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
Michael Huemer
http://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/In%20Praise%20of%20Passivity.pdf
Ben Thompson
https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/
