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A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.

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26 from 6 May 2021 to 31 Oct 2026
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monthly (6 in the last year)
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2026 6

  1. Artificial intelligence and power
  2. What LLM coding agents have taken from me
  3. Book review - A Confederacy of Dunces
  4. Being a friend to yourself
  5. A personal defense of agnosticism
  6. Why write?

2025 4

  1. Meta post - update III
  2. What does the end of mathematics look like?
  3. Making the errors go away
  4. Tending your garden as fascism flowers elsewhere

2024 2

  1. Vipassanā - calming a wandering mind
  2. Some thoughts on the Tao Te Ching

2023 3

  1. Meta post - update II
  2. The case against the existential danger of an intelligence explosion
  3. Short story review - The Mold of Yancy

2022 7

  1. Geometric algebra and classical mechanics
  2. Ruminations on explaining oneself
  3. The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid
  4. Book review - Civilization and Its Discontents
  5. Meta post - update I
  6. On being mentally unwell - part 1
  7. On being mentally unwell - part 2

2021 4

  1. In praise of apathy
  2. Book review - The Conquest of Bread
  3. On the difficulty of finding meaning in work
  4. Hello world