Reverse-chronological index of my short-form writings (including off-site):

• 2025:

  • 07-06: Conference Fermi Problems

  • 07-05: Perfume Reviews

  • 06-04: Tracking Phishing Bots Via Locations

  • 05-29: Towards Better LLM Creative Writing

  • 05-28: Conferences As D&D Tabletops

  • 05-28: Hacking Pinball High Scores

  • 05-25: Bell, Crow, Moon: 11 Variations

  • 05-25: You Could’ve Invented Transformers

  • 05-12: Human Cannibalism Alignment Chart

  • 04-29: The Meta-LW Doomsday Argument

  • 04-27: AI Cannibalism Can Be Good

  • 04-19: Area Man Angry AI Not Silver Bullet

  • 04-19: Parliament of Rag & Bone

  • 03-23: Adding Bits Beats AI Slop

  • 03-19: Review: The Birth of Sake (2015)

  • 03-09: Gwern.net Large File Support

  • 02-07: LLMs Can Be Faster Than You Think

  • 01-02: Plumbing vs Internet, Revisited

• 2024:

  • 12-04: Weinersmith’s Trajectoid Words

  • 12-01: Borges’s Tlön: Fascist Idealism

  • 11-29: Virtual Comments: LLM Idea

  • 11-23: ‘Winning’ AI Arms Races: Then What?

  • 11-15: The State of Chinese AI

  • 11-14: Scaling ‘Diminishing Returns’

  • 09-27: Abs-E, Or, Speak Only Positively

  • 09-01: Trying Pemmican

  • 08-24: LLM Acceptable-Use Policy

  • 08-23: Simulating ‘tail Collapse’ in R

  • 08-22: Hardware Hedging Scaling Risks

  • 08-21: You Should Write More Online

  • 08-16: Marvel: Humanizing Mythology

  • 08-07: What Is an ‘AI Warning Shot’?

  • 07-30: Towards Better RSS Feeds

  • 07-29: A Gambler’s Verity World

  • 07-22: Midjourney Personalization Flaws

  • 06-24: Regexps Used to Be AI

  • 06-19: Is OpenAI OK?

  • 06-16: GPT-3 Semantic Derealization

  • 05-12: ‘Tools For Thought’ Failure

  • 04-21: Kids Are Sick, A Lot

  • 04-06: On First Looking Into Tolkien’s Tower

  • 03-24: Hybridizing Forums/wikis Proposal

  • 02-10: Wolfe’s ‘Fat Magician’: Marx Brother?

• 2023:

  • 12-29: Things You Can’t Countersignal Online: Good Writing

  • 11-12: Why Do Writers Still Underestimate LLMs?

  • 10-27: Little’s Law in the Wild

  • 09-30: Against Caring About Subtle Poisons

• 2022:

  • 07-25: Visualizing Active Learning’s Sample-Efficiency Advantage

  • 05-28: GPT-3 2^nd Anniversary & Looking Forward 2 Years

  • 01-28: Cleanup When: Before or After?

  • 01-23: PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare

  • 01-02: Peak Pre-Modern Human Speed

• 2021:

  • 11-09: Why Dreams Don’t Matter (Morally or Psychologically)

  • 10-17: What Is It Like To Be A Cat Tail?

• 2020:

  • 10-30: ML Scaling Subreddit

  • 02-19: Auto-Smallcaps Filter

  • 02-09: Crowdsourcing The Best GPT-2-1.5b Poetry

• 2019:

  • 02-19: ThisWaifuDoesNotExist.net

• 2018:

  • 10-20: WBE & DRL: a Middle Way of Imitation Learning on Brains

• 2015:

  • 04-22: Estimated Cost of DMT Machine Elf Prime Factorization Experiment

• 2013:

  • 07-20: Spending Writing ‘Weirdness Points’ Wisely

• 2011:

  • 12-18: I-Zombies: The Hard Problem of Unconsciousness