Sitemap - 2026 - The Intrinsic Perspective

Humanity’s Flight 93 Moment

Culture Becomes a Dark Forest

Buying a house as a mid-century modern midwit

Goodbye Slopstack! Also, a $50,000 essay/fiction contest, adversarial consciousness tech, & more

Anthropic runs like Wile E. Coyote into the brick wall of consciousness research

Screentime correlates more with kids' brains than IQ; Matt Yglesias gets Dan Dennett wrong; Why literary fiction awards keep falling for AI scams; & more

Don't dethrone consciousness!

But Dumbo could already fly?

We consciousness researchers have failed you

IVF epigenetic damage gets worse across generations; The next Project Hail Mary; AI's "odorless" math proofs; Waymo at 100% human oversight? & more

RIP Dan Simmons. Why weren't you more famous?

Bits In, Bits Out

My New Org to Solve Consciousness (or Die Trying); A Rogue AI Community That Wasn't; David Foster Wallace Is Still Right; Cow Tools Are Real, & More

It only snows like this for children

Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious

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