June 22, 2026
Multitudes: Taking Quantum Mechanics Literally
Take the quantum equations at face value, refuse the collapse, and you are a branching many the math weighs but never values. On what that leaves of the self.
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June 20, 2026
Multitudes: The Indifference of Measure
You think the coin under the cup is already heads or tails. It isn't. You think you are one person, a single thread running through time. You aren't. Take quantum mechanics literally and decline to add the one thing the equations never contained, a …
June 10, 2026
On Intelligence: The Gap Where Safety Is Decided
There is a beautiful, settled theory of intelligence, and there are the crude systems we shipped. The distance between them is where safety is actually decided.
June 8, 2026
On Intelligence: and Its Specifications
We taught sand to think. We did it before we learned to say what we wanted it to do. There is a real, settled, and genuinely beautiful theory of what intelligence is: Bayes' theorem, Solomonoff's universal prior, and expected-utility maximization, …
April 15, 2026
Worldlines: Taking Relativity Literally
Time does not flow. The present is not special. The future is not open. This follows from three confirmed facts by arguments you can draw with a diagram, and it changes what you are.
April 13, 2026
Worldlines: The Indifference of Geometry
You think time flows. It doesn't. You think the present is special. It isn't. You think the future is open, carved from a space of possibilities. It isn't. This follows from three experimentally confirmed facts, the constancy of the speed of light, …