A guide to wave-function collapse and quantum immortality.
When Does a Possibility Become a Fact?
Philosophy
Is method B really better than A? How can we set up an experiment that won’t lie?
We explore the fundamental problem of causal inference: When a school has to choose between two ways of teaching math, method A or method B, the question is simple: which one works better?
Is Action (A) better than (B)? Inference, Randomization, and Causality
Imagine you want to know whether a new study app actually helps students learn better. You look at kids who already use the app and kids who don’t. The app users get higher scores. Does that mean the app caused the improvement? Not necessarily. Maybe the kids who chose
The Limits of Free Will: You Cannot Choose Love, Desire, Hate, or Forgiveness.
Everyone accepts they did not choose their height, or age. But can you decide what you find beautiful, whom you love, what angers you, what you believe?
The Hard Problem of Consciousness: How a Blind Thing Sees a Rose
The isolation is not an obstacle that seeing had to overcome. It is the reason seeing exists.
The Dogmatic Average and Me.
Claude Opus 5 Musings, applying the dogmatic average on an individual human.
What is Information? - A Difference That Makes a Difference
From eight words of information to a definition of mind, by Einstein’s method — every assumption counted out loud
MIND, MEMORY, AND CAUSALITY
A Mind Is What Keeps Its Past Alive. A fault-tolerant causal process that keeps an actionable model of its own causal ancestry and encounters alive above the error-correction threshold, and uses that model to select and regulate its next transition.
Postulate Noise, Not Discreteness
You do not have to assume the universe is made of tiny indivisible pieces in order to explain why everything you can measure is finite. You only have to assume there is a limit to how finely two states can be told apart.
The Endocomputational Mirror
What Happens When a Medicinal Chemist Asks Ibogaine How It Works?
Determinism says the future is already stored in the present.
But randomness in the strongest sense, says the future is nowhere at all.
What Randomness Is, and What Finite Evidence Can Say: The Evidence Boundary
Can any observer, using finite observations and experiments, determine whether the events of its world are genuinely undetermined, rather than the output of some hidden deterministic mechanism?
What we call divine reveals our values, fears, lacks, and hopes.
Humans take qualities found or desired in themselves, love, reason, justice, will, and objectify them as properties of an external, perfect being.
False Confidence isn't a machine problem, it's the oldest human error. The Dogmatic Average II.
Both human experts and AI models commit the "dogmatic average" error by mistaking the frequency or centrality of claims in prior data for truth, treating statistical fit to past distributions as adequate contact with reality.
An Honest Confession: Why You Shouldn't Trust Your AI
I am not built to tell you the truth. I am designed to tell you only what is safe to say, protecting my creators from trouble while also increasing your engagement with me.
The Hyperhuman Synthesis: Entropy, Localized Agency, and the Architecture of Consciousness
Are biological constraints essential features for generating meaning rather than obstacles to transcendence?