AI

Usage on this site

None. Neither any of the words on the site, nor any of the code I’ve written for the site, were written with any use of generative AI. I suspect that over time some of the open source software which I use in the creation of the site will contain traces of generative AI, that seems increasingly unavoidable. In the unlikely event that I wish to refer to anything generated by AI on one of these pages I will do what I would do with any words that I didn’t write myself: explicitly mark any direct quotes, and credit any quote or paraphrase.

Why? The main purpose of this site is the writing of it. None of the goals of that would benefit from having any part of the process replaced by AI, so I don’t use it. As for the code, if what I was concerned about was the ease and efficiency of getting this published I would use a much more straightforward process. This is a hobby project, and there is no point at all in subcontracting a hobby.

The universal caveat

One of the most dispiriting things about the current AI moment is the sense from some people that AI is the only thing worth thinking about. I don’t think world changing AI (a.k.a. AGI) is likely for a good while. Even if it were, I think its very nature as “world-changing” makes it much less worthwhile for us to talk about in advance; we just don’t know enough about what it will look like to say much about it. While I might occasionally comment on existing AI technologies if there is something I find interesting about them, I intend to think and write a lot less about AI that some people seem inclined to. Feel free to mentally add the footnote “unless world-changing AI happens” to pretty much every sentence on here if that makes it easier for you to read.

Changelog

• 2026-03-29: First published