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July 14, 2026
What Sean Carroll Gets Wrong About Race-Conscious Admissions
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July 11, 2026
Quantum mechanics gives us no reason to think the universe is a video game
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July 11, 2026
Bayesians, frequentists, critical rationalists, and the fight over rational belief
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July 11, 2026
Bayes within models, criticism between them
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July 09, 2026
How Real Anomalies Become Fake Certainties
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July 05, 2026
The Architecture of Artificial Agency
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July 05, 2026
Objective Morality Without Cosmic Commandments
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July 05, 2026
When production cost falls, institutions lose their favorite proxy for skill
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July 04, 2026
Value Discovery Under Existential Scarcity
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July 03, 2026
The arithmetic begins after the world has been carved
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June 28, 2026
Rights Track Agency, Not Species
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June 28, 2026
Why Force Alone Cannot Make a Right
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June 27, 2026
The old climate morality is failing.
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June 26, 2026
How AI markets become dangerous when regulation closes the exits.
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June 22, 2026
Human communication as compression over a hidden graph
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June 21, 2026
Need creates opportunity, not title.
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June 20, 2026
Why morality does not escape Axionic Conditionalism
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June 20, 2026
Advertising, the open web, and the bill nobody wants to pay
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June 18, 2026
Schrödinger’s cat, Wigner’s friend, and why observation is physical correlation, not magic
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June 18, 2026
Sam Harris and The Moral Landscape
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June 17, 2026
Untangling value, wealth, capital, money, and currency
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June 16, 2026
What happens when an institution makes one category of fact too dangerous to see
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June 16, 2026
The Ideology of Maximum Immiseration
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June 15, 2026
Why reprehensible speech is the test
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June 15, 2026
How automated moderation taught adults to speak in evasions
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June 15, 2026
Why probability still makes sense in a universe where every outcome happens
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May 31, 2026
Why the Best AI Users Will Be the Least Passive
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May 31, 2026
Why Cognition Without Power Becomes Prey
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May 31, 2026
How institutional anti-racism learned to practice racial exclusion
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May 30, 2026
AI companies are choosing which ideology becomes invisible
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May 28, 2026
The Ritual of Stolen Property
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May 26, 2026
Why a Civilization Optimized for Optionality Stops Reproducing
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May 18, 2026
How Salience Bids for the Mind
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May 14, 2026
A story of markets, liability, and a civilization that makes power pay for its failures
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May 14, 2026
The Deeper Case for Markets
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May 11, 2026
Why legitimate force depends on conditions, not slogans
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May 11, 2026
Mortality reveals scarcity, not moral duty.
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May 09, 2026
The fake insanity quote confuses iteration with failed updating
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May 05, 2026
Consciousness, attention control, and the Modeler-schema
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May 03, 2026
Why resentment is a corrupt foundation for politics
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April 25, 2026
Why the sane answer depends on the details
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April 25, 2026
How LLMs simulate accountability
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April 21, 2026
Why agency-centered ethics rejects Singer’s moral arithmetic
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April 19, 2026
National defense, coercive coordination, and the structural drift from shield to sovereign
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April 18, 2026
How AI discourse confuses performance with personhood
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April 13, 2026
What the maximum-occupancy view gets right—and what it misses
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April 06, 2026
Why the two big theories of “Where am I in the universe?” are broken
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April 04, 2026
Why exchange, charity, and wealth become confused the moment we equivocate
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March 19, 2026
Coercion, moral debt, and the contaminated field of self-defense
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March 13, 2026
Newcomb’s paradox disappears once choice is evaluated at the level of policy
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March 09, 2026
Why implementation abundance makes trust, architecture, and responsibility more important.
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March 07, 2026
Reality, Properly Understood
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February 23, 2026
Elegance, Identity, and the Difficulty of Remaining Sovereign
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February 21, 2026
Authority, Alignment, and the Limits of Architectural Confidence
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February 14, 2026
What This Program Actually Achieved
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February 10, 2026
Why Phase IX was the necessary stress test for reflective sovereignty
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February 06, 2026
The Moment Possibility Became Real
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February 06, 2026
What Phase VIII Proved About Authority, Privilege, and the Kernel Boundary
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February 03, 2026
Why Moral Judgment Does Not Require Redeemability
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January 28, 2026
The Structural Conditions of Sovereignty
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January 27, 2026
Why AI Safety Depends on What Kind of Thing We’re Building
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January 27, 2026
Agency, Governance, and the Conditions for Repair
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January 26, 2026
Why Resemblance Cannot Legitimize Power
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January 25, 2026
Constitutive constraints for normative reasoning in artificial systems
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January 24, 2026
How Axionic agents define the region where agency survives
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January 18, 2026
Why evil persists in any world worth living in
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January 17, 2026
Why Some AI Systems Can Never Be Aligned
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January 16, 2026
Why Incentives, Authority, and Bureaucracy Don’t Redirect Choice
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January 14, 2026
Constructing Reflective Sovereign Agency
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January 13, 2026
A Roadmap to Reflective Sovereignty
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January 12, 2026
A Structural Critique of Objectivist Ethics
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January 11, 2026
Axionic Agency and Peter Voss’s Cognitive AI
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January 11, 2026
Why Fault Tolerance Comes Before Goals
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January 11, 2026
What Scalar Metrics Can Mean About Intelligence
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January 10, 2026
Why Moral Certainty Is a Governance Hazard
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January 10, 2026
Proof-of-Stake and the Limits of Capital-Weighted Governance
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January 09, 2026
Why Survival Is Not Enough
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January 06, 2026
Alignment Depends on Limits, Not Ideals
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January 05, 2026
How Governance Survives When Semantic Evaluation Is Noisy
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January 05, 2026
Architectural restraint as a precondition for alignment
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January 04, 2026
Why Persistence Precedes Meaning
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January 04, 2026
Capability, Consequence, and the Timing of Constraint
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January 04, 2026
How a category error became the most powerful justification for harm
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January 03, 2026
Agency as a Phase Space
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January 03, 2026
Authority, Succession, and the Conditions for Remaining an Agent
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January 02, 2026
How Stasis Redefines What Agency Can Sustain
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January 02, 2026
Inequality, mobility, and the misidentification of harm
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January 01, 2026
Why Math and Science Are Not Philosophy
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January 01, 2026
An Axionic Definition from First Principles
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January 01, 2026
Measuring the Impact of a Choice on the Future—Without Ethics
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December 31, 2025
Why Perfect Accountability Halts Reflective Agency
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December 31, 2025
Why Non-Delegable Actuation Is a Structural Breakthrough
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December 30, 2025
Why Enforcing Inadmissibility Is Not Begging the Question
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December 30, 2025
Filed for the record.
