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We Are Not Low Creatures

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

Redesigning The Intrinsic Perspective

The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot

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

Literacy lag: We start reading too late

"They Die Every Day"

A Prophecy of Silicon Valley's Fall

More Lore of the World

$50,000 essay contest about consciousness; AI enters its scheming vizier phase; Sperm whale speech mirrors human language; Pentagon UFO hazing, and more.

In the Light of Victory, He Himself Shall Disappear

How I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old

I want to share your writing

The joy of blackouts; AI ruins college; The Consciousness Wars continue; Peter Singer’s chatbot betrays him, & more

The Lore of the World

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

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

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

The art of the Substack

Welcome to the semantic apocalypse

Now published: My new theory of emergence!

The Memory Game Rulebook

Why is life so damn hard?

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

Polymaths are back from the dead

2.3% chance an asteroid hits Earth, book blurbs finally die, and the new AI Deep Research can't find me a mattress

When I find myself in times of trouble, mother math comes to me

The executive order Trump should sign: AI watermarks

The new Liar's Paradox

Your brain is a washing machine, AGI's job prospects, Americans are alone, the Earth passes "peak child"

Stop speedrunning to a dystopia

Baum's original Oz is darker and stranger than Wicked

In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet

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