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Binary", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Nov/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling-contextualizing-binary/", "published_at": "2019-11-22T06:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9be6440649", "title": "Algorithms of Deception!", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Oct/algorithms-of-deception/", "published_at": "2019-10-19T18:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9be724a4da", "title": "Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Oct/maybe-lying-doesnt-exist/", "published_at": "2019-10-14T07:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9be791bdb9", "title": "Hobbyhorse Apology", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Oct/hobbyhorse-apology/", "published_at": "2019-10-02T05:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9be8817b39", "title": "Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Sep/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting-and-the-tragedy-of-the-green-rationalists/", "published_at": "2019-09-24T04:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9be8e5a939", "title": "Feature Reduction", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Sep/feature-reduction/", "published_at": "2019-09-02T21:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9be932b858", "title": "Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Aug/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests/", "published_at": "2019-08-26T02:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9be968b41e", "title": "Lock Contention", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Jul/lock-contention/", "published_at": "2019-07-21T21:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9be9db33f6", "title": "Being Wrong Doesn't Mean You're Stupid and Bad (Probably)", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Jun/being-wrong-doesnt-mean-youre-stupid-and-bad-probably/", "published_at": "2019-06-29T23:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9beabbc6f6", "title": "Inconsiderate", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Jun/inconsiderate/", "published_at": "2019-06-27T09:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9beba6bbfa", "title": "The Univariate Fallacy", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Jun/the-univariate-fallacy/", "published_at": "2019-06-15T21:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bec1f38b9", "title": "“But It Doesn’t Matter”", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/May/but-it-doesnt-matter/", "published_at": "2019-06-01T02:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9becb558ef", "title": "Minimax Search and the Structure of Cognition!", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/May/minimax-search-and-the-structure-of-cognition/", "published_at": "2019-05-20T05:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bed45e993", "title": "Group Theory for Wellness I", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/May/group-theory-for-wellness-i/", "published_at": "2019-05-18T22:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bede63cd1", "title": "Forgive or Forget (\"Or\", Not \"And\"): A Trade-Off in Wellness Engineering", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/May/forgive-or-forget-a-trade-off-in-wellness-engineering/", "published_at": "2019-05-12T01:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bee981098", "title": "The Typical Set", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/May/the-typical-set/", "published_at": "2019-05-05T23:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bef0cec83", "title": "May Is Math and Wellness Month", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/May/may-is-math-and-wellness-month/", "published_at": "2019-05-01T09:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bef4a981e", "title": "Where to Draw the Boundaries?", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/Apr/where-to-draw-the-boundaries/", "published_at": "2019-04-13T21:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bef659b48", "title": "Another Desperate, Fervent Wish for Star Trek: Discovery", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Nov/another-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery/", "published_at": "2018-11-17T23:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9befa7e286", "title": "Concerning Loyalty and Revenge", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Oct/concerning-loyalty-and-revenge/", "published_at": "2018-10-04T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf0040300", "title": "The Right to Life, Conjugated", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Oct/the-right-to-life-conjugated/", "published_at": "2018-10-03T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf0b36584", "title": "Concerning Motives for Cooperation", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Oct/concerning-motives-for-cooperation/", "published_at": "2018-10-02T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf0dc96db", "title": "Concerning Frame Control Via Salient Scenarios", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Oct/concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios/", "published_at": "2018-10-01T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf137c6ab", "title": "Tit for Half-Tat", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Jul/tit-for-half-tat/", "published_at": "2018-07-18T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf205bcd9", "title": "Object vs. Meta Golden Rule", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Jul/object-vs-meta-golden-rule/", "published_at": "2018-07-08T00:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf207a6ac", "title": "Patches Welcome", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/May/patches-welcome/", "published_at": "2018-05-23T04:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf2eb4fa0", "title": "April Is Separability Month", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Apr/april-is-separability-month/", "published_at": "2018-04-01T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf381fce4", "title": "Best Alternative to a Negotiated Ontology", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Jan/best-alternative-to-a-negotiated-ontology/", "published_at": "2018-01-23T02:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf3e147c6", "title": "Binge-Purge", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Jan/binge-purge/", "published_at": "2018-01-19T05:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf45d1b48", "title": "Some Shuffling Required", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Jan/some-shuffling-required/", "published_at": "2018-01-08T03:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf493a239", "title": "\"Give Anything\"", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Jan/give-anything/", "published_at": "2018-01-06T09:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf5431635", "title": "Some Excuse for 2017 Year in Reverse", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/Jan/some-excuse-for-2017-year-in-reverse/", "published_at": "2018-01-02T04:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf58e120d", "title": "A Desperate, Fervent Wish for Star Trek: Discovery", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/Nov/a-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery/", "published_at": "2017-11-17T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c66-50d9-7377-a9a3-8f9bf5aa6ec6", "title": "Courtship Gift", "url": "https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/Nov/courtship-gift/", "published_at": "2017-11-12T13:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Contra Piper on When Conversation Is Possibleoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
"So You Don't Trust Me?"original ↗
26 Aug 2026
Session Management, Message Authentication, and the Tragedy of the SECRET_KEYoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
Charles Goodhart Elementary Schooloriginal ↗
5 Aug 2026
Dispatch from Anthropic v. Department of War Summary Judgment Motion Hearingoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2026
Blogging Technology Interludeoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
Contra Pace on When to Apologizeoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
Dispatch from Anthropic v. Department of War Preliminary Injunction Motion Hearingoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
Terrified Comments on Corrigibility in Claude's Constitutionoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
Prologue to Terrified Comments on Claude's Constitutionoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2026
Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Informationoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2026
Disagreement Comes From the Dark Worldoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
College Was Not That Terrible Now That I'm Not That Crazyoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026