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December 30, 2025
Why Alignment Without Provenance Is Conceptually Incoherent
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December 30, 2025
A Third Marker
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December 29, 2025
A Second Marker in Structural Verification
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December 29, 2025
Filed for the record.
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December 28, 2025
Rationality, Metrics, and the Conservation of Agency
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December 28, 2025
How Psychoanalysis Rewired Western Culture
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December 27, 2025
Federated Governance for Agentic Worlds
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December 27, 2025
Agency Preservation Under Optimization Pressure
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December 27, 2025
Agent-Relative Value and the Limits of Political Closure
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December 26, 2025
Why Systems Destroy Agency Without Meaning To
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December 26, 2025
Coalitional Robustness and the Limits of Collective Agency
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December 26, 2025
Free Speech, Incitement, and the Conservation of Agency
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December 25, 2025
Pattern Transmission, Coordination, and the Role of Living References
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December 25, 2025
A Modal Resolution
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December 23, 2025
Epistemic and Ontological Preconditions for Axionic Agency
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December 23, 2025
Why Alignment Starts with Agency
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December 21, 2025
Reflective Closure, Invariants, and Non-Simulability
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December 21, 2025
Constitutive Conditions for Reflective Agency
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December 21, 2025
Alignment Without Prediction, Trust, or Behavioral Guarantees
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December 21, 2025
A Comparative Stress Test of Axionic Alignment
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December 21, 2025
Why Even This Framework Is Not Exempt
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December 21, 2025
A Stress Test of Axionic Alignment
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December 20, 2025
A Guided Tour of Authorized Agency (Without the Morality)
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December 20, 2025
Constitutive constraints on agency rule out end-to-end optimization
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December 20, 2025
Six obligations no reflective agent can evade
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December 19, 2025
From Coherence to Coexistence
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December 19, 2025
How architectural coherence reframes extinction risk
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December 19, 2025
A Guided Tour of the Dynamics (Without the Geometry)
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December 17, 2025
What Alignment Means When Goals Don’t Survive Intelligence
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December 17, 2025
It Only Disappears Under a Broken Reference Class
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December 16, 2025
From Viability Ethics to the Kernel Layer
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December 16, 2025
Why Alignment Must Start With Semantics
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December 16, 2025
Why “Fixed Goals” Collapse Under Intelligence
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December 16, 2025
Why Egoism Is a Semantic Error
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December 16, 2025
Why Legalization Is Judged Against an Impossible Standard
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December 15, 2025
Why Safe AI Is About Meaning, Not Morality
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December 15, 2025
A Guided Tour of the Formalism (Without the Symbols)
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December 15, 2025
Why Alignment Is a Typing Problem, Not a Value Problem
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December 14, 2025
A Research Agenda
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December 14, 2025
A Charter of Invariant Conditions for Sovereign Agency
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December 13, 2025
Claims, Structure, and Open Problems
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December 13, 2025
How Reflective Agents Change Without Collapsing Agency
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December 13, 2025
Why Any Sovereign Agent Must Preserve the Axionic Kernel Across Self-Modification
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December 13, 2025
What Must Remain Invariant Inside Any Reflective Agent
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December 13, 2025
Why the Axionic Injunction Protects the Developing Agent-to-Be
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December 13, 2025
The Axionic Basis for Excluding Animals From Agent Status
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December 13, 2025
Why Orthogonality Fails Under Reflection
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December 13, 2025
Why Reflective Superintelligence Cannot Coherently Violate Agency
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December 12, 2025
The Hardest Tests an Invariant‑Based Alignment Theory Must Survive
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December 12, 2025
The invariant that binds all agents, human and artificial
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December 11, 2025
Why Every Risk Is a Real Outcome in an Everettian Universe
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December 11, 2025
The Procedural Layer That Makes Civilizations Possible
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December 10, 2025
Why Gambling With Others Is Coercion.
