Independent scholar. New book: The Independent Scholar (2026), a history from Plato to Nietzsche.

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  The doubling-down and valorization of Jason Arday after his suicide (which is sad emotionally but *more incriminating* logically) really shows how far gone "humane" educated opinion is today. I really did not see this coming. They're going to make him the new George Floyd. The

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  The serious writer class should be quite happy with how LLMs are shaking out. For a while, it was not clear. In the past few years I've been completely open-minded about whether LLM scaling might encroach upon what serious thinkers do when they produce serious texts. I've been

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  The fever dreams of boomer white leftist female university administrators may turn out to be more lethal than we ever imagined, as they begin to intersect with AI-era truth equilibration. How many thousands will die from the unbearably efficient rectification of names?

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  What’s interesting here is that it’s a website, and it’s not double-blind peer-reviewed, so they could just push updates today if they wanted. But then it would all come crashing down. This is an epistemological “let them eat cake” moment in the AI revolution.

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  This is about as sophisticated as Greta Thunberg demanding that we stop climate change. What a dumb nerd. They should solve world peace while they’re at it!