About
Dynomight is a pseudonymous writer, data scientist, and independent researcher behind the acclaimed blog Dynomight Internet Website (dynomight.net), published since 2020.
They are celebrated for combining rigorous statistical methodology with radical curiosity and extraordinary self-experimentation—ranging from multi-month quantified studies on air quality, L-theanine, and dietary interventions to deep investigations into scientific replication, statistics, and epistemology. Their work has appeared in publications such as Asterisk Magazine and Asimov Press, regularly earning wide acclaim across Hacker News, the rationalist community, and the broader tech blogosphere.
On dynomight.net, essays start from seemingly simple questions—from whether houseplants actually filter indoor CO₂ to the counterintuitive mechanics of giving advice—and follow raw data and empirical literature wherever they lead. Characterized by dry wit, custom visualizations, and uncompromising intellectual honesty, every post is handcrafted with care.
You can also find Dynomight on:
- Website: https://dynomight.net
- Bluesky: @dynomight.net
- Mastodon: mastodon.social/@dynomight
- Email: [email protected]
Articles
- Thoughts I had while reading your comment
- Indirect lessons from human alignment
- So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂
- Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge?
- Does creatine make you smarter?
- Pseudpocalypse
- Life with hazard ratios
- Blink if you’re human
- The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
- Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”?
- What’s with all the slide decks?
- You’re probably taking the wrong painkiller
- I quit drinking for a year
- LLMs predict my coffee
- The modern formatting addiction in writing
- Maybe there’s a pattern here?
- Heritability of human life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined to be something different
- Why read novels?
- Good if make prior after data instead of before
- Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities
- Underrated reasons to be thankful V
- Make product worse, get money
- Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts
- Pointing machines, population pyramids, post office scandal, type species, and horse urine
- Will the explainer post go extinct?
- Y’all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments
- Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and Sea Peoples
- Dear PendingKetchup
- You can try to like stuff
- I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion