Humanity’s Flight 93 Moment

Culture Becomes a Dark Forest

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

Don't dethrone consciousness!

Dumbo Could Already Fly

We Consciousness Researchers Have Failed You

Hubris

Bits In, Bits Out

It Only Snows Like This for Children

Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious

Our Overfitted Century

John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse

The Internet You Missed: A Last 2025 Snapshot

I Figured Out How to Engineer Emergence

Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious 

We Are Not Low Creatures

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

The Internet You Missed: A 2025 Snapshot

Literacy lag: We start reading too late

"They Die Every Day"

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.

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

The Lore of the World

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

Welcome to the semantic apocalypse

Now published: My new theory of emergence!

The Memory Game Rulebook

brAIn drAIn

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

The executive order Trump should sign: AI watermarks

The new Liar's Paradox

Stop speedrunning to a dystopia

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

Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality

Mass hysteria was the inevitable outcome of the UFO craze

I said no to $20,000 because writers must take a moral stand on AI

AI progress has plateaued below GPT-5 level

What do you think about consciousness?

Consciousness as a Gödel sentence in the language of science

Vigil

Sticky humans in a post-AGI world

Sorry Ted Chiang, humans aren't very original either