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My newest hobby is fine-tuning a Chinese open-source LLM to generate Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (originally by Borges). The ambition isn’t to write a so-called “Borgesian” story “like” Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote but to fully generate, token-by-token, Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote. Importantly, this can’t...

In 2026, every budding prodigy in writing is in some sense a tragedy. Anybody with experience prompting the large language models to write fiction knows that the models of today (April 2026) are considerably below peak human level. But anybody who has observed recent trends also knows that the models...

Last year, I was sitting in my favorite coffee shop Caffe Strada, sipping on a matcha latte and writing a self-insert fanfic about how our plucky protagonist escapes the mind-controlling clutches of an evil anti-animal welfare company, when I came across an interesting article on AI character. The core argument...

Is consciousness the last moral world? Imagine trying to explain to a virus why suffering matters. A virus is a simple self-replicating molecule: unsophisticated and arguably not even alive. It has no experience. It just copies itself according to chemical laws. From its “perspective” (it doesn’t have one), the universe...

Hi folks. As some of you know, I've been trying to write an article laying out the simplest case for AI catastrophe. I believe existing pieces are worse than they could be for fixable reasons. So I tried to write my own piece that's better. In the end, it ended...

tl;dr I wanted to consult the internet for good triple and quadruple entendres. unable to find a good existing compilation, so I wrote my own! Attached at the end are some of my original contributions. Triple and quadruple entendres, and the search for the elusive quintuple Matchmaker, matchmaker, plan me...

Reposting my Inkhaven post on ontology of advice here. Are you interested in learning a new field, whether it’s programming, writing, or how to win Paper Mario games? Have you searched for lots of advice and couldn’t choose which advice to follow? Worse, have you tried to follow other people’s...