Sitemap - 2024 - The Intrinsic Perspective
The BIG GUIDE to teaching LITTLE PEOPLE how to sound out words
I said no to $20,000 because writers must take a moral stand on AI
Your body thinks itself into its shape
AI progress has plateaued below GPT-5 level
What do you think about consciousness?
You don't have to endorse anyone, you can just vote (and other thoughts on the election)
Yes, scientific progress depends on like a thousand people
Consciousness as a Gödel sentence in the language of science
Blogging sure has changed in its Silver Age
Your resident artist talks cancer, creative origins, and the shadow cast by fathers
Sticky humans in a post-AGI world
Sorry Ted Chiang, humans aren't very original either
Neuralink's grand vision isn't scientifically supported
Curious George and the case of the unconscious culture
Sampling the 2024 blogosphere: Part 3
A green screen for thought itself
The universe suddenly hates satire
Five intellectual figures who left us too soon
All the existential risk, none of the economic impact. That's a shitty trade
Oops, we maxed out intelligence but minimized wisdom
Sampling the 2024 blogosphere: Part 2
The #1 AI can't teach basic stuff like reading
Scientific American falsely links homeschooling to abuse
Becoming a parent made me a better person
Sampling the 2024 blogosphere: Part 1
Getting your child to love reading in 2024
Goodbye to Noam Chomsky, OpenAI's trust problem, Crows caw numbers, Star signs of Dyson spheres?
Academia is dangerously close to "network or perish"
Pronatalism has a repugnant conclusion problem
Making a living as a book author is as rare as being a billionaire
We live in a culture of magpies
RIP to the man who beat the efficient market hypothesis
I want to read your writing (call for subscriber submissions)
On reaching the age of the TV anti-hero
How to teach your two-year-old to read
How to become a successful scientist: a guide
IQ discourse is increasingly unhinged
The Gen Z gender divide: The Intrinsic Podcast #4
How The New York Times beat me
Hegelian dialectics for the 21st Century
Is it moral to lock writing behind paywalls?
AI keeps getting better at talking about consciousness
Ask Erik Hoel: "If I take a job at Meta, should I go long-distance with my girlfriend?"
Did novels stop mattering in the 2010s?
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
Recent AI failures are cracks in the magic
I'm a neuroscientist. Our presidential candidates have shrinking prefrontal cortexes.
Five books that taught me how to write
The unbearable whiteness of Neptune
Why is it so hard to know if you're helping?
Choose two of the three: career, family, community
Neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic. Consciousness is why