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Simon Willison's Weblog · latest 9/12/2026
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9/11 in Berkeley 9/11/2026 comments txtify archive.mdLLMs and self-referentiality 9/1/2026 comments txtify archive.mdAnthropic’s LLM watermarking 8/22/2026 comments txtify archive.mdBetter than gold 8/20/2026 comments txtify archive.mdMichael Rabin memorial conference 8/16/2026 comments txtify archive.mdEnough with all the world-historic milestones 8/7/2026 comments txtify archive.mdNISQ and quantum supremacy did not fail 7/18/2026 comments txtify archive.mdHeld Prize call for nominations (+ call for postdocs) 7/11/2026 comments txtify archive.mdAnnouncing BQP Partners: my and my brother’s new angel-investing venture 7/10/2026 comments txtify archive.mdHappy 250th! 7/4/2026 comments txtify archive.mdLessWrong · latest 9/11/2026
Explaining Knightianism on one foot 9/11/2026 txtify archive.mdDrone WMDs Don’t Need Any New Technology 9/6/2026 txtify archive.mdHow My Students Think About AI 9/2/2026 txtify archive.mdBrief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident 8/29/2026 txtify archive.mdOn Writing #3 8/26/2026 txtify archive.mdBig-World Intuitions 8/21/2026 txtify archive.mdFour LLM loss functions → four flavors of LLM misalignment 8/14/2026 txtify archive.mdFAQ: Isn't AGI coming too soon for reprogenetics to help? 8/9/2026 txtify archive.mdLLMs are (still) mostly powered by imitative learning, not RL 8/4/2026 txtify archive.mdThe Long (Self-)Correction 7/31/2026 txtify archive.mdOvercoming Bias · latest 9/8/2026
AI Pause Regs Look Risky 9/8/2026 txtify archive.mdWhat Hidden Motives Imply 9/7/2026 txtify archive.mdYour Conscience Is Not A Moral Oracle 9/6/2026 txtify archive.mdDisclosure Seems Unlikely 9/4/2026 txtify archive.mdModern Worries 9/1/2026 txtify archive.mdAliens Are Not Crazy Unlikely 8/31/2026 txtify archive.mdTestimony Data Project 8/27/2026 txtify archive.mdMake Peace With Darwin 8/24/2026 txtify archive.mdNo-New-Physics Consciousness 8/15/2026 txtify archive.mdDigital Mind Suicide 8/14/2026 txtify archive.mdDigital Mind Castes 8/10/2026 txtify archive.mdThe Modern Mind's Fatal Flaw 8/8/2026 txtify archive.mdEasy To Hard Discipline Academic Careers Paths 8/7/2026 txtify archive.mdHow To Be A Usually-Right Contrarian 8/5/2026 txtify archive.mdStatus And Social-Skill Bias 8/3/2026 txtify archive.mdWhy Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog’s Clothing 8/2/2026 txtify archive.mdWho Are Your "Descendants"? 7/29/2026 txtify archive.mdOur Likely Future Filter: World Govt 7/25/2026 txtify archive.mdThe End Of Culture 7/23/2026 txtify archive.md200yrs of Reasons For World Govt 7/22/2026 txtify archive.mdSLIME MOLD TIME MOLD · latest 8/30/2026
Links for August 2026 8/30/2026 comments txtify archive.mdFor the Love of the Game 8/27/2026 comments txtify archive.mdMeet the Meetups Czar 8/21/2026 comments txtify archive.mdA Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came up with by Looking at the List of Specification Gaming Behaviours 8/5/2026 comments txtify archive.mdLinks for July 2026 7/31/2026 comments txtify archive.mdHomework for SMTM-6941: Lithium Problem Sets 7/21/2026 comments txtify archive.mdYou Can Discover the Drives 7/13/2026 comments txtify archive.mdLinks for June 2026 6/29/2026 comments txtify archive.mdLinks for May 2026 5/31/2026 comments txtify archive.mdLinks for April 2026 4/30/2026 comments txtify archive.mdMaggie Appleton · latest 8/18/2026
August 2026 8/18/2026 txtify archive.mdIn Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors 7/18/2026 txtify archive.mdOne Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment 4/13/2026 txtify archive.mdGas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale 1/23/2026 txtify archive.mdJanuary 2026 1/2/2026 txtify archive.mdA Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment 8/5/2025 txtify archive.mdVibe Code is Legacy Code 8/2/2025 txtify archive.mdMay 2025 5/25/2025 txtify archive.mdStatistically, When Will My Baby Be Born? 3/24/2025 txtify archive.mdChatGPT Would be a Decent Policy Advisor 3/13/2025 txtify archive.mdMarch 2025 3/5/2025 txtify archive.mdHumanity's Last Exam 2/20/2025 txtify archive.mdDeepSeek 1/26/2025 txtify archive.mdCommon Misconceptions in AI 1/12/2025 txtify archive.mdUndetected AI Exam Answers 1/11/2025 txtify archive.mdUnbaited 1/11/2025 txtify archive.mdSmidgeons 1/11/2025 txtify archive.mdHow to Import Academic Papers from Zotero into Tana 1/7/2025 txtify archive.mdGrowing a Human: The First 30 Weeks 1/4/2025 txtify archive.mdDecember 2024 12/1/2024 txtify archive.mdAesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh 10/5/2024 txtify archive.mdLeaving Elicit 7/7/2024 txtify archive.mdJuly 2024 7/1/2024 txtify archive.mdHome-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers 5/30/2024 txtify archive.mdFaking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History 4/30/2024 txtify archive.mdOn Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars 4/13/2024 txtify archive.mdSpinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis 3/18/2024 txtify archive.mdA Collection of Design Engineers 3/11/2024 txtify archive.mdGathering Structures 2/20/2024 txtify archive.mdSpeculative Calendar Events 1/7/2024 txtify archive.mdAmbient Co-presence 12/27/2023 txtify archive.mdHistorical Trails 12/18/2023 txtify archive.mdDecember 2023 12/1/2023 txtify archive.mdSeptember 2023 9/1/2023 txtify archive.mdSquish Meets Structure 6/20/2023 txtify archive.mdNintil · latest 7/11/2026
Loving boundaries: Conditional love applied to parenting and therapy 7/11/2026 txtify archive.mdLinks (97) 6/14/2026 txtify archive.mdThere was only mom 5/3/2026 txtify archive.mdLinks (96) 4/18/2026 txtify archive.mdFree Radicals Podcast 3/17/2026 txtify archive.mdLinks (95) 2/28/2026 txtify archive.mdA first glimpse of non-duality 2/16/2026 txtify archive.mdAnthropic's Claude Constitution; or love as the solution to the AI alignment problem 1/26/2026 txtify archive.mdAlzheimer's: from causes and risk factors to models and interventions 12/26/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (94) 12/24/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (93) 11/28/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (92) 10/27/2025 txtify archive.md33 Things I've Learned at 33 10/18/2025 txtify archive.mdSlutcon, or the attractiveness of embodied authenticity 10/14/2025 txtify archive.mdSystems Biology: understanding beyond genes 10/5/2025 txtify archive.mdFrom chaos, order: On the nature and measurement of biological aging 9/27/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (91) 9/13/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (90) 8/9/2025 txtify archive.mdA jhourney in Costa Rica: experiencing the jhanas 7/27/2025 txtify archive.mdAgencymaxxing 7/1/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (89) 6/29/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (88) 5/26/2025 txtify archive.mdRetinoids probably don't slow skin aging 5/17/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (87) 4/30/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (86) 3/16/2025 txtify archive.mdExplaining Circling 2/16/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (85) 1/30/2025 txtify archive.mdLinks (84) 12/21/2024 txtify archive.mdLinks (83) 11/23/2024 txtify archive.mdLinks (82) 10/5/2024 txtify archive.mdWait But Why · latest 11/25/2025
The sights and sounds of Bhutan 11/25/2025 comments txtify archive.mdTales from Toddlerhood 10/24/2025 comments txtify archive.mdAll My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro 2/9/2024 comments txtify archive.md10 Thoughts from the Fourth Trimester 5/23/2023 comments txtify archive.mdA Short History of My Last Six Years 2/17/2023 comments txtify archive.mdMailbag #2 4/14/2021 comments txtify archive.mdThe Trump-Biden Debate 9/30/2020 comments txtify archive.mdThe Big and the Small 9/22/2020 comments txtify archive.mdYou Won’t Believe My Morning 3/25/2020 comments txtify archive.mdIt’s 2020 and you’re in the future 1/2/2020 comments txtify archive.mdMeaningness · latest 11/20/2023
Seriously bright light vs. winter blahs 11/20/2023 txtify archive.mdYOU NEED MORE LUX 11/20/2023 txtify archive.mdNatural misunderstandings of adult stage theory 5/11/2023 txtify archive.mdThe collapse of rational certainty 1/24/2022 txtify archive.mdNo meaning of life as a whole 12/28/2021 txtify archive.mdNo meaning without justification 12/26/2021 txtify archive.mdSome other varieties of objectivity 12/25/2021 txtify archive.mdNo objective meaning 12/24/2021 txtify archive.mdNo meaning without proof 12/13/2021 txtify archive.mdVaster than ideology 12/11/2021 txtify archive.mdNo cosmic meaning 11/30/2021 txtify archive.mdNo meaning from the Big Bang 11/19/2021 txtify archive.mdLite nihilism, on the way to completion 11/12/2021 txtify archive.mdNo eternal meaning 11/6/2021 txtify archive.mdNo meaning for mortals 10/31/2021 txtify archive.mdNihilistic reasoning errors 10/30/2021 txtify archive.mdSexy cynicism and nihilist elitism 9/24/2021 txtify archive.mdThe nihilist apocalypse 9/21/2021 txtify archive.mdNihilism is black magic 9/11/2021 txtify archive.md“Nihilism is OK” is not OK 9/9/2021 txtify archive.mdMelting Asphalt · latest 3/17/2020
Outbreak 3/17/2020 comments txtify archive.mdGoing Critical 5/13/2019 comments txtify archive.mdA Natural History of Beauty 10/30/2018 comments txtify archive.mdThe Elephant in the Brain 1/3/2018 comments txtify archive.mdHere Be Sermons 9/11/2017 comments txtify archive.mdCrony Beliefs 11/2/2016 comments txtify archive.mdA Nihilist's Guide to Meaning 7/11/2016 comments txtify archive.mdMinimum Viable Superorganism 2/11/2016 comments txtify archive.md2015 Meta 1/11/2016 comments txtify archive.mdSocial Status II: Cults and Loyalty 11/2/2015 comments txtify archive.mdPaul Graham: Essays · latest
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