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

Non-political content online gets nerfed; AIs never got superintelligent in e-sports; Is "selling out" no longer a thing?

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

Vigil

Your resident artist talks cancer, creative origins, and the shadow cast by fathers

Sticky humans in a post-AGI world

Sam Altman sends his regards, Can Starship even make it to Mars? Microplastics in your brain, Marmosets have names

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

Reasons why blogging is dumb

The riot in Toronto

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

Reflexive commentary following assassination attempt, NYT top 100 books are biased toward the early 2000s, GPT-5 delay means no intelligence explosion

Oops, we maxed out intelligence but minimized wisdom

Sampling the 2024 blogosphere: Part 2

The #1 AI can't teach basic stuff like reading

Presidential debate shifts prediction markets. The internet shares CPS stories with me. Evopsych results fail to replicate. Emerson enrollment collapses.

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

AI-balloon pops, Pasteur fights H5N1 in cattle, Tetris dreams, and the origins of "shut up and calculate"

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

Lumina controversy, literary scandals, Google tackles AI-pollution, cultural drift, and how to meet me in person

How to become a successful scientist: a guide

IQ discourse is increasingly unhinged

The Gen Z gender divide: The Intrinsic Podcast #4

Richard Dawkins a Christian? Beethoven's genes bad at music? Smartphones not behind depression? What?

How The New York Times beat me

Hegelian dialectics for the 21st Century

Is it moral to lock writing behind paywalls?

Lit mag Guernica implodes, LLMs beat neuroscientists, CS vs. Philosophy deathmatch, AI pollution reaches science

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

Dancing proves the #1 treatment for depression; gender and Shakespeare; single men want children more than women now

I'm a neuroscientist. Our presidential candidates have shrinking prefrontal cortexes.

Five books that taught me how to write

The unbearable whiteness of Neptune

Taylor Swift conspiracies, Neanderthal reincarnation, Gen Z political divide, elite tutoring keeps sucking

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

The Intrinsic Perspective's subscriber writing: Part 3

Is 2024 the year of reckoning for academia?