a sketchpad for a blog writing program

[mishka_discord]

I created this blog for www.lesswrong.com/posts/7axYBeo7ai4YozbGa/halfhaven-virtual-blogger-camp, the goal of which is to produce 30 blogposts in two months.

My current situation is that I am reading too much and not writing enough. This exercise could be useful in this sense.

Other than that, see dmm.dreamwidth.org (this is the closest to a regular blog I have at the moment, although I also write on LessWrong occasionally, post articles and notes on GitHub, and so on).

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1. Oct 1 (600 words): "Meta: a problem of choice", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/608.html

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Sequence: non-standard approaches to AI existential safety

2. Oct 2 (620 words): "Sequence: non-standard approaches to AI existential safety", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/821.html

3. Oct 3 (580 words): "Some of the promising non-anthropocentric invariants", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/1115.html 

4. Oct 4 (570 words): "Interlude: non-anthropocentric vs anthropocentric approaches", https://mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/1460.html

5. Oct 5 (550 words): "Invariants of self-modifying systems and self-governance", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/1611.html

6. Oct 6 (620 words): "Methods for handling invariants of self-modifying systems", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/1840.html

7. Oct 7 (560 words): "Ways to maintain continuous and gradual nature of changes", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/2227.html

8. Oct 8 (580 words): "How to include the changing world in our modeling", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/2384.html

9. Oct 9 (560 words): "Different levels of including a model of the world", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/2699.html

10. Oct 10 (610 words): ' Recap 1: "Modest alignment"  vs "MIRI alignment" ', mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/3067.html

11. Oct 12 (520 words): "Recap 2: Approximate invariants of self-modifying systems",  mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/3142.html

12. Oct 14 (500 words): "Summary: non-anthropocentric approaches to AI existential safety", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/3328.html 

All posts of this sequence: mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/tag/ai+existential+safety

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Diary entries:

13. Oct 15 (550 words): "Diary: HyperstitionAI, agentic engineering, recent papers, NVIDIA DGX Spark", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/3830.html

14. Oct 16 (560 words): "Follow-up: HyperstitionAI, agentic engineering", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/4050.html

15. Oct 22 (560 words): "Diary: agentic stuff and other things", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/4205.html

16. Oct 23 (510 words): 'Diary: overview of recent "zzznah" (neural cellular automata, etc.)', mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/4492.html

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Sequence: AI timelines

17. Oct 26 (660 words): "Qualitative transitions: from AlexNet to competent agents", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/4806.html 

18. Nov 2 (695 words + 215 words quote from the previous post): "Timelines (mine, OpenAI's, Anthropic's) and what's next", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/5293.html

19. Nov 5 (665 words) "Diary: math.inc, timelines, Merge Labs, subjective experience", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/5561.html

20. Nov 12 (660 words) "Speculation: what would it take to get reliable AI systems", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/5882.html

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Sequence: sparsity

21. Nov 16 (915 words) "Musings on sparsity 1 (Chris Olah)", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/6109.html

22. Nov 17 (615 words) "Musings on sparsity 2 (Leo Gao et al.)", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/6187.html

23. Nov 18 (580 words) "Musings on sparsity 3 (technical follow-up)", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/6524.html

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24. Nov 19 (1220 words) "Diary: Gemini 3, John David Pressman latest post", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/6686.html

25. Nov 20 (515 words) "Diary: getting excused from a jury duty; models, models, models", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/6990.html

26. Nov 24 (535 words) "Diary: AI consciousness tidbits", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/7265.html

27. Nov 25 (1115 words) "Ilya at Dwarkesh", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/7539.html

28. Nov 26 (920 words) "Diary: Claude Opus 4.5, model welfare, and further reflections on timelines and on what Ilya says", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/7897.html

29. Nov 28 (760 words) "Diary: Chinese breakthroughs, jailbreaks, donations, model welfare", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/7950.html

30. Nov 30 (645 words) "Retrospective for mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/", mishka-discord.dreamwidth.org/8439.html