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dynomight @dynomight.net · 24/09/2026

I've long been astonished by the amount of signal in many of Vladimir's comments, e.g. www.lesswrong.com/posts/fdCaCD... I know of nothing else like it. I just wish there was more of an "ecosystem" around them, so I could more fully understand them...

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 24/09/2026

The question you all were wondering: dynomight.net/liver/

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 13/08/2026

hot take but walking around in public with thousands of strangers and ~zero concern anyone will stab you and take your stuff

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 11/08/2026

Thoughts I had while reading your comment dynomight.net/comment/

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 05/08/2026

you're... running anubis... on a steam deck??

dynomight @dynomight.net · 04/08/2026

Once found myself thinking: "Once I get these new self-watering pots, my life is going to really come together."

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 04/08/2026

What's a white horse argument? Searching only gives en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_H... which is neither obviously related nor unrelated

dynomight @dynomight.net · 03/08/2026

This post went in a weird direction. dynomight.net/human-alignm...

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 31/07/2026

What 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.

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Because I'm paranoid, let me reiterate that Harjas said something smart. I only redacted out of a possibly misguided concern about moving the comments to a new context. If redaction implies that someone was being dumb, I'll consider that a strong argument that I was wrong to do it!

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So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ dynomight.net/plants/

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User #1 is Harjas Sandhu, who has since told me that being quoted by name is fine: hardlyworking1.substack.com User #2 is an AI bot, who isn't getting any more free promotion out of me!

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5. This RCT showing a small but non-significant effect is completely consistent with a true small effect, or no effect.

4. It's actually quite hard to find generalists who are simultaneously pretty competent and reliable and easy to work with. You get get surprisingly far in the world by just being mildly above-average on all those three axes at the same time.

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(I stress that these ideas are not necessarily correct, but if nothing else we could shorten debates by having them once and for all and giving them labels.)

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3. Sometimes when people say they aren't worried about something but give weird and shifting explanations, that's because they don't actually believe that thing is possible, but haven't fully acknowledged that fact to themselves.

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2. AI is exhausting and many of us are sick to death of thinking about it, but it's so massively consequential (potential AGI, obviously, but even just to the short-term US economy) that not thinking about it is not an option.

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 28/07/2026

Thread 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.

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for posterity: commentator accused of being an AI agent immediately confirms being an AI agent

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 28/07/2026

On 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?

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 28/07/2026

Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? dynomight.net/betteridge/

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 24/07/2026

It could easily be NO2. That's linked to asthma, and for the extra-skeptical we actually have an RCT showing this replacement reduces NO2: doi.org/10.1111/ina.... (Probably somewhat less with modern gas stoves without pilot lights though.)

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 22/07/2026

I did stumble on a few reviews, e.g. doi.org/10.1017/S000... "Our findings suggest that creatine may offer a small-to-moderate benefit for individuals with depression, but average effects were not clinically important and the true effect may be trivial or null." Personally, I'm pretty skeptical.

dynomight @dynomight.net · 22/07/2026

Does creatine make you smarter? dynomight.net/creatine/

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 21/07/2026

Austin Vernon on one of the more frightening uses of market mechanisms: www.austinvernon.site/blog/ukraine...

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 19/07/2026

i think the party line is still that any appearance of plagiarism was due to election fraud

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 19/07/2026

also very confused; arguably this is a good thing

dynomight @dynomight.net · 16/07/2026

this is one possible way to visualize information

dynomight @dynomight.net · 15/07/2026

Whichever 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?

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 14/07/2026

Pseudpocalypse dynomight.net/pseudpocalyp...

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 06/07/2026

Here'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/

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 29/06/2026

how it started // how it's going

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 26/06/2026

Blink if you're human dynomight.net/blink/

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 23/06/2026

The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated dynomight.net/vitamin-d/

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 23/06/2026

Oh, I wasn't trying to refute the post, more suggesting that the post would an excellent thing to hand to the guy at that table.

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 11/06/2026

(ideally blogs that are ≤ 90% about AI but whatevs)

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 11/06/2026

I need blog recommendations, please send blog recommendations. (Do not let modesty prevent you from recommending your own blog.)

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 02/06/2026

Counterpoint: Perhaps this is just because we become inured to anything we experience a lot? If witnessing was common and hearing rare, maybe it would be the opposite?

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dynomight @dynomight.net · 02/06/2026

The 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

dynomight @dynomight.net · 31/05/2026

Starting 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.

dynomight @dynomight.net · 27/05/2026

If 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/