Ranking inkhaven bloggers: Update

A few days ago, I released a list of the top bloggers from the Inkhaven writing residency. Since then, more posts have been released, and I have also spent some time figuring out bugs in the code—people are uploading their blogs to any number of different websites, each of which works slightly differently. Almost inevitably, they won’t necessarily all scrape in the same manner (and this is unfortunately also true of the “download all” function on the inkhaven portal).

So I have had Claude Code work extremely diligently on checking everyone’s posts to make sure we’re not doing anyone a disservice. Separately, I have also had Claude Code work on getting all of these new rankings into a proper searchable system on my website, and the residents have become significantly more invested now that I’ve put it all up on the whiteboards.

In any case, here is the updated list of the top posts:

#	Score	Author	Title
1	+2.99σ ± 0.18	Natalie Cargill	How to invent a disease
2	+2.65σ ± 0.17	Aaron Gertler	Posts I Will Not Be Writing
3	+2.47σ ± 0.25	Remy	Yudkowsky Vs. Ross
4	+2.46σ ± 0.12	Natalie Cargill	The largest manufacturer of feelings in human history
5	+2.41σ ± 0.12	viv	Late pregnancy is pretty bizarre
6	+2.37σ ± 0.12	Alec Thompson	More Legal Systems Very Different From Ours 1
7	+2.37σ ± 0.13	Anna Mattinger	Three Stones are Enough: The Case Against Leaves, in Particular
8	+2.35σ ± 0.12	Smitty	How the Claude Mythos leak happened
9	+2.34σ ± 0.12	viv	The phenomenology of being hungry while pregnant
10	+2.31σ ± 0.12	Alec Thompson	Finding Jack O’Neil
11	+2.31σ ± 0.12	Itsi Weinstock	Sin as a physical particle
12	+2.30σ ± 0.13	Avi	The Smell
13	+2.25σ ± 0.11	Alec Thompson	More Legal Systems Very Different From Ours 2: Nazi Private Law
14	+2.12σ ± 0.12	Alec Thompson	Why did Hitler hate Roman law?
15	+2.10σ ± 0.13	Vishal Prasad	“When the buffalo went away...”
16	+2.10σ ± 0.12	viv	How many genders are there?
17	+2.07σ ± 0.11	Natalie Cargill	I did it. I found the worst poem in the world.
18	+2.05σ ± 0.15	Austen	Would England have Industrialized without Coal?
19	+2.05σ ± 0.13	Sean Herrington	The quest for general intelligence is hitting a wall [April Fool’s]
20	+2.03σ ± 0.33	Steven K	Contra Lightcone Infrastructure on the Location of Lighthaven

And the top authors are now:

#	Score	Number of posts	Author	Top post
1	+2.75σ ± 0.08	13	viv	Late pregnancy is pretty bizarre
2	+2.22σ ± 0.09	13	Natalie Cargill	How to invent a disease
3	+1.64σ ± 0.09	11	Aaron Gertler	Posts I Will Not Be Writing
4	+1.51σ ± 0.11	13	Katja Grace	Orgs: unreasonable boyfriend as service
5	+1.43σ ± 0.11	13	Steven K	Contra Lightcone Infrastructure on the Location of Lighthaven
6	+1.26σ ± 0.13	14	Alec Thompson	More Legal Systems Very Different From Ours 1
7	+1.07σ ± 0.09	13	Kevin Z Wu	(box\|bag) in (box\|bag) in (box\|bag)
8	+1.02σ ± 0.11	13	Austen	Would England have Industrialized without Coal?
9	+1.01σ ± 0.12	13	capsuletime	Fuck Blogging
10	+0.91σ ± 0.15	13	Drew Schorno	2035
11	+0.71σ ± 0.14	14	conq	The one-word poem worth $8,000
12	+0.66σ ± 0.17	13	Justis Mills	Support (Short Fiction)
13	+0.65σ ± 0.16	13	Lawrence Chan	We’re actually running out of benchmarks to upper bound AI capabilities
14	+0.50σ ± 0.11	13	Aaron Kaufman	For Against Against Romance
15	+0.47σ ± 0.15	9	Layla Hughes	Every Lighthaven Writing Residency
16	+0.46σ ± 0.11	13	Henry Stanley	Inkhavening
17	+0.35σ ± 0.14	12	Against Moloch	Perverse Incentives, Part One
18	+0.35σ ± 0.22	11	Remy	Yudkowsky Vs. Ross
19	+0.34σ ± 0.11	13	Bill Jackson	Two critiques of Rethink Priorities’ Moral Weights project
20	+0.34σ ± 0.21	9	Alicorn	Post by @luminousalicorn

You’ll note I’ve now added the errors to the measurement values as a good man of science.

I’ve also done a bit of analysis on the distributions of both authors and posts, both of which look pretty normal:

I don’t know what exactly viv is doing to hit the high 2 sigmas, but she’s killing it.

We also have the following fun graph, which brings us to the clear conclusion that nobody is getting any better at writing during inkhaven:

Maybe that will improve now we have a scoreboard.