Seeds of Science

A newsletter about the hunt for understanding and insight in the face of complexity.

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Deciphering why people and society work the way they do

Science for personal, not professional use. Published every Thursday.

happy the dumb beast, wretched the mortal

Long, niche posts, mostly about biology

Tracking progress in turning fate into choice through brain preservation. Official newsletter of the Brain Preservation Foundation.

Machine Learning Psychometrics / Snake Cult

A newsletter about social science, the future, and why people behave in the way that they do.

How do minds work, and how do you teach them things? Actually, what are minds?

Rationalist-adjacent musings on things we do in psychiatry

I like to write in a variety of fields to spread my mistakes more thinly.

Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.

Stories and thoughts from the cutting edge of genetic biohacking

A theoretical physicist’s contemplations on Beauty in a world of computation.

Culture, technology, and other macromutations

Mostly about biology, medicine and machine learning, sometimes about other stuff.

Ongoing season: essays towards my next book, Rajah Versus Conquistador: Operating Among Psychopaths and Psychic Megafauna

Trusted by 70K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Novelist Julian Gough (author of Minecraft's End Poem) redescribes the universe.

deepdives into science, philosophy, and how to be a human