Birth Order, Temperament, and the Adaptive Mind
Introduction: The Persistent Puzzle Parents and siblings often notice clear differences that seem tied to birth order. Firstborns can appear […]
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Birth Order, Temperament, and the Adaptive Mind
Introduction: The Persistent Puzzle Parents and siblings often notice clear differences that seem tied to birth order. Firstborns can appear
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An Introduction to My Thinking
In the spring of 2026 I asked six frontier language models the same carefully framed question. Independently, without knowledge of
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Why Synthetic Data Training Is AI Drinking Its Own Kool-Aid
The frontier AI labs have a supply problem. They have already ingested most of the useful human-written text in existence,
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Empire Is Always with Us
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) was one of the most original and unsettling American writers of the twentieth century. Best known
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Why Ignoring Human Nature Is So Financially Attractive, So Pervasive, and So Damaging
Motivational Blindness is the tendency to design institutions as if accurate models of human motivation were optional. The blindness is
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My Version of Plato’s Allegory
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave has lasted two and a half thousand years, and stories last by being true about
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A Sociological Review of the Covid Vaccine
This is not a clinical evaluation of COVID or of the vaccine. It is an exploration, through the philosophical framework I have
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How Influence Builds Our World
Imagine an alien anthropologist arriving to study human civilization. It would find a species capable of extraordinary cooperation, invention, beauty,
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Why Our Most Important Stories Are Emotional, Not True
We think we are rational animals who occasionally tell stories. The reality is inverted: we are narrative machines who occasionally