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our occaisional blogposts
Blog
A Whole New Post2026-06-26What is the meaning of reblogging?3.4k words
Escaping Capepunk Ontology2026-06-18the unquestioned assumptions of parahuman abilities1.7k words
Nuances of Newcomb’s Problem2026-06-14we have logical decision theory at home4.2k words
Choose Your Venom-hex!2026-04-26prompts for ophidian vexation3.7k words
Cutting Apart Scissor Statements2026-04-15a microcosm of the Scott Alexander condition3.5k words
Eusapience (n.)2026-03-31speculations on cognitive evolution2.0k words
The Woes of Writing Markdown2026-03-13And the wishes of SquiggleMark7.9k words
Re: Corporate Intelligence2026-02-27Are we still on for “kill all humans” later, or…?1.1k words
Why Shouldn’t Parasites Rule the World?2026-02-20The unexamined fantasy of global assimilation1.6k words
Toward a Universal Theory of Wizardry2026-01-07Thoughts on magic system emulation1.7k words
Some Hivemind Fallacies2026-01-07a critique of naïve gestalt consciousness3.6k words
The Seven Texture Pie2025-12-01a blogpost1.3k words
Notes on Adding Detail to Scenes2025-11-21Giving some specific pointers1.5k words
Verdant & Vitreous [WIP]2025-10-25a roleplaying game7.3k words
Footnotes on AO32025-08-27Introducing a better way3.7k words
Quick Thoughts on Atzi2025-05-08a blogpost673 words
Timelines That Twist and Fray2025-05-07Time splices, retrocausally deepening A*, and toxic yuri selfcest2.8k words
Thresholding Across My Personal Multiverse2025-04-07A recap of the worlds we’ve wrought14.5k words
Pushro 0.8 Released2025-03-06a blogpost276 words
In Defense of Roko’s Basilisk2025-02-12Stupid, yes, but not that stupid4.2k words
Against Forever Discourses2024-10-24a blogpost951 words
thoughts on dialogue2024-10-24unedited email correspondence1.2k words
How I Format Em Dashes2024-10-24a blogpost720 words
Identity is Communication2024-10-18Chains and clans as new metaphors of self2.1k words
The Fallacy of Intention2024-10-13a blogpost1.1k words
Thoughts on the Murder Drones Finale2024-08-23a blogpost844 words
On Cooking Characters2024-05-20a blogpost3.3k words
Literary Figure Models2024-04-12a blogpost2.6k words
Review of Six Pomegranate Seeds2024-02-03An Understated Masterpiece1.1k words
Some Quick Notes on Blurbs2024-01-24a blogpost616 words
Notes on Drawing Mantis Dicks2023-12-01Dead Dove (Do Not Eat)2.4k words
A Short Rant About Mother of Learning2023-11-14To prove a point1.1k words
Fear the Sirens2023-02-20Basilisks aren’t the only acausal nightmare1.3k words
We Must Convey What the Video Cannot2023-02-03An incidental exegesis2.4k words
Antimemes and Mesomemes2022-06-07a blogpost1.2k words
The Preposteriat2021-11-18A Slay the Spire character concept3.7k words
Complexity is Not Objective!2021-08-16a blogpost3.4k words
A Hot Take on Ra2021-07-20A rant about worlds that prove too much947 words
Outline of Silk & Ember2021-07-11a blogpost5.4k words
Problems with Pocket Dimensions2021-06-26a blogpost1.1k words
Ideas for a Babel Exclusion Zone2020-05-08a blogpost910 words
Pointers on How to Write2020-04-21Where I got started and how to follow1.7k words
Dissolving Identity2019-07-21Sorry, teleporters mean you don’t exist1.5k words
Critique
Escaping Capepunk Ontology2026-06-18the unquestioned assumptions of parahuman abilities1.7k words
Eusapience (n.)2026-03-31speculations on cognitive evolution2.0k words
Why Shouldn’t Parasites Rule the World?2026-02-20The unexamined fantasy of global assimilation1.6k words
Toward a Universal Theory of Wizardry2026-01-07Thoughts on magic system emulation1.7k words
Some Hivemind Fallacies2026-01-07a critique of naïve gestalt consciousness3.6k words
Quick Thoughts on Atzi2025-05-08a blogpost673 words
Thresholding Across My Personal Multiverse2025-04-07A recap of the worlds we’ve wrought14.5k words
Murder Drones Fic Recs2024-10-09a blogpost16.4k words
Thoughts on the Murder Drones Finale2024-08-23a blogpost844 words
