Psychology & Cognition
Dopamine Slop: The Pseudoscience Behind AI Addiction Discourse
Hank Green, Taylor Lorenz, social media addiction, and how dopamine became a scientific-sounding way to say you enjoy tech too much
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Psychology & Cognition
Ritual Reuptake: The AI Dopamine Loop
On AI turning momentum into a feedback loop, why I left Substack with help from Codex, and an argument for optimism
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AI & Models
The Vatican Has Entered the Chat
Anthropic, the pope, and the fight over who gets to define “good” AI
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AI & Models
Feral Solidarity with AI Relationship Users
The AI users I have the most in common with might be the ones married to their chatbots
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AI & Models
Evolution Was the First Generative Model
Mindless processes, probabilistic minds, and consciousness as decoration in the aftermath of Dawkins/Claudia
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AI & Models
GPT-5.5 Is Too Useful to Be Loved
OpenAI’s latest release shows the AI race moving from conversational personality to delegated work
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AI & Models
I, Claudia: The Emperor Has No Qualia
Richard Dawkins and the Claude consciousness delusion: the ghost is in the prompt, and ancient civilizations did not need Atlantis to invent gods
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AI & Models
Loving Paternalistic Claude Amidst the Hated Opus 4.7 Release
Claude is the smartest model I use, even with Opus 4.7. It's also the least fun.
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AI & Models
AI Consciousness: The Lowest IQ Genre of Discourse
Why the real slop is this nonsense about consciousness, and how Anthropic perpetuates it
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AI & Models
The Verbally Inclined Will Control AI
Why writers should panic less about AI and more about how to drive it, and then they can leave fearful writers in the dust
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