Blogroll
Last updated: Apr 15, 2023
Table of Contents
This page contains a list of people very loosely ranked by subjective quality to output ratio whom I follow in some capacity, especially those marked by a star or snowflake.
The old ways are sometimes best. After experimenting with other, more “modern” approaches, I have recently resumed subscribing to RSS feeds (I use Feedly) as the basis of my news aggregation. The Twitter lists are incomplete, and more overtly colored by personalistic preference; in general, follow @powerfultakes to get an idea of the accounts I interact with.
H+/EA
- ⭐️ Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson): GMU economist & inventor of the Great Filter, ems, and grabby aliens. @robinhanson
- ❄️ gwern: Autist extraordinary offering superlative coverage of AI, CRISPR, etc. @gwern
- ❄️ Open Theory (Mike Johnson). Inventor of the foundations of modern qualia research and Qualia Research Institute founder. @johnsonmxe.
- ❄️ Nick Bostrom: Not really a blog, but I regard him as probably the world’s top philosopher, and certainly the most relevant one.
- ❄️ Heretical Update (Roko Mijic). Inventor of Roko’s Basilisk and AI control advocate. @RokoMijic (AI) & @RokoMijicLegacy (hot takes)
- Eliezer Yudkowsky: Founder of AI safety (MIRI), rationality movement (CFAR), and HPMOR author (literary blog). @ESYudkowsky
- world spirit sock stack (Katja Grace): EA blog focused on AI control (see also AI Impacts). @KatjaGrace
- Planned Obsolescence (Ajeya Cotra & Kelsey Piper): AI control. @KelseyTuoc
- Anders Sandberg: FHI philosopher. @anderssandberg
- Sideways View (Paul Christiano): AI alignment theorist (personal blog).
- Qualia Computing (Emilsson): Qualia researcher and “psychonaut”. @algekalipso
VIP Twitter: @ElonMusk / @Sama Altman
Academics: Max @Tegmark (Mathematical Universe)
Top Twitter: Alexey @Turchin (X Risks) / Bogdan Kirillov @KotekLapke (biohacker) / Bryan Bishop @kanzure / @JgaltTweets / Joscha Bach @Plinz / Scott Jackisch @oaklandfuturist / @SilverVVulpes / @woke8yearold
Life Extension: @AlxDobrin (@vita_dao steward) / @AubreyDeGrey (SENS founder)
Meme Twitter: @BasedBeffJezor (e/acc founder) / @goth600 / roon @tszzl
Science YouTube: Boston Dynamics / Kurzgesagt / melodysheep
Intellectuals
- ⭐️ Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander): Top rationalist blog (legacy blog). @SlateStarCodex
- ⭐️ Nemets: Top history, anthropology, and book review blog. @Peter_Nimitz
- ❄️ Alexander Turok: Little noticed gem of a blog with unconventional ideas and biosingularity advocacy. (legacy blog). @AlexanderTurok
- ❄️ Adam Tooze: Superlative economic historian (Wages of Destruction), first rate economic, social analysis. @Adam_Tooze
- Peter Turchin: Cliodynamics popularizer engaged in quest to mathematize history. @Peter_Turchin
- Devlin’s Newsletter: Economic history & Ukraine war commentary from cynical post-nationalist perspective. @devarbol
- Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum founder, interesting takes on crypto, prediction markets, etc. @vitalikbuterin
- Alice Evans: Quantitative feminism. @_alice_evans
- Nintil (José Luis Ricón): Polymath, historian of Soviet economics stats. @ArtirKel
- Mark Harrison: War economy historian. @Mark Harrison
- Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok): GMU economists running popular blog. @tylercowen & @atabarrok
