Archive - The Intrinsic Perspective

No, you can't just replace science with Silicon Valley

Profit and science rarely mix well

Apr 25 •

Alien Poop Means We Are Not Alone. But Let Me Just Adjust This Model Parameter...

K2-18b and our new age of alien agnosticism

Apr 18 •

Fake dire wolves; AI tariffs chaos; neuroimaging's big mistake; the ethics of seeding life in space, & more

Desiderata #34: links and thoughts

Apr 8 •

The art of the Substack

60,000 subscribers later, here's a tour of the factory floor

Apr 4 •

March 2025

February 2025

AI plays Pokémon, but so does π. Tesla's "brand collapse." Neuroscience scaling laws. Why do I know all the songs on the radio?

Desiderata #33: links and thoughts

Feb 27 •

Polymaths are back from the dead

AI's resurrection of an extinct breed of intellectual

Feb 20 •

The enhancement and atrophy of human cognition go hand in hand

Feb 13 •

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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