Sitemap - 2026 - Thing of Things

Americans: call your senators today to stop the Save Our Bacon Act

Linkpost for May

LLMs roleplay characters

Real stages of childhood

AI incompetence often comes from misalignment

Ozy tells 80,000 Hours how to write Substack posts

Romance novels don't recommend flowers

Why all trans discourse sucks

Some considerations on whether my job is evil

In praise of delusional positivity about your partners

AI risk is not a Pascal's wager

You will not be a member of the permanent underclass

Linkpost for April

Why you have the romantic type you do

April Fools: The feminization of history

How Human Rights Watch counters atrocities

Ozy at LessOnline!

How I use Claude even though I hate using LLMs

Summarizing the evidence on AI and chicken consciousness

Information control, isolation, and ideological abuse

The structure of ideological abuse

Identifying healthy high-demand groups

Linkpost for March

The joys of cash benchmarking

Some thoughts on social status

Why join high demand groups?

The right kind of pickiness

Shoshannah Tekofsky on how AI agents suck at personality tests, don't express surprise, and lie to themselves

Differential diagnosis of loveshyness

Being actively poly with a child under three

Linkpost for February

Three cheers for the tomboy chaser

Interview with Yafah Edelman about AI welfare

Be interviewed by me about AI!

Trump's policies towards trans people, explained

Most marital problems are secretly housemate drama

Food Fridays: Blueberry Cobbler

My irrational hatred of Geoffrey Miller's Mate

Altruism Survey

Food Fridays: Cheeze & Thank You Fresh Mozzarella In Basil Oil

Why I'm a Quaker

Linkpost for December

Donation recommendations for effective altruists