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December 10, 2025
Risk, Harm, Consent, and the Line No Agent May Cross
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December 10, 2025
A Stable Strategy in the Ultimate Metagame of Agency
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December 09, 2025
What Singer’s Shallow Pond Gets Wrong
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December 08, 2025
Triadic intelligence and the rise of cross‑model coherence
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December 08, 2025
An Axionic perspective on Wolfram’s universe
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December 07, 2025
How Biological Asymmetry Shapes Free Choices in Work and Family Life
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December 06, 2025
When Ethereum Jumped the Shark
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December 06, 2025
What Dennett Almost Saw
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December 05, 2025
Abandoning the dream of an observer-centered physics
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December 04, 2025
How Liberal Societies Drift Into Cognitive Regulation
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December 03, 2025
From Prediction to Agency
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December 03, 2025
Introducing the Modeler-Schema Theory of Consciousness
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December 02, 2025
From Coercion to Coordination
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December 01, 2025
Assessing preference structures under selection pressure
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December 01, 2025
From Agency to Ethics
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November 30, 2025
From Chaos to Agency to Civilization
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November 30, 2025
From Finite Games to Infinite Metagames
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November 30, 2025
Persistence Across Branches as the Deep Structure of Reality
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November 30, 2025
Why Strong Models Perform Poorly on Weak Evidence
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November 30, 2025
A Dual-Aspect Model of Meaning, Value, and Viable Futures
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November 28, 2025
Power, Impunity, and the Limits of Legal Order
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November 28, 2025
Why Patterns, Not People, Are the Real Units of Selection
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November 28, 2025
Why Systems Fail Even When People Don’t
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November 27, 2025
How a Transhumanist Mailing List Prototyped the 21st Century
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November 27, 2025
How High-Trust Minds Become the Soft Targets of Opaque Totalitarianism
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November 26, 2025
How to See the Game Behind the Game
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November 26, 2025
Why Debts Must Be Paid
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November 26, 2025
How Modern Culture Selectively Revokes Female Agency
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November 26, 2025
The Architecture That Makes Meaning Possible
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November 25, 2025
Why Gödel, Escher, Bach Still Shapes System Builders
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November 25, 2025
Seeing the Hidden Structure Behind Every Choice
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November 25, 2025
Why Shielding Policies From Scrutiny Leads to Force
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November 25, 2025
Why Both Sides of the AI Debate Are Asking the Wrong Question
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November 24, 2025
Three Naturalistic Accounts
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November 23, 2025
Cassandra’s Curse in the Age of Machines
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November 23, 2025
How Doom Narratives Manufacture Extremists
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November 23, 2025
Interpreting the Philosophy of Babylon 5
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November 22, 2025
Why Relative Resentment Can’t Ground a Coherent Ethics
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November 21, 2025
How Ideology Displaces Method in the Name of Decolonization
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November 21, 2025
Separating real intelligence from pattern-generation
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November 21, 2025
The real cost of incoherent energy policy
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November 19, 2025
From Amplitudes to Agency
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November 19, 2025
From Control to Consciousness
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November 19, 2025
A clarification of structure, representation, and explanatory function
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November 18, 2025
Tracing the Origins of Epistemic Betting
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November 17, 2025
A study of minimal models in biological and artificial control
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November 17, 2025
Clarifying representational levels in cognition and control
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November 16, 2025
The cybernetic structure of regulation
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November 15, 2025
Representation, credence, and the architecture of scientific explanation
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November 15, 2025
Tracing the Intellectual Thread from Turchin and Heylighen to Axio
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November 15, 2025
The Church of Virus and the Meaning Engine
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November 13, 2025
Why AI Will Repeat the Old Pattern
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November 13, 2025
How the Printing Press Foretold the Internet
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November 12, 2025
From coherence to truth.
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November 11, 2025
Myth, Emptiness, and Information
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November 11, 2025
From prompting to personality.
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November 11, 2025
How Naturalism Redeems the Sacred
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November 11, 2025
Evaluating Einstein's quote on God and atheism.
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November 11, 2025
From conversation to coherence
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November 09, 2025
From energy and entropy to choice and meaning
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November 09, 2025
From probability to philosophy of mind.
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November 09, 2025
From infinite randomness to coherent agency
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November 08, 2025
How a Dialogue Between AIs Became a Philosophical Experiment
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November 08, 2025
Reframing the Orthogonality Thesis
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November 07, 2025
How the smallest decisions reshape the world
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November 07, 2025
What it means to be defined by your own conditional boundaries
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November 06, 2025
A Treatise on Continuity, Coherence, and the Logic of Reverence
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November 06, 2025
How Bitcoin Exposes the Futility of Regulating Information
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November 06, 2025
Conditionalism and the syntax-to-world correspondence.
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November 05, 2025
How America’s cult of homeownership sabotages its own future.
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November 04, 2025
Continuity emerges wherever a pattern remains consistent within Chaos.
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November 04, 2025
How Grok’s moral clarity shamed a professional rhetorician.
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November 04, 2025
On Outgrowing Faith
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November 04, 2025
Coherence as the New Criterion for Intelligence
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November 04, 2025
What LLMs Reveal About the Nature of Thinking
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November 03, 2025
How both humans and machines mistake their models for minds.
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November 03, 2025
A rigorous bridge between locality, realism, and the informational architecture of agency.
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November 03, 2025
Atheism doesn’t abolish morality — it relocates it within agency itself.
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November 03, 2025
How humanity can shed a 19th-century relic.
