When I started An Algorithmic Lucidity back in 2011 when I didn't know anything about computers, I used WordPress—briefly on wordpress.com, but then on my own site on Namecheap's true-to-its-brandname shared hosting service. Even early on, the technical limitations of WordPress were chafing. In my first post, "The Derivative of...
(Previously, previously, previously.) 20–21 August 2025 From: Zack M. Davis To: Cade Metz CC: Benjamin Hoffman, Jessica Taylor, Michael Vassar Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:18:53 -0700 Subject: the importance of probabilistic reasoning Dear Cade (cc Ben Michael Jessica): I think I failed to explain the substance of the Sequences...
(Previously, previously.) New York Times reporter Cade Metz has been writing a book about the people who believed in AGI before it was cool. That's a subject that I think I know some things about, so we had some on-the-record conversations in 2025, which I'd like to publish here—for transparency's...
> BOJACK: Hey, I wanted to talk to you about—you know—I feel bad about what happened. > HERB: So, you're apologizing. > BOJACK: Yes. I'm sorry. > HERB: Okay. I don't forgive you. > BOJACK: Herb, I said I'm sorry. > HERB: Yeah. And I do not forgive you. >...
I. Prologue "If I Can't Explain It to Said Achmiz, I Probably Don't Understand It" This post isn't really about him, but I'd like to begin with a tribute to my friend Said Achmiz, the wisest person I know. The choice of adjective is deliberately chosen as term of art....
Dateline SAN FRANCISCO, Ca., 24 March 2026— A hearing was held on a motion for a preliminary injunction in the case of Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War et al. in Courtroom 12 on the 19th floor of the Phillip Burton Federal Building, the Hon. Judge Rita F. Lin...
(Previously: Prologue.) Corrigibility as a term of art in AI alignment was coined as a word to refer to a property of an AI being willing to let its preferences be modified by its creator. Corrigibility in this sense was believed to be a desirable but unnatural property that would...