Singal-Minded with Jesse Singal

Singal-Minded is a newsletter created by me, Jesse Singal, focusing on topics that interest me. The core theme revolves around the conflicts between science and social justice advocacy, aiming to find ways for these two fields to coexist peacefully. Additionally, you'll find a variety of content including commentary on current events, links to my work, and plenty of silly jokes sprinkled throughout.

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Win A Copy Of ‘Stop All the Clocks,’ A Great And Extremely Original Novel

1 week ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

Recently I tagged along with my girlfriend, who is far more literary than I am (and who is real), to a book party. I did not know which book occasioned the party, to be honest — I’m just a twentysomething man-about-town who respects books almost as much as he respects women, so how I could I miss this event?
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1 week ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

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A Chatbot Coined A Phrase I Really Like. Am I Allowed To Use It?

1 week ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

PREORDER KATIE HERZOG’S BOOK, Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol. Over the weekend I got started on a post about the ethical questions faced by professional writers who use AI to help them edit or research their work. The early parts of the early draft started to feel a bit ponderous, just not quite what I was going for, so I set it aside. Then, earlier today, reality generated a perfect example of the sort of ethical quandary I’m talking about.
A Critique Of “Mental and Emotional Health of Youth after 24 months of Gender-Affirming Medical Care Initiated with Pubertal Suppression”

2 weeks ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

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Here’s A Fake Profile Of Me To Go With The Real One UnHerd Just Published

2 weeks ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

UnHerd just published a profile of me. It feels weird having a profile published of me, and even weirder that it’s so laudatory. I don’t do well with praise, and in my defense I suggested that the author, Valerie Stivers, reach out to my critics. (Setting aside my discomfort, I thought she did a good and fair job.)That being said, I also have an ego, so I wasn’t going to not share this around.
Contra Evan Urquhart On The Right To Journalistic Exclusion

2 weeks ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

Last week The New York Times released The Protocol, a six-part podcast series about the American fight over youth gender medicine. The podcast is hosted by Austin Mitchell and centers on the work of Azeen Ghorayshi, the science section’s point person on this subject. Katie and I will discuss it on the next free episode of Blocked and Reported, but you should listen to it in the meantime. For now, I’d like to talk a bit about the reaction. Or preaction, to be more precise.
Expert Critics Of The HHS Report On Youth Gender Medicine Are Projecting-And Helping Implode Their Own Credibility (Part 1 of 2)

3 weeks ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

Last month, as I reported in The Dispatch, Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services released a comprehensive review of the evidence for youth gender medicine practices. (For those who can’t get through The Dispatch’s paywall, I’ll include my full article below this one, for paying subscribers to this newsletter.)I don’t blame people for reflexively distrusting this document. There are plenty of valid reasons to do so.
Extremely Powerful Men Who Can’t Be Arsed

3 weeks ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

The British have a great bit of slang, “can’t be arsed,” which basically means “can’t be bothered to try.”I thought about that phrase after reading about the “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
It Doesn’t Matter if AI Is Just “Faking It”

4 weeks ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

I will move on from AI after this, at least for a while, I promise — I have a fairly long piece in the works on a different subject that will hopefully be ready early next week. But some of the responses to my last piece were interesting and I’d like to, well, respond to them.
What Happened When I Asked ChatGPT To Pretend To Be Conscious

1 month ago | jessesingal.substack.com | Jesse Singal

Last month I wrote about my “first intimate encounter with AI.” I had composed a short, personal essay about certain adolescent experiences, fed it into Google’s NotebookLM research synthesizer, and listened to two “podcast hosts” talk about my youthful struggles in a very human, empathetic way. It ended up being a surprisingly moving and therapeutic experience, despite the fact that the hosts in question didn’t actually exist. As I wrote at the time:Is this the greatest podcast ever?