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2026-10-12: AI reasoning, scientific peer review, scaling laws, software tooling
October 12, 2026
2026-10-12: AI reasoning, scientific peer review, scaling laws, software tooling — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises...

2026-07-28: agent harnesses, machine search, program equilibria, renormalization
July 28, 2026
2026-07-28: agent harnesses, machine search, program equilibria, renormalization — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises...

2026-06-26: Training models on your own prose, predictions that push back, distributed knowing, the local AI workbench
June 26, 2026
2026-06-26: Training models on your own prose, predictions that push back, distributed knowing, the local AI workbench — The Dan MacKinlay stable of...

2026-05-20: sovereign compute, image tools, decision theory, future generations
May 20, 2026
2026-05-20: sovereign compute, image tools, decision theory, future generations — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises content...

2026-05-04: Wireheading, optionality, divide-and-rule, building without Swift
May 4, 2026
2026-05-04: Wireheading, optionality, divide-and-rule, building without Swift — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises content...

2026-04-12: Machine curiosity, agent manipulation, Rust and search tools, bin the zinc spray
2026-04-12: Machine curiosity, agent manipulation, Rust and search tools, bin the zinc spray
April 12, 2026
2026-04-12: Machine curiosity, agent manipulation, Rust and search tools, bin the zinc spray — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d...

2026-04-03: AI doom formula, neighbourhood internet, community legal structures, new job
2026-04-03: AI doom formula, neighbourhood internet, community legal structures, new job
April 3, 2026
2026-04-03: AI doom formula, neighbourhood internet, community legal structures, new job — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises...

2026-03-22: sovereign compute, community AI, tech governance, quantum odds, offline archives
2026-03-22: sovereign compute, community AI, tech governance, quantum odds, offline archives
March 22, 2026
2026-03-22: sovereign compute, community AI, tech governance, quantum odds, offline archives — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d...

2026-03-09: mutual aid, privacy, friendly societies, Nostr, kinder social media
2026-03-09: mutual aid, privacy, friendly societies, Nostr, kinder social media
March 9, 2026
2026-03-09: mutual aid, privacy, friendly societies, Nostr, kinder social media — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises content...

2026-03-03: A new journal, evolution tricks, AI behaving, git & ssh, remote setup, writing tools
2026-03-03: A new journal, evolution tricks, AI behaving, git & ssh, remote setup, writing tools
March 3, 2026
2026-03-03: A new journal, evolution tricks, AI behaving, git & ssh, remote setup, writing tools — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d...

2026-02-17: Entropy, evolution strategies, interactive proofs, net censorship, China
2026-02-17: Entropy, evolution strategies, interactive proofs, net censorship, China
February 17, 2026
2026-02-17: Entropy, evolution strategies, interactive proofs, net censorship, China — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises...

2026-02-10: Embedded agency, internal models, category theory, Bayes in the wild, peer review
2026-02-10: Embedded agency, internal models, category theory, Bayes in the wild, peer review
February 10, 2026
2026-02-10: Embedded agency, internal models, category theory, Bayes in the wild, peer review — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d...

2026-02-04: speaking on purpose, MaxEnt, attention economy, social brain, London
February 4, 2026
2026-02-04: speaking on purpose, MaxEnt, attention economy, social brain, London — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises content...

2026-01-20: Imprecise Bayesianism, Generative AI workflows, Causal inference, AI evals, travel notes
2026-01-20: Imprecise Bayesianism, Generative AI workflows, Causal inference, AI evals, travel notes
January 21, 2026
2026-01-20: Imprecise Bayesianism, Generative AI workflows, Causal inference, AI evals, travel notes — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d...

2026-01-11: reinforcement learning, probability foundations, information decomposition, causality, research residency
2026-01-11: reinforcement learning, probability foundations, information decomposition, causality, research residency
January 11, 2026
2026-01-11: reinforcement learning, probability foundations, information decomposition, causality, research residency — The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-...

Digest 2025-12-22: NeurIPS notes, AI evals, reward hacking, scaling laws, automation economics
December 28, 2025
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