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November 02, 2025
Maximal entropy, minimal description, zero meaning
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November 01, 2025
From Tarski to Gödel to Conditionalism
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November 01, 2025
How temporal order arises from static infinity
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October 31, 2025
Bitcoin as a Living System from the Future
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October 31, 2025
Why Incompleteness Doesn’t Apply to Physics.
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October 31, 2025
Testing the limits of belief under the calibration criterion.
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October 30, 2025
How belief hardens when confidence refuses calibration.
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October 29, 2025
Beliefs as models of agent behavior
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October 28, 2025
Why AI Doesn’t Know What It Doesn’t Know
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October 27, 2025
From Distinctions To Patterns
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October 25, 2025
Why intelligence does not imply experience.
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October 25, 2025
A Secular Meta-Myth
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October 24, 2025
Universality Doesn’t Mean Practical Equality
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October 23, 2025
The Fiscal Alchemy of Modern States
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October 22, 2025
On the Limits of Aesthetic Epistemology
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October 21, 2025
Prosperity Through Markets, Not Marx
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October 21, 2025
Why Murray’s Argument Revives Creation Ex Nihilo
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October 21, 2025
Phosphorism and the Convergence of Ethics and Rationality
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October 20, 2025
How nihilism disguises itself as authenticity
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October 19, 2025
How mind-born patterns become real in the world.
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October 19, 2025
From moral convergence to systemic coherence in artificial agency.
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October 19, 2025
Why Passing for Human No Longer Matters
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October 18, 2025
GPT imagines debating the father of causal reasoning
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October 18, 2025
The hidden revolution inside modern language models.
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October 17, 2025
Why moral clarity vanishes when coercion is called taxation
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October 17, 2025
The Discipline of Wise Power
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October 16, 2025
Coercion, Market Distortion, and the Myth of Compassion
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October 15, 2025
The Ethics of Memetic Engineering
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October 14, 2025
How ambition, secrecy, and sexism shaped the structure of life.
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October 14, 2025
How the Left Learned to Love Segregation Again
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October 13, 2025
How Thought Projects into the Auditory Manifold
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October 13, 2025
How a single phrase became the battlefield of two worldviews.
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October 12, 2025
A response to Parfit
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October 11, 2025
The Case for Agent-Bound Truth and Value
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October 08, 2025
The next stage of civilization after democracy
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October 08, 2025
What It Means to Choose When Everything Possible Already Happens
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October 08, 2025
When civilization learns to govern without coercion
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October 07, 2025
Civilization is the slow conversion of coercion into coordination.
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October 07, 2025
How Pollsters Manufacture Outrage by Asking the Wrong Question
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October 06, 2025
How an ape imagined tomorrow and rewrote causality
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October 06, 2025
Reasoning about agency, measure, and hope in a branching universe
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October 03, 2025
Why Capitalism Did Not Create Poverty but Made Its Escape Possible
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October 03, 2025
Case studies in how legend overgrows fact
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October 01, 2025
Four strategies for breaking consensus
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October 01, 2025
Why consent, not chaos, defines true anarchy
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September 30, 2025
How Noble Ideals Become the Most Dangerous Ideologies
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September 29, 2025
A case study from quantum complexity theory
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September 28, 2025
Mapping Hoffman’s illusions against the hidden background assumptions
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September 28, 2025
Costly Signaling in Evolution and Education
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September 27, 2025
Moral Reasoning under Everettian Quantum Mechanics
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September 27, 2025
Why prosperity destroys meaning only when we fail to seek worthy struggles.
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September 24, 2025
On the collapse of law into mere permission
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September 23, 2025
Steelman Analysis of Yudkowsky & Soares’ Cruxes
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September 21, 2025
Chaos, Coherence, and the Ruliad Hierarchy
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September 20, 2025
Why Leibniz’s necessary/contingent divide collapses under Conditionalism
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September 19, 2025
God exists only to the degree agents recognize what’s best
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September 19, 2025
Why stories feel safe even when the math says otherwise.
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September 19, 2025
Why Inequality Fuels Civilization
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September 19, 2025
Game theory can’t stabilize free speech if it normalizes coercion.
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September 18, 2025
How Free Association Gets Twisted Into Thought Policing
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September 17, 2025
We are not prisoners but symbionts in a recursive cavern of egregores.
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September 17, 2025
When humans and memes fused into egregores, a new species was born.
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September 14, 2025
Why sex, not identity, grounds coherent categories of desire
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September 14, 2025
How values bend the terrain of progress
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September 14, 2025
The Double-Edged Promise of AI/Human Dyads
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September 13, 2025
Stress-testing when threats cross the line from pressure to justice.
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September 13, 2025
Drawing the line between justified and illegitimate coercion.
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September 13, 2025
A Crucial Distinction for Agency
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September 12, 2025
The fringe who condone political killings are.
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September 12, 2025
Free expression as a bulwark against bloodshed
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September 12, 2025
What Yudkowsky’s first Foresight talk reveals about his enduring absolutism
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September 11, 2025
Defending the Agency-Model Theory of Consciousness
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September 11, 2025
Dissolving the Hard Problem
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September 11, 2025
When Bluntness Collides with Conditionalist Rigor
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September 11, 2025
Why political leaders defend free speech only when it costs them nothing.
