The Intrinsic Perspective
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Natural philosophy, belles-lettres, polemics.
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Goodbye Slopstack! Also, a $50,000 essay/fiction contest, adversarial consciousness tech, & more
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24 Jul 2026
Desiderata #41
Anthropic runs like Wile E. Coyote into the brick wall of consciousness research
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13 Jul 2026
When the AI companies first began talking about existential risk, it was common to hear some version of:
Screentime correlates more with kids' brains than IQ; Matt Yglesias gets Dan Dennett wrong; Why literary fiction awards keep falling for AI scams; & more
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23 Jun 2026
Desiderata #40
Don't dethrone consciousness!
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5 Jun 2026
LLMs aren't conscious (and thinking they are is culturally dangerous)
But Dumbo could already fly?
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23 May 2026
100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems
Dumbo Could Already Fly
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23 May 2026
100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems
IVF epigenetic damage gets worse across generations; The next Project Hail Mary; AI's "odorless" math proofs; Waymo at 100% human oversight? & more
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2 Apr 2026
Desiderata #39
IVF epigenetic damage gets worse across generations; The next Project Hail Mary; AI's "odorless" math proofs; Waymo at 100% human oversight? & more
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2 Apr 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
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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
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5 Feb 2026
Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious
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15 Jan 2026
There is nothing it is like to be a Large Language Model
How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America
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19 Dec 2025
Teaching (Very) Early Math: Part 1 of.... yikes
John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse
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12 Nov 2025
Pop-hereditarianism is built on selective credulity
The Internet You Missed: A Last 2025 Snapshot
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5 Nov 2025
TIP's community writing: Part 2 of 2
Books to Stoke the Soul of a Young Child
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9 Oct 2025
The dead genre of "read aloud" literature
Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious
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24 Sep 2025
Don't give AIs "exit rights" to conversations
Erik's Plea in The Free Press: Bring Back Aristocratic Tutoring
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2 Sep 2025
Breaking the malaise around education.
