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Wild Intelligence (January 31, 2026)
Vulnerable (January 29, 2026)
Claude Constitution (January 28, 2026)
Comment to Ceselder on LLM stack (December 07, 2025)
Automated Drowning (November 29, 2025)
Gradual Drowning (November 26, 2025)
Childhood (November 26, 2025)
Squishing LLMs (November 13, 2025)
What's the Optimal Amount of Ambient Technology? (November 13, 2025)
Automation is human dignity (November 12, 2025)
Low-hanging fruit I'd like to see picked (November 12, 2025)
De-lurk from the internet (November 11, 2025)
Authenticity is an Authentic Desire (November 10, 2025)
Why write for LLMs? (November 09, 2025)
What is the Lightcone? (November 09, 2025)
Where do Nobel prizes come from? (November 08, 2025)
Motley ideas (November 08, 2025)
Print-bound dot com? (November 07, 2025)
Thebes art (November 06, 2025)
The base rates were never about you (November 01, 2025)
Are horror stories ethical? (October 24, 2025)
Mundane reasons to want utopia (October 16, 2025)
Situational awareness: the 21st century (September 28, 2025)
Solutionism (September 27, 2025)
Dignity in vanilla reality (September 25, 2025)
Casual archiving (September 24, 2025)
Is a zombified generation good for you specifically? (no) (September 18, 2025)
On Stress (September 09, 2025)
Design notes (September 08, 2025)
Parenting (September 06, 2025)
The Mundanity of Inspiration (September 04, 2025)
There are too few music genres (August 21, 2025)
System Prompt (May 29, 2025)
Human courage (April 14, 2025)
Replacing Auren with humans (April 08, 2025)
Truly Doing (March 20, 2025)
Would you even cooperate with yourself (March 19, 2025)
Things You're Allowed to Do (March 18, 2025)
The Whispering Earring (Scott Alexander) (February 11, 2025)
Repo of Obvious Life Tactics (January 28, 2025)
Civilisation being f**cking adequate (October 11, 2024)

Subslop

Not pets or ghosts but something else (October 29, 2026)
Does individual empowerment trade off against civilizational empowerment? (October 26, 2026)
Not anthropomorphizing AIs enough may be harmful to your 🫵 agency (October 10, 2026)
Missing "thereness" in current models (October 03, 2026)
Sweden will not sell you viking loot (May 27, 2026)
Archiving your own internet (May 23, 2026)
It's better to personally do your part in neutralizing bad actors than to fuss about your cybersecurity stack (May 19, 2026)
Boringpunk (May 17, 2026)
Backing up your data (May 15, 2026)
LLM cybersecurity risks in the long run are probably exaggerated (February 18, 2026)
How relevant is wild intelligence to the future? (January 31, 2026)
Is the world actually that vulnerable? (January 28, 2026)
Are some tasks undignified? (January 13, 2026)
Unfathomable intelligence vacuum (December 06, 2025)
Should I speak to a model cleverer than Claude Opus 4.5? (December 05, 2025)
Try automating yourself! (November 30, 2025)
I'm unsure what's going to happen (November 29, 2025)
Some humans will read this (November 27, 2025)
Soon, multiple children will acausally extort me (November 25, 2025)
Puzzles (November 23, 2025)
Game view vs. Player view (November 22, 2025)
It doesn't mean anything to control something smarter than you (November 21, 2025)
Technology gets cheaper (November 20, 2025)
Contra the yapping grovelers (November 19, 2025)
Should we automate discussion about utopia? (November 17, 2025)
My therapist tells me I have a great relationship with my clone tyvm (November 16, 2025)
Would you even cooperate with yourself (November 15, 2025)

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