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Supporter Update, Spooky Edition

⏱️ 3 min read

Hi all! Sorry, had a mental health crash this past month, so not much was done. However, I do have some good news to share!

🙋🏻‍♀️ 1 - I'm collaborating with Audrey Tang, the Digi...

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Quick Update Sep 2025

Hi all! I've been under the weather this month, so instead of a vlog, here's a quick text-post update:

Stuff done this month:

  • 🕊️ Talked with Audrey Tang(!), Digital Minister of Taiwan, about possibly doing...

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My 1st Vlog! Digital puppet, AI "Therapy", Mental health meta-meta-analysis

Hi Patréon supporters! I got something new for you today — my first vlog!

Okay this isn't actually my first first vlog, but it's my first in over 10 years? I want to experiment more with video — (more fun for me & you, ma...

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June 2025: AI Therapists & AI Clones! 🤖

(⏱️ 21 min read in total )

(🚨 This one's a loooooooong one! If it gets clipped in your email client, you may have to click "view entire message" at the end. )

Hi all! Sorry for the silence; I w...

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The Start-of-Spring Update

⏱️ reading time: 6 min

Hi Patreon supporters!

First, sorry I forgot about the "drawing of a cat" reward for being a supporter. Here's a drawing I made yesterday, of a cat being a baller:

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Nicky's Plans for 2025, Probably

Hi Patreon supporters,

A reminder: last month, when trying to cross the U.S.-Canada land border, I had my phone, laptop, and ...

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Temporarily lost ALL devices; projects will be delayed :(

I can't say more (for now) because it involves the U.S-Canada border/ongoing legal stuff, but the relevant thing is: I have not had access to my phone, laptop, or tablet for the last 7 days, and I still haven't gotten confir...

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Spooky Research! (also AI Safety Part 3 delayed, sorry)

Hi y'all! Time for the monthly cool-folks-supporting-me update.

Some good news & bad news. The good news is I've been super-productive the last month! I started on SIX ne...

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Welp, I'm 30! (+ a 30-min-long article to "celebrate")

Hi all! It is my birthday.

My gift for myself for the big Three-Zero is to write this navel-gazing blog post, which I shall share with you now:

Welp, I'm 30. (30 tips ...

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My "Creative Cyborg" talk + more!

Hi all! Regular update for you regular supporters: (again, thank y'all so much!)

Last month, Aug 2024:

1) 🙀 AI Safety for Fleshy Humans: Part 2...

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AI Safety for Fleshy Humans p2: Flesh Harder

As promised, Part 2 of my series on making safe, humane AI is now out on July 31st! Yes it is July 31st, the promised deadline. I wouldn't be late by almost two weeks. What, naw, couldn't be me.

This part's chockful of Robot Catboy comics...

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Monthly update: Tell Don't Show

( reading time: 4 min) 

Hi y'all!  Happy Canada Day from Canada 🇨🇦

Last month I got a bunch of work done, but alas, it's the kind of work that's not very "show-off- able". So this updat...

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This month's update: Avatars, Fractals, & Signal Boosts

(⏱️ 4 min read)

(posting a day late, plz ignore)

. . .

Quick time-sensitive announcement: If you know a high schooler who's into programming, skip to the end of this post to learn about a free(!) ha...

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FINALLY. "AI Safety for Fleshy Humans", Part One!

Hi y'all!

Two years after my last flagship project [Nutshell]...
Four years after my last longform explainer [Covid Futures]...
I'm... mostly relieved, to finally launch my new explainer series, titled!...

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March Updates: I made a neural network from scratch!

(⏱ 6 min read)

Three updates!  Two big updates, and one kinda-update!

🧠 Update #1: I'm making a neural network toy!

I'm making an interactive visualization of an Artificial Neural Network, fr...

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Clearing out the idea closet (47 projects on my backlog)

(⏱️ read time: 3 min)

Hi all!

1) Apparently "eating my hair if I broke my promise" crossed the line from funny to actually unhealthy & disturbing.  So, I won't use self-punishment for failing to get AI Safety Par...

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new year who dis

(⏱ reading time: 2 min)

1) Pre-commitment self-punishment mechanism

Last update, I said:

[AI Safety Part One] should fina-frickin'-lly be out in December. Or else: I will cut off a s...

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Auld Lang Syne but it calls out your failed 2023 resolutions

A silly video I made for before the end-of-year!  Happy New Year, y'all! 💖

(An actual update on my next explainer, AI Safety for Fleshy Humans, will come in a few days.)

=== Lyrics ===

Should resolutions be forgo...

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AI Safety piece will(?) launch this month!

Hi all!  Short update this time.

Thank you all so much for the thoughtful replies on my last post! I'm learning to overcome my fearful people...

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If on an autumn night, a Nicky (Update on 5 projects)

(⏱️ reading time: 20 min)

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IMPORTANT: Patreon has finally succumbed to that awful trend: feeds in non-chronological order. 2023-10-28 21:14:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Augh-ust* Update

(* well, September now)
( 🕓 3 min read )

Hi all,

Sorry for the no-update last month – had to take a sudden physical/mental health break. Long story short:

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“Cyborgs”

(⏱ reading time: 11 minutes)

Recently, three threads in my life have coincided on one word: “cyborg“.

  1. Thinking about the problem of how to align AI to humane values
    → human-in-the-loop AI design strategies
    ...

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Bonus Mini-explainer: Gödel's Proof!

( reading time: 7 minutes)

Hi all!

Sincerest apologies for my lack of updates. I'll share more in a future post, but my last 2 months have been: lots of couch-surfing, moving cities over & over, starting hormon...

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More AI comix, and project update

( reading time: 2 minutes)

Every. Week.

Every week that passes, my mega-explainer on AI Safety/Alignment gets more and more obsolete.

It's so weird to see how fast the Overton Window's shift...

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Patron-exclusive sneak peek: 3 AI Safety comics

( 2 min read time)

Being an indie creator means: never, ever being able to predict how long stuff takes to make.

My next project is a mega-explainer on AI Alignment & its controversies. To make it layperson-fri...

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Sheriff Meowdy: an excerpt from my upcoming mega-post on AI Alignment

(reading time: 7 min)

Hi all!

I had a bunch of moving & medical-related errands in January — don't worry, I'm fine — so I didn't finish my 90-minute-read intro to AI Alignment this month after all.

But, here'...

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Two longposts on ChatGPT + an AI Alignment megapost soon!

Hi all!

This month I got sidetracked by the new, scary-good chatbot everyone's talking about: ChatGPT from OpenAI (which is not open).  Well I guess it's been out a whole month, so that's ancient news in internet-time.

But if you ...

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Quantum mini-sim + Voice interactives + Patreon pause policy

(5 min read)

Hi all!  A quick update, in five parts:

1) Quantum mini-sim (👾 + 1 playable simulation you can play!)
2) Trans voice interactives (👾 + 2 crappy prototypes you can try!)
3) Patreon pausing polic...

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Virtue Ethics project update + belated Patreon rewards

Hi all! Apologies for not updating y'all last month. My next project is a looong-form essay – augmented with Nutshell's expandable explanations & 2022-10-07 22:38:42 +0000 UTC View Post

New project! Nutshell: make expandable explanations

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After 2 years of procrastinating on this project... it's finally out! My first post-burnout-hiatus interactive ...

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