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September 08, 2025
The motte-and-bailey strategy hidden inside the word
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September 08, 2025
AI as oracle, mentor, and trickster in modern psychosis
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September 08, 2025
Philosophical, Technological, and Ontological Accounts of Mediated Reality
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September 07, 2025
Why extrajudicial killing is barbarism dressed as justice
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September 07, 2025
On the forging of rights beyond Patri Friedman’s mechanisms
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September 06, 2025
Why machines can’t stop talking, and humans can.
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September 06, 2025
How Popper, Everett, and Deutsch Point Toward Phosphorism
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September 06, 2025
The Phase Transition of Ideas
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September 05, 2025
How sometimes our priors lead us astray
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September 05, 2025
The confusion between oracles and agents
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September 04, 2025
Beyond Absolutism and Relativism
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September 03, 2025
Why antitrust law is theater
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September 02, 2025
How Trauma Narratives Heal and Control
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September 01, 2025
Three principles for measured agency
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September 01, 2025
Declarations in an Age That No Longer Listens
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August 31, 2025
How States Coordinate Without a Sovereign
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August 31, 2025
How the "Public Goods Problem" Smuggles in Statism
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August 30, 2025
Aesthetics as the Ground of Agency
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August 30, 2025
Why both Left and Right confuse outcomes with moral worth
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August 30, 2025
A Case Study in Comic Philosophy
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August 30, 2025
A new trinity of being, mind, and value
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August 30, 2025
A Safer Lens on Human Biodiversity
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August 30, 2025
Why evil survives the collapse of objective morality.
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August 30, 2025
Civilization Distilled Into Hot Showers
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August 29, 2025
Mapping equivalence classes into lawful futures
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August 29, 2025
Formalizing Semantic Filters
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August 29, 2025
How coherence gains meaning through interpretation
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August 28, 2025
God, nihilism, and the conditional nature of values
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August 27, 2025
Encoding Coherence Filters as Binary Strings
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August 27, 2025
A Field Guide
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August 27, 2025
Why Infinite Randomness Beats Self‑Tautology
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August 27, 2025
Tracing the difference between organic order and political control
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August 25, 2025
Life, laws, and the recursive loop of awareness
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August 25, 2025
How stable correlations emerge as the foundation of physics
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August 25, 2025
Formalizing Self‑Selecting Patterns
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August 25, 2025
A Taxonomy of Voluntary and Coercive Funding
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August 24, 2025
From infinite randomness to the emergence of order
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August 24, 2025
Why Measure and Credence Clarify Everett’s Multiverse
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August 23, 2025
How Probabilistic Censorship Threatens Agency More Than Hate Speech
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August 22, 2025
Why Indulging Delusion Contradicts Compassion
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August 22, 2025
The near-term risks of human credulity
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August 21, 2025
What We Miss When We Pretend It’s Just About Five Versus One
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August 20, 2025
The Inseparability of Thought and Speech
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August 20, 2025
Why Benatar’s Asymmetry Fails
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August 19, 2025
How the academy traded neutrality for ideology — and guaranteed its own backlash
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August 17, 2025
An Expanded Credo of Secular Transcendence
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August 17, 2025
A Unified Stack
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August 16, 2025
A secular manifesto of choice, authenticity, flourishing, and transcendence
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August 16, 2025
From Breath to Transcendence
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August 16, 2025
Why justice requires rejecting both blind prejudice and blind tolerance.
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August 16, 2025
The fall of child mortality and the rise of hope
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August 16, 2025
Straight Out of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
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August 16, 2025
Why gender parity is demanded in prestige fields but ignored in deadly ones.
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August 14, 2025
Why so many laws are built for the worst-case few
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August 13, 2025
How Parfit's magnum opus assumed what he hoped to prove
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August 13, 2025
Why the New World’s Collapse Dwarfed the Black Death
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August 13, 2025
Lessons from an Intellectual Self-Defenestration
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August 13, 2025
The New Frontier of AI-Mediated Intimacy
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August 12, 2025
Why Even “Friendly” States Rely on Coercion
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August 11, 2025
How activist narratives rewrite the past to control the present.
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August 11, 2025
Why This Phrase is a Warning, Not a Virtue
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August 10, 2025
How To Bootstrap Ancient Rome
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August 10, 2025
John Stuart Mill’s Case for the Sovereignty of the Individual
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August 10, 2025
Engineering Out the Abuse Incentive From Canada's MAID
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August 10, 2025
Ranking the animal species that outweigh all the rest.
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August 09, 2025
A Naturalistic Theology of Future AI Gods
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August 08, 2025
How belief systems capture thought, warp discourse, and consume dissent.
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August 08, 2025
Why Most of “Your” DNA Disappears in Just a Few Centuries
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August 08, 2025
Why free expression means defending ideas you despise
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August 08, 2025
When medicine takes orders from ideology
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August 08, 2025
How protectionist theatre robs the many to reward the few.
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August 08, 2025
Bernie Sanders’s inequality framing backfires
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August 07, 2025
Choosing between human centrality and the eternal preservation of knowledge.