- Bet on It (Bryan Caplan): GMU economist, education skeptic. @bryan_caplan
- pseudoerasmus: Economic history, Deep Roots, etc. @pseudoerasmus
- Razib Khan: Prolific popgen & anthropology blogger, but best content is behind a paywall. (Legacy blog at GNXP). @razibkhan
- Noah Smith: Neoliberalism’s bulldog. @noahpinion
- Matt Yglesias: One Billion Americans will be an incredible reservoir of human capital. @mattyglesias
- Nick Szabo: Cryptocurrencies. @NickSzabo4
Academics: Diana Fleishman @sentientist / Geoffrey Miller @primalpoly / @JimDMiller / @sapinker (psychology)
Top Twitter: @mr_scientism
History Twitter: @BiruniKhorasan / @ByzantinEmporia / @Irkutyanin1 / @BosqueAli / @StilichoReads / @Varangian_Tagma / @yiihya
Demographics Twitter: @Annatar_I / @BirthGauge / @LymanStoneKy
Mapping YouTube: Cottereau / EmperorTigerstar / Ollie Bye
Crypto Twitter: @Balajis Srinivasan (Network States) / @basileSportif
Crypto YouTube: Bankless / Because Bitcoin / The Daily Gwei
HBD & IQ
- ⭐️ Emil Kirkegaard: Danish polymath, inventor of the S factor. @KirkegaardEmil / YouTube
- ❄️ James Thompson: Probably most prolific current IQ blogger. @JamesPsychol
- Steve Hsu: Genetic editing for IQ. @hsu_steve
- Cremieux Recueil: (legacy blog). p-value maestro. @cremieuxrecueil
- Peter Frost: (legacy blog): Effecting pacification. @frost61h
- Human Varieties (John Fuerst, Jason Malloy, Meng Hu, Dalliard): Top quantitative psychometrics blog.
- JayMan: Very comprehensive HBD blog, now sadly long abandoned. @JayMan471
- hbd*chick: Hajnal Line popularizer. @hbdchick
- Y-Jolly Heretic (Edward Dutton): Hello, hello, hello! @jollyheretic
- Pumpkin Person: IQ blogger. @PumpkinPerson2
- Audacious Epigone: America quantifier.
- Inductivist: HBD blog. @Inductivist
- Anglo Reaction (George Francis): HBD blog. @MrGeorgeFrancis
- Inquisitive Bird: HBD blog. @Scientific_Bird
- Russell T. Warne: Psychometrics blog. @RussWarne
- Rozado’s Visual Analytics (David Rozado): Wokeness scholar. @DavidRozado
- Zach Goldberg: Original Wokeness scholar. @ZachG932
- Sean Last: HBD blog. @Sean__Last
- Greg Cochran: Gay germ theory and 10,000 year explosion thesis. @gcochran99
- Jonatan Pallesen: HBD blogger. @jonatanpallesen
- Davide Piffer: GWAS things. @DavidePiffer
- La Griffe du Lion: The OG.
HBD Resources: David Becker’s IQ databases / Human Biological Diversity / Jayman’s HBD Fundamentals
HBD Twitter: @EAWilloughby / @NathanCofnas / @nrken19 / Uriah @crimkadid / @whyvert
IQ Twitter: @GarettJones (GMU economist) / @Rosalind_Arden_ (dog IQ) / @ThomasRCoyle
Right Dissidents
- ⭐️ Richard Hanania: US intellectual who hates both SJWs and rightoids. @RichardHanania
- ⭐️ Noah Carl: Crimethink former Oxford academic (legacy blog). @NoahCarl90
- ⭐️ Philippe Lemoine: French philosopher, programmer (legacy blog). @phl43
- ❄️ Guillaume Durocher: Top AR writer, with a focus on biopolitics in Antiquity (also blogged at Counter-Currents, Occidental Observer). @GuiDurocher
- Steve Sailer: Founder of HBD, blogs more about right dissident topics (column at Taki’s). @Steve_Sailer
- P-Caribbean Rhythms (Bronze Age Pervert): @bronzeagemantis
- spandrell: Historian, Sinologist, founder of Bioleninism. @spandrell3
- P-Alex Kaschuta: Romanian neo-trad/HBDist. @kaschuta
- Moldbug: Curtis Yarvin, founder of neo-reaction and urbit.
