I actually found some notes with other papers I had semi-seriously (cf. OP) tagged as “everyone should read this”.
I do think that (at least for me) they all met the bar of “teaching me something interesting about the world, or about how to think, that is useful even if I don’t plan to become a specialist in the respective domain”. They might require some domain (and maths) knowledge to appreciate, however.
They are definitely not well-prioritized, e.g. heavily skewed toward stuff I was reminded of recently.
I actually found some notes with other papers I had semi-seriously (cf. OP) tagged as “everyone should read this”.
I do think that (at least for me) they all met the bar of “teaching me something interesting about the world, or about how to think, that is useful even if I don’t plan to become a specialist in the respective domain”. They might require some domain (and maths) knowledge to appreciate, however.
They are definitely not well-prioritized, e.g. heavily skewed toward stuff I was reminded of recently.
Clauset et al. (2009[2007]), Power-law distributions in empirical data (see also this appendix in Ben Todd and my recent research)
Stigler & Becker (1977), De gustibus non est disputandum
Lieber & Press (2017), The New Era of Counterforce
Hilary Greaves, Discounting for public policy: A survey
(Look, sometimes I do like work by EAs!)
Huemer (2008), In Defence of Repugnance
Liebowitz & Margolis (1994), Network Externality: An Uncommon Tragedy
Mordechai et al. (2019), The Justinianic Plague: An inconsequential pandemic?
Nisbett & Wilson (1977), Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes