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5 weeks agodrafting "Accidentally Misleading People" and "'So You Don't Trust Me?'"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:20:38 +0000 (19:20 -0700)]
drafting "Accidentally Misleading People" and "'So You Don't Trust Me?'"

5 weeks ago.gitignore HTML in drafts
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:20:09 +0000 (19:20 -0700)]
.gitignore HTML in drafts

5 weeks agodrafting "Accidentally Misleading People Should Be Embarrassing"
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:15:42 +0000 (00:15 -0700)]
drafting "Accidentally Misleading People Should Be Embarrassing"

5 weeks agocorrect publication date of "Blogging Technology Interlude"
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:52:30 +0000 (20:52 -0700)]
correct publication date of "Blogging Technology Interlude"

5 weeks agofix canonical URLs in Markdown alternatives
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:53:50 +0000 (13:53 -0700)]
fix canonical URLs in Markdown alternatives

I wondered why the "Canonical URL" in the published Markdown
alternatives was relative. Sonnet 5 in Claude code found and fixed the
bug (which it had written in the first place). Don't confuse me for
being ungrateful.

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

5 weeks 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

5 weeks 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)

5 weeks 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

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

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

6 weeks 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

6 weeks 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6 weeks 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

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

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

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

6 weeks 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?

6 weeks 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.

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

6 weeks 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?

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

6 weeks 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.

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

6 weeks 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

6 weeks 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)

6 weeks 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

6 weeks 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

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

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

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

6 weeks 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

6 weeks 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

6 weeks 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.

6 weeks 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.

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

6 weeks 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

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

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

6 weeks 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

6 weeks 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.

6 weeks 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)

6 weeks 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"

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

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

6 weeks 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.

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

2 months 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"

4 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.

5 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"

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

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

5 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

5 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"

5 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"

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

5 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"

5 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"

5 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.

5 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.

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

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

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

5 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

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

6 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"

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

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

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

6 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"

6 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"

6 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"

6 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"

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

published recently

6 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"

6 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"

6 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"

6 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"

6 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"

6 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"

6 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.

7 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"

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

7 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.

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

8 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