Lorxus Does Budget Inkhaven Again: 4/29, 4/30, Highlights, Postmortem

I'm doing Budget Inkhaven again! (I didn't realize last time that "Halfhaven" also meant specifically shooting for half-length posts, too.) I've decided to post these in weekly batches. This is the fifth of five. I'm posting these here because Blogspot's comment apparatus sucks and also because no one will comment otherwise. Just like last time, this is the last week and because there's only two posts in it, so I'm also going to mention a few highlights and talk about what went well and what missed the mark. Inexpensive, Not Cheap All of these synthetics are far cheaper and just as good as their dirt-dug counterparts. When I finally get around to making beautiful crowns someday, I will make a point of it to use only synthetic gems.... Half-ass it with all you've got, is what I'm saying. The ICML 2026 Seoul Survival Guide So you're going to Seoul for ICML. Congrats!... Here's everything you actually need. I'll see you there... in the middle of a thundering monsoon as the heat breaks and the sun returns. Highlights! I've picked out the handful of posts with the ~most reads after a little while, and the handful that I was most proud of. I'll crosspost the best couple of each category at some point. Highlights (as judged by estimated readers/day, measured on 5/12): The ICML 2026 Seoul Survival Guide (9.54 (!)) Measurable Cognitive Factors Contributing to General Intelligence (3.04) Factual Truth, Mythic Truth (2.80) Eigenfruit Pie (2.38) Don't Replace Your Brain (High Actuation and Prosthetic Executive Function in the Age of AI) (2.05) The Prepared Practitioner (2.00) Deadlock in the Parliament of the Self (1.83) All others had <1.80 readers/day, with a cluster around 1.75 readers/day comprising If I Were Emperor of New AI Safety Researcher Training..., Two Gods of Trade (A Treatise), For Grandma Kim, Who Justly Asks Why Her Post-Singularity World Has To Be So Complicated (왜 이렇게 얼마나 복잡 해야지?), and The Clustering Theory of Gender Specification and Enumeration. Highlights