>complexity and AI: why LLMs succeeded where generative linguistics failed
>the sociology of false beliefs
>information faster than light: emergence, symbol and the representation of nothing
>the Gates-Musk paradox: conspiracy theories are not about what the theorists think they're about
>the obvious evidence that propaganda persuades no one
>two modes of information acquisition
>the unconscious mind is rational, the conscious mind is not
>of mathematical beauty: crystals and potatoes, a Darwinian explanation
>the duality of truth: functional process vs probabilistic uses of "true" (pace Pinker)
>art, craft, game-theoretic cognition and machine learning
>the necessary mediocrity of art, UFOs and religions, and the boundless imagination of science
>where is the mind and what's a thought?
>how we know what dogs are not saying and that the universe is not thinking
>jones' 4 corollaries to Brandolini's Law
>the gnomiad: the science and sociology of life advice, and their paradoxical puzzles
>self-selection & the unchosen: identity, the spark bird and the Freudian trap
>de-mystifying Wittgenstein (and a tribute to Chomsky)
>an addendum on Robin Hanson's grabby aliens
>where the future is behind you
>the fool's errand attachment: a cognitive bias
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