The Inkhaven Residency

The Blogroll

A.G.G. Liu
A.G.G. Liu, Signore Galilei
Latest Post: A formula for round numbers
Adrià Garriga Alonso
Adrià Garriga Alonso, The Column Space
Latest Post: Statistical tests are complicated because their inventors did not have fast computers
Alex Altair
Alex Altair, Nameless Virtue
Latest Post: Are apples made of cells?
Amanda Luce
Amanda Luce, Letters From Bethlehem
Latest Post: "You're not sick enough for this medicine."
Angadh Nanjangud
Angadh Nanjangud, The Information Space
Latest Post: What I Learned from Living in England
Ben Goldhaber
Ben Goldhaber, Gold Takes
Latest Post: Gork, the hero we need
Ben Steinhorn
Ben Steinhorn, Befriendjamin
Latest Post: Book Review: A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
Camille Berger
Camille Berger, The Limits of the Cage
Latest Post: That Lying Bitch
Claire Wang
Claire Wang, Bright Distance
Latest Post: A glimpse of the other side
Croissanthology
Croissanthology, Croissanthology
Latest Post: Casual Archiving
Daniel Paleka
Daniel Paleka, Daniel Paleka
Latest Post: Why I am writing 30 posts in 30 days
David Gros
David Gros, Dactile
Latest Post: Dactile Meta: Notes on Site Design and Style
Eneasz Brodski
Eneasz Brodski, Death Is Bad
Latest Post: Raison d'être
Harri Besceli
Harri Besceli, Harri's Substack
Latest Post: 23 Pieces of Life Advice
Hauke Hillebrandt
Hauke Hillebrandt, Hauke Hillebrandt
Latest Post: Against subjectivism
Human Invariant
Human Invariant, Human Invariant
Latest Post: Never Reason from a Price Change, Culture Edition
Jenn
Jenn, Jenneral HQ
Latest Post: everyone else is wrong about ai art, sorry
Joanna Bregan
Joanna Bregan, Joanna's Substack
Latest Post: Stepping out of the vortex
Justin Kuiper
Justin Kuiper, Kuiper's Blog
Latest Post: What do Matt Levine, Scott Alexander, and Patrick McKenzie have in common?
Justin Miller
Justin Miller, Nomads Vagabonds
Latest Post: The Sublime Luxury of Saying No
Linch Zhang
Linch Zhang, The Linchpin
Latest Post: How to Write Fast, Weird, and Well
Lucie Philippon
Lucie Philippon, Lux ex Machina
Latest Post: When did it all grow wrong?
Lydia Nottingham
Lydia Nottingham, lydia.ml
Latest Post: Lit Review: Stated vs. Revealed Preferences in LMs
Mahmoud Ghanem
Mahmoud Ghanem, Drawn In Perspective
Latest Post: Functions are an important concept for understanding the world, however the word "function" is slippery and ambiguous
Margarita Lovelace
Margarita Lovelace, Mutually Assured Seduction
Latest Post: Species of Bitchiness
Markus Strasser
Markus Strasser, Markus Strasser
Latest Post: Read-Only Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) will have little use for real-time creative work
Michael Dayah
Michael Dayah, Lucent
Latest Post: The Virtue of Invariance
Michael Dickens
Michael Dickens, Philosophical Multicore
Latest Post: Things I've Become More Confident About
Mikhail Samin
Mikhail Samin, LessWrong
Latest Post: How and why you should make your home smart (it's cheap and secure!)
Nikola Jurkovic
Nikola Jurkovic, Nikola Jurkovic
Latest Post: Don't gamble your life because of AGI
Raye
Raye, Futuring
Latest Post: Escape Hatch
Sasha Putilin
Sasha Putilin, Psychotechnology
Latest Post: I am writing 30 posts in 30 days (1/30)
Sean Carter
Sean Carter, Collisteru
Latest Post: Animal Stories: Part 2
Simon Lermen
Simon Lermen, LessWrong
Latest Post: I joined inkhaven
Skyler Crossman
Skyler Crossman, Screwtape
Latest Post: Lack of Social Grace is a Lack of Skill
Tomás Bjartur
Tomás Bjartur, Tomás Bjartur
Latest Post: My YC Pitch
Tsvi Benson-Tilsen
Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, <different blog title>
Latest Post: Shem
Vasco Queirós
Vasco Queirós, Type 1 Type 2
Latest Post: The Arbitrage Window
Vishal Prasad
Vishal Prasad, Vishal's Blog
Latest Post: Trigonometric and Algebraic Functions in Spacewar! (1962)
William Friedman
William Friedman, As Our Days
Latest Post: When I Say "Everywhere," I Mean Agricultural Societies Before 1800

