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The Greedy Doctor Problem
TL;DR: How to reason about people who are smarter than you. A few proposals, interspersed with reinforcement learning and humorous fiction. Ending on a…
Nov 15, 2021
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Why the tails (sometimes) don’t come apart
I keep coming back to thinking about Arnold Schwarzenegger.
May 11
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Making of #IAN
TL;DR: I fine-tuned a large language model on my personal notes and embedded the resulting model in my everyday workflow. Personal experience, Roam…
Aug 29, 2021
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Making of IAN v2
IAN v1 died expensive TPU death, IAN v2 rises from markdown ashes. Personal AI assistants, knowledge graphs, and the alignment problem when the AI is…
Jul 18, 2025
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Via productiva
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from…
Mar 6, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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TSPSIs and How I Write
TL;DR: Writing about writing and having written, and self-referentiality. Complementary musings on AI.
Dec 28, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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This week in fashion
TL;DR: A holiday obsession turns into a deep meditation on all things pretty. Albatrosses and reward *models* included. Also, check out…
Jan 23, 2023
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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On (Not) Reading Papers
TL;DR: Related to "scaling academia", thoughts on how to engage with academic papers. Examining the standard response to an overwhelming flood of new…
Dec 20, 2021
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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A quick one while he's away
TL;DR: deep reflections on names and identity, life-changing decisions, and mental renovations. And all of that in ~500 words!
Jul 3, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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On Slop
TL;DR: What is slop, and why? Is it fundamental? Is it in the room with us right now? And how do we exorcise it?
Jun 9
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Elementary Infra-Bayesianism
TL;DR: I got nerd-sniped into working through some rather technical work in AI Safety. Here's my best guess of what is going on. Imprecise probabilities…
May 8, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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On the digit game
A toy model where you estimate a number one decimal digit at a time. Obvious result: leading digits matter most. Less obvious: sometimes the seventh…
Apr 22
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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