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I realize now I was my own LLM
My own notebooks — maybe seventy of them over the years — have always been where I build theories.
Apr 27
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Mark Changizi
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Dumb enough to make great discoveries
One piece of wisdom I’ve earned from decades of theory is that my success across many areas, including several seminal discoveries, is not due to…
Apr 26
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Mark Changizi
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The Red and Blue Buttons: Parables of Humanity’s Enduring Sickness and the Persistence of Collectivism
In a simple thought experiment popularized by Tim Urban, participants face a binary choice: press the Red button or the Blue button.
Apr 26
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An Extremely Simple Idea for Managing the Middle East
One sometimes wonders, in a quiet moment, how a great power might expand its reach without the endless expense, blowback, and political headache of…
Apr 23
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Mark Changizi
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Why do Trump’s posts not follow presidential decorum?
Moment 605
Apr 17
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Mark Changizi
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🚨 List of Islamic Republic proxies
Lebanon
Apr 11
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Mark Changizi
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The rise of LLMs has crushed interest in “the why,” but it’s more important than ever
One downside of LLMs, from a cognitive science and AI point of view, is that there were historically two reasons to want to solve the deep enigmas of…
Apr 10
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Mark Changizi
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Trump’s posts often aren’t really sentences and paragraphs at all, but emotional signals
Yesterday, countless idiots were shitting themselves that Trump had just threatened to genocide Iranians.
Apr 8
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Mark Changizi
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Israel isn’t just part of the West — it’s a peak expression of it, and arguably its wellspring
Israel isn’t just part of the West — it’s a peak expression of it, and arguably its wellspring.
Apr 6
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Mark Changizi
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Libertarianism Properly Understood Isn’t Isolationist
One structural reason you find so many Jew-hating, isolationist libertarians is that libertarianism is a thin theory.
Apr 5
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Mark Changizi
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We love photos, but not their auditory analogs. Why?
Last night I was invited to Sound Lux Audio Studio in Miami, set up by Eric Gould—a space devoted to cutting-edge, old-school audio where you can hear…
Apr 4
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Mark Changizi
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March 2026
Our Muslim Allies and Western Soft Opponents
A reminder that the Muslim world is not our enemy.
Mar 31
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Mark Changizi
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