Archive - LooFWIRED w/ Mark Changizi

We Built AI Without Knowing What Intelligence Is

“An AI can reason impressively about whether someone is being deceptive without having an instinct for avoiding deception.

Nov 8 • Mark Changizi

Signs of the Rise of the New Right were already there in 2020

Plandemic to Woke Right

Nov 8 • Mark Changizi

Matt Walsh’s Authoritarian Streak

(1) COVID mandates — Supported heavy-handed government restrictions during the early COVID panic, including masking mandates and lockdowns.

Nov 7 • Mark Changizi

Is it not only the end of finished projects, but the end of discovery?

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Nov 6 • Mark Changizi

The Woke Right is blaming anyone but themselves for losing

Nov 5 • Mark Changizi

Winning Elections by Dropping Your Principles?

People on the Right are scrambling to say what they wish had been done differently in order to have won.

Nov 5 • Mark Changizi

Why We Have Aha Moments

If you’re an artist, scientist, writer, inventor, entrepreneur — anyone whose work depends on having genuinely new ideas — you know the uncomfortable…

Nov 3 • Mark Changizi

October 2026

Imperial Units are Another Example of How Cultural Evolution Shapes the World to Fit Us

Oct 29 • Mark Changizi

AI Slop! And Other Ways to Miss the Point

I’ve been struggling to diagnose the prejudice against the use of AI among many people, including when it comes to AI helping with one’s prose.

Oct 26 • Mark Changizi

The Intelligent Design Pattern

It plagues everything, from politics to free will, consciousness and human nature

Oct 25 • Mark Changizi

AI Is Undermining the Incentive to Discover

AI may not just undermine the incentive to make books and other finished works. Follow the logic far enough and it may undermine the incentive to…

Oct 23 • Mark Changizi

I’ve been working for several years on a new, deeper theory of the origins and meaning of music

I’ve been working for several years on a new, deeper theory of the origins and meaning of music.

Oct 22 • Mark Changizi

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