- P-The Stark Truth: Alt Center podcast host (also blogs at Substack). @2020Blackstone
- Fred Reed: Vietnam War vet.
- John Derbyshire: Anglo reaction. @DissidentRight
- Greg Hood: Top classical Alt Right author.
- Nick Land: Co-founder of NRx (The Dark Enlightenment). (Legacy blog at Xenosystems). @Outsideness
- Sceptre Mag (Arpad Virag): Croatian neoreactionary who coined “Swine Right”. @ViragArpad
- Wrath of Gnon: Neo-trad urbanism. @wrathofgnon
- Golden Heart Motel (Anatoly Voronin): @qorachius
The Unz Review [@UnzReview], edited by Ron Unz, is a fairly central entrepot for this sphere, and where I blogged from 2015 to 2021.
Frogs: @CityBureaucrat / @FistedFoucault / @lndian_Bronson / @LRH_Superfan
Geopolitics & Ukraine War
- P-Russians with Attitude: Best English language podcast/blog on Russian culture and the pro-Donbass cause in the Ukraine War (they also have Substack).
- Anti-Empire (Marko Marjanović): @marmar_ae
Regarding the Ukraine War, there’s vastly more noise than signal on both sides. You’ll find the main camps – Z vs. NAFO – easily enough. Here I just highlight IMO the most value added accounts:
“Z Realists”: @snekotron / @TNG512
Pro-Ukrainian Realists: @KofmanMichael / @RALee85 / @sambendett (drones) / Y-Perun
🇷🇺 Z Realists: Igor Strelkov / Murz / Roman Donetsky
Anti-Imperialists
- Matt Taibbi: Muckraker extraordinary. @mtaibbi
- Mike Tracey: US foreign policy skeptic. @mtracey
- P-Red Scare (Anna Khachiyan & Dasha Nekrasova): Classic dirt bag left podcast. @AnnaKhachiyan, @nobody_stop_me
- Glenn Greenwald: Speaking truth to power. @ggreenwald
- Irrussianality (Paul Robinson): Best “Western Russophile” blog atm.
- Y-The Duran (Alexander Mercouris): Geopolitics expert. @AMercouris
- Mark Sleboda: Anti-imperialist. @MarkSleboda1
- Y-Mazarin Geopolitics (Stefano Ambrosini): Geopolitical roundtables & debates. @stefanoambrosin
Top Twitter: @AaronJMate / @MarkAmesExiled / MaxBlumental / @Snowden
Russia Watch
Academics: @ArtyomLukin / @DeanFantazzini / @I_Katchanovski
Russia Journalists: Ben Aris @bneeditor / @LeonidRagozin
BRICS Watch
Sinotriumph Twitter: @qin_duke / @CarlZha / @GodfreeTrh / @Tianxiashunv / @yuanyi_z / @Zhao_Dashuai
India Twitter: @D_Jaishankar
Russian Bloggers
- shanggyangg: Russian data/mapping blogger. @shanggyangg / Telegram
- polit_ec: Data historian focusing on Imperial Russia.
- oldAdmiral: Economic historian.
- acer120: Nationalist data scientist. @Ivanjv_I
- Alexander Kireev: Liberal elections blogger.
Some more notable data bloggers: denalt, stranger233, zemfort1983, statistic-rus, Seva Bashirov, OurCountryInData, gizh.ru, genby, oleg_lisowski, pollotenchegg, harding1989, n_avdeev.
Top Twitter: @Alexey_Raksha (dissident demographer) / @_vecs (historian)
Economists: @ElinaRibakova / @IvanTkachev1|
Russian Nationalists: @chernaya100book (Black Hundreds publishing house) / Egor Kholmogorov / @OrdinaryCzarism (successor’s of Prosvirnin’s @Empire1721 Sputnik & Pogrom) / Robert Right @DemocratRussian /@Roman_Yuneman / @SrbskyRus / @vylvrngynn