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ChatGPT Delusion Syndrome: Why Disruption Doesn't Care About Sentience or Free Will
You or someone you love may suffer from this condition. Read for a cure.
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Stop lying to children about Santa Claus
An argument for instilling honesty and critical thinking during the holidays, rather than deception, conformity, and magical thinking. Also, some…
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Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI
New evidence from the past week (e.g. Anthropic's "alignment faking" paper + OpenAI's new o3 model scoring 87% on ARC-AGI) gave me the courage to speak…
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Apex Intelligence: Orcas, the Alignment Problem, & Existential Risk
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How AI helped me interpret and decode my manic/psychotic notes to self
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Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI
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Why we should deregulate psychotherapy
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Stop lying to children about Santa Claus
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How (and why) to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved by the FDA
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Infants feel pain, continents move, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, and 27 other things that you would have at some point been ridiculed…
I think it's actually super important to remember this: it's not only possible for literally everyone to be wrong about important questions, but it's…
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How (and why) to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved by the FDA
Recommendations for Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS), and arguments for the Food and Drug Administration.
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Why we should deregulate psychotherapy
Nice people, with some basic training in active listening, appear to be just as good as professionals (many independent studies support this…
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Critical thinking is not an illusion
A writer recently argued that what we call "critical thinking" is actually just knowing more facts about a topic. I think he is deeply confused about…
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How AI helped me interpret and decode my manic/psychotic notes to self
The AI provided impressively useful interpretations of various rambling notes I'd written during my first and (knock on wood) only manic & psychotic…
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Apex Intelligence: Orcas, the Alignment Problem, & Existential Risk
AI won't stay in our fishbowl forever.
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Orca & Fishbowl
Orca & Fishbowl
The intersection of AI, psychology, consciousness, ethics, orcas, and many other topics. Reverse knowledge cutoff as of August 1994.
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