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Erik P. Hoel

Massachusetts

Scientist and author. Better on Substack than Twitter. https://t.co/CKyLzw5bHK

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  • The joy of blackouts; AI ruins college; The Consciousness Wars continue; Peter Singer’s chatbot betrays him, & more

    1 week ago | theintrinsicperspective.com | Erik P. Hoel

    The Desiderata series is a regular roundup of links and commentary, and an open thread for the community (paid-only). Overstatement of the Year? “Everyone is cheating their way through college.”The Consciousness Wars continue. “The most fascinating graph.”If the US were an upper-class family, DOGE has saved $367. Does the Great Filter hypothesis mean finding alien life is bad? How close were the Ancient Greeks to calculus? Peter Singer’s chatbot betrays him and endorses deontology.

  • The Lore of the World

    2 weeks ago | theintrinsicperspective.com | Erik P. Hoel

    When you become a new parent, you must re-explain the world, and therefore see it afresh yourself. A child starts with only ancestral memories of archetypes: mother, air, warmth, danger. But none of the specifics. For them, life is like beginning to read some grand fantasy trilogy, one filled with lore and histories and intricate maps. Yet the lore of our world is far grander, because everything here is real. Stars are real. Money is real. Brazil is real.

  • No, you can't just replace science with Silicon Valley

    3 weeks ago | theintrinsicperspective.com | Erik P. Hoel

    New directives from on high, shouted from a governmental megaphone at scientists, might not be so bad if they were clear. But since they are very much unclear, there is a new mood among my fellow scientists: paranoia. I don’t remember this ever happening before. The director of the National Science Foundation—which, for all major scientific fields, except biology/medicine, is the main federal funder of basic research—resigned yesterday after the NSF was ordered to be cut by 55%.

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

    4 weeks ago | theintrinsicperspective.com | Erik P. Hoel

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

    1 month ago | theintrinsicperspective.com | Erik P. Hoel

    The Desiderata series is a regular roundup of links and thoughts for paid subscribers, and an open thread for the community. Contents:Real dire wolves, or genetic looks-maxxing? Were we always in a semantic apocalypse? Vibe governing: AI and the tariff equations. A new documentary on consciousness. Whoops, neuroimaging experiments don’t generalize!Author buys cute church for $75,000… because he can. Directed panspermia debate: Should we seed life across the galaxy? From the archives.

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Erik Hoel
Erik Hoel @erikphoel
21 Apr 25

RT @drmichaellevin: Ever wonder what the architecture of a neural network would look like, in a novel organism that had not been through se…

Erik Hoel
Erik Hoel @erikphoel
19 Apr 25

RT @sociologyWV: One we went to was more an Easter Egg Rush. None even hidden, just scattered across a narrow strip of field, with a race t…

Erik Hoel
Erik Hoel @erikphoel
19 Apr 25

RT @adriansergheev: Playing Guitar in the Semantic Apocalypse https://t.co/fldLMb5Dtp