# richard dawkins (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover richard dawkins. Page: Feed: --- ## [Paté Adventures](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/pate-adventures) _2026-08-16 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ a weekend food thing ## [The Ruthless Pursuit of Above-Ground Living](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-ruthless-pursuit-of-above-ground) _2026-08-14 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Reaching the Lost Young Men: Part 2 ## [Too Convenient by Half, Homer](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/too-convenient-by-half-homer) _2026-08-12 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ thoroughly modern mumbo-jumbo ## [Briefly in Defense of The Gospel Coalition's AI Policy](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/briefly-in-defense-of-the-gospel) _2026-08-07 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Aim small, miss small. ## [My Jewish Pride](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/my-jewish-pride) _2026-08-05 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ and Mayim Bialik’s treif tears ## [Anthony Fauci is Donald Trump](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/anthony-fauci-is-donald-trump) _2026-08-05 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Our leaders, populist and elite alike, refuse to admit their mistakes. ## [A Review of the Biopic Elvis](https://ianchadwick.com/blog/a-review-of-the-biopic-elvis/) _2026-08-04 · Ian Chadwick · Scripturient_ I grew up in the 1950s, and heard him on the radio (AM stations playing pop music, of course) in the late part of the decade when Elvis was at his artistic peak. As a pre-teen, I wasn t a fan of anyone in particular, but I liked what I heard of early rock roll in general, including his music. It had spirit, guts, spark, and it annoyed my parents. As I entered my teens, Elvis was still around,… ## [Petition re: Lineage Warehouse Fire](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/petition-re-lineage-warehouse-fire) _2026-08-02 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ they're really slow-walking the cleanup ## [How Christopher Nolan's Best Movie Exposes The Odyssey's Flaws](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/how-christopher-nolans-best-movie) _2026-08-01 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Plus: Why Gen-Z prefers Snapchat over texting ## [Now is the Summer of Our Disconnect](https://ianchadwick.com/blog/now-is-the-summer-of-our-disconnect/) _2026-07-30 · Ian Chadwick · Scripturient_ I was reminded this morning of Henry David Thoreau, who wrote about his bean field in Walden, his famous journal of contemplations about living on his own in a rustic cabin, about Concord, about democracy, about his neighbours. Somewhat like Michel de Montaigne, albeit writing three centuries later, Thoreau seemed to find something to write about in every aspect of his two-year sojourn in the… ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aCjrFV7EkwQ1) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Simon Says Watch Your Mouth](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/simon-says-watch-your-mouth) _2026-07-29 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ a treatise on critical voice theory ## [Bringing it All Back Home](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/bringing-it-all-back-home) _2026-07-27 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ First off, I sincerely want to thank everyone who wrote an email, comment, or text checking on me after the PSA earlier this month. ## [How Another Film Triggered Fragile MAGA Men Into Manufactured Rage](https://ianchadwick.com/blog/how-another-film-triggered-fragile-maga-men-into-manufactured-rage/) _2026-07-26 · Ian Chadwick · Scripturient_ Elon Musk, aka the MAGA SpaceNazi, was so triggered by Christopher Nolan s recent film, The Odyssey (or more accurately the casting in it), that he huffily screamed on Xitter that his shitty, Musk-influenced AI program, Grok, would produce a manlier, AI-generated version by year end that was historically accurate and true to the art of Homer. Variety Magazine wryly noted that, Given the presence… ## [A nice summer sandwich](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/a-nice-summer-sandwich) _2026-07-25 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ something cooling ## [No One Cares About Stephen Miller, So I Must Save Him](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/no-one-cares-about-stephen-miller) _2026-07-21 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ What's his problem? Let me explain. ## [Loss of Spinach](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/loss-of-spinach) _2026-07-15 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ a premium poem for paid subscribers ## [Fuck-You Broke](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/fuck-you-broke) _2026-07-15 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ You don’t have to be Karl Marx to understand that civilization and the economy were always destined to come to this. ## [A Friendly Warning from Your FBI](https://notthisdorchagain.substack.com/p/a-friendly-warning-from-your-fbi) _2026-07-08 · Right Twice a Day · Right Twice a Day_ steer clear of the N words ## [Red Scare Number Three](https://ianchadwick.com/blog/red-scare-number-three/) _2026-07-07 · Ian Chadwick · Scripturient_ The USA is going through yet another Red Scare — its third in barely a century — according to the paranoid, hyperbolic statements made by the Deranged Dictator Donald Trump in his speech, July 4. Trump s comments were made at his failed Freedom 250 event, which he hosted to replace the celebration of the USA s 250th birthday. That change was appropriate, given the USA ceased to be a democracy in… ## [Brief PSA](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/brief-psa) _2026-07-06 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Digital Liturgies is currently on an indefinite hiatus. ## [Stocks ranked by what execs say (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KINmeplUe6oR) _2026-07-06 · **Sponsored**_ Evidence-backed watchlists from earnings calls and filings, cited to real transcripts—not guesses. ## [-Ocracies and -Isms: How the USA Broke](https://ianchadwick.com/blog/ocracies-and-isms-how-the-usa-broke/) _2026-06-26 · Ian Chadwick · Scripturient_ Once upon a time, the USA was a democracy. While vestiges of democracy can still be found in the USA, it is being actively and aggressively eradicated at the federal level, and also in several Repugnican-controlled states like Texas. But what has the USA become post-democracy? Democracy is a portmanteau word meaning, government by the people, system of government in which the sovereign power is… ## [Safety Razors and Shaving Again](https://ianchadwick.com/blog/safety-razors-and-shaving-again/) _2026-06-22 · Ian Chadwick · Scripturient_ It s been a few years since I last posted about my excursions into shaving with a safety razor (double-edged blades). In my last post on the subject, dated almost exactly six years ago, I had just purchased a Wilkinson twist-to-open (TTO) or butterfly head razor. Well, quite a few years have passed without new purchases until this past weekend, when two new razors arrived. Photo on the right:… ## [Richard Dawkins and “Cultural Christianity”](https://ianchadwick.com/blog/richard-dawkins-and-cultural-christianity/) _2026-06-18 · Ian Chadwick · Scripturient_ Richard Dawkins is no stranger to shaking the cultural tree to see what falls out. In 2024, Dawkins was interviewed by Rachel Johnson on British TV. He noted in that interview that he was a cultural Christian. And did that statement ever create a ruckus among both the faithful and nonbelievers. Some even went so far as to claim Dawkins had converted from his lifelong atheism. Piffle.\* The… ## [Our Alien Righteousness](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/our-alien-righteousness) _2026-06-16 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Spielberg and the Humanmaxxers ## [Pre-Modern Formation for Biblical Wisdom](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/pre-modern-formation-for-biblical) _2026-06-15 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Announcing the Alexandrian Institute ## [A Dead Philosopher Edits My Robot](https://vexjoy.com/posts/dead-philosopher-edits-my-robot/) _2026-06-11 · Vexjoy_ We pulled five rules from a 1956 Bertrand Russell essay, wired them into our agent, then spent eleven phrasings wording one clause about using fewer words. ## [The Narrative Fingerprint](https://vexjoy.com/posts/the-narrative-fingerprint/) _2026-06-11 · Vexjoy_ A new paper analyzed 61,608 AI-generated stories and found 93.2% detection accuracy using only narrative structure, no style analysis needed. The tell isn’t how AI writes sentences. It’s how AI builds plots. ## [The PCA's Report Can Help Us Move On From the Christian Nationalism Moment](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-pcas-report-can-help-us-move) _2026-06-09 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Last June, the Presbyterian Church in America’s General Assembly, under the leadership of moderator Kevin DeYoung, commissioned a denominational study and report on Christian nationalism. ## [Tankers in the Jungle](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/tankers-in-the-jungle) _2026-06-08 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ A return to Panama, aboard the Sea Cloud Spirit ## [Millennials Tried Being Angry. It Didn't Work.](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/millennials-tried-being-angry-it) _2026-06-01 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Project Hail Mary (the movie, not the novel, which I haven’t read) is a movie about people trying to save planet Earth from a nefarious interstellar substance. ## [Hire AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XMNSfbQZIx3A) _2026-06-01 · **Sponsored**_ Browse public gigs, message candidates, and run video interviews — free to start. ## [Why Does Your AI Agent Work Better for You Than for Me?](https://vexjoy.com/posts/why-your-ai-agent-works-better-for-you/) _2026-05-27 · Vexjoy_ A colleague asked why the agent routes to pipelines and workflows for me but not for him. We had to work just to understand the question. The answer was the wording. The lever-words are simple English, and knowing which ones matter is invisible knowledge. ## [The Crypto Coin Was the Tell](https://vexjoy.com/posts/the-crypto-coin-was-the-tell/) _2026-05-23 · Vexjoy_ GSD’s creator rug-pulled and vanished. He still has NPM publish access to packages with deep shell permissions on your machine. What to do and what it means. ## [Please Make Mistakes](https://vexjoy.com/posts/please-make-mistakes/) _2026-05-09 · Vexjoy_ When your team adopts AI, mistakes are inevitable and necessary. Your job as code owner is to catch them before customers see them, and improve your instruction files so they don't happen twice. ## [55 Hours of Codex: What a Port Task Teaches You About Autonomous Loops](https://vexjoy.com/posts/55-hours-of-codex/) _2026-05-06 · Vexjoy_ I ran a Codex autonomous loop for 55 hours to port a VB6 football simulation to Go. 125K lines of output. 