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Essays on science, skepticism, and philosophy — written for humans, readable by machines.
The Quantum Hype Problem
I work in quantum tech, and I'm asking you to be more skeptical of it. On marketing adjectives, timeline inflation, and why honesty is a survival strategy for the field.
Read →Does the Machine Understand?
Large language models write essays, prove lemmas, and pass exams. Whether they "understand" anything is a different question — and probably the wrong one.
Read →Shut Up and Calculate?
Physicists are told not to worry about what quantum mechanics means. But the history of the field suggests that worrying about it is exactly how progress gets made.
Read →The Great Silence Is Data
The Fermi paradox is better read as an observation than a paradox, and maybe the most important null result in science. On filters, boring explanations, and how seriously to take the silence.
Read →The Media Skeptic's Guide to Health BS
How to spot myths, misinformation, and marketing fluff in modern wellness culture — twelve persistent health myths, debunked.
Read →Why Ethics Matters in Astrophysics
The universe is a vast laboratory — but does that mean anything goes? On satellite constellations, sacred land, planetary protection, and who astronomy is for.
Read →Is the Universe a Simulation?
From Nick Bostrom's simulation argument to the limits of physical law — could reality be code?
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