[Note: This is not alignment-related, but rather a spacefiller personal blog post.]

I've been trying to write a public post every day of January. So far I’ve been enjoying it. I don’t think this approach works for everyone: in particular, I’ve also been hanging on by a thread to the schedule and to the ability to sleep. I publicly committed to write 3 posts a week, but my “secret” personal goal to write a post every day for the month. Not only in order to have more output, but because in the past intense daily deadlines have worked pretty well in the past; also there's a kind of scientific idea of “you’ll get more data on the success of a new behavior if you go the whole hog”.

In order to have a clear “success criterion”, my rules are that

By day n of January (for <span>_nle [...]

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January 23rd, 2025

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