Blog Posts
Reverse-chronological index of my short-form writings (including off-site):
2025
Tilakkhana: The 3 Scars of Existence (10-18)
Silver Bird Above San Francisco (09-30)
Conference Fermi Problems (07-06)
Perfume Reviews (07-05)
Tracking Phishing Bots Via Locations (06-04)
Towards Better LLM Creative Writing (05-29)
Conferences As D&D Tabletops (05-28)
Hacking Pinball High Scores (05-28)
Bell, Crow, Moon: 11 Variations (05-25)
You Could’ve Invented Transformers (05-25)
Human Cannibalism Alignment Chart (05-12)
The Meta-LW Doomsday Argument (04-29)
AI Cannibalism Can Be Good (04-27)
Area Man Angry AI Not Silver Bullet (04-19)
Parliament of Rag & Bone (04-19)
Adding Bits Beats AI Slop (03-23)
Review: The Birth of Sake (2015) (03-19)
Gwern.net Large File Support (03-09)
LLMs Can Be Faster Than You Think (02-07)
Plumbing vs Internet, Revisited (01-02)
2024
Weinersmith’s Trajectoid Words (12-04)
Borges’s Tlön: Fascist Idealism (12-01)
Virtual Comments: LLM Idea (11-29)
‘Winning’ AI Arms Races: Then What? (11-23)
The State of Chinese AI (11-15)
Scaling ‘Diminishing Returns’ (11-14)
Abs-E, Or, Speak Only Positively (09-27)
Trying Pemmican (09-01)
LLM Acceptable-Use Policy (08-24)
Simulating ‘tail Collapse’ in R (08-23)
Hardware Hedging Scaling Risks (08-22)
You Should Write More Online (08-21)
Marvel: Humanizing Mythology (08-16)
What Is an ‘AI Warning Shot’? (08-07)
Towards Better RSS Feeds (07-30)
A Gambler’s Verity World (07-29)
Midjourney Personalization Flaws (07-22)
Regexps Used to Be AI (06-24)
Is OpenAI OK? (06-19)
GPT-3 Semantic Derealization (06-16)
‘Tools For Thought’ Failure (05-12)
Kids Are Sick, A Lot (04-21)
Proposal: Hybridizing Forums/Wikis (03-24)
2023
Little’s Law in the Wild (10-27)
Against Caring About Subtle Poisons (09-30)
2022
Cleanup When: Before or After? (01-28)
PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (01-23)
Peak Pre-Modern Human Speed (01-02)
2021
Dreams Don’t Matter Morally (11-09)
What Is It Like To Be A Cat Tail? (10-17)
2020
ML Scaling Subreddit (10-30)
Auto-Smallcaps Filter (02-19)
2019
ThisWaifuDoesNotExist.net (02-19)
2018
WBE & DRL: Brain Imitation Learning (10-20)
2015
2013
Spend Writing Weirdness Points Well (07-20)
2011
2009
Blog Posts (01-27)
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2025
Tilakkhana: The 3 Scars of Existence
Silver Bird Above San Francisco
Tracking Phishing Bots Via Locations
Towards Better LLM Creative Writing
Bell, Crow, Moon: 11 Variations
You Could’ve Invented Transformers
Human Cannibalism Alignment Chart
Area Man Angry AI Not Silver Bullet
Review: The Birth of Sake (2015)
2024
Weinersmith’s Trajectoid Words
Borges’s Tlön: Fascist Idealism
‘Winning’ AI Arms Races: Then What?
Abs-E, Or, Speak Only Positively
Simulating ‘tail Collapse’ in R
Hardware Hedging Scaling Risks
Midjourney Personalization Flaws
On First Looking Into Tolkien’s Tower