Inkhaven is a writers’ retreat, well, really it's a bloggers’ retreat. In the Lighthaven campus, Berkeley, a couple dozen bloggers get together to complete an almost insurmountable challenge for us mere mortals. Post one blogpost every single day for a whole month. I say ‘insurmountable’ but in fact they all succeeded last time, although apparently it was not uncommon for them to claw success from the jaws of defeat at 11:45 pm each night.

I look at this and I feel the same way that traditionalists feel when they see Millennials scared to use the phone, or Gen Zs unable to go outside. Our (blogosphere) ancestors used to blog seventy times per day! Great Yudkowsky used to go to war (with the methods of rationality)! Moldbug and Alexander were gunning each other down (with devastating couterarguments) over breakfast!

That's why I’m going to be doing Doublehaven. Two blogposts per day. No “advice” or “tips” on “writing well”. No full-time live-in retreat (I’m not that rich). In fact, I also need to finish writing my PhD thesis and an entire paper this month.

Why? I want to give people the permission to be ambitious. Yes, some people struggle with writer's [...]

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Outline:

(02:14) Honourable Mentions

(02:56) #5: That one Yudkowsky Rant Tweet

(03:42) #4: The Special LessWrong Events

(04:30) #3: Came in fluffer Sankey Diagram

(05:27) #2: The Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy

(06:32) #1: The Shoggoth

(07:19) Discussion

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