The Intrinsic Perspective

I Figured Out How to Engineer Emergence

What's come of my return to science

Oct 22 • 

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Books to Stoke the Soul of a Young Child

The dead genre of "read aloud" literature

Oct 9 • 

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September 2025

Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious

Don't give AIs "exit rights" to conversations

Sep 24 • 

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We Are Not Low Creatures

Life on Mars aims us all upward

Sep 12 • 

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

Breaking the malaise around education.

Sep 2 • 

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August 2025

Redesigning The Intrinsic Perspective

How to make Substacks look good

Aug 21 • 

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The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot

TIP's community writing: Part 1 of 2

Aug 13 • 

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GPT-5's debut is slop; Will AI cause the next depression? Harvard prof warns of alien invasion; Alpha School & homeschool heroes

Desiderata #37

Aug 6 • 

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July 2025

Literacy lag: We start reading too late

Teaching (Very) Early Reading: Part 5

Jul 31 • 

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"They Die Every Day"

An information hazard

Jul 14 • 

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June 2025

A Prophecy of Silicon Valley's Fall

2010 Valley > 2025 Valley

Jun 26 • 

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More Lore of the World

Field Notes for a Child's Codex: Part 2

Jun 19 • 

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