Ian Writes
IanMy very, very interesting reflections on life, technology and literature. Posts every ~2 weeks.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 21 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 29 hours ago |
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Please be Nice
As a newish engineering manager, I was once responsible for a large infrastructure migration that did not go very well. We had migrated internal services for several weeks before having to touch our primary, customer-facing application. I w...
A Vision
As I lay down to sleep beneath the large pine tree that had inspired me to write “Friendship,” I was pursued by a vision of Donald Trump in ivory livery.
“Are you a writer?” he asked, pointing to Ellmann’s biography of Joyce.
“Yes,” I sai...
Apollo’s Chinese Takeout
Happy 4th of July, America! Today I’m sharing a story I wrote over a decade ago and recently tidied up. At the very least, it’s a nice anthropological survey of my mind at the end of university. But it is also a celebration of the multicult...
Will China Forbid Open-Weight Models?
Should we expect China to allow open-weight models indefinitely? Or should we expect new industrial policy forcing Chinese labs to keep their weights secret, as capabilities advance to the level of Mythos?
Weights are the parameters encodi...
Phonies
This weekend a friend complained to me that Anthropic’s recent article on recursive self-improvement (RSI) was a convenient ploy. Of course they would like us to consider a pause now—it’s the perfect means to secure their lead!
I felt this...
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