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Don't dethrone consciousness!
LLMs aren't conscious (and thinking they are is culturally dangerous)
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But Dumbo could already fly?
100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems
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We consciousness researchers have failed you
In Which I Become Shackleton
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IVF epigenetic damage gets worse across generations; The next Project Hail Mary; AI's "odorless" math proofs; Waymo at 100% human oversight…
Desiderata #39
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Hubris
The Lore of the World: Part 4
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Enter my head.
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Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious
There is nothing it is like to be a Large Language Model
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Our overfitted century
Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution
Dec 8, 2025
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"They die every day"
An information hazard
Jul 14, 2025
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Welcome to the semantic apocalypse
Studio Ghibli style and the draining of meaning
Mar 27, 2025
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Vigil
A larger animal waits for a smaller one to die
Oct 14, 2024
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Making a living as a book author is as rare as being a billionaire
Cultural billionaires vs. actual billionaires
May 28, 2024
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Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals
Nerdom is great. . . but at what cost?
Nov 9, 2023
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What the heck happened in 2012?
On when the modern world was invented
Aug 16, 2023
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Your IQ isn't 160. No one's is.
Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns, unicorns, or mermaids
May 9, 2023
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AI-art isn't art
DALL-E and other AI artists offer only the imitation of art
May 18, 2022
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Why we stopped making Einsteins
Aristocratic tutoring I: Explaining the decline of genius
Mar 16, 2022
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How the MFA swallowed literature
On the total world-domination of workshopped fiction
Nov 17, 2021
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Enter my head, please?
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Teach Your Toddler to Read
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How I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old
Teaching (very) early reading: Part 4
May 28, 2025
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Literacy lag: We start reading too late
Teaching (Very) Early Reading: Part 5
Jul 31, 2025
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The BIG GUIDE to teaching LITTLE PEOPLE how to sound out words
Teaching (very) early reading: Part 3
Dec 5, 2024
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Getting your child to love reading in 2024
Teaching (very) early reading: Part 2
Jun 13, 2024
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How to teach your two-year-old to read
Teaching (very) early reading: Part 1
Apr 24, 2024
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Heads are bigger on the inside.
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The Lore of the World: Letters to a Young Child
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Whales sing in the deep
The Lore of the World: Part 1
May 1, 2025
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Hubris
The Lore of the World: Part 4
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It only snows like this for children
The Lore of the World: Part 3
Jan 26
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The Bourbon Brood
The Lore of the World: Part 2
Jun 19, 2025
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