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Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:24:31 +0000 (17:24 -0700)]
standard solution for MathJax and Markdown to not fight
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:21:12 +0000 (17:21 -0700)]
math and superscript fixes from earlier import
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.
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.
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:22:05 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
tagging and sidebar fixes
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
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:37:19 +0000 (13:37 -0700)]
robotconf
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:36:39 +0000 (13:36 -0700)]
theme adjustments (feat. Claude Code)
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:34:49 +0000 (13:34 -0700)]
content: lift recent canonical sources to Pelican, correct MathJax markup
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.
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:10:35 +0000 (10:10 -0700)]
more theme matching (feat. Claude Code)
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:06:14 +0000 (10:06 -0700)]
check in Putnam ads, "Function Approximation", "Best Lack All"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:01:03 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
check in templates
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:55:03 +0000 (16:55 -0700)]
check in pelicanconf and publishconf
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.
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:17:28 +0000 (16:17 -0700)]
check in
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:33:36 +0000 (23:33 -0700)]
draft of "Contra Pace on When to Apologize"
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.
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:36:43 +0000 (23:36 -0700)]
drafting "Dispatch from Anthropic v. Dept. of War"
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:52:45 +0000 (10:52 -0700)]
check in
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:47:52 +0000 (18:47 -0700)]
"Corrigibility" edits
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:23:36 +0000 (16:23 -0700)]
check in current state of "Corrigibility" before edit/rewrite push
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:10:06 +0000 (22:10 -0700)]
full draft of "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:55:15 +0000 (11:55 -0700)]
drafting "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:58:35 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
check in
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:57:19 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
drafting "Terrified Comments on Corrigibility"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 9 Mar 2026 06:34:56 +0000 (23:34 -0700)]
fixes to "College Was Not"
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.
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.
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 7 Mar 2026 02:17:20 +0000 (18:17 -0800)]
drafting "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 6 Mar 2026 17:13:03 +0000 (09:13 -0800)]
tap
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 4 Mar 2026 03:03:52 +0000 (19:03 -0800)]
drafting "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 3 Mar 2026 23:16:15 +0000 (15:16 -0800)]
edits to "Trust Requires ..." draft
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:25:37 +0000 (19:25 -0800)]
poke "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:09:14 +0000 (19:09 -0800)]
drafting "Terrified Comments on Claude's Constitution"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:23:24 +0000 (17:23 -0800)]
check in
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:06:54 +0000 (21:06 -0800)]
check in "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:22:26 +0000 (00:22 -0800)]
check in "Terrified Comments"
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:26:46 +0000 (17:26 -0800)]
drafting "Trust Requires Separating Equilibria"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:51:06 +0000 (19:51 -0800)]
drafting "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"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:03:40 +0000 (00:03 -0800)]
start drafting "Comments on Claude's Constitution"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:19 +0000 (16:00 -0800)]
check in "Hazards"
published recently
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:11:01 +0000 (19:11 -0800)]
finish draft of "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"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 6 Feb 2026 03:39:07 +0000 (19:39 -0800)]
drafting "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 4 Feb 2026 03:45:25 +0000 (19:45 -0800)]
drafting "Hazards of Selection Effects"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 3 Feb 2026 04:01:06 +0000 (20:01 -0800)]
drafting "Hazards of Selection Effects"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 2 Feb 2026 01:41:06 +0000 (17:41 -0800)]
drafting "Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information"
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.
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 2 Jan 2026 23:52:10 +0000 (15:52 -0800)]
check in finished "College Was Not"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:16:18 +0000 (14:16 -0800)]
extract prologue from "College"
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.
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:28:29 +0000 (20:28 -0800)]
"College": poke
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:49:17 +0000 (18:49 -0800)]
"College": Santa Cruz, Heald, first math
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:06:18 +0000 (09:06 -0800)]
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Zack M. Davis [Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:59:17 +0000 (22:59 -0800)]
"College": juvenilia
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:50:13 +0000 (22:50 -0800)]
"College": school daze
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:12:04 +0000 (18:12 -0800)]
"College": confronting the past, finally
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.
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:57:14 +0000 (15:57 -0800)]
check in
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:26:57 +0000 (19:26 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:06:07 +0000 (19:06 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:34:30 +0000 (15:34 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:55:45 +0000 (19:55 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:31:32 +0000 (16:31 -0800)]
revised draft of "Disagreement Comes From the Dark World"
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:00:30 +0000 (10:00 -0800)]
check in
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:21:28 +0000 (12:21 -0800)]
move "Disagreement Comes From the Dark World" to this repo
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:58:33 +0000 (15:58 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:57:05 +0000 (09:57 -0800)]
check in "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 5 Nov 2025 06:58:35 +0000 (22:58 -0800)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 3 Nov 2025 20:02:14 +0000 (12:02 -0800)]
drafting "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)
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:21:59 +0000 (17:21 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:51:27 +0000 (20:51 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:58:35 +0000 (17:58 -0700)]
check in
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 1 Oct 2025 05:29:08 +0000 (22:29 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not That Terrible"
Zack M. Davis [Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:29:27 +0000 (15:29 -0700)]
check in
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:26:46 +0000 (22:26 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not That Terrible"
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:27:35 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
check in
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.
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:23:22 +0000 (21:23 -0700)]
finish draft "'Yes, and—' Requires ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:58:28 +0000 (21:58 -0700)]
drafting "'Yes, and—' Requires the Possibility of 'No, Because—'"
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:06:19 +0000 (19:06 -0700)]
finish draft "The Relationship Between Social Punishment ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:28:58 +0000 (17:28 -0700)]
drafting "The Relationship Between Social Punishment and Shared Maps"
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 1 Sep 2025 00:10:43 +0000 (17:10 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:01:54 +0000 (21:01 -0700)]
poke "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:15:21 +0000 (18:15 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:28:05 +0000 (21:28 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:42:52 +0000 (21:42 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:10:01 +0000 (21:10 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:47:56 +0000 (23:47 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
Zack M. Davis [Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:12:52 +0000 (21:12 -0700)]
drafting "College Was Not ..."
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!
Zack M. Davis [Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:18:25 +0000 (14:18 -0700)]
check in renamed college post
Zack M. Davis [Thu, 7 Aug 2025 07:25:05 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
"College Was Not": prologue notes
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.
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?
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.
Zack M. Davis [Mon, 3 Mar 2025 00:21:22 +0000 (16:21 -0800)]
check in