2025

The Best Lack All Conviction: A Confusing Day in the AI Villageoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2025
"Yes, and—" Requires the Possibility of "No, Because—"original ↗
9 Oct 2025
The Relationship Between Social Punishment and Shared Mapsoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2025
Just Make a New Rule!original ↗
21 Jul 2025
Comment on “Four Layers of Intellectual Conversation”original ↗
17 Jul 2025
Critic Contributions Are Logically Irrelevantoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2025
Discontinuous Linear Functions?!original ↗
5 Jun 2025
The End of the Movie: SF State's 2024 Putnam Competition Team, A Retrospectiveoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2025
Recruitment Advertisements for the 2024 Putnam Competition at San Francisco State Universityoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2025
Comment on “Death and the Gorgon”original ↗
1 Jan 2025

2024

The Standard Analogyoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2024
Should I Finish My Bachelor's Degree?original ↗
11 May 2024
Ironing Out the Squigglesoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2024
The Evolution of Humans Was Net-Negative for Human Valuesoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2024
"Deep Learning" Is Function Approximationoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2024
And All the Shoggoths Merely Playersoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2024
On the Contrary, Steelmanning Is Normal; ITT-Passing Is Nicheoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2024

2023

Alignment Implications of LLM Successes: a Debate in One Actoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2023
Assume Bad Faithoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2023
“Is There Anything That’s Worth More”original ↗
2 Aug 2023
Lack of Social Grace Is an Epistemic Virtueoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2023
“Justice, Cherryl.”original ↗
23 Jul 2023
Bayesian Networks Aren’t Necessarily Causaloriginal ↗
14 May 2023
“You’ll Never Persuade People Like That”original ↗
12 Mar 2023
“Rationalist Discourse” Is Like “Physicist Motors”original ↗
26 Feb 2023
Conflict Theory of Bounded Distrustoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2023
Aiming for Convergence Is Like Discouraging Bettingoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2023

2022

Comment on “Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society”original ↗
10 Jul 2022
Plea Bargainingoriginal ↗
31 May 2022

2021

Comment on “Deception as Cooperation”original ↗
27 Nov 2021
Feature Selectionoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2021
Blood Is Thicker Than Water 🐬original ↗
28 Sept 2021
Reply to Nate Soares on Dolphinsoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2021
Beauty Is Truthiness, Truthiness Beauty?original ↗
21 Apr 2021
Communication Requires Common Interests or Differential Signal Costsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2021
January Is Math and Wellness Monthoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2021
Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deceptionoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2021

2020

And You Take Me the Way I Amoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2020
Scoring 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Predictionsoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2020
Message Lengthoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2020
Msg Lenoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2020
Maybe Lying Can’t Exist?!original ↗
23 Aug 2020
Coffee Is for Codersoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2020
The Parable of the Scorpion and the Foxoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2020
Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principleoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2020
Optimized Propaganda with Bayesian Networks: Comment on “Articulating Lay Theories Through Graphical Models”original ↗
29 Jun 2020
Philosophy in the Darkest Timeline: Basics of the Evolution of Meaningoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2020
Comment on “Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization”original ↗
20 May 2020
Zoom Technologies, Inc. vs. the Efficient Markets Hypothesisoriginal ↗
11 May 2020
Relationship Outcomes Are Not Particularly Sensitive to Small Variations in Verbal Abilityoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2020
Don’t Double-Crux With Suicide Rockoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2020

2019

Stupidity and Dishonesty Explain Each Other Awayoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2019
Firming Up Not-Lying Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Useful Than One Might Initially Thinkoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2019
Relevance Norms; Or, Gricean Implicature Queers the Decoupling/Contextualizing Binaryoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2019
Algorithms of Deception!original ↗
19 Oct 2019
Maybe Lying Doesn't Existoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2019
Hobbyhorse Apologyoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2019
Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalistsoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2019
Feature Reductionoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2019
Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Testsoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2019
Lock Contentionoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2019
Being Wrong Doesn't Mean You're Stupid and Bad (Probably)original ↗
29 Jun 2019
Inconsiderateoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2019
The Univariate Fallacyoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2019
“But It Doesn’t Matter”original ↗
1 Jun 2019
Minimax Search and the Structure of Cognition!original ↗
20 May 2019
Group Theory for Wellness Ioriginal ↗
18 May 2019
Forgive or Forget ("Or", Not "And"): A Trade-Off in Wellness Engineeringoriginal ↗
12 May 2019
The Typical Setoriginal ↗
5 May 2019
May Is Math and Wellness Monthoriginal ↗
1 May 2019
Where to Draw the Boundaries?original ↗
13 Apr 2019

2018

Another Desperate, Fervent Wish for Star Trek: Discoveryoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2018
Concerning Loyalty and Revengeoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2018
The Right to Life, Conjugatedoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2018
Concerning Motives for Cooperationoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2018
Concerning Frame Control Via Salient Scenariosoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2018
Tit for Half-Tatoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2018
Object vs. Meta Golden Ruleoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2018
Patches Welcomeoriginal ↗
23 May 2018
April Is Separability Monthoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2018
Best Alternative to a Negotiated Ontologyoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2018
Binge-Purgeoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2018
Some Shuffling Requiredoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2018
"Give Anything"original ↗
6 Jan 2018
Some Excuse for 2017 Year in Reverseoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2018

2017

A Desperate, Fervent Wish for Star Trek: Discoveryoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2017
Courtship Giftoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2017