Algon33 Blog
About
This is the blog of a temporarily embarrassed Jupiter brain, otherwise known as Algon33.
My best blog post to date is Do One New Thing A Day To Solve Your Problems
I am looking for work as a writer-researcher or a project lead. You can view my CV here.
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All Posts (47)
- Discovery Fiction: The Max Flow Algorithm (2026-03-05)
- People Can't Read, And What's More, They Don't Want To (2026-03-03)
- Representation Theorems in Alignment (2026-03-02)
- Everyone Can Be High Status In Utopia (2025-12-01)
- Choose Your Failure Modes (2025-11-30)
- Opus 4.5 is funny (2025-11-28)
- You can just do things: 5 frames (2025-11-23)
- Self-esteem" is distortionary (2025-11-23)
- Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking (2025-11-21)
- PSA: For Chronic Infections, Check Teeth (2025-11-20)
- How critical is ASML to GPU progress? (2025-11-19)
- No One Reads the Original Work (2025-11-18)
- Why So Much Moloch? (2025-11-16)
- Your Clone Wants to Kill You Because You Assumed Too Much (2025-11-15)
- List of great filk songs (2025-11-15)
- A bad review != a bad book (2025-11-12)
- A pencil is not a pencil is not a pencil (2025-11-10)
- Liouville's Theorem and the Second Law (2025-11-09)
- Continuous takeoff is a bad name (2025-11-06)
- Forgive Savants Their Midwittery (2025-11-03)
- Supervillain Monologues Are Unrealistic (2025-10-31)
- Genius is Not About Genius (2025-10-30)
- Centralization begets stagnation (2025-10-30)
- All the labs AI safety plans: 2025 edition (2025-10-28)
- Credit goes to the presenter, not the inventor (2025-10-26)
- Remembrancy (2025-10-25)
- The Doomers Were Right (2025-10-22)
- Libraries need more books (2025-10-18)
- Meditation is dangerous (2025-10-17)
- Book Review: To Explain the World (2025-10-16)
- Some astral energy extraction methods (2025-10-15)
- Open Global Investment: Comparisons and Criticisms (2025-10-15)
- What is Lesswrong good for? (2025-10-13)
- Predictability is Underrated (2025-10-13)
- Don't Mock Yourself (2025-10-12)
- I wasn't confused by Thermodynamics (2025-10-11)
- What does it feel like to understand? (2025-10-10)
- Stars are a rounding error (2025-10-09)
- What shapes does reasoning take but circular? (2025-10-08)
- Notes on the need to lose (2025-10-06)
- Chaos Alone is No Bar to Superintelligence (2025-10-06)
- Maybe social media algorithms don't suck (2025-10-05)
- What I've Learnt About How to Sleep (2025-10-04)
- Do One New Thing A Day To Solve Your Problems (2025-10-03)
- In which the author is struck by an electric couplet (2025-10-02)
- Why's equality in logic less flexible than in category theory? (2025-10-01)
- Toggle Hero Worship (2025-09-10)