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Jabberwocky: translating nonsense to different languages
The Catalan translation is even better than the original (the one by Rubén Luzón Díaz).
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Lojban is a terribly inefficient language
I learned Lojban so I could review it and tell you why its lack of ambiguity makes it bad.
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General Chinese: romanization chaos in early 20th century China
In the early 1900s, the Chinese intelligentsia decided that China needed modernization.
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The wizard’s word: an essay in verse
Math hinders when investigating genuinely new, confusing phenomena.
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Confronting the tyrant
A man puts his knees on the floor and hands on his knees in seiza, and bows his spine forward, looking at the tatami floor.
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Being Miguel Acevedo (pt. 1)
I wake up, and slowly open my eyes.
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The difficulty of self-modeling explains why humans feel like they have free will.
Reframing free will as the gap between the self-model and its actions.
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November 2025

Inside me there are at least two wolves
Some people have many characters inside of them.
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Concrete reasons why alignment is on track to be solved
Evan Hubinger, alignment stress-testing lead at Anthropic, wrote a post making the case for why alignment remains a difficult unsolved problem. It is a…
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Spatially distributed consciousness is not an abstract thought experiment if AI is conscious
A fun paper in philosophy of consciousness is Eric Schwitzgebel’s “If Materialism Is True, The United States Is Probably Conscious”.
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Alignment will happen by default. What’s next?
I’m not fully convinced of this, but I’m fairly convinced, more and more so over time.
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Why investigate neural networks that plan? (Part 1)
To catch a mesa-optimizer
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