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2 days agodrafts/ and notes/
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:39:58 +0000 (13:39 -0700)]
drafts/ and notes/

3 days agolink to post revision history in GitWeb
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:52:14 +0000 (20:52 -0700)]
link to post revision history in GitWeb

3 days agosupport Markdown content negotiation (and consolidate conf.d file convention)
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:26:50 +0000 (20:26 -0700)]
support Markdown content negotiation (and consolidate conf.d file convention)

3 days agoMarkdown source link on article pages
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:29:06 +0000 (19:29 -0700)]
Markdown source link on article pages

3 days agopublish "Blogging Technology Interlude"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:14:36 +0000 (08:14 -0700)]
publish "Blogging Technology Interlude"

3 days agofigcaption
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:18:35 +0000 (08:18 -0700)]
figcaption

5 days agosupplying warning-demanded alt text with Sonnet 5 auto-captions
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:34:50 +0000 (17:34 -0700)]
supplying warning-demanded alt text with Sonnet 5 auto-captions

5 days agowork around angle bracket rendering pathology
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:43:16 +0000 (16:43 -0700)]
work around angle bracket rendering pathology

7 days agorighting an old wrong
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:46:18 +0000 (11:46 -0700)]
righting an old wrong

8 days agoself-host the Putnam diagram
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:40:32 +0000 (17:40 -0700)]
self-host the Putnam diagram

8 days agolink to feeds
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:31:01 +0000 (15:31 -0700)]
link to feeds

8 days agomatrix display fix
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:30:19 +0000 (15:30 -0700)]
matrix display fix

8 days agoabsolute SITEURL
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:50:01 +0000 (14:50 -0700)]
absolute SITEURL

8 days agofix stray backslashes
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:31:06 +0000 (14:31 -0700)]
fix stray backslashes

8 days agolet's encrypt
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:27:57 +0000 (14:27 -0700)]
let's encrypt

8 days agoGitWeb
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:27:11 +0000 (11:27 -0700)]
GitWeb

8 days agosite source footer link
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:26:27 +0000 (11:26 -0700)]
site source footer link

9 days agostatics
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:22:02 +0000 (22:22 -0700)]
statics

9 days agoself-host images
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:21:23 +0000 (22:21 -0700)]
self-host images

9 days agostray unquote post title
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:42:45 +0000 (19:42 -0700)]
stray unquote post title

9 days agoredirect conservatism
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:09:49 +0000 (19:09 -0700)]
redirect conservatism

9 days agoprovisioning
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:06:43 +0000 (19:06 -0700)]
provisioning

9 days agorelative SITEURL enables testing prior to DNS cutover
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:34:19 +0000 (18:34 -0700)]
relative SITEURL enables testing prior to DNS cutover

9 days agowith context
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:02:09 +0000 (18:02 -0700)]
with context

9 days agoRSS (contrast to Atom) block
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:57:19 +0000 (17:57 -0700)]
RSS (contrast to Atom) block

9 days agoroot publishing
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:56:47 +0000 (17:56 -0700)]
root publishing

9 days agoprune blogroll
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:55:55 +0000 (17:55 -0700)]
prune blogroll

A lot of blogrot and linkrot! Why are people so neglectful?

9 days agoPelican scheduler
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:54:40 +0000 (16:54 -0700)]
Pelican scheduler

Claude wrote a new docstring and added the pedantry about .pop, but
this is basically my original scheduler from 2017.

9 days agoformat fixes
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:13:37 +0000 (16:13 -0700)]
format fixes

9 days agoRSS format?
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:12:15 +0000 (16:12 -0700)]
RSS format?

Um, I think the gender blog is on Atom, but Claude did this to match
the WordPress setup?

9 days agofavicon
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:10:23 +0000 (16:10 -0700)]
favicon

9 days agofix memory leak
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:07:21 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
fix memory leak

Sonnet 5 warned me that the dev server process was getting bloated,
and pinpoint the bug to code that it had written—impressive.

9 days agocontent fixes
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:02:25 +0000 (16:02 -0700)]
content fixes

9 days agono year headers in Archive sidebar
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:17:30 +0000 (11:17 -0700)]
no year headers in Archive sidebar

9 days agomath overflow fix (feat. Claude Code)
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:16:51 +0000 (11:16 -0700)]
math overflow fix (feat. Claude Code)

9 days agoremove redundant slug metadata (implied by filename), purge rationality tag
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:15:50 +0000 (11:15 -0700)]
remove redundant slug metadata (implied by filename), purge rationality tag

9 days agoimport Less Wrong exclusives
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:52:41 +0000 (10:52 -0700)]
import Less Wrong exclusives

I was imagining doing this manually, but delegating to Claude Code and
spot-checking is so much more efficient

10 days agoformatting fidelity review
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:19:11 +0000 (19:19 -0700)]
formatting fidelity review

10 days agofixes: image alignment and strikethrough
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:05:43 +0000 (18:05 -0700)]
fixes: image alignment and strikethrough

10 days ago.gitignore
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:26:06 +0000 (17:26 -0700)]
.gitignore

10 days agostandard solution for MathJax and Markdown to not fight
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:24:31 +0000 (17:24 -0700)]
standard solution for MathJax and Markdown to not fight

10 days agomath and superscript fixes from earlier import
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:21:12 +0000 (17:21 -0700)]
math and superscript fixes from earlier import

10 days agorestore orphaned pre blocks
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:09:31 +0000 (15:09 -0700)]
restore orphaned pre blocks

I thought I was going to have to manually schlep over the WordPress
export, but Claude Code pulled from the live blog.

10 days agoauto-categorize the Uncategorized (feat. Claude Sonnet 5 in Claude Code)
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:49:04 +0000 (14:49 -0700)]
auto-categorize the Uncategorized (feat. Claude Sonnet 5 in Claude Code)

"Asides" was Claude's suggestion (after I rejected "humor" and pressed
for alternatives) for the quippy things constituting a lot of my early
work.

10 days agotagging and sidebar fixes
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:22:05 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
tagging and sidebar fixes

10 days agoclassify fenced pre/code blocks
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:56:43 +0000 (13:56 -0700)]
classify fenced pre/code blocks

Someone probably worked really hard on Pygments's guess-lexer, but now
it's just garbage in the eyes of Claude

10 days agorobotconf
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:37:19 +0000 (13:37 -0700)]
robotconf

10 days agotheme adjustments (feat. Claude Code)
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:36:39 +0000 (13:36 -0700)]
theme adjustments (feat. Claude Code)

10 days agocontent: lift recent canonical sources to Pelican, correct MathJax markup
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:34:49 +0000 (13:34 -0700)]
content: lift recent canonical sources to Pelican, correct MathJax markup

10 days agostandardize on straight quotes
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:13:44 +0000 (10:13 -0700)]
standardize on straight quotes

I want straight quotes in the source because they're easier to type;
there's a Pelican setting to smarten them in the output if desired.

10 days agomore theme matching (feat. Claude Code)
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:10:35 +0000 (10:10 -0700)]
more theme matching (feat. Claude Code)

10 days agocheck in Putnam ads, "Function Approximation", "Best Lack All"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:06:14 +0000 (10:06 -0700)]
check in Putnam ads, "Function Approximation", "Best Lack All"

11 days agocheck in templates
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:03 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
check in templates

11 days agocheck in pelicanconf and publishconf
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:55:03 +0000 (16:55 -0700)]
check in pelicanconf and publishconf

11 days agobegin Pelicanization: import WordPress content, and basic theme
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 6 Apr 2026 06:04:04 +0000 (23:04 -0700)]
begin Pelicanization: import WordPress content, and basic theme

Claude Code did a lot of lifting here. The WordPress importer that
ships with Pelican might have avoided more edge-cases, but my
understanding is that it delegates to Pandoc, which doesn't let you
configure using underscores for emphasis.

11 days agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:17:28 +0000 (16:17 -0700)]
check in

5 weeks agodraft of "Contra Pace on When to Apologize"
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:33:36 +0000 (23:33 -0700)]
draft of "Contra Pace on When to Apologize"

3 months agocheck in Anthropic v. Department of War dispatch
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 5 Apr 2026 21:15:41 +0000 (14:15 -0700)]
check in Anthropic v. Department of War dispatch

This was published on the 25th.

4 months agodrafting "Dispatch from Anthropic v. Dept. of War"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:36:43 +0000 (23:36 -0700)]
drafting "Dispatch from Anthropic v. Dept. of War"

4 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:52:45 +0000 (10:52 -0700)]
check in

4 months ago"Corrigibility" edits
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:47:52 +0000 (18:47 -0700)]
"Corrigibility" edits

4 months agocheck in current state of "Corrigibility" before edit/rewrite push
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:23:36 +0000 (16:23 -0700)]
check in current state of "Corrigibility" before edit/rewrite push

4 months agofull draft of "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:10:06 +0000 (22:10 -0700)]
full draft of "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility"

4 months agodrafting "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:55:15 +0000 (11:55 -0700)]
drafting "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility"

4 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:58:35 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
check in

4 months agodrafting "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:57:19 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
drafting "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility"

4 months agofixes to "College Was Not"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 9 Mar 2026 06:34:56 +0000 (23:34 -0700)]
fixes to "College Was Not"

4 months ago"Prologue to Terrified Comments" edit pass
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 8 Mar 2026 23:35:13 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
"Prologue to Terrified Comments" edit pass

We can probably just ship this tonight or tomorrow.

4 months agosplit "Terrified Comments" into a sequence
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 8 Mar 2026 22:48:35 +0000 (15:48 -0700)]
split "Terrified Comments" into a sequence

I was imagining this just being one big post, but the prologue and the
discussion of corrigibility are each large enough to be a standalone
post. Writing this is expensive enough, and potentially time-sensitive
enough (we can only assume that Opus 4.7 or 5 is already being trained
on the existing Constitution), that we want to work in
least-publishable units.

4 months agodrafting "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 7 Mar 2026 02:17:20 +0000 (18:17 -0800)]
drafting "Terrified Comments"

4 months agotap
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 6 Mar 2026 17:13:03 +0000 (09:13 -0800)]
tap

4 months agodrafting "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 4 Mar 2026 03:03:52 +0000 (19:03 -0800)]
drafting "Terrified Comments"

4 months agoedits to "Trust Requires ..." draft
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 3 Mar 2026 23:16:15 +0000 (15:16 -0800)]
edits to "Trust Requires ..." draft

4 months agopoke "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:25:37 +0000 (19:25 -0800)]
poke "Terrified Comments"

4 months agodrafting "Terrified Comments on Claude's Constitution"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:09:14 +0000 (19:09 -0800)]
drafting "Terrified Comments on Claude's Constitution"

5 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:23:24 +0000 (17:23 -0800)]
check in

5 months agocheck in "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:06:54 +0000 (21:06 -0800)]
check in "Terrified Comments"

5 months agocheck in "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:22:26 +0000 (00:22 -0800)]
check in "Terrified Comments"

5 months agodrafting "Trust Requires Separating Equilibria"
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:26:46 +0000 (17:26 -0800)]
drafting "Trust Requires Separating Equilibria"

5 months agodrafting "Terrified Comments on Claude's Constitution"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:51:06 +0000 (19:51 -0800)]
drafting "Terrified Comments on Claude's Constitution"

5 months agodrafting "Terrified Comments on Claude's Constitution"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:33:48 +0000 (22:33 -0800)]
drafting "Terrified Comments on Claude's Constitution"

5 months agostart drafting "Comments on Claude's Constitution"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:03:40 +0000 (00:03 -0800)]
start drafting "Comments on Claude's Constitution"

5 months agocheck in "Hazards"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:19 +0000 (16:00 -0800)]
check in "Hazards"

published recently

5 months agofinish draft of "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:11:01 +0000 (19:11 -0800)]
finish draft of "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"

5 months agodrafting "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:36:09 +0000 (19:36 -0800)]
drafting "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"

5 months agodrafting "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 6 Feb 2026 03:39:07 +0000 (19:39 -0800)]
drafting "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"

5 months agodrafting "Hazards of Selection Effects"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 4 Feb 2026 03:45:25 +0000 (19:45 -0800)]
drafting "Hazards of Selection Effects"

5 months agodrafting "Hazards of Selection Effects"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 3 Feb 2026 04:01:06 +0000 (20:01 -0800)]
drafting "Hazards of Selection Effects"

5 months agodrafting "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 2 Feb 2026 01:41:06 +0000 (17:41 -0800)]
drafting "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"

5 months agoedits to "Disagreement Comes From the Dark World"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 2 Feb 2026 01:39:20 +0000 (17:39 -0800)]
edits to "Disagreement Comes From the Dark World"

This got shipped after being withheld for a while.

6 months agocheck in finished "College Was Not"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 2 Jan 2026 23:52:10 +0000 (15:52 -0800)]
check in finished "College Was Not"

6 months agoextract prologue from "College"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:16:18 +0000 (14:16 -0800)]
extract prologue from "College"

6 months agotap "College" ... before an executive decision
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:09:48 +0000 (14:09 -0800)]
tap "College" ... before an executive decision

You know what? It's 31 December. I was imagining finishing the
prologue, but in addition to it being expensive to confront the past,
it's also plausibly not the highest value task. It's not "now or
never"; I could pull it out into a prequel post, and having this post
be narrowly focused on my return and triumph at SFSU is more cohesive.

6 months ago"College": poke
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:28:29 +0000 (20:28 -0800)]
"College": poke

6 months ago"College": Santa Cruz, Heald, first math
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:49:17 +0000 (18:49 -0800)]
"College": Santa Cruz, Heald, first math

6 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:06:18 +0000 (09:06 -0800)]
check in

7 months ago"College": juvenilia
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:59:17 +0000 (22:59 -0800)]
"College": juvenilia

7 months ago"College": school daze
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:50:13 +0000 (22:50 -0800)]
"College": school daze

7 months ago"College": confronting the past, finally
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:12:04 +0000 (18:12 -0800)]
"College": confronting the past, finally

7 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:00:24 +0000 (20:00 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

We just need to finish the brief AI tutoring section, and convert the
prologue bullet points into prose, and do an edit pass, and then we'll
finally be able to have closure on this.