Mind & Human Nature
What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
Why rationalists can’t answer the doomers or the boomers
The American dream has always meant living in our own fantasy worlds. Maybe it’s time to really go for it.
“Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow.
The boom in amateur therapists is hurting our children, a new book argues.
How psychedelics went from counterculture to grind culture
Why modern man yearns to be replaced, fantasizes of being the one to do it, and how we can stay human instead
LLMs are giving us a billion ripoffs of what we already are at a moment when we yearn for something new.
