A few days ago, I released a list of the top bloggers from the Inkhaven writing residency. Since then, more posts have been released, and I have also spent some time figuring out bugs in the code - people are uploading their blogs to any number of different websites, each of which works slightly differently. Almost inevitably, they won't necessarily all scrape in the same manner (and this is unfortunately also true of the "download all" function on the inkhaven portal).
So I have had Claude Code work extremely diligently on checking everyone's posts to make sure we're not doing anyone a disservice. Separately, I have also had Claude Code work on getting all of these new rankings into a proper searchable system on my website, and the residents have become significantly more invested now that I've put it all up on the whiteboards.
In any case, here is the updated list of the top posts:
A few days ago, I released a list of the top bloggers from the Inkhaven writing residency. Since then, more posts have been released, and I have also spent some time figuring out bugs in the code - people are uploading their blogs to any number of different websites, each of which works slightly differently. Almost inevitably, they won't necessarily all scrape in the same manner (and this is unfortunately also true of the "download all" function on the inkhaven portal).
So I have had Claude Code work extremely diligently on checking everyone's posts to make sure we're not doing anyone a disservice. Separately, I have also had Claude Code work on getting all of these new rankings into a proper searchable system on my website, and the residents have become significantly more invested now that I've put it all up on the whiteboards.
In any case, here is the updated list of the top posts:
#
Score
Author
Title
1
+2.99σ ± 0.18
Natalie Cargill
How to invent a disease
2
+2.65σ ± 0.17
Aaron Gertler
Posts I Will Not Be Writing
3
+2.47σ ± 0.25
Remy
Yudkowsky Vs. Ross
4
+2.46σ ± 0.12
Natalie Cargill
The largest manufacturer of feelings in human history
5
+2.41σ ± 0.12
viv
Late pregnancy is pretty bizarre
6
+2.37σ ± 0.12
Alec Thompson
More Legal Systems Very Different From Ours 1
7
+2.37σ ± 0.13
Anna Mattinger
Three Stones are Enough: The Case Against Leaves, in Particular
8
+2.35σ ± 0.12
Smitty
How the Claude Mythos leak happened
9
+2.34σ ± 0.12
viv
The phenomenology of being hungry while pregnant
10
+2.31σ ± 0.12
Alec Thompson
Finding Jack O'Neil
11
+2.31σ ± 0.12
Itsi Weinstock
Sin as a physical particle
12
+2.30σ ± 0.13
Avi
The Smell
13
+2.25σ ± 0.11
Alec Thompson
More Legal Systems Very Different From Ours 2: Nazi Private Law
14
+2.12σ ± 0.12
Alec Thompson
Why did Hitler hate Roman law?
15
+2.10σ ± 0.13
Vishal Prasad
"When the buffalo went away..."
16
+2.10σ ± 0.12
viv
How many genders are there?
17
+2.07σ ± 0.11
Natalie Cargill
I did it. I found the worst poem in the world.
18
+2.05σ ± 0.15
Austen
Would England have Industrialized without Coal?
19
+2.05σ ± 0.13
Sean Herrington
The quest for general intelligence is hitting a wall [April Fool's]
20
+2.03σ ± 0.33
Steven K
Contra Lightcone Infrastructure on the Location of Lighthaven
And the top authors are now:
#
Score
Number of posts
Author
Top post
1
+2.75σ ± 0.08
13
viv
Late pregnancy is pretty bizarre
2
+2.22σ ± 0.09
13
Natalie Cargill
How to invent a disease
3
+1.64σ ± 0.09
11
Aaron Gertler
Posts I Will Not Be Writing
4
+1.51σ ± 0.11
13
Katja Grace
Orgs: unreasonable boyfriend as service
5
+1.43σ ± 0.11
13
Steven K
Contra Lightcone Infrastructure on the Location of Lighthaven
6
+1.26σ ± 0.13
14
Alec Thompson
More Legal Systems Very Different From Ours 1
7
+1.07σ ± 0.09
13
Kevin Z Wu
(box|bag) in (box|bag) in (box|bag)
8
+1.02σ ± 0.11
13
Austen
Would England have Industrialized without Coal?
9
+1.01σ ± 0.12
13
capsuletime
Fuck Blogging
10
+0.91σ ± 0.15
13
Drew Schorno
2035
11
+0.71σ ± 0.14
14
conq
The one-word poem worth $8,000
12
+0.66σ ± 0.17
13
Justis Mills
Support (Short Fiction)
13
+0.65σ ± 0.16
13
Lawrence Chan
We're actually running out of benchmarks to upper bound AI capabilities
14
+0.50σ ± 0.11
13
Aaron Kaufman
For Against Against Romance
15
+0.47σ ± 0.15
9
Layla Hughes
Every Lighthaven Writing Residency
16
+0.46σ ± 0.11
13
Henry Stanley
Inkhavening
17
+0.35σ ± 0.14
12
Against Moloch
Perverse Incentives, Part One
18
+0.35σ ± 0.22
11
Remy
Yudkowsky Vs. Ross
19
+0.34σ ± 0.11
13
Bill Jackson
Two critiques of Rethink Priorities’ Moral Weights project
20
+0.34σ ± 0.21
9
Alicorn
Post by @luminousalicorn
You'll note I've now added the errors to the measurement values as a good man of science.
I've also done a bit of analysis on the distributions of both authors and posts, both of which look pretty normal:
I don't know what exactly viv is doing to hit the high 2 sigmas, but she's killing it.
We also have the following fun graph, which brings us to the clear conclusion that nobody is getting any better at writing during inkhaven:
Maybe that will improve now we have a scoreboard.