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2026 48

  1. Stop Walking Your Dog Offleash
  2. Small-Grid Wraparound Cellular Automata
  3. Your First Writing Sample Is The Worst One
  4. The Anti-Addictive Nega-Casino
  5. “Just Ask Claude” Is A Rare And Valuable Skill
  6. Might I Suggest Thursday?
  7. Video Game Challenge Runs I’ve Known And Loved
  8. 17 Years Kissin’
  9. AI Helps Rich People More
  10. Goofs and Gaffes from the Hugging Face Incident
  11. Never A Better Time
  12. Humans Can't Write Good Fiction
  13. Learn People's Names!
  14. The Jobs Frame of AI Disruption is Dumb and Bad
  15. One GLP-1, Please
  16. Book Review: Good Inside
  17. Defend is Underrated
  18. 250 More Years
  19. Heart In The Sand
  20. We Obviously Don't Have AGI
  21. Affordability is Bullshit
  22. If You're Happy And You Know It
  23. Why Does AI Love "Not X, But Y" So Much?
  24. Be An Annoying Showoff
  25. Compassion Is For Babies
  26. Inner Work and Outer Mess
  27. Why God Gamers Act Like Clowns
  28. Love Your (Annoying) Pals
  29. Anonymity Is Fine If You're Not Famous
  30. Doing It In Three
  31. Review: Cultivated Salmon
  32. Be Impressed
  33. Why No Wheel Bus Again?
  34. Taking Care of a Toddler is High Agency
  35. 2 + 2 = 10300
  36. Fun Math Games
  37. The Thon's Rejoinder
  38. Don't Let LLMs Write For You
  39. Things To Be Grateful For
  40. A Simple Question
  41. Opportunity Cost
  42. Read The Classics On Your Phone
  43. Nihil Supernum, Claude Infernum
  44. Some Pokemon Cards I Got From My Nephew
  45. No, Really, Customizing Chrome Is Easy Now
  46. Contra Glass Onion
  47. Ordinary People
  48. Where's the T?

2025 81

  1. "Everything's Expensive" is Negative Social Contagion
  2. The "Useful" Circuit is Connected to the "Welfare" Circuit
  3. The Timeloop Ayahuasca Sets In
  4. 30 Days of Posting
  5. How To Smash Bros 1v3
  6. Tears of the Kingdom: Don't Touch the Ground
  7. A Dialogue on Maladies
  8. Eight Things I'm Thankful For
  9. December's Onramp
  10. Is Self-Reliance Masculine?
  11. Dose Makes Social Poison
  12. Johns For Your Enemy
  13. Minor Set Points
  14. Interpretive Labor Increases Cuteness
  15. A Childhood Proof
  16. Clipping Through the Door of Time
  17. A Sendoff to Daily Tracking
  18. 10 Years of 10%
  19. Expecting The Worst Quintile
  20. Quaternion Wakeup
  21. Near Misses Are Common
  22. Adventures in Fake Neuralese
  23. Tired of the Vibe
  24. Personal Sustainability is Overrated
  25. On Posting Baby Pictures
  26. The Golden Age
  27. Behavioral Closeness
  28. The Roast of Redwoods
  29. Album Review: Bittersweet
  30. The Diaper Curve
  31. Some Clothes I've Enjoyed
  32. Men Can Be (Pleasantly) Objectified Too
  33. The Recent Moral Panic
  34. Learning Falco
  35. Personal Stumbling Blocks
  36. Primary Negative Emotions
  37. Heroin Addicts Often Seem Normal
  38. Notes on New College
  39. The Rhythm of Progress
  40. Underappreciated Subcultural Details
  41. Signal Boost: The Virtue of Silence
  42. A Pitfall of "Expertise"
  43. Index Personality Typologies on Groups
  44. Some Extreme Views
  45. Review: Celeste 7c
  46. People Mostly Have Babies Via Sex
  47. Toy Experiments and their Discontents
  48. The Whole Check
  49. Book Review: Nixon's Memoirs
  50. So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT
  51. Obligatory Negativity Isn't
  52. How Would You Respond?
  53. Notes from Eight Months
  54. Ok, AI Can Write Pretty Good Fiction Now
  55. Dynamic Goals
  56. A Sea of Anchors
  57. Back to Berkeley
  58. Fullness Two
  59. Matching Problems
  60. Sweet Nothings
  61. "Superhuman" Isn't Well Specified
  62. AI Self-Portraits Aren't Accurate
  63. One Year Dreamin'
  64. Crossing the Wetlands
  65. Rich Uncle Theory
  66. Emotional Investment is Generative
  67. Confessions of an MFA Waitlister
  68. Watching the World Turn
  69. AI Can't Write Good Fiction
  70. The Blackout Strategy
  71. Journal Club: How Poverty Fell
  72. To Know The Difference
  73. Skipping the Tutorial
  74. Attraction to But
  75. Frugality
  76. The Other AI Art
  77. Moving Past Meta
  78. The Reproductive Layer
  79. Moderately More Than You Wanted To Know: Depressive Realism
  80. The Entertainment
  81. Three Worlds

2024 46

  1. Reading Sermons
  2. Auction Monopoly Postmortem
  3. One Month In
  4. Your Own Research
  5. Randomized Auction Monopoly
  6. Meat Offsets are Underrated
  7. Three Personal LLM Benchmarks
  8. Worry isn't Exonerating
  9. On Call
  10. On Staring at Graphs
  11. Shifgrethor
  12. Slightly More Than You Wanted To Know: Pregnancy Length Effects
  13. A Successful Self-Prompting
  14. Dramatis Personae
  15. Challenges of Early Parenting
  16. Room to Grow
  17. Why Not Only Consume Masterpieces?
  18. A Flight of Fancy
  19. The Returns Sandwich
  20. On Returning an Air Filter
  21. Are AI Generated Research Papers Any Good?
  22. Accepting Big Feelings
  23. Face Value
  24. Wise Genie, Blighted Basin
  25. A Nebulous Problem
  26. Motivational Scylla, Motivational Charybdis
  27. The Intermediate Wasteland
  28. Stuff I Like About America
  29. Why Blog?
  30. How Big a Deal are MatMul-Free Transformers?
  31. Augmentation and its Discontents
  32. Going Deep
  33. Week One of Studying Transformers Architecture
  34. Notice New Affordances
  35. Anki Cards are Cool
  36. The Data Wall is Important
  37. Six Months of Abstract Algebra
  38. Stories and Shifts
  39. Attack of the Left Tail
  40. The Steven Universe Theory of Problems
  41. Fullness
  42. On Reappearing
  43. Meditations on Coffeepocalypse
  44. LLMs Seem (Relatively) Safe
  45. Can LLMs Play Pokemon Random Battles?
  46. Quaternion Daydream