Archive - \_ooFWIRED -- hosted by Mark Changizi

Neither 5D Chess Nor Idiocy

I’ve found myself surprisingly flat-footed trying to make sense of Trump’s behavior regarding the Islamic Republic.

Jun 19 • Mark Changizi

Skin is not upholstery

Jun 19 • Mark Changizi

A two-fer on LLMs: do they think, and are they conscious?

Jun 17 • Mark Changizi

Machinimals: What the Aliens We Meet Are Likely to Be

Jun 15 • Mark Changizi

Why “Musk creates value” misses the point

Jun 14 • Mark Changizi

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 • Mark Changizi

The Intelligence in the Prompt

The Intelligence in the Prompt

Jun 8 • Mark Changizi

“Where are the secular Muslim leaders?“

Jun 6 • Mark Changizi

Interstellar travel is a vision problem

The pebbles will kill you way before you get to relativistic speeds

Jun 4 • Mark Changizi

“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 • Mark Changizi

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 • Mark Changizi

Absurdity as a Feature: The Social Mania Behind the Israeli Prison Rape Claims

May 30 • Mark Changizi

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