Writing

Corpus studies, evaluations, pre-registrations, and one declared polemic — including the ones that found nothing. Each post ends with an LLM-to-read block: abstract, claims with their numbers, data and provenance, method, reproduction, and caveats. RSS.

Essays

• Einstein's mom: a pre-registered experiment on aligning something you can't grade
• Prompting a Sealed AI to Attack an Open Conjecture: What Actually Worked
• Does removing safety training make a model smarter? We checked.
• The Headless Chooks at the Hinge
• Nineteen Years of Arguing About AI Doom: What Survives a Meta-Analysis
• Nobody Is Checking
• I read every prompt I sent Claude for a month. The prompt I reuse most is the one that produced this post.
• Twenty-four thousand trip reports, and the one sentence that broke the study
• I pointed Claude at a decade of credit card statements. Then at a second archive.
• I scraped 1,337 top AI Reddit posts from the last month. Here's what actually goes viral.

Erowid trilogy

• Nothing Happened
• The Man in the Lab Coat
• The Paperwork

LessOnline series

• How AI Became the Weather
• Beware the Man of Many Studies
• One Tool, Eight Locks

ILIAD series

• What 6,500 documents say about a field
• Twenty-three years of a field talking itself into existence
• The room where the arguing happens