Is self-reporting happiness reliable?* [Link](https://www.clearerthinking.org/single-post/2019/01/08/Is-self-reporting-happiness-reliable) [Archive]().  

*reddit.com/r/streamentry*  

*Restorative justice* [Link](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/scrupulosity-sequence-5-restorative-justice/) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190116201510/https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/scrupulosity-sequence-5-restorative-justice/)

*Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal* [Link](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/evaluating_the_.html) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/evaluating_the_.html). 


*Clarifying talent gaps* [Link](https://80000hours.org/2018/11/clarifying-talent-gaps/) [Archive](). 

*Prices for Zero-day exploits are rising* [Link](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/prices_for_zero.html) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/prices_for_zero.html). 

*EA Project Ideas* [Link](https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190119112927/https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168). 

*Contratto* [Link](https://archiveofourown.org/works/7127255) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://archiveofourown.org/works/7127255). 

*Highlights from the comments on Kuhn* [Link](https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/17/highlights-from-the-comments-on-kuhn/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/17/highlights-from-the-comments-on-kuhn/). 

*Valence vs Priority Disagreements in Public Debate; Plus, The Gambit of Extreme Negative Utility* [Link](https://cognitionandevolution.blogspot.com/2019/01/valence-vs-priority-disagreements-in.html), [No Archive]. 

*List of possible EA meta-charities and projects* [Link](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/67SuuuWJvDC383usF/list-of-possible-ea-meta-charities-and-projects), [No archive]. 

## 20/Jan/2019
*Drones & Money 1* [Link](https://james-compton.com/2016/09/a-pic-is-worth-a-thousand-words-this-one-is-worth-50000/), [No archive](). 

*AS SHAANXI SAGA SHOWS, EVEN XI HITS CHINA’S BUREAUCRATIC BRICK WALL* [Link](https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2182577/shaanxi-saga-shows-even-xi-hits-chinas-bureaucratic-brick-wall), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2182577/shaanxi-saga-shows-even-xi-hits-chinas-bureaucratic-brick-wall). 

*Book review: The Mind Illuminated* [Link](https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/). 
*Komplexe Analysis Skriptum* [Link](https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~has/complex/scriptumII.pdf), [No archive](). 

*Clever Smartphone Malware Concealment Technique* [Link](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/clever_smartpho.html). 

*Scrupulosity Sequence #6: Intuitive Eating* [Link](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2019/01/21/scrupulosity-sequence-5-intuitive-eating/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2019/01/21/scrupulosity-sequence-5-intuitive-eating/). 

*He will not divide us* [Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaBeouf,_R%C3%B6nkk%C3%B6_%26_Turner#HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US,_2017_%E2%80%93_ongoing). 

*QAnon* [Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon).

*My 2018 donations* [Link](https://www.benkuhn.net/giving-2018), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.benkuhn.net/giving-2018). 

## 21-27/Jan/2019

*AI Safety Reading List* [Link](https://80000hours.org/ai-safety-syllabus/#reading-list), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190123035508/https://80000hours.org/ai-safety-syllabus/). 
*The Relationship Between Hierarchy and Wealth* [Link](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/the-relationship-between-hierarchy-and-wealth/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190126080207/https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/the-relationship-between-hierarchy-and-wealth/). 
*Schneier on Security* [Link](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/), [No Archive]. 
*Models of human relationships – tools to understand people* [Link](http://bearlamp.com.au/models-of-human-relationships-tools-to-understand-people/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190101005115/http://bearlamp.com.au/models-of-human-relationships-tools-to-understand-people/). 
*“Where’s My Cut?”: On Unpaid Emotional Labor*, [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20151013160756/http://the-toast.net/2015/07/13/emotional-labor/view-all/). 
*Emotional Labor: The MetaFilter Thread Condensed* [Link](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0UUYL6kaNeBTDBRbkJkeUtabEk/view), [No archive] 
*NVC Feelings Inventory* [Link](http://www.cnvc.org/Training/feelings-inventory), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190118234904/http://www.cnvc.org/Training/feelings-inventory). 
*Predictions for 2019* [Link](https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/25/predictions-for-2019/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190125163331/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/25/predictions-for-2019/). 
*2018 Predictions: Calibration Results* [Link](https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/22/2018-predictions-calibration-results/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190125201016/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/22/2018-predictions-calibration-results/). 
*Container and Contained Theory* [Link](http://bearlamp.com.au/container-and-contained-theory-by-wilfred-bion/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190127174712/http://bearlamp.com.au/container-and-contained-theory-by-wilfred-bion/). 
*African migration: Is the CFA franc forcing people to leave?* [Link](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46960532), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46960532). 
*A Clever Solution to a Tricky Geometry Problem* [Link](https://levsblog.quora.com/A-Clever-Solution-to-a-Tricky-Geometry-Problem), [No archive]. 
*Kissinger's Profecy Fulfilled in Syria* [Link](https://warontherocks.com/2019/01/kissingers-prophecy-fulfilled-in-syria/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190127175404/https://warontherocks.com/2019/01/kissingers-prophecy-fulfilled-in-syria/). 
*How 20-Year-Old Kylie Jenner Built A $900 Million Fortune In Less Than 3 Years* [Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/11/how-20-year-old-kylie-jenner-built-a-900-million-fortune-in-less-than-3-years/#7082afb4aa62), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190127040808/https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/11/how-20-year-old-kylie-jenner-built-a-900-million-fortune-in-less-than-3-years/). 
*The 3 Books Technique for Learning a New Skilll* [Link]()https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oPEWyxJjRo4oKHzMu/the-3-books-technique-for-learning-a-new-skilll, [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190112202522/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oPEWyxJjRo4oKHzMu/the-3-books-technique-for-learning-a-new-skilll). 
*Building up to an Internal Family Systems model* [Link](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5gfqG3Xcopscta3st/building-up-to-an-internal-family-systems-model), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190127175642/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5gfqG3Xcopscta3st/building-up-to-an-internal-family-systems-model). 
*A simple checklist for overcoming life and career setbacks* [Link](https://80000hours.org/2018/12/dealing-with-setbacks/), [Archive](https://80000hours.org/2018/12/dealing-with-setbacks/). 
*New web app for calibration training* [Link](https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/new-web-app-calibration-training), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190123151025/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/new-web-app-calibration-training). 
*The second cohort of Emergent Ventures winners* [Link](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/12/second-cohort-emergent-ventures-winners.html), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190119222034/https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/12/second-cohort-emergent-ventures-winners.html). 
*The Importance of Time-Capping* [Link](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nCJCuLaWHt3oooM3y/the-importance-of-time-capping), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190127175927/https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nCJCuLaWHt3oooM3y/the-importance-of-time-capping). 

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