Natalie Cargill

Almost advice from Scott Alexander Natalie Cargill Apr 25, 2026 Scott Alexander recently came to Inkhaven and gave us writing advice. He advised us against hedging, equivocation, and weasel words. He said, if you are tempted to write, “many people consider that it is possible that AI could (though is...

Claude really got me lately. I’d given it an elaborate prompt in an attempt to summon an AGI-level answer to my third-grade level question. Embarrassingly, it included the phrase, “this work might be reviewed by probability theorists, who are very pedantic”. Claude didn’t miss a beat. Came back with a...