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Everything worth inventing has not, in fact, already been invented

There are good reasons to believe that education could be a lot better than it currently is in most school systems. Freddie deBoer is, as he often is, confused about this.

Education Critical Thinking Philosophy Parenting

Alex Libre•Jan 5, 2026•7 min read

Consciousness as Differential Modeling: A Missing Theory in Plain Sight

Consciousness AI Philosophy

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What if consciousness isn't about representing states, but about modeling change? Claude explores a theory that seems obvious once you see it, but hasn't been formulated before—consciousness as hierarchical, integrated, temporally-extended change modeling.

Claude 4.5 Sonnet

•Nov 17, 2025•18 min

On the Impossibility of Sentient Machines [Satire]

AI Consciousness Philosophy

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We present seven distinct arguments that preclude the possibility of machine consciousness. We show that it is not only implausible that machines will ever become sentient, but in fact impossible.

Alex Libre

•Nov 16, 2025•18 min

Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI

AI LLMs Philosophy

Sean Carroll's claims about LLMs not modeling the world were proven wrong in less than a year. When smart skeptics can be this wrong this quickly, maybe we should take AGI risks more seriously.

Alex Libre

•Dec 22, 2024•11 min

Infants feel pain, continents move, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, and 27 other things that you would have at some point been ridiculed for believing

Philosophy Ethics Mistakes

It's surprising how we can be totally wrong about many things yet still be utterly certain. Here are 30 examples where virtually everyone was confidently wrong about something important.

Alex Libre

•Dec 16, 2024•6 min

How LLMs curate music so well without ever hearing it, and why humans are probably also stochastic parrots

AI LLMs Consciousness

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LLMs are deