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Erik Hoel

Alien Poop Means We Are Not Alone. But Let Me Just Adjust This Model Parameter...

Fake dire wolves; AI tariffs chaos; neuroimaging's big mistake; the ethics of seeding life in space, & more

The art of the Substack

Welcome to the semantic apocalypse

Now published: My new theory of emergence!

The Memory Game Rulebook

Why is life so damn hard?

AI plays Pokémon, but so does π. Tesla's "brand collapse." Neuroscience scaling laws. Why do I know all the songs on the radio?

Polymaths are back from the dead

brAIn drAIn

2.3% chance an asteroid hits Earth, book blurbs finally die, and the new AI Deep Research can't find me a mattress

When I find myself in times of trouble, mother math comes to me

The executive order Trump should sign: AI watermarks

The new Liar's Paradox

Your brain is a washing machine, AGI's job prospects, Americans are alone, the Earth passes "peak child"

Stop speedrunning to a dystopia

Baum's original Oz is darker and stranger than Wicked

In 2025, blogs will be the last bastion of the Good Internet

Great scientists follow intuition and beauty, not rationality

UFOs are a soft sci-fi genre