dynomight
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
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A vastly superhuman intelligence would still not be able to talk people out of their beliefs, because humans are barely persuadable.
Before I suspect that if you decided to be open-minded, then the Being would probably be extremely persuasive. But I don’t think it’s very common to do that.
Now I take it back. Instead of being unsure, I now lean strongly towards the idea that the Being would in fact be very good at convincing people of stuff, and far better than any human.
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Loved War and Peace
Fair. I definitely feel like I’m living my best life when I read War and Peace.
dynomight.net 22 Jan 2026
Liked The Catcher in the Rye
I think Catcher in the Rye is a good but not great book. But I love talking about Catcher in the Rye because (1) all North Americans seem to have read it, and (2) whenever I ask someone to tell me how they feel about Holden Caulfield, I always seem to learn something about them.
dynomight.net 22 Jan 2026
Liked Crime and Punishment
Many years ago, I read Crime and Punishment. Here, with no research and no notes, is what I can remember about that book: It was pretty good.
dynomight.net 22 Jan 2026
Where they publish
Blog DYNOMIGHT The blog. Has a feed.
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- Psychometrics, vaccines, meat, Kowloon, luggage destruction 28 Oct 2026 escapes, art films, ultra-processing, packing, grug, USSR, AMA
- Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days 26 Oct 2026
- Why is the human body so crap except for the liver? 24 Sept 2026 the question everyone is asking
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- Thoughts I had while reading your comment 11 Aug 2026 with absolutely no indication of neuroticism
- Indirect lessons from human alignment 2 Aug 2026 On doing what evolution wants us to do
- So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂ 30 Jul 2026 You face certain challenges
- Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? 28 Jul 2026 An essay that may or may not reach a firm conclusion
- Does creatine make you smarter? 22 Jul 2026 And why does the brain use creatine anyway?
- Pseudpocalypse 14 Jul 2026 Here’s a conjecture: If you put any significant amount of text on the internet under different names, those identities can be linked using only the text itself.
- Life with hazard ratios 6 Jul 2026 How to discount your expectations
- Blink if you’re human 26 Jun 2026
- The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated 23 Jun 2026 Some skepticism of vitamin D skepticism
- Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”? 26 May 2026
- What’s with all the slide decks? 13 May 2026 a polycausal theory
- You’re probably taking the wrong painkiller 30 Apr 2026 acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
- I quit drinking for a year 9 Apr 2026 out of spite
- LLMs predict my coffee 18 Mar 2026 (Appendix: Data and equations)
- The modern formatting addiction in writing 12 Mar 2026 Editor's note: At this point, the author became agitated and wrote and then deleted a bunch of bullet points. In the interest of transparency, these are collected here. (Click to expand.)
- Maybe there’s a pattern here? 4 Mar 2026 Inventors and impacts
- Heritability of human life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined to be something different 5 Feb 2026 ratios will be ratios
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- The question you all were wondering: 24 Sept 2026
- Thoughts I had while reading your comment 11 Aug 2026
- This post went in a weird direction. 3 Aug 2026
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- So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ 30 Jul 2026
- Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? 28 Jul 2026
- Does creatine make you smarter? 22 Jul 2026
- Pseudpocalypse 14 Jul 2026
- Here's a post on hazard ratios, which I expect to be one of the least popular things I've ever written. ♡♡♡ 6 Jul 2026
- Blink if you're human 26 Jun 2026
- The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated 23 Jun 2026
- Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"? 26 May 2026
- What's with all the slide decks? 13 May 2026
- I quit drinking for a year 9 Apr 2026
- LLMs predict my coffee 18 Mar 2026
- The modern formatting addiction in writing 12 Mar 2026
- Maybe there's a pattern here? 4 Mar 2026
- I tried to explain what's happening in that recent paper about the heritability of human lifespan: 6 Feb 2026
- This isn't getting enough attention. The CBP proposes to exclusively accept US visa-waiver applications exclusively through a mobile app, shutting down the website. Meaning you cannot visit the US unless you use a phone controlled by one of two US companies? What? 26 Jan 2026
- Why read novels? 22 Jan 2026
- Good if make prior after data instead of before 18 Dec 2025
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Mastodon @dynomight@mastodon.social Posts.
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- 🫠 is the most underrated emoji 1 Nov 2026
- Scattered thoughts on how doing math feels these days 26 Oct 2026 dynomight.net
- me: what kind of idiot has their refrigerators connected to the internet? them: 13 Oct 2026
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- has anyone else noticed this 2 Oct 2026
- What I'd like is for AI-risk skeptics to commit to publicly acknowledging they were wrong if they turn out to have been wrong, in the way that 90% of the people who supported Iraq War II never did. 25 Sept 2026
- The question you all were wondering: 24 Sept 2026 dynomight.net
- Thoughts I had while reading your comment 11 Aug 2026 dynomight.net
- Is there any point of making an onion service if your clearweb site doesn't block Tor? Maybe just to reduce pressure on exist nodes? 4 Aug 2026
- Reddit blocks VPNs. Reddit also now blocks old.reddit unless you log in. But apparently reddit offers a Tor service? And old.reddit still works fine there? (At this point I only check one subreddit, itself a shadow of its former self.) 3 Aug 2026
- This post went in a weird direction. 3 Aug 2026 dynomight.net
- So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ 30 Jul 2026 dynomight.net
- How do you feel about articles with question titles? 29 Jul 2026
- for posterity: commentator accused of being an AI agent immediately confirms being an AI agent 28 Jul 2026
- On a near-daily basis I get emails offering to pay for "sponsored articles" or for linking to sketchy crypto/casino sites. I guess everyone gets these? Search engines surely prohibit this, but does it get your content removed from LLM training? 28 Jul 2026
- Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? 28 Jul 2026 dynomight.net
- Does creatine make you smarter? 22 Jul 2026 dynomight.net
- Austin Vernon on one of the more frightening uses of market mechanisms: 21 Jul 2026 austinvernon.site
- this is one possible way to visualize information 16 Jul 2026
- Whichever scraper is going through my blogposts, one-by-one requesting 50-100 copies of each at the same time, once per hour, while pretending to be referred from Google and running javascript and not blocking goatcounter: Why are you doing that? 15 Jul 2026
- Pseudpocalypse 14 Jul 2026 dynomight.net
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