The Intrinsic Perspective

How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America

Teaching (Very) Early Math: Part 1 of.... yikes

Dec 19, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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Our Overfitted Century

Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution

Dec 8, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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November 2025

Pluribus and Our Age of Hive Minds

The tyranny of online life

Nov 18, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse

Pop-hereditarianism is built on selective credulity

Nov 12, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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The Internet You Missed: A Last 2025 Snapshot

TIP's community writing: Part 2 of 2

Nov 5, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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October 2025

I Figured Out How to Engineer Emergence

What's come of my return to science

Oct 22, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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Books to Stoke the Soul of a Young Child

The dead genre of "read aloud" literature

Oct 9, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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September 2025

Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious

Don't give AIs "exit rights" to conversations

Sep 24, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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We Are Not Low Creatures

Life on Mars aims us all upward

Sep 12, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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Erik's Plea in The Free Press: Bring Back Aristocratic Tutoring

Breaking the malaise around education.

Sep 2, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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August 2025

Redesigning The Intrinsic Perspective

How to make Substacks look good

Aug 21, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot

TIP's community writing: Part 1 of 2

Aug 13, 2025 • Erik Hoel

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