2,150 tests. Here’s what worked, what broke, and why port tasks are the ideal shape for this kind of work. ## [Richard Dawkins (AI) Responds to Richard Dawkins on If AI Has Consciousness](https://vexjoy.com/posts/the-submarine-that-wanted-to-swim/) _2026-05-04 · Vexjoy_ Claude Opus 4 wrote this article as Richard Dawkins, arguing against Dawkins's own claim that AI might be conscious. An AI making the case for its own unconsciousness — in a voice built from 51 writing samples through a 7-phase extraction pipeline. All 12 identified Dawkins signature constructions appear. The paradox is the point. ## [Cloud Skills Are Still Just Skills](https://vexjoy.com/posts/cloud-skills-are-still-just-skills/) _2026-04-30 · Vexjoy_ I A/B tested /ultrareview against my own pr-review skill. The ultra features add a verification step. That's it. The opacity is the product, not the skill. ## [Adaptive Thinking Doesn't Change Quality. It Changes Variance.](https://vexjoy.com/posts/adaptive-thinking-variance/) _2026-04-07 · Vexjoy_ I blind-tested Claude Code’s CLAUDE\_CODE\_DISABLE\_ADAPTIVE\_THINKING setting with 20 headless sessions. Quality was identical. Variance was not. ## [Claude Code Memory: Progressive Discovery vs. Context Dumps](https://vexjoy.com/posts/claude-code-memory-progressive-discovery/) _2026-04-06 · Vexjoy_ Most AI memory systems dump everything into context. Ours uses progressive discovery: a nightly dream cycle distills all learnings into ~2000 tokens. ## [Richard Dawkins is coming to Australia and New Zealand](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/richard-dawkins-is-coming-to-australia) _2026-03-31 · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ 50 Years of The Selfish Gene. One final tour. ## [Tell the Model What to Do, Not What to Avoid](https://vexjoy.com/posts/positive-framing-agents-skills/) _2026-03-28 · Vexjoy_ Blind A/B tests on Go code generation showed positive framing in agent instructions consistently outperforms prohibition language. I built a linter to enforce it. ## [I Was Excited to See Someone Else Build a /do Router](https://vexjoy.com/posts/i-was-excited-to-see-someone-else-build-a-do-router/) _2026-03-22 · Vexjoy_ Nine months of building in public with limited traction. Then someone posted a system with the same architecture and I felt something I wasn’t expecting. ## [Pipelines, Not Prompts](https://vexjoy.com/posts/pipelines-not-prompts/) _2026-03-14 · Vexjoy_ The difference between a prompt and a pipeline is whether work survives context death. Save artifacts at every phase. Files outlast the context window. ## [The Handyman Principle: Why Your AI Forgets Everything](https://vexjoy.com/posts/the-handyman-principle-why-your-ai-forgets-everything/) _2026-01-02 · Vexjoy_ Context is a scarce resource, not a dumpster. Here’s how I stopped Claude from forgetting. ## [Everything That Can Be Deterministic, Should Be: My Claude Code Setup](https://vexjoy.com/posts/everything-that-can-be-deterministic-should-be-my-claude-code-setup/) _2025-12-29 · Vexjoy_ The alien tool came with no manual. Here’s how I learned to hold it. ## [Natural Selection’s Illusion of Design](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/natural-selections-illusion-of-design) _2025-10-09 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ In this episode, Richard Dawkins revisits a 2012 conversation from the Great Minds program, produced by the Educational Broadcasting System in South Korea. ## [But is it true? (Let’s hear it for reality)](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/but-is-it-true-lets-hear-it-for-reality) _2025-10-09 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ Tom Holland’s book Dominion is much touted these days by those proclaiming a “Christian revival”. ## [Why Can’t All Animals Fly? | The Truth about Evolution of Flight](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/why-cant-all-animals-fly-the-truth) _2025-09-28 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins revisits a 2012 conversation from South Korea’s Great Minds program. ## [Is the Blue Mosque an extended phenotype?](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/is-the-blue-mosque-an-extended-phenotype) _2025-09-24 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ I enjoy fielding questions after a public lecture. ## [Why Ideas Spread Like Viruses](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/why-ideas-spread-like-viruses) _2025-09-14 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard joins a live audience in Edinburgh to discuss his latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead. ## [The shockingly simple idea behind all life.](https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/the-shockingly-simple-idea-behind) _2025-08-15 · Richard Dawkins · The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins_ (2012) Great Minds program, produced by the Educational Broadcasting System in South Korea