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

3 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

3 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.

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

4 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.

3 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"

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

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

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

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

4 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"

4 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"

4 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"

4 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"

4 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)]
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6 months ago"College": juvenilia
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:59:17 +0000 (22:59 -0800)]
"College": juvenilia

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

6 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.

7 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:57:14 +0000 (15:57 -0800)]
check in

7 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:26:57 +0000 (19:26 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

7 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:06:07 +0000 (19:06 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

7 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:34:30 +0000 (15:34 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

7 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:55:45 +0000 (19:55 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

7 months agorevised draft of "Disagreement Comes From the Dark World"
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:31:32 +0000 (16:31 -0800)]
revised draft of "Disagreement Comes From the Dark World"

7 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:00:30 +0000 (10:00 -0800)]
check in

7 months agomove "Disagreement Comes From the Dark World" to this repo
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:21:28 +0000 (12:21 -0800)]
move "Disagreement Comes From the Dark World" to this repo

8 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:58:33 +0000 (15:58 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

8 months agocheck in "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:57:05 +0000 (09:57 -0800)]
check in "College Was Not ..."

8 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 5 Nov 2025 06:58:35 +0000 (22:58 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

8 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 3 Nov 2025 20:02:14 +0000 (12:02 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

8 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 3 Nov 2025 19:11:37 +0000 (11:11 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

(I forgot to commit on the day I actually typed this)

8 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:21:59 +0000 (17:21 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

8 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:51:27 +0000 (20:51 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

8 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:58:35 +0000 (17:58 -0700)]
check in

9 months agodrafting "College Was Not That Terrible"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 1 Oct 2025 05:29:08 +0000 (22:29 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not That Terrible"

9 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:29:27 +0000 (15:29 -0700)]
check in

9 months agodrafting "College Was Not That Terrible"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:26:46 +0000 (22:26 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not That Terrible"

9 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:27:35 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
check in

9 months agoedit pass to "'Yes, and' Requires the Possibility ..."
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:21:22 +0000 (15:21 -0700)]
edit pass to "'Yes, and' Requires the Possibility ..."

I'm not totally satisfied, but this version is significantly better.

9 months agofinish draft "'Yes, and—' Requires ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:23:22 +0000 (21:23 -0700)]
finish draft "'Yes, and—' Requires ..."

9 months agodrafting "'Yes, and—' Requires the Possibility of 'No, Because—'"
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:58:28 +0000 (21:58 -0700)]
drafting "'Yes, and—' Requires the Possibility of 'No, Because—'"

9 months agofinish draft "The Relationship Between Social Punishment ..."
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:06:19 +0000 (19:06 -0700)]
finish draft "The Relationship Between Social Punishment ..."

9 months agodrafting "The Relationship Between Social Punishment and Shared Maps"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:28:58 +0000 (17:28 -0700)]
drafting "The Relationship Between Social Punishment and Shared Maps"

10 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 1 Sep 2025 00:10:43 +0000 (17:10 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

10 months agopoke "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:01:54 +0000 (21:01 -0700)]
poke "College Was Not ..."

10 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:15:21 +0000 (18:15 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

10 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:28:05 +0000 (21:28 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

10 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:42:52 +0000 (21:42 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

10 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:10:01 +0000 (21:10 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

10 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:47:56 +0000 (23:47 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

11 months agodrafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:12:52 +0000 (21:12 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."

11 months agodrafting "College Was Not That Terrible"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 15 Aug 2025 03:18:55 +0000 (20:18 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not That Terrible"

I was procrastinating on this for a while (I graduated at the end of
May; it's already mid-August), but even if today wasn't as productive
as one might have hoped, I am at least unblocked, which is a great,
great sign of things to come!

11 months agocheck in renamed college post
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:18:25 +0000 (14:18 -0700)]
check in renamed college post

11 months ago"College Was Not": prologue notes
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 7 Aug 2025 07:25:05 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
"College Was Not": prologue notes

11 months agocheck in "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 5 Aug 2025 22:34:56 +0000 (15:34 -0700)]
check in "College Was Not ..."

I've been meaning to buckle down on writing this for a while—it's
already August! Let's commit to a clean staging area and do it.

11 months agocheck in edits to "Discontinuous Linear Functions?!"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 5 Aug 2025 22:33:38 +0000 (15:33 -0700)]
check in edits to "Discontinuous Linear Functions?!"

Checking in changes published a while ago. I think this still isn't
right, but it hasn't felt timely enough to re-fix?

13 months agocheck in "Discontinuous Linear Functions"
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 14 Jun 2025 04:10:37 +0000 (21:10 -0700)]
check in "Discontinuous Linear Functions"

This was actually published on the 5th, and I need to change it
because commenters caught some errors.

16 months agocheck in
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 3 Mar 2025 00:21:22 +0000 (16:21 -0800)]
check in

17 months agodrafting "College Is Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:12:25 +0000 (20:12 -0800)]
drafting "College Is Not ..."

17 months agocheck in "College Is Not ..." bullets
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:41:54 +0000 (09:41 -0800)]
check in "College Is Not ..." bullets

17 months agocheck in finished "The End of the Movie"
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:41:28 +0000 (09:41 -0800)]
check in finished "The End of the Movie"

18 months agocomplete draft of "The End of the Movie"
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 11 Jan 2025 06:00:43 +0000 (22:00 -0800)]
complete draft of "The End of the Movie"

18 months agoinitial commit
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 3 Jan 2025 16:24:29 +0000 (08:24 -0800)]
initial commit

Someday I'd like to move my mainstream blog to Pelican and have all
the posts in Git; right now it's still WordPress (because that was the
obvious thing to do when I set it up in 2011). But before I've moved
the whole blog, I still want new posts in version control, so let's
init a repository for that.