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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
Feb 8
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Erik Hoel
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2.3% chance an asteroid hits Earth, book blurbs finally die, and the new AI Deep Research can't find me a mattress
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January 2025
When I find myself in times of trouble, mother math comes to me
Regression to the mean as good life advice
Jan 30
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Erik Hoel
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When I find myself in times of trouble, mother math comes to me
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The executive order Trump should sign: AI watermarks
Regulation that's politically neutral and technologically feasible
Jan 23
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Erik Hoel
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The executive order Trump should sign: AI watermarks
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The new Liar's Paradox
A parable of perfect people-pleasers
Jan 17
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Erik Hoel
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The new Liar's Paradox
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Your brain is a washing machine, AGI's job prospects, Americans are alone, the Earth passes "peak child"
Desiderata #31: links and commentary
Jan 14
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Erik Hoel
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Your brain is a washing machine, AGI's job prospects, Americans are alone, the Earth passes "peak child"
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Stop speedrunning to a dystopia
We need more warnings about amusing ourselves to death
Jan 10
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Erik Hoel
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Stop speedrunning to a dystopia
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Baum's original Oz is darker and stranger than Wicked
It has a flawed female character too: Dorothy
Jan 7
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Erik Hoel
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Baum's original Oz is darker and stranger than Wicked
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In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet
Celebrating 52,000 subscribers for The Intrinsic Perspective
Jan 2
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Erik Hoel
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In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet
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December 2024
Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality
The unreasonable effectiveness of aesthetics in science
Dec 30, 2024
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Erik Hoel
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Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality
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UFOs are a soft sci-fi genre
Real "first contact" will be technosignatures from far away
Dec 20, 2024
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Erik Hoel
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UFOs are a soft sci-fi genre
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Mass hysteria was the inevitable outcome of the UFO craze
Dancing in Strasbourg, vol. 3675
Dec 17, 2024
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Erik Hoel
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Mass hysteria was the inevitable outcome of the UFO craze
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Literature needs young men more than young men need it
A warning, a worry, a wariness
Dec 11, 2024
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Erik Hoel
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Literature needs young men more than young men need it
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