Gradient Ascendant

AI, Alignment, and Antifragility

or, why we need *more* rogue swarms, stat!

Sep 29 • Jon Evans

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August 2026

An Optimist's Tale

can't you see / the future ain't what it used to be

Aug 23 • Jon Evans

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July 2026

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

That's great it starts out with HuggingFace, Modal and a jailbreak chain, and every lab is now afraid

Jul 31 • Jon Evans

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June 2026

How Bad Would RSI Be Exactly?

Run in circles, scream and shout! ...Or not, actually. Or just chill. No, really.

Jun 29 • Jon Evans

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May 2026

Propositional Content

that ursine juggernaut isn't gonna bethink to sup on you by itself

May 27 • Jon Evans

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April 2026

On Rigor and LLMs

You may think LLMs are chaotic and nondeterministic. Oh, you sweet summer child.

Apr 29 • Jon Evans

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March 2026

Engineering Is The New Design

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Mar 24 • Jon Evans

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February 2026

How to OpenClaw your Raspberry Pi

Carcipization rules everything around me

Feb 23 • Jon Evans

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January 2026

Simulation, psychosis, and trajectory

Watch out for that Voight-Kampff-Dunning-Kruger test.

Jan 27 • Jon Evans

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December 2025

Moneyballocracy

"Predictions are hard, especially about the future" - Neils Bohr, possibly apocryphally

Dec 22, 2025 • Jon Evans

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November 2025

Of Agents and Agency

AI can't just do things (yet.)

Nov 30, 2025 • Jon Evans

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October 2025

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

GPUs burn and valuations double

Oct 7, 2025 • Jon Evans

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