The Inkhaven Residency

Friday, April 10, 2026

54 of 55 residents published · 7 other contributors

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Against Against Romance

4 min read

Falling in love is real and good

My First Fight

3 min read

On refusing to run 𐫱 Yesterday’s post has attracted quite a strong reaction, which I understand to be a little tongue-in-cheek but also, my goodness… A respons...

Contra Emet Hirsch on whatever the fuck he was talking about

3 min read

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The 95% Problem

5 min read

At least a third of lawyers use AI in their practice.

The XKCD Canon

4 min read

If you were born before 2010, give this post to a child instead. Just kidding, you can read it! But know that I wrote it

where in the world is scott alexander?

4 min read

an introduction to modern Sun Miracle Theory (SMT)

Questions That Make People Say Things They've Never Said Before

5 min read

Most Conversation Is Socially Passable Misinformation

How do you like them apples?

3 min read

I have recently published The Best Apple Cultivar and have been getting a lot of feedback to develop better taste.

Uncensorable, Unmonitorable, Uncontrollable: U.S. Policy Options for Open-Weight Biosecurity Risk

18 min read

The CCP has built the world’s most sophisticated internet censorship apparatus. It also, as of 2025, is the world’s lead

Paean to the machine-translator

4 min read

What happens when you run out of things to read? Consider the zoomer aesthete, stricken by the twin afflictions of leviathan appetite and particular tastes. The...

Forager to Farmer to Corper

7 min read

...

Can Passive Radar Detect Stealth Aircraft?

4 min read

It's one of the most common questions in the radar world: Can passive radar see stealth? The short answer is yes, with caveats. The longer answer gets into phys...

Language, Kids

(Team)3 min read

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Language, Kids · Yesterday, I was hanging out with my baby in the ball pit, as one does. A group of adults was nearby on the floor, and one o...

i am naught but baby, yet i too have thoughts about love

4 min read

it's a feeling in my heart, bro

The Road to Tau Ceti is Paved With Good Intentions

8 min read

Book Review: Aurora (2015) by Kim Stanley Robinson

Getting Claude to rank the inkhaven bloggers

4 min read

With apologies to those who didn't make this post, it seems you need to up your game Yesterday, Alexander Wales publishe

My Name

(Alumni)5 min read

Names are useful objects for poetical riffing.

For Against Against Romance

3 min read

Being in a relationship that your lizard brain doesn't like Sucks, Actually

How to find images for your blog

4 min read

How to find images for your blog An underwater photograph by Louis Boutan, 1899, Source. As my mother says: you

Inkhaven Day 10 - Submission

2 min read

A session of diminishing returns.

Galactic Orbits are Different

3 min read

Why do airplanes pass through clouds, but a space station doesn't go through dust clouds?

Could a single rogue AI destroy humanity?

3 min read

It seems like the AI companies are acting like it couldn't. That seems bad.

Canon Goes Boom: Green Day's "American Idiot"

5 min read

A screen-based education

Salvation Mountain, Part 1: James

3 min read

I started hanging out with James because I liked his hair.

The median take is taken

4 min read

To write better, find Claude-shaped holes

中文 Literacy Speedrun III: Symbolhead Syndrome

3 min read

learn until you're sick

The Extraordinary Beauty of Jana

3 min read

The story of a very consequential autocorrect

The unhandsome part

3 min read

In the final year of my philosophy degree, I wanted to take a close look at Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Have we already lost? Part 3: Reasons for Optimism

4 min read

Written very quickly for the Inkhaven Residency. As I take the time to reflect on the state of AI Safety in early 2026,

the search for unconditional love

(Team)5 min read

More rambly introspective piece today.

Adversarial Sanity, Part 1

4 min read

You’re driving along a mountain road.

A (Temporary?) Eulogy for HSD

3 min read

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · about a month ago, the unofficial homestuck discord server (HSD) got taken down for a false dmca claim (whether this was due to the machinati...

Newcomb’s Problem Isn’t Clean

3 min read

Asymmetrical payoffs, morality, and conditional predictions

I feel

2 min read

Today I am focusing on how I feel.

Quick Thoughts About Mythos

3 min read

Very cool, and very dangerous

Slag - Chapter 3

(Team)10 min read

I spent my Saturday downtown, walking past First National Bank a few times, going in only once. There were plenty of cam

A Review of "Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die"

(Writing Advisor)3 min read

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · A Review of "Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die" · I picked up "Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die" from the library on the basis of tumb...

When the Line Between Ape and Man Was Blurry

3 min read

I’m still researching and working on my industrial revolution project.

