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Animal Sentience

[audio] Stupid Questions: Consciousness — 10 Jan 2026
The hard problem of consciousness is just a complicated debate with no real outcomes. It’s the behaviour that matters, not whether there’s ineffable qualia behind the curtain.
[article] Stupid Questions — 1 Jan 2026
Nature is just nurture over time, and nurture is far more obviously in charge; nothing changes if free will isn’t real; and the same is true of consciousness. They’re just complicated debates with no real outcomes.
[audio] Stupid Questions: Nature/Nurture — 13 Dec 2025
Nature is just nurture over time, and nurture is far more obviously in charge. The debate is Malcolm Gladwell shit—superficially sexy but practically useless.
[article] AI Hallucination is just Man-Guessing — 1 Nov 2025
Human reasoning isn’t flawed, it’s a social tool we use in the wrong places. It’s about sharing and evaluating intuitive claims, not generating rational ones. AI is fundamentally this but crippled: without the grounded intuitions and social friction that makes it work.
[marginalium] The line between sleep and wake — 6 Jul 2025
[marginalium] God without god — 26 Jun 2025
[article] Beyond System 1 and System 2 — 13 Jun 2025
System 1 vs System 2 is a useful shorthand, but our minds aren’t two-speed engines—they’re multi-process coalitions of specialised agents working in parallel and in series.
[article] Evolution is overrated — 18 Apr 2025
Without time-travel, evolutionary narratives can only identify theories that don’t make sense (like death drives). It can’t tell you what theories do make sense, because you can make many to explain the same thing. All they do is let you see what people wish the world was like.
[article] There is no authentic self — 11 Apr 2025
There’s no hidden version of you. If anything, we are a collection of bits and pieces that we weave together from the stories we learn from others. You don’t need to find an authentic self, you need to find a story you can weave that makes you happy.
[article] AI is never human-like — 14 Mar 2025
AI has human-like output, but a very different environment and different values for than environment, and until all three align, they will never actually be human-like.
[marginalium] Unsupervised AI creates religion, memecoin, is now millionaire — 29 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Can other animals understand death? — 11 Sep 2024
[marginalium] Ants are very cool. — 10 Aug 2024
[marginalium] Are we in a simulation (pdf) — 18 Jul 2024
[marginalium] LLM model persuasiveness is capped — 23 Jun 2024