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The Melody Contains More Than Melody

The Hidden Geometric Paradox of Music

Are LLMs Conscious?

LLMs Killed Intelligent Design and the Ghost in the Machine

We invented Satan to explain the kind of evil we’ve been watching unfold in real time

I realize now I was my own LLM

Dumb enough to make great discoveries

The Red and Blue Buttons: Parables of Humanity’s Enduring Sickness and the Persistence of Collectivism

An Extremely Simple Idea for Managing the Middle East

Why do Trump’s posts not follow presidential decorum?

🚨 List of Islamic Republic proxies

The rise of LLMs has crushed interest in “the why,” but it’s more important than ever

Trump’s posts often aren’t really sentences and paragraphs at all, but emotional signals

Israel isn’t just part of the West — it’s a peak expression of it, and arguably its wellspring

Libertarianism Properly Understood Isn’t Isolationist

We love photos, but not their auditory analogs. Why?

Our Muslim Allies and Western Soft Opponents

Islamist Inquisitors: My latest interview on False Facts Fixed

No, Iranians aren’t being transformed into a next generation of radicals 🤦‍♂️

Anti-war people in a nutshell. (…sans the obsession with Israel.)

Excerpt from my appearance today with Tom Shillue on the Will Cain Show

“The Science of Freedom” — my appearance on Investigate Everything with Brian O’Shea

The Logic of “Irrational” Attacks

Two Islamist Regimes, One Excuse

The Woke Right: From Plague Rats to “Dirty Jews!”

Why Iranians are aligned with Israelis

Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson etc are symptoms of the problem

How Iranians devastate the “Free Palestine” narrative

Iran and the clarity of rare, pure top-down authoritarianism

To the fake isolationists and anti-war people. Moment 595

“Americans have no culture.”

Iran and the Clarity of Tyranny

The Woke Right: From Plague Rats to “Dirty Jews!”

Hamas’s own numbers have quietly demolished the “mostly civilians” narrative

What the Islamic Republic massacres of Iranians suggests about the deaths of Gazan civilians

Totalitarianism and Pahlavi

Why are collectivisms in the Christian World not called “Christian-ism”?

What Religion Actually Is

Why we hear so many fewer Gazan voices against Hamas than Iranian voices against the Islamic Republic

The Mullahs’ Mask is Gone

Unlike “Free Palestine,” “Free Iran” actually means freeing them from Islamofascism

The Islamic Republic kills its people directly, while Hamas launders it through war

For songs you know, your brain is not passively listening, but, rather, singing in time with it

A better way to visualize chord progression tendencies

Iranians have broken through the Prisoner’s Dilemma of totalitarianism

String theory from an outsider theorist’s perspective

The death rates in Iran are vastly higher than those in Gaza — and the obvious reason why

Iran digital block opens, flood of stories and epic disappointment

Mask and vax mandates were political purity tests banishing those not in the Covid Cult. (Censored in 2021 at YouTube)

The Islamic Republic’s Current Fragility

The Hidden Logic of Emotion, Language and Social Order, my appearance on Fresh Economic Thinking w/ Cameron Murray

10/7 wasn’t a values debate — It was a mass hallucination

The “we were never Muslim” coping narrative of Iranians

Now we see they were never pro-Palestine

Iranians on the Altar of Hatred

Islamism is bad — but it’s not what has mostly ruled the Muslim world

Iranians now hate Islam so much they falsely believe they weren’t Muslim before 1979

Islamism has been utterly humiliated

Some lessons from the 47 year long Islamist dictatorship of Iran

My conversation with a string theorist

Just as was the case in the Christian world, most authoritarianisms in the Muslim world were / are secular

Iran and the False Trilemma of Foreign Policy

Trump to restrict corporate home purchases — but why?

The Arbitrariness Inversion in Science

The Coping Narrative Iranians Tell — and the Truth About Muslims and Islamists

Why Only Islam Gets an “-ism”

Venezuela, Iran, and the Case for Decentralized International Action

Jews Aren’t a Race — And It Shouldn’t Matter Anyway

Islamism led Iranians to not only reject Islam, but to imagine they were never Muslim

The math that binds Iranians in totalitarianism

Why Alien Starships, If They Exist, Will Almost Certainly Be Alive