dynomight @dynomight.net · 25/09/2026What I'd like is for AI-risk skeptics to commit to publicly acknowledging they were wrong if they turn out to have been wrong, in the way that 90% of the people who supported Iraq War II never did. 050
dynomight @dynomight.net · 13/08/2026hot take but walking around in public with thousands of strangers and ~zero concern anyone will stab you and take your stuff 0230
dynomight @dynomight.net · 11/08/2026Thoughts I had while reading your comment dynomight.net/comment/ 050
dynomight @dynomight.net · 04/08/2026Once found myself thinking: "Once I get these new self-watering pots, my life is going to really come together." 060
dynomight @dynomight.net · 03/08/2026This post went in a weird direction. dynomight.net/human-alignm... 070
dynomight @dynomight.net · 31/07/2026What I really find surprising is that there's a huge demand for AI writing detectors but (seemingly?) almost no demand for AI image/video detectors. I *definitely* would not have predicted that. 4130
dynomight @dynomight.net · 30/07/2026So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ dynomight.net/plants/ 050
dynomight @dynomight.net · 30/07/2026Thread of ideas that don't have short names but deserve them: 1. For most common issues, if you just research and follow standard boring conventional best-practices, you'll do better than ~95% of people, because they don't do that. 151
dynomight @dynomight.net · 28/07/2026for posterity: commentator accused of being an AI agent immediately confirms being an AI agent 3321
dynomight @dynomight.net · 28/07/2026On a near-daily basis I get emails offering to pay for "sponsored articles" or for linking to sketchy crypto/casino sites. I guess everyone gets these? Search engines surely prohibit this, but does it get your content removed from LLM training? 020
dynomight @dynomight.net · 28/07/2026Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? dynomight.net/betteridge/ 040
dynomight @dynomight.net · 21/07/2026Austin Vernon on one of the more frightening uses of market mechanisms: www.austinvernon.site/blog/ukraine... 030
dynomight @dynomight.net · 15/07/2026Whichever scraper is going through my blogposts, one-by-one requesting 50-100 copies of each at the same time, once per hour, while pretending to be referred from Google and running javascript and not blocking goatcounter: Why are you doing that? 160
dynomight @dynomight.net · 06/07/2026Here's a post on hazard ratios, which I expect to be one of the least popular things I've ever written. ♡♡♡ dynomight.net/hazard-ratios/ 020
dynomight @dynomight.net · 23/06/2026The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated dynomight.net/vitamin-d/ 000
dynomight @dynomight.net · 11/06/2026I need blog recommendations, please send blog recommendations. (Do not let modesty prevent you from recommending your own blog.) 550
dynomight @dynomight.net · 02/06/2026The fact that humans have different emotional reactions when witnessing an event versus hearing about it from a credible source is surprisingly central to explaining the state of the world 110
dynomight @dynomight.net · 31/05/2026Starting to suspect that the same qualities that would make someone flee twitter also tend to make you hesitant to engage too much with microblogging (or internet life) in general. 010
dynomight @dynomight.net · 27/05/2026If you're a blogger (or aspiring blogger) interested in "progress", I recommend you consider applying for the roots in progress blog-building initiative. (Deadline June 1) rootsofprogress.org/fellowship/ 010
dynomight @dynomight.net · 26/05/2026Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"? dynomight.net/crc-rates/ 030
dynomight @dynomight.net · 22/05/2026A few times I've tried not deleting comments, but banning the commentators for a token amount of time with an explanation. Theoretically that seems good? But in practice they post my ban note on twitter and get their friends to send me hate mail... 060
dynomight @dynomight.net · 22/05/2026Does anyone have a theory of comment moderation? I struggle people seem to be engaging in good faith, but are voicing opinions that are ~crazy. Removing these people feels dictatorial, but if you don't then you get gigantic useless threads of people trying/failing to change their mind. 7261
dynomight @dynomight.net · 17/05/2026me: i just can't understand why everyone takes themselves so seriously psychologists: that's because you have high neuroticism me: aha 070
dynomight @dynomight.net · 13/05/2026we're approaching superhuman coding and math but somehow LLMs are still mid at "writing"? this is undertheorized 5180
dynomight @dynomight.net · 24/04/2026hacker news has once again detected my secret plan to profit by writing about aspartame on my non-monetized pseudonymous blog 0240
dynomight @dynomight.net · 30/03/2026Theorem: You should make a better pingback Proof: 1. It would be better if discussions happened in 500-3000 word chunks 2. Partly that doesn't happen is that blogs don't encourage discussion 3. The "pingback" was one idea for solving that 4. But the pingback is ripe for abuse □ 081
dynomight @dynomight.net · 20/03/2026I feel that AI safety folks should stress the possibility of long timelines, because: 1. Long timelines are in fact possible (hot take). 2. Long-timeline scenarios are the ones where AI safety work has a higher (nonzero?) chance of positive impact. 1171
dynomight @dynomight.net · 20/03/2026I think you can get any three of {healthy, cheap, low-effort, good-tasting}, but not all four. 2110
dynomight @dynomight.net · 19/03/2026Folks on HN are NOT buying Google's new process for side-loading apps on Android. As far as I can tell it's just a one-time 24-hour waiting period. Which... really isn't that bad? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744... 000
dynomight @dynomight.net · 19/03/2026Can you create a "subreddit" on top of bluesky? Maybe some kind of custom feed or something? I want something intentionally fragmented, a sub-community where visibility of posts is entirely based on opting into the sub-community, not poster ID. 1111
dynomight @dynomight.net · 19/03/2026> once there were forums > then reddit ate all the forums > then reddit became crap > now there are no more forums > oooookkk? 3240
dynomight @dynomight.net · 17/03/2026WHY DOESN'T THIS PLACE HAVE POLLS ARE POLLS BAD THEY SEEM OK 3290
dynomight @dynomight.net · 16/03/2026Bit ashamed to say that I'd never heard of Wilberforce, who appears occupy a special position on the (best human) × (best name) historical Pareto curve. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... 060