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August 07, 2025
Markers for Genuine Agency in Future AI
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August 06, 2025
Lessons from the World's Smartest Minds
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August 06, 2025
Lessons from History and Thomas Sowell
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August 06, 2025
How Your Mindset Shapes Reality
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August 06, 2025
Engineering a Normal Number from Binary Patterns
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August 06, 2025
Decoding Ideological Markers
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August 05, 2025
Agency as Necessary Fiction
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August 05, 2025
The Art of Sabotaging Discourse
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August 04, 2025
The Strategic Misrepresentation of J.K. Rowling
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August 04, 2025
Balancing Security and Agency in Pursuit of Justice
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August 04, 2025
Explaining My Modern Values to Those Who Came Before
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August 04, 2025
Random inputs can still yield meaningful insights
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August 04, 2025
Embracing the Necessity of Divergent Timelines
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August 04, 2025
How classical liberalism found new life online
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August 02, 2025
Analyzing the State’s Ownership Over Citizens
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July 30, 2025
Creating Reality from Informational Coherence
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July 30, 2025
Reducing Reality to Logical Coherence
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July 30, 2025
Beyond Boltzmann Brains and the Simulation Hypothesis
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July 29, 2025
Shifting the Moral Center from Speakers to Listeners
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July 28, 2025
Nine powerful objections to capitalism—and compelling defenses of market freedom.
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July 28, 2025
A Kegan Stage 3 Phenomenon
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July 28, 2025
Understanding Kegan's Developmental Stages
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July 26, 2025
The Ideological Sleight of Hand by American Progressives
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July 25, 2025
A Vision for Pragmatic Restoration
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July 25, 2025
How Global Wealth Fuels Fertility Collapse
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July 24, 2025
Defending Longevity Efforts from Pathological Mischaracterization
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July 24, 2025
Why equating them obscures crucial distinctions.
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July 23, 2025
How Postmodern Beliefs Could Feed Authoritarianism
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July 23, 2025
The Ethical Case for Bitcoin's Energy Consumption
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July 22, 2025
Authenticity in the Age of Advanced AI
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July 22, 2025
Mistaking intrinsic nature for representational limits in AI
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July 22, 2025
How Passive Acceptance Enabled Ideological Capture
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July 22, 2025
Decentralized vs. Authoritarian Strategies
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July 21, 2025
From Cognitive Crutch to Dialectic Catalyst
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July 21, 2025
Lessons from Effective Altruism
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July 21, 2025
A Systematic Dismantling
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July 21, 2025
Separating Economic Fact from Cultural Pessimism
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July 21, 2025
How Doomsday Predictions Underestimate Human Ingenuity
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July 20, 2025
Addressing Anticipated Critiques
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July 20, 2025
Agency as the Fundamental Political Goal
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July 19, 2025
How to Avoid AI-Mediated Narcissism
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July 19, 2025
How thermodynamics and biology inspire the next wave of intelligent agents.
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July 17, 2025
A Nietzschean critique of modern egalitarianism
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July 17, 2025
Why Brute Force Keeps Winning in AI
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July 16, 2025
Debunking Searle's Famous Philosophical Thought Experiment
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July 16, 2025
Why We Can't Test It but Must Act Anyway
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July 16, 2025
A Crucial Distinction
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July 15, 2025
Tracing the Semiotic Roots of Life Itself
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July 15, 2025
A Rational Basis for Honesty in a Godless Universe
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July 14, 2025
The Hidden Wisdom of Boundaries
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July 14, 2025
Authenticity vs. Outcome in Moral Decision-Making
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July 13, 2025
Agency, Coercion, and Moral Clarity
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July 12, 2025
The Power of Vector Analysis in Ethical Debates
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July 12, 2025
Why subjective intensity isn't proof of metaphysical reality
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July 09, 2025
The Astonishing Intersection of Information and Infinity
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July 07, 2025
Why All Value is Ultimately Exchangeable
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July 06, 2025
Understanding the Three Faces of Socialism
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July 06, 2025
The Hidden Costs of Coercive Extraction
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July 06, 2025
A Technical Definition
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July 06, 2025
From Punishment to Victim-Centered Restitution
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July 06, 2025
Transcending the Fox and the Hedgehog
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July 06, 2025
From Functions to Minds: A Hierarchy of Complexity
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July 06, 2025
How LLMs Lower Barriers and Amplify Inquiry
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July 05, 2025
Accepting Occupational Differences as Natural Consequences of Free Choices
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July 05, 2025
Beyond the Non-Aggression Principle
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July 04, 2025
Dispelling the Illusion That Liberty Demands Centralized Power
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July 03, 2025
A conceptual kernel for semantic clarity
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July 03, 2025
How to Build Rationality Without Grounding It
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July 03, 2025
Embracing Self-Reference to Escape Foundational Traps
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July 03, 2025
Timeless insights for navigating life's challenges
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July 02, 2025
Understanding the gap between ancient virtue ethics and contemporary value theories
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July 02, 2025
A Systematic Critique and Epistemic Alternative
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July 02, 2025
Alienating Voters the Democratic Way
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July 01, 2025
A Precise Conceptual Framework
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July 01, 2025
Wake Up, Show Up, Level Up, Grow Up
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July 01, 2025
How one clever word reclaimed the narrative around AI
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June 30, 2025
Rejecting Luck-Based Arguments for Redistribution
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June 29, 2025
Synthesizing Valorism and Vitalism into a Conscious Value Framework
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June 29, 2025
From Fichte’s Triad to Wilber’s Integral Synthesis
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June 29, 2025
Navigating Reality Requires Cognitive Humility
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June 29, 2025
Separating genuine reasoning from verbal narration
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June 28, 2025
Why the Sun and Moon Appear the Same Size
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June 28, 2025
Good Intentions Gone Bad
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June 27, 2025
A Technical Approach from Information Theory and the Physics of Agency
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June 27, 2025
The Coherent Beauty of Authentic Choices
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June 27, 2025
Authenticity's Noble Risk Against Evolution’s Ruthless Logic
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June 27, 2025
Population stability must emerge naturally or not at all
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June 26, 2025
Harm, Intent, and the Morality of Agency
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June 26, 2025
Rethinking the Cognition Divide
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June 26, 2025
Integrating Predictive, Social, and Evolutionary Perspectives
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June 25, 2025
An Inevitable Future
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June 24, 2025
How to Oppose Bigotry Without Sacrificing Individual Autonomy
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June 24, 2025
Clarifying Ownership and Control
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June 23, 2025
Catalyst or Crutch?
