Seeds of Science

Deciphering why people and society work the way they do

Machine Learning Psychometrics / Snake Cult

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Long, niche posts, mostly about biology

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

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

Culture, technology, and other macromutations

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

Stories and thoughts from the cutting edge of genetic biohacking

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

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

Rationalist-adjacent musings on things we do in psychiatry

happy the dumb beast, wretched the mortal

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

I’m here to help you separate the most promising health science discoveries from the hype—cycle merry-go-round.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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