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The Four Crazy Options of Quantum Mechanics
The trilemma of quantum mechanics interpretations strikes me as a picture-perfect case of a reductio ad absurdum argument.
Jun 11
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The Intelligence in the Prompt
The Intelligence in the Prompt
Jun 8
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“Where are the secular Muslim leaders?“
Moment 616
Jun 6
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Interstellar travel is a vision problem
The pebbles will kill you way before you get to relativistic speeds
Jun 4
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“Why don’t moderate Muslims demonstrate against Islamists?”
People in the West often ask, “Why don’t moderate Muslims march in huge numbers against Islamists?”
Jun 2
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May 2026
Using AI to copy edit doesn’t mean AI wrote your prose
If you’ve ever read one of my books, you’ve already read prose that was heavily altered by copy editors.
May 31
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Absurdity as a Feature: The Social Mania Behind the Israeli Prison Rape Claims
Moment 611
May 30
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The Fading Trophies of Mathematical Discovery
LLMs are now getting so absurdly good at math that frontier systems from OpenAI and Google DeepMind have already hit gold-medal IMO performance …
May 28
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Botox Makes No Biological Sense
For decades now, we’ve treated the face according to a theory of aging that we would consider insane for the rest of the body.
May 26
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Why Do People Expect Muslim Leaders to Sound Religious?
People are often surprised to learn that Reza Pahlavi is Muslim, and that so was his father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
May 24
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Our skin is not upholstery
A lot of people carry around an implicit model of skin that is basically… carpet.
May 22
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The Absurdity is Not a Bug
Moment 611
May 20
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