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November 3, 2025

"You're not sick enough for this medicine."
Gork, the hero we need
That Lying Bitch
A glimpse of the other side
Casual Archiving
Why I am writing 30 posts in 30 days
Raison d'être
23 Pieces of Life Advice
Against subjectivism
Never Reason from a Price Change, Culture Edition
everyone else is wrong about ai art, sorry
Stepping out of the vortex
What do Matt Levine, Scott Alexander, and Patrick McKenzie have in common?
The Sublime Luxury of Saying No
Functions are an important concept for understanding the world, however the word "function" is slippery and ambiguous
Species of Bitchiness
The Virtue of Invariance
How and why you should make your home smart (it's cheap and secure!)
Don't gamble your life because of AGI
Animal Stories: Part 2
I joined inkhaven
Lack of Social Grace is a Lack of Skill
Trigonometric and Algebraic Functions in Spacewar! (1962)

November 2, 2025

A formula for round numbers
Are apples made of cells?
What I Learned from Living in England
Book Review: A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
Lit Review: Stated vs. Revealed Preferences in LMs
Things I've Become More Confident About
Escape Hatch
My YC Pitch
Shem
The Arbitrage Window
When I Say "Everywhere," I Mean Agricultural Societies Before 1800

November 1, 2025

Ahoy Ahoy, Mound!
Statistical tests are complicated because their inventors did not have fast computers
The origin of writing is surprisingly unclear
Dying of a Terminal Illness is not Rare
Britizenship and the Cheeky Pint
November 2025 Ben Goldhaber Newsletter
This Is Why They Swirl
Execution Ambiguity
You’re always stressed, your mind is always busy, you never have enough time
A/B testing could lead LLMs to retain users instead of helping them
Dactile Meta: Notes on Site Design and Style
Good And Real, chapter 5 notes
Destined for Greatness
Contra Parfit’s ‘Against Egoism’
Architecting Reality
Some Meetups I Ran (2025 Q2)
The first day of Inkhaven
No, twin studies are not about twins separated at birth
The Ethics of Digital Lobotomy
How to Write Fast, Weird, and Well
When did it all grow wrong?
Start of Inkhaven!
Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk" letter to Gottfried Leibniz
The Great Nicolas Cage Fest Experiment
Read-Only Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) will have little use for real-time creative work
Personas of Local Maxima
Will Welfareans Get to Experience the Future?
Should you donate to Lightcone Infrastructure?
The boy who cried AGI
A Very San Francisco Earthquake
I am writing 30 posts in 30 days (1/30)
Animal Stories: PArt 1
Model welfare and open source
2025 Unofficial LW Community Census Request For Comments
Nov 1, 2025
LLM-generated text is not testimony
Type 1 Type 2
Dry Scoop Your Creatine
The Reputational Windfall
I'm In Inkhaven!

Previous Work

S-Risks: Fates Worse Than Extinction
The No Free Lunch theorems and their Razor
Introduction to abstract entropy
Your Book Review: Two Arms and a Head
Where is my von Braun wheel?
First, do no harm - how the FDA crippled America's response to COVID-19
Blue Tie Number 5
Attitudes about Applied Rationality
Guide to rationalist interior decorating
You don't get to have cool flaws
GPT-4o draws itself as a consistent type of guy
Is AI Replacing Jobs Right Now? Analysis by Age Appears to Have Challenges.
Of Cowards And Grandmas
I am a Freudian now
GDP (per capita) in 2050
No One is Really Working
Yukon Text Posts
My birth story
Your Book Review: Lying for Money
A Protopian Vision for the Age of Intelligence
Why Are We All Cowards?
How I switched careers from software engineer to AI policy operations
Beware the Delmore Effect
Some things I learnt studying philosophy 2019-2021
Why Explicit Boundaries Don't Always Work
The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications
The Lazy Evil Genius
In Which I Defend Fruit's Honor
How to Give in to Threats (without incentivizing them)
Orienting to 3 year AGI timelines
Zen and The Art of Semiconductor Manufacturing
How I Lost My Backpack with Passports and Laptop
Roadside Attraction Review: Bishop's Castle
Why I don't believe Superalignment will work
Write a Thousand Roads to Rome
The Company Man
The possible shared Craft of deliberate Lexicogenesis
Who Is Portugal For?
Racial Dating Preferences and Sexual Racism
A Review Of The Evidence For Joan of Arc