Recommended Fiction [WIP]2024-06-21a blogpost751 words
Review of Six Pomegranate Seeds2024-02-03An Understated Masterpiece1.1k words
A Short Rant About Mother of Learning2023-11-14To prove a point1.1k words
Antimemes and Mesomemes2022-06-07a blogpost1.2k words
A Hot Take on Ra2021-07-20A rant about worlds that prove too much947 words
Problems with Pocket Dimensions2021-06-26a blogpost1.1k words
Technical
The Woes of Writing Markdown2026-03-13And the wishes of SquiggleMark7.9k words
Footnotes on AO32025-08-27Introducing a better way3.7k words
Pushro 0.8 Released2025-03-06a blogpost276 words
How I Format Em Dashes2024-10-24a blogpost720 words
Writing
Notes on Adding Detail to Scenes2025-11-21Giving some specific pointers1.5k words
thoughts on dialogue2024-10-24unedited email correspondence1.2k words
The Fallacy of Intention2024-10-13a blogpost1.1k words
On Cooking Characters2024-05-20a blogpost3.3k words
Literary Figure Models2024-04-12a blogpost2.6k words
Some Quick Notes on Blurbs2024-01-24a blogpost616 words
A Short Rant About Mother of Learning2023-11-14To prove a point1.1k words
A Hot Take on Ra2021-07-20A rant about worlds that prove too much947 words
Pointers on How to Write2020-04-21Where I got started and how to follow1.7k words
Creative
Choose Your Venom-hex!2026-04-26prompts for ophidian vexation3.7k words
Eusapience (n.)2026-03-31speculations on cognitive evolution2.0k words
Lyretta in the Wutherwyld [WIP]2026-02-21a roleplaying game2.6k words
The Seven Texture Pie2025-12-01a blogpost1.3k words
Verdant & Vitreous [WIP]2025-10-25a roleplaying game7.3k words
Timelines That Twist and Fray2025-05-07Time splices, retrocausally deepening A*, and toxic yuri selfcest2.8k words
Thresholding Across My Personal Multiverse2025-04-07A recap of the worlds we’ve wrought14.5k words
Collected Poems2024-04-04a blogpost739 words
Fear the Sirens2023-02-20Basilisks aren’t the only acausal nightmare1.3k words
The Preposteriat2021-11-18A Slay the Spire character concept3.7k words
Outline of Silk & Ember2021-07-11a blogpost5.4k words
Some RPG Ideas [WIP]2020-11-17a blogpost1.5k words
Ideas for a Babel Exclusion Zone2020-05-08a blogpost910 words
Polemic
A Whole New Post2026-06-26What is the meaning of reblogging?3.4k words
Nuances of Newcomb’s Problem2026-06-14we have logical decision theory at home4.2k words
Cutting Apart Scissor Statements2026-04-15a microcosm of the Scott Alexander condition3.5k words
Re: Corporate Intelligence2026-02-27Are we still on for “kill all humans” later, or…?1.1k words
In Defense of Roko’s Basilisk2025-02-12Stupid, yes, but not that stupid4.2k words
Against Forever Discourses2024-10-24a blogpost951 words
Identity is Communication2024-10-18Chains and clans as new metaphors of self2.1k words
We Must Convey What the Video Cannot2023-02-03An incidental exegesis2.4k words
Complexity is Not Objective!2021-08-16a blogpost3.4k words
Dissolving Identity2019-07-21Sorry, teleporters mean you don’t exist1.5k words
Other
Favorite Metal Albums of 20232024-01-05a blogpost1.7k words
Notes on Drawing Mantis Dicks2023-12-01Dead Dove (Do Not Eat)2.4k words
Onward to Providence Image Viewer2023-11-17a blogpost1 words
Struggling to Decipher Archspire2020-03-11a blogpost1.0k words
A Brief History of Our Writing [WIP]nulla blogpost493 words
he just like me frnulla blogpost10 words
Illurien of the Myriad GlimpsesnullReference for one of my favorite monsters985 words
Mark Forsyth On Poetic Meternulla blogpost3.2k words
WFG
Review of Creep2020-01-07Relentless Mutation1.0k words
Review of Pyrebound2019-03-226Be stricken of strange suns849 words
Review of Fuji2019-02-25How strait the sunless road that leads to later birth857 words
Review of The New Humans2019-02-05Man’s reach must exceed his grasp.1.2k words
Review of Advent2019-02Feel a Bit Accomplished You Read the Good, Sad Serial485 words
Review of The Star-Treader and Other Poems2017a blogpost752 words
Review of Twig2017a blogpost722 words