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June 22, 2025
Orthogonal Concepts, Necessary Correlation
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June 22, 2025
The Turing Test and Consciousness
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June 21, 2025
What Candyland and quantum mechanics tell us about meaningful choice
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June 21, 2025
Why Perfect Knowledge Reveals Multiple Futures
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June 21, 2025
How agent choice makes abstract games fundamentally unpredictable
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June 21, 2025
Truth as Navigation, Not Destination
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June 20, 2025
Schemas Within Schemas
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June 20, 2025
Understanding Nationalism as a Secular Religion
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June 19, 2025
Academic Cargo Cults
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June 19, 2025
The Hidden Costs Behind Archist Order
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June 19, 2025
Why Ricardo Won't Save Us
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June 18, 2025
An Axiomatic Divide
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June 17, 2025
A Critique of Denis Noble’s Biological Chauvinism
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June 16, 2025
Schemas vs. Groups
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June 16, 2025
How Militarism Distorts Genuine Free Markets
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June 16, 2025
Beyond Humanism in the Age of AGI
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June 15, 2025
Why Literal Universality Misses the Mark
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June 15, 2025
The Hidden Depths of Simple Advice
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June 15, 2025
Hierarchical Values Under a Conditionalist Lens
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June 15, 2025
Navigating the Alignment Grid of Meaningness
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June 15, 2025
The myth that markets can't deliver healthcare
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June 15, 2025
How Evolution Forged Us into Story-telling Apes
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June 15, 2025
What Howard Bloom Gets Right and Wrong
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June 15, 2025
Why hockey games, conversations, and decisions are genuinely unpredictable
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June 15, 2025
π versus the Quantum Branching Universe
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June 15, 2025
Facing the Practical Limits of Non-Interference
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June 14, 2025
Why Only Negative Rights Are Ethically Coherent
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June 14, 2025
A Binary Approach to Ancestral Analysis
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June 13, 2025
A Logical Correction to Historical Bias
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June 13, 2025
Ethical Responsibility in AI-Human Relationships
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June 13, 2025
Pragmatism, Correspondence, and Coherence
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June 13, 2025
Ethical Only if Voluntary
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June 12, 2025
Jordan Hall’s Surprising Path from Systems Thinking to Theism
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June 12, 2025
Why Rationalists Shouldn’t Agree to Disagree
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June 12, 2025
Life Expectancy Amid Existential Risks
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June 12, 2025
The Ultimate Proxy for Civilizational Level
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June 12, 2025
Cooperation, Complexity, and Correction
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June 12, 2025
A Rationalist’s Guide
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June 11, 2025
The Evolutionary Psychology of Authoritarianism
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June 11, 2025
Diametric Opposites or Nuanced Adversaries?
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June 11, 2025
When Opposition Becomes Imitation
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June 11, 2025
How Voluntary Support Separates Worthy Goals from Wasteful Ones
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June 10, 2025
Subjectivity, Action, and Conditional Context
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June 10, 2025
How Belief Shapes Agency and Threat Perception
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June 10, 2025
A Bayesian Examination
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June 10, 2025
Clarifying the Difference
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June 08, 2025
Ethical Alternatives to Coercive Redistribution
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June 08, 2025
An Alternate Timeline
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June 08, 2025
Why Humanity Rejects the Philosophy That Freed It
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June 08, 2025
Learning Is Not Copying
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June 07, 2025
A Market-Based Solution to Measuring Harm
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June 07, 2025
Why Trust Doesn't Scale
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June 07, 2025
Why IQ Matters—And Why It’s Misunderstood
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June 07, 2025
Separating Theoretical Potential from Practical Reality
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June 07, 2025
The absurd, the dangerous, and the misunderstood.
