The Intrinsic Perspective
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Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities
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John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse
John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse
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November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse
The Internet You Missed: A Last 2025 Snapshot
The Internet You Missed: A Last 2025 Snapshot
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November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Internet You Missed: A Last 2025 Snapshot
I Figured Out How to Engineer Emergence
I Figured Out How to Engineer Emergence
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October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I Figured Out How to Engineer Emergence
Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious
Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious
Don't give AIs "exit rights" to conversations
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September 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious
We Are Not Low Creatures
We Are Not Low Creatures
Life on Mars aims us all upward
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September 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We Are Not Low Creatures
Erik's Plea in The Free Press: Bring Back Aristocratic Tutoring
Erik's Plea in The Free Press: Bring Back Aristocratic Tutoring
Breaking the malaise around education.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Erik's Plea in The Free Press: Bring Back Aristocratic Tutoring
The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot
The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot
TIP's community writing: Part 1 of 2
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August 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot
Literacy lag: We start reading too late
Literacy lag: We start reading too late
And neuromyths aren't helping
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July 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Literacy lag: We start reading too late
"They Die Every Day"
"They Die Every Day"
An information hazard
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July 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"They Die Every Day"
More Lore of the World
More Lore of the World
Walmart, cicadas, stubbornness
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June 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
More Lore of the World
$50,000 essay contest about consciousness; AI enters its scheming vizier phase; Sperm whale speech mirrors human language; Pentagon UFO hazing, and more.
$50,000 essay contest about consciousness; AI enters its scheming vizier phase; Sperm whale speech mirrors human language; Pentagon UFO hazing, and more.
Desiderata #36
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June 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
$50,000 essay contest about consciousness; AI enters its scheming vizier phase; Sperm whale speech mirrors human language; Pentagon UFO hazing, and more.
How I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old
How I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old
Tripling reading level through tutoring
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May 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
How I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old
The Lore of the World
The Lore of the World
Field Notes for a Child’s Codex
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May 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The Lore of the World
Alien Poop Means We Are Not Alone. But Let Me Just Adjust This Model Parameter...
Alien Poop Means We Are Not Alone. But Let Me Just Adjust This Model Parameter...
K2-18b and our new age of alien agnosticism
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April 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Alien Poop Means We Are Not Alone. But Let Me Just Adjust This Model Parameter...
Welcome to the semantic apocalypse
Welcome to the semantic apocalypse
Studio Ghibli style and the draining of meaning
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March 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Welcome to the semantic apocalypse
Now published: My new theory of emergence!
Now published: My new theory of emergence!
Glimmers of free will
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March 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Now published: My new theory of emergence!
The Memory Game Rulebook
The Memory Game Rulebook
An adventure of sensorial recollection awaits!
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March 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Memory Game Rulebook
brAIn drAIn
brAIn drAIn
The enhancement and atrophy of human cognition go hand in hand
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February 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
brAIn drAIn
2.3% chance an asteroid hits Earth, book blurbs finally die, and the new AI Deep Research can't find me a mattress
2.3% chance an asteroid hits Earth, book blurbs finally die, and the new AI Deep Research can't find me a mattress
Desiderata #32: links and commentary
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February 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
2.3% chance an asteroid hits Earth, book blurbs finally die, and the new AI Deep Research can't find me a mattress
The executive order Trump should sign: AI watermarks
The executive order Trump should sign: AI watermarks
Regulation that's politically neutral and technologically feasible
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January 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The executive order Trump should sign: AI watermarks
The new Liar's Paradox
The new Liar's Paradox
A parable of perfect people-pleasers
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January 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The new Liar's Paradox
Stop speedrunning to a dystopia
Stop speedrunning to a dystopia
We need more warnings about amusing ourselves to death
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January 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Stop speedrunning to a dystopia
In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet
In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet
Celebrating 52,000 subscribers for The Intrinsic Perspective
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January 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet
Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality
Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality
The unreasonable effectiveness of aesthetics in science
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December 30, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality
Mass hysteria was the inevitable outcome of the UFO craze
Mass hysteria was the inevitable outcome of the UFO craze
Dancing in Strasbourg, vol. 3675
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December 17, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Mass hysteria was the inevitable outcome of the UFO craze