Reflections on InkHaven

If you’ve been wondering why I’m suddenly blogging every day… well, it’s about to stop! I decided last minute to join Ink Haven, i.e. commit to blogging every day for the month of April. This was a somewhat questionable decision because I have a lot of other shit going on. For instance, I’m starting a non-profit. But I figured:I could keep it to one or two hours a day max; I mostly succeeded at this, although I did get sucked in sometimes, and I think probably spent almost four hours on the longest one.I consider myself a good writer, but I have never been able to write fast, except when commenting on things, I figured this would be good practice. It was! I really got over this block to a huge extent! I only editted my posts sometimes, and very minimally, and I think time-boxing both the writing and editting is probably good practice.I’ve been meaning to write more about my views on AI, and in particular, why I think it’s an urgent crisis that may require (and warrant!) drastic actions like getting rid of AI computer chips. I made some progress here, but not as much as I would’ve liked. It’s hard to sacrifice quality for things you really care about!So for my final blog, I figured I’d do a quick retrospective. What have I learned? How do I feel about the whole thing? Here’s a list of observations:I feel positively, but kind of lukewarm. Why is this, I wonder? I guess I was hoping for more. My greatest hope (which I wisely decided not to make a proper ambition) was that I would get most of my core thinking on AI risk down in writing. I think I got more like… 10-20%?I feel like I have a lot to say, and I’m surprised by how little of it I feel like I said and also how hard it was many times to figure out what to blog about that day.A lot of posts ended up feeling a lot bigger than 500 words. I spent more time on the project than I intended.As always, writing stuff demands clarity and precision that highlights one’s confusions. This was useful. I was often pulled to writ