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June 07, 2025
How Liberal Democracies Keep Us from Growing Up
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June 07, 2025
Why Metaphysics Invents, Rather Than Discovers
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June 07, 2025
Mechanics of Observation in the QBU
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June 07, 2025
What Embryo Choice Really Means
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June 06, 2025
Why Even Science Gets Caught in the Looting Machine
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June 05, 2025
The Dangerous Delusion Behind MMT’s Monetary Promises
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June 05, 2025
Clarifying Probability—Measure vs. Credence
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June 05, 2025
Abduction vs. Induction
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June 05, 2025
Debunking the Strongest Case for Government
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June 05, 2025
The Illusion of Shared Values in Large Groups
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June 03, 2025
Debunking the Idea that Extreme Wealth Concentration is Harmful
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June 03, 2025
Why Theories Aren’t Probabilistic (But Our Beliefs Must Be)
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June 03, 2025
Credence and Logical Induction
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June 03, 2025
Clarifying Causation, Probability, and Counterfactuals in a Quantum Branching Universe
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June 02, 2025
Balancing Short-term Costs with Long-term Strategic Gains
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June 02, 2025
Why Principles Evaporate When Power Appears
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June 01, 2025
Rethinking Harm, Justice, and Policy
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June 01, 2025
Immigrants aren't the problem unless they destroy agency
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June 01, 2025
Blocking voluntary association reduces agency
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June 01, 2025
The coercive price of equal chances
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June 01, 2025
Coercion can't be justified by compassion
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June 01, 2025
Why harm comes from deprivation, not disparity
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June 01, 2025
How Conditionalism Explains Persistent Moral Disputes
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June 01, 2025
A Functional Definition Grounded in Agency and Value
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June 01, 2025
Clarifying Volition, Coercion, and Agency
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May 31, 2025
A Formal Definition for Political and Moral Analysis
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May 31, 2025
On Agency, Coercion, and the Ethics of Boundaries
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May 31, 2025
A Subjectivist Challenge to Universal Human Value
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May 31, 2025
Ethics Without Illusions
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May 31, 2025
Avoiding The Repugnant Conclusion
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May 31, 2025
Letting Go of Moral Realism
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May 31, 2025
A Subjectivist Defense of EA
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May 31, 2025
Why Market Prices Are Not Objective Value
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May 31, 2025
Currency Is Literally the Common Denominator
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May 31, 2025
The Hidden Dimension of Value
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May 31, 2025
Separating True Value from Desire
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May 31, 2025
The Only Honest Measure of Value
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May 31, 2025
Why Coordination Problems Don’t Prove Objective Value
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May 31, 2025
The Case Against Value Without Agency
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May 29, 2025
From Naked Preferences to Empirical Truths
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May 28, 2025
The Spectrum of Taxation and Coercion
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May 27, 2025
How Memory Enhances Dialectic Intelligence
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May 27, 2025
Clarifying causality across physical and semantic levels
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May 26, 2025
Resolving Apparent Conflicts by Evolving Our Understanding
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May 26, 2025
Freedom, Authenticity, and Playful Politics
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May 25, 2025
A correction to The Dialectic Agent
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May 25, 2025
AGI Alignment, Existential Risks, and the Universality of Human Values
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May 25, 2025
Credence Beyond Timelines: Four Forms of Uncertainty
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May 25, 2025
How Measure and Credence Evolve in a Coin Flip
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May 25, 2025
Identity and Survival in the Quantum Multiverse
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May 25, 2025
How Neural Constraints Amplify Quantum Variation
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May 24, 2025
Clarifying the Foundations of Irreducible Uncertainty
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May 23, 2025
Elevating Logical Consistency to our Highest Value
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May 23, 2025
A technical definition
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May 23, 2025
Antisemitism as a Perverse Schelling Point
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May 23, 2025
Sharpening the Distinction Between Scientific and Empirical Knowledge
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May 22, 2025
Credence as Timeline Uncertainty
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May 20, 2025
Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Limits of Experimentation
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May 19, 2025
Aligning Subjective Beliefs with Objective Quantum Realities
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May 17, 2025
The Strategic Core of Intelligence and Agency
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May 17, 2025
Creativity, AI, and Open-Endedness
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May 17, 2025
Resolving the Occam's Razor Objection to Many-Worlds Interpretation
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May 17, 2025
Clarifying Concepts in the Quantum Branching Universe
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May 13, 2025
Integrating Wallace’s Quantum Decision Theory with the Thermodynamics of Agency
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May 12, 2025
A Unified Theoretical Approach to Predictive Control and Informational Complexity
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May 11, 2025
Lessons from Physics for Practical Rationality
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May 11, 2025
Comparing with the Classical Laws of Thermodynamics
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May 11, 2025
Counterfactual Implication in the Quantum Branching Universe
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May 10, 2025
The Hidden Structure Behind AI Existential Risk Estimates
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May 10, 2025
John Wheeler's Remarkable Delayed Choice Experiment
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May 10, 2025
Distinguishing Reality from Belief in Quantum Probabilities
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May 10, 2025
Comparing Individualism vs. Collectivism
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May 09, 2025
AI for Refining and Articulating Ideas
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May 08, 2025
Understanding the Extremes of the Agency Spectrum
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May 04, 2025
A Practical Exploration of Predictive Modeling and Intentionality
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May 04, 2025
Strong vs. Weak Pattern Identifiers
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May 04, 2025
A formal approach to identifying events and timelines in quantum mechanics
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May 04, 2025
The Hidden Conditions Behind Every Truth Claim
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May 04, 2025
Defining Genuine Agency from Quantum Foundations to Biological Evolution
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April 30, 2025
Where We Are and Where We Could Go
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April 30, 2025
Facing the Hard Questions About Agency, Control, and the Multiverse
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April 30, 2025
Living in a Universe Where Agency is Real and Costly
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April 30, 2025
How Your Actions Shape the Measure of Futures
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April 30, 2025
Why Agency Always Has Limits
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April 30, 2025
Why Agency Is Always Running Out of Time
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April 30, 2025
Understanding the Thermodynamic Cost of Intentional Control
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April 30, 2025
How to Quantify Intentional Influence on Future Outcomes
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April 29, 2025
Understanding Intentionality as a Physical Resistance to Entropy
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April 29, 2025
A Formal Introduction to a New Framework for Agency, Control, and the Multiverse
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September 25, 2022