Why Scott Alexander is Missing Inkhaven

4 min read

Now you know.

How South Africa's Electricity Catastrophe Was (Mostly) Fixed

4 min read

How private solar deployment ended South Africa's load shedding crisis

The Waluigi effect in humans

4 min read

The Waluigi effect: Trying to achieve X makes you more likely to achieve anti-X, relative to if you had simply tried to achieve (completely unrelated) Y.

AI Risk Awareness

2 min read

Lately I have been joking that that I have AI psychosis.

Consider the Blog

6 min read

Are blogs good? Are magazines? What if everything was a blog?

Books I haven’t read and books I have forgotten

2 min read

Road to Reality by Rodger Penrose

7 Projects that someone should do in Alt Protein

5 min read

Go on! Do it

Safe, Slow, and Exploitable: What My First Waymo Ride Taught Me About Autonomous Vehicles

3 min read

On game theory, learning curves, and the absence of German carmakers

A 100-year-old website

3 min read

Fifteen years ago, a conference talk planted an idea in my brain I haven’t been able to uproot since. What things would we do differently if one of the success ...

How Unique are Mythos's Hacking Capabilities?

3 min read

And is Anthropic playing 5d chess?

Picking up where I left off in 2021

6 min read

This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged every day.

Inkhaven: Week 1

2 min read

On blogging every day for a month.

Split

2 min read

WIP, fiction

Stab You in the Back for $5 (Young, Brilliant, and Wrong: Part 10)

2 min read

Coming Up Together with Ash

My Janky wall-mounted eGPU Build Log

4 min read

you can just do things the wrong way

Graveyard of Memories

3 min read

my encounter with its caretaker

Dario probably doesn't believe in superintelligence

(Lightcone Infrastructure)7 min read

Epistemic status: I think this is true but don't think this post is a very strong argument for the case, or particularly

How to Be Funny Like Me: PART IV (of V)

8 min read

GO TO ACTING SCHOOL

please get in the habit of negotiating

3 min read

do it for the love of the game and the love of money in your bank account

Blog posts I won’t write

2 min read

Blog posts on the cutting room floor

Pathworking: The Night Carnival (Pt. 1)

6 min read

A script for a guided visualization

Context Collapse

3 min read

[Note: this piece is an update on my newsletter, and is quite different from the rest of the writing on my blog.]

The Inkhaven Residency

Friday, April 10, 2026

54 of 55 residents published · 7 other contributors

← Back to dashboard

Against Against Romance

4 min read

Falling in love is real and good

My First Fight

3 min read

On refusing to run 𐫱 Yesterday’s post has attracted quite a strong reaction, which I understand to be a little tongue-in-cheek but also, my goodness… A respons...

Contra Emet Hirsch on whatever the fuck he was talking about

3 min read

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The 95% Problem

5 min read

At least a third of lawyers use AI in their practice.

The XKCD Canon

4 min read

If you were born before 2010, give this post to a child instead. Just kidding, you can read it! But know that I wrote it

where in the world is scott alexander?

4 min read

an introduction to modern Sun Miracle Theory (SMT)

Questions That Make People Say Things They've Never Said Before

5 min read

Most Conversation Is Socially Passable Misinformation

How do you like them apples?

3 min read

I have recently published The Best Apple Cultivar and have been getting a lot of feedback to develop better taste.

Uncensorable, Unmonitorable, Uncontrollable: U.S. Policy Options for Open-Weight Biosecurity Risk

18 min read

The CCP has built the world’s most sophisticated internet censorship apparatus. It also, as of 2025, is the world’s lead

Paean to the machine-translator

4 min read

What happens when you run out of things to read? Consider the zoomer aesthete, stricken by the twin afflictions of leviathan appetite and particular tastes. The...

Forager to Farmer to Corper

7 min read

...

Can Passive Radar Detect Stealth Aircraft?

4 min read

It's one of the most common questions in the radar world: Can passive radar see stealth? The short answer is yes, with caveats. The longer answer gets into phys...

Language, Kids

(Team)3 min read

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Language, Kids · Yesterday, I was hanging out with my baby in the ball pit, as one does. A group of adults was nearby on the floor, and one o...

i am naught but baby, yet i too have thoughts about love

4 min read

it's a feeling in my heart, bro

The Road to Tau Ceti is Paved With Good Intentions

8 min read

Book Review: Aurora (2015) by Kim Stanley Robinson

Getting Claude to rank the inkhaven bloggers

4 min read

With apologies to those who didn't make this post, it seems you need to up your game Yesterday, Alexander Wales publishe

My Name

(Alumni)5 min read

Names are useful objects for poetical riffing.

