Here's another update with my Inkhaven posts from this week batched together! It was a pretty exciting week!

Posts

• My personal monorepo on April 15, 2026

• I went to the AI-run store in SF on April 16, 2026

• How I used plain-text accounting on April 17, 2026

• Quick thoughts on meta-models for interpreting model weights on April 18, 2026

• How I spent my time in 2021 on April 19, 2026

What I've been doing

I went to SF (pretty easy to get to from Lighthaven with BART) on Thursday and visited the weird AI-run store there, then visited Mox, the EA-adjacent coworking/event space there. It was pretty fun! I think I should spend more time meeting people in SF.

There was a conference at Lighthaven over the weekend (ControlConf), so most of us at Inkhaven went to the CFAR Bodega Bay venue. It’s a mansion/event venue an hour north of Berkeley. It’s a lot less spread out than Lighthaven, so I ended up talking with other Inkhaveners a lot more than I normally would, which I liked.

I went to the beach twice and I really enjoyed it! The trail to the beach had some really good views and I found standing a little bit in the Pacific Ocean really enjoyable. I felt more connected to nature, and I really appreciated the beauty of the natural world and made me want to explore it more.

I played Blood on the Clocktower several times while at the CFAR venue. They have a really great octagonal room for playing it. I ended up being the Imp for half the games I played and at first I was pretty bad at playing it cool and bluffing as a good player, but by the end I was pretty good and almost won for the evil team.

I felt a lot more nervous when playing as the Imp than as a townsfolk role. Partially this was because I had to pay a lot more attention to the game state and figure out how to bluff properly. I also felt like I had a stronger responsibility to not mess up; a single mistake could have led to my team insta-losing (and if I messed up too early it would be a short and boring game for everyone). When I was a townsfolk role the amount of harm I could do to my team was a lot more limited.

I’m back at Lighthaven now and it’s nice being back here.

AI stuff

I spent a while thinking about ways to do meta-models better; I’m really excited about them and I think they might be our best option for improving LLM interpretability in the short-term. I thought about using a fine-tuned oracle to directly interpret weights, but actually getting this to work is fractally hard; every aspect of implementing them has problems that are hard to resolve. Writing about them has made me less excited about their viability.

Future plans

I’m still deciding what to do after Inkhaven. I’m leaning towards living in Toronto for a while but it’s still up in the air. I really liked Montreal during the month I lived there, but there’s just not much going on there (and I don’t speak French). I’m definitely going to visit Montreal again though! I’m also strongly considering London, England although it would be more effort to move there.

I feel like I need to be more productive; I spend a lot of time doing things that I don’t endorse as a good use of my time in hindsight. I’m still thinking about ways I can manage how I spend my time better.