A bunch of UST-adjacent essays (and one novel) that are good

Request: if edited down, we don’t do so in the same document / by deleting entries here; it’d be good to have the full list available

Peter Watts

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Atwood.pdf

Nick Szabo

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/synch.html

David Chapman/Meaningness

https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge

https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths

https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/lovecraft-harman-nihilism

https://meaningness.com/metablog/upgrade-your-cargo-cult

Kevin Simler

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-game-for-two-or-more-players/ 

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ux-and-the-civilizing-process/

Venkatesh Rao

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/12/16/sapir-whorf-lakoff-metaphor-and-thought/ (recommend as an opening piece)

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/07/28/fat-thinking-and-economies-of-variety/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/04/24/product-driven-versus-customer-driven/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/17/we-are-all-architects-now/ (recommended as a closing piece)

Sarah Perry

http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.de/2012/11/fungibility-and-loss-of-demandingness.html

https://carcinisation.com/2014/08/11/beauty-is-fit/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/07/weaponized-sacredness/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/03/04/gardens-need-walls-on-boundaries-ritual-and-beauty/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/03/cartographic-compression/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/12/03/an-ecology-of-beauty-and-strong-drink/

Haley Thurston

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/11/12/the-awe-delusion/

Gabriel Duquette

https://lipoblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/chords-and-maps-3/

Gwern

https://www.gwern.net/The Melancholy of Subculture Society

https://www.gwern.net/Culture%20is%20not%20about%20Esthetics

Tiago Forte

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/01/28/productivity-for-precious-snowflakes/

Scott Alexander

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metacontrarianism/

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Alex Boland

http://simulacrumbs.com/2013/09/shouts-whispers-and-the-myth-of-willpower-a-recursive-guide-to-efficacy/

George Koleszarik

http://grognor.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-monster.html

Hotel Concierge

http://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/116790700524/we-need-to-sing-about-mental-health

Sarah Constantin

https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/

Peter Thiel

http://www.hoover.org/research/optimistic-thought-experiment 

http://blakemasters.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-18-notes 

Nassim Taleb

https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15#.84fk55bex 

Neal Stephenson

http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/opinion/18stephenson.html 

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/02/space_stasis.html 

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/opinion/turn-on-tune-in-veg-out.html 

Paul Graham

http://paulgraham.com/re.html

http://paulgraham.com/say.html 

http://paulgraham.com/hs.html 

Raymond Brannen

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/inference-with-the-vampire/

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/you-cant-save-the-world-without-civilization/

Harold Lee

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-obedient-rebel/

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-confucian-heuristic/ 

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/the-dark-side-of-the-weak-galt-hypothesis/ 

Warg Franklin

http://thefutureprimaeval.net/postrationalism/ 

Michael Huemer

http://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/In%20Praise%20of%20Passivity.pdf

Ben Thompson

https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/

simplic10

https://carcinisation.com/2015/04/06/trifles/