For Against Against Romance

3 min read

Being in a relationship that your lizard brain doesn't like Sucks, Actually

How to find images for your blog

4 min read

How to find images for your blog An underwater photograph by Louis Boutan, 1899, Source. As my mother says: you

Inkhaven Day 10 - Submission

2 min read

A session of diminishing returns.

Galactic Orbits are Different

3 min read

Why do airplanes pass through clouds, but a space station doesn't go through dust clouds?

Could a single rogue AI destroy humanity?

3 min read

It seems like the AI companies are acting like it couldn't. That seems bad.

Canon Goes Boom: Green Day's "American Idiot"

5 min read

A screen-based education

Salvation Mountain, Part 1: James

3 min read

I started hanging out with James because I liked his hair.

The median take is taken

4 min read

To write better, find Claude-shaped holes

中文 Literacy Speedrun III: Symbolhead Syndrome

3 min read

learn until you're sick

The Extraordinary Beauty of Jana

3 min read

The story of a very consequential autocorrect

The unhandsome part

3 min read

In the final year of my philosophy degree, I wanted to take a close look at Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Have we already lost? Part 3: Reasons for Optimism

4 min read

Written very quickly for the Inkhaven Residency. As I take the time to reflect on the state of AI Safety in early 2026,

the search for unconditional love

(Team)5 min read

More rambly introspective piece today.

Adversarial Sanity, Part 1

4 min read

You’re driving along a mountain road.

A (Temporary?) Eulogy for HSD

3 min read

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · about a month ago, the unofficial homestuck discord server (HSD) got taken down for a false dmca claim (whether this was due to the machinati...

Newcomb’s Problem Isn’t Clean

3 min read

Asymmetrical payoffs, morality, and conditional predictions

I feel

2 min read

Today I am focusing on how I feel.

Quick Thoughts About Mythos

3 min read

Very cool, and very dangerous

Slag - Chapter 3

(Team)10 min read

I spent my Saturday downtown, walking past First National Bank a few times, going in only once. There were plenty of cam

A Review of "Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die"

(Writing Advisor)3 min read

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · A Review of "Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die" · I picked up "Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die" from the library on the basis of tumb...

When the Line Between Ape and Man Was Blurry

3 min read

I’m still researching and working on my industrial revolution project.

Why Scott Alexander is Missing Inkhaven

4 min read

Now you know.

How South Africa's Electricity Catastrophe Was (Mostly) Fixed

4 min read

How private solar deployment ended South Africa's load shedding crisis

The Waluigi effect in humans

4 min read

The Waluigi effect: Trying to achieve X makes you more likely to achieve anti-X, relative to if you had simply tried to achieve (completely unrelated) Y.

AI Risk Awareness

2 min read

Lately I have been joking that that I have AI psychosis.

Consider the Blog

6 min read

Are blogs good? Are magazines? What if everything was a blog?

Books I haven’t read and books I have forgotten

2 min read

Road to Reality by Rodger Penrose

7 Projects that someone should do in Alt Protein

5 min read

Go on! Do it

Safe, Slow, and Exploitable: What My First Waymo Ride Taught Me About Autonomous Vehicles

3 min read

On game theory, learning curves, and the absence of German carmakers

A 100-year-old website

3 min read

Fifteen years ago, a conference talk planted an idea in my brain I haven’t been able to uproot since. What things would we do differently if one of the success ...

How Unique are Mythos's Hacking Capabilities?

3 min read

And is Anthropic playing 5d chess?

Picking up where I left off in 2021

6 min read

This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged every day.

Inkhaven: Week 1

2 min read

On blogging every day for a month.

Split

2 min read

WIP, fiction

Stab You in the Back for $5 (Young, Brilliant, and Wrong: Part 10)

2 min read

Coming Up Together with Ash

My Janky wall-mounted eGPU Build Log

4 min read

you can just do things the wrong way

Graveyard of Memories

3 min read

my encounter with its caretaker

Dario probably doesn't believe in superintelligence

(Lightcone Infrastructure)7 min read

Epistemic status: I think this is true but don't think this post is a very strong argument for the case, or particularly

How to Be Funny Like Me: PART IV (of V)

8 min read

GO TO ACTING SCHOOL

please get in the habit of negotiating

3 min read

do it for the love of the game and the love of money in your bank account

Blog posts I won’t write

2 min read

Blog posts on the cutting room floor

Pathworking: The Night Carnival (Pt. 1)

6 min read

A script for a guided visualization

Context Collapse

3 min read

[Note: this piece is an update on my newsletter, and is quite different from the rest of the writing on my blog.]