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Computing, artificial intelligence, software, and digital systems.

status: Finished

Status Indicator

The status indicator reflects the current state of the work: - Abandoned: Work that has been discontinued - Notes: Initial collections of thoughts and references - Draft: Early structured version with a central thesis - In Progress: Well-developed work actively being refined - Finished: Completed work with no planned major changes This helps readers understand the maturity and completeness of the content.

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certainty: certain

Confidence Rating

The confidence tag expresses how well-supported the content is, or how likely its overall ideas are right. This uses a scale from "impossible" to "certain", based on the Kesselman List of Estimative Words: 1. "certain" 2. "highly likely" 3. "likely" 4. "possible" 5. "unlikely" 6. "highly unlikely" 7. "remote" 8. "impossible" Even ideas that seem unlikely may be worth exploring if their potential impact is significant enough.

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importance: 7/10

Importance Rating

The importance rating distinguishes between trivial topics and those which might change your life. Using a scale from 0-10, content is ranked based on its potential impact on: - the reader - the intended audience - the world at large For example, topics about fundamental research or transformative technologies would rank 9-10, while personal reflections or minor experiments might rank 0-1.

Plan 9sequences2026.03.12
status: In Progress·certainty: likely·importance: 7/10

Explorations in Plan 9 from Bell Labs and the ideas behind it.

AI Alignmentsequences2025.07.15
status: In Progress·certainty: likely·importance: 9/10

The problem of aligning artificial intelligence with human values, incentives, and power.

Simulating Human Moral Judgment in LLMspapers2025.07.04
status: Notes·certainty: technical-philosophical·importance: 10/10

Constructs a benchmark from human moral responses to evaluate how closely large language models align with real-world ethical intuitions.

ethicsaillms
Automated URL Archivingnotes2025.06.30
status: Finished·certainty: certain·importance: 5/10

how I set up automated archiving of URLs using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and other tools

methodologytoolsarchiving
Youtubenotes2025.06.14
status: Finished·certainty: certain·importance: 9/10

a list of all the youtubers I have watched at various points in my life, categorized by content niche

personaldigitalstreaming
Basic Computer Sciencesequences2025.02.10
status: In Progress·certainty: certain·importance: 7/10

An ad fontes course in computer science from first principles. Hardware, binary, assembly, up to C.

Indie Websequences2025.02.10
status: In Progress·certainty: certain·importance: 7/10

Building and participating in the independent web. Personal sites, webrings, and digital spaces free from corporate platforms.

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