Inkhaven Spotlight #1

So much writing

The first post was published at 2:55 AM, by a night owl who arrived at the workshop early; the last post was published at 11:53 PM, by someone who wanted to get the last details right. At Opening Session, eukaryote told the residents that “they all understand how time works”, when talking about how much slack we would cut them if they published just after midnight instead of just before, and: they all understood how time worked!

We’ve been busy writing more, and having more conversations, and writing even more, and this particular newsletter is coming in just under the wire, with the other time understanders.

Three pieces from day 1 that I wanted to highlight:

• Personas of Local Maxima by Lucent investigates commitment to the bit; why do people adopt personas? How are they caused by the forces of someone’s environment?

• Architecting Reality by HumanInvariant considers the act of building the world in which other people operate, and how the subtle power of doing so can lead to immense power thanks to global scales.

• LLM-generated text is not testimony by TsviBT examines why you might care about words, and whether LLM-generated text currently has that property.

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― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life