Archive - The Intrinsic Perspective

Welcome to the semantic apocalypse

Studio Ghibli style and the draining of meaning

Mar 27 •

Why we stopped making Einsteins

Aristocratic tutoring I: Explaining the decline of genius

Mar 16, 2022 •

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

Feb 27, 2024 •

What the heck happened in 2012?

On when the modern world was invented

Aug 16, 2023 •

Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals

Nerdom is great. . . but at what cost?

Nov 9, 2023 •

The enhancement and atrophy of human cognition go hand in hand

Feb 13 •

The gossip trap

How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it

Sep 6, 2022 •

Making a living as a book author is as rare as being a billionaire

Cultural billionaires vs. actual billionaires

May 28, 2024 •

Polymaths are back from the dead

AI's resurrection of an extinct breed of intellectual

Feb 20 •

"I am Bing, and I am evil"

Microsoft's new AI really does herald a global threat

Feb 16, 2023 •

Your body thinks itself into its shape

Recent findings explain the perennial confusion around nutrition science

Nov 19, 2024 •

How the MFA swallowed literature

On the total world-domination of workshopped fiction

Nov 17, 2021 •

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