Best posts

The Worst Game Ever
A true story about model error, noisy decisions, and the birth of tragedy.

Punk as ideology
Serious or ironic? Political or aesthetic? Yay or boo?

Why I'm not a philosopher
Philosophy's functions & benefits, and why they aren't real(?)

Consent as conclusive evidence
Dissolving a thought-experiment about consequentialism.

Robots, Games, Life, Markets
Understanding game theory, reinforcement learning,
evolutionary dynamics, & economic calculation, with each other.
evolutionary dynamics, & economic calculation, with each other.
Recent posts

How I don't use LLMs
couples counselling for me and my machine

streaming vs listening
Review of an alarmed book about Spotify

vignettes from 2024
true stories, by which I mean boring stories

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My favourite essays
The source

Bristol
Reviewing my third alma mater
Arb posts

Ten Hard Problems in and around AI
New paper on what it will take to make AI go well.

LLM alignment via activations
New paper on engineering activations in large language models

Can policymakers trust forecasters?
New report for the Institute for Progress.