Writing
Essays, explanations, and things I’m trying to understand.
Archives & tags
August 2026
- How this blog was made
The influences behind this site.
May 2026
- Better thinking through writing
Notes on writing as a tool for thinking.
April 2026
- AGI Vignettes
Short reflections on AGI, progress, power, and the choices facing AI labs.
- Feeling the AGI: A brief history of my interaction with LLMs — Part 1
A personal history of working with language models and watching their capabilities change.
- Subtle Sycophants
How agreeable language models can turn passing thoughts into convincing plans.
- The parable of a sculptor
A sculptor’s parable about the shift from making things to managing machines.
August 2025
- AGI Diary: Day 2
A working definition of AGI and why its rapid normalization matters.
- AGI Diary: Day 1
Why I started an informal diary about AGI and the uncertainty surrounding it.
May 2025
- A potential framework for navigating concentration of power
A framework for preserving human agency as AI concentrates economic and political power.
November 2019
- Learning hard things is locally difficult
Why competence in one field does not remove the friction of beginning another.
- Psychological Manifesto
A rough map of questions about intelligence, motivation, attention, and mental health.
- Views on Computer Science
June 2019
- Worldview diary
A few computer-science-shaped mental models for attention, goals, and learning.
July 2018
- July problem solving
A running log of competitive-programming problems and explanations from July 2018.
- Learning in the internet age
A guide to the educational resources that made learning on the internet transformative.