Substack recommendations are remarkably important, and the actual best reason to write here instead of elsewhere.
As in, even though I have never made an active attempt to seek recommendations, approximately half of my subscribers come from recommendations from other blogs. And for every two subscribers I have, my recommendations have generated approximately one subscription elsewhere. I am very thankful to all those who have recommended this blog, either through substack or otherwise.
As the blog has grown, I’ve gotten a number of offers for reciprocal recommendations. So far I have turned all of these down, because I have yet to feel any are both sufficiently high quality and a good match for me and my readers.
Instead, I’m going to do the following:
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Outline:
(01:39) Note on Paywalls
(02:20) The Substacks I Recommend (Not Centrally AI)
(03:17) Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander)
(04:06) Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson)
(05:30) Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver)
(06:21) Rough Diamonds (Sarah Constantin)
(07:01) Construction Physics (Brian Potter)
(07:50) In My Tribe (Arnold Kling)
(08:17) Dominic Cummings Substack (Dominic Cummings)
(09:41) Bet On It (Bryan Caplan)
(10:38) Slow Boring (Matthew Yglesias)
(11:21) Useful Fictions (Cate Hall)
(11:49) The Substacks I Recommend (Centrally AI)
(12:08) AI Futures Project (Group Blog, Including Scott Alexander)
(12:39) The Power Law (Peter Wildeford)
(13:14) China Talk (Jordan Schneider)
(13:39) Musings On the Alignment Problem (Jan Leike)
(14:00) Gwern Newsletter (Gwern)
(14:18) Some Additional Substacks That Are Good And Aren't Otherwise Covered But That I Am Not Ready to Recommend At This Time
(15:33) The 10 Top Other Substack Subscription Blog Sources
(20:34) Other Blogs And News Sources In Heavy Rotation
(25:29) Twitter
(27:14) Wrapping Up
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First published:
June 30th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K32g8BKfkGj6cK4fZ/substack-and-other-blog-recommendations
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
