The Intrinsic Perspective
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Natural philosophy, belles-lettres, polemics.
Screentime correlates more with kids' brains than IQ; Matt Yglesias gets Dan Dennett wrong; Why literary fiction awards keep falling for AI scams; & more
23 Jun 2026
Desiderata #40
Don't dethrone consciousness
5 Jun 2026
Don't dethrone consciousness!
5 Jun 2026
LLMs aren't conscious (and thinking they are is culturally dangerous)
But Dumbo could already fly?
23 May 2026
100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems
Dumbo Could Already Fly
23 May 2026
Dumbo Could Already Fly
23 May 2026
100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems
We Consciousness Researchers Have Failed You
29 Apr 2026
We consciousness researchers have failed you
29 Apr 2026
In Which I Become Shackleton
IVF epigenetic damage gets worse across generations; The next Project Hail Mary; AI's "odorless" math proofs; Waymo at 100% human oversight? & more
2 Apr 2026
IVF epigenetic damage gets worse across generations; The next Project Hail Mary; AI's "odorless" math proofs; Waymo at 100% human oversight? & more
2 Apr 2026
Desiderata #39
Hubris
19 Mar 2026
Hubris
19 Mar 2026
The Lore of the World: Part 4
RIP Dan Simmons. Why weren't you more famous?
13 Mar 2026
The world hates a polymath
RIP Dan Simmons. Why Weren't You More Famous?
13 Mar 2026
Bits In, Bits Out
5 Mar 2026
Six years of AI and the world got stupider
Bits In, Bits Out
5 Mar 2026
My New Org to Solve Consciousness (or Die Trying); A Rogue AI Community That Wasn't; David Foster Wallace Is Still Right; Cow Tools Are Real, & More
5 Feb 2026
Desiderata #38: links and commentary
My New Org to Solve Consciousness (or Die Trying); A Rogue AI Community That Wasn't; David Foster Wallace Is Still Right; Cow Tools Are Real, & More
5 Feb 2026
It only snows like this for children
26 Jan 2026
The Lore of the World: Part 3
It Only Snows Like This for Children
26 Jan 2026
Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious
15 Jan 2026
There is nothing it is like to be a Large Language Model
Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious
15 Jan 2026
How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America
19 Dec 2025
How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America
19 Dec 2025
Teaching (Very) Early Math: Part 1 of.... yikes
Our Overfitted Century
8 Dec 2025
Our overfitted century
8 Dec 2025
Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution
Pluribus and Our Age of Hive Minds
18 Nov 2025
Pluribus and Our Age of Hive Minds
18 Nov 2025
The tyranny of online life
John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse
12 Nov 2025
John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse
12 Nov 2025
Pop-hereditarianism is built on selective credulity
The Internet You Missed: A Last 2025 Snapshot
5 Nov 2025
TIP's community writing: Part 2 of 2
The Internet You Missed: A Last 2025 Snapshot
5 Nov 2025
I Figured Out How to Engineer Emergence
22 Oct 2025
I figured out how to engineer emergence
22 Oct 2025
What's come of my return to science
Books to Stoke the Soul of a Young Child
9 Oct 2025
Books to Stoke the Soul of a Young Child
9 Oct 2025
The dead genre of "read aloud" literature
Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious
24 Sep 2025
Don't give AIs "exit rights" to conversations
Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious
24 Sep 2025
We Are Not Low Creatures
12 Sep 2025
Life on Mars aims us all upward
We Are Not Low Creatures
12 Sep 2025
Erik's Plea in The Free Press: Bring Back Aristocratic Tutoring
2 Sep 2025
Breaking the malaise around education.
Erik's Plea in The Free Press: Bring Back Aristocratic Tutoring
2 Sep 2025
Redesigning The Intrinsic Perspective
21 Aug 2025
How to make Substacks look good
Redesigning The Intrinsic Perspective
21 Aug 2025
The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot
13 Aug 2025
TIP's community writing: Part 1 of 2
The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot
13 Aug 2025
GPT-5's debut is slop; Will AI cause the next depression? Harvard prof warns of alien invasion; Alpha School & homeschool heroes
6 Aug 2025
Desiderata #37
GPT-5's debut is slop; Will AI cause the next depression? Harvard prof warns of alien invasion; Alpha School & homeschool heroes
6 Aug 2025
Literacy lag: We start reading too late
31 Jul 2025
Teaching (Very) Early Reading: Part 5
Literacy lag: We start reading too late
31 Jul 2025