Ian Writes

AFFINE Seminar: Week 0

AFFINE seminar to study superintelligence alignment.

Apr 29 • Ian

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Morality without Consciousness

Part 2: Ethical considerations vis-a-vis goo

Apr 18 • Ian

2

1

Friendship

Waking up at 5 in the morning, Francis rubbed his chin hair and asked his pet tarantula what he would like to do today.

Apr 1 • Ian

4

1

March 2026

Turtles

Stress-testing arguments with recursive logic

Mar 24 • Ian

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AI Fatalism

If superintelligence carries existential risk for humankind, then we must approach it cautiously

Mar 4 • Ian

3

1

February 2026

What is the Color Blue?

Part 1: A Quale is a Quale is a Quale

Feb 19 • Ian

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3

Poetry #1

"More," "Configurations," "A Great Man"

Feb 6 • Ian

3

2

January 2026

My Pet Claude

The economics of agentic development

Jan 29 • Ian

5

1

1

Claude Cowboys

Monorepos, agentic workflows, tmux, sandboxes and the wild west. My best practices for agentic development with Claude Code.

Jan 22 • Ian

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3

The Three Futures of Artificial Intelligence

No easy answers

Jan 13 • Ian and Teo Ornelas

1

10 Assertions on Morality

Start the new year by judging other people

Jan 4 • Ian

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1

December 2025

Welcome to My Blog—er, Substack

Blahg.

Dec 6, 2025

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