author: niplav, created: 2019-04-02, modified: 2023-01-19, language: english, status: in progress, importance: 3, confidence: log
A monthly review of changes on this website.
Mein Unternehmen ist im Grund nicht schwierig, ich brauche nur unsterblich zu sein, um es zu vollenden.
—Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard, Autor des Quijote”, 1962
it’s Good that just mutates and twists, and it’s Evil that teems with fecundity.
—Scott Alexander, “The Goddess of Everything Else”, 2015
Meditation.
Meditation.
I also worked on the library iqisa, which I hope to bring into a presentable shape by the end of the year (any faster and I'd lose the forecasting community, I fear).
I now sort-of disavow Life Improvements in 2030: It completely missed the premise of thinking how regular people might perceive the future to be better in everyday life, instead turning into another average "How might the future be like?" post by focusing on big-picture developments. Boring.
Updated the Texts List. I finished reading the AI alignment articles in the corresponding Arbital domain.
Nothing.
Again updated the Texts List with a large number of texts. I continue to read a lot, and write relatively little.
Updated the Texts List with a large number of texts. I read a bunch this month.
Updated the Texts List.
Updated the Now page and the Texts List.
Renamed the Haikus page to Senryūs.
Rebuilt the website, the chronological blog archives now contain the newest posts from the respective blogs.
Updated the Now page.
Due to personal commitments, I didn't work on this website very much in June.
Imported existing lists I maintained on past Media Consumption, specifically:
Due to other personal commitments, I didn't work on this website very much in May.
Structurally supporting pages (like this changelog, the home page and the about page) are also new, but not even near being finished.
At the beginning of the month, I set up the code to generate this website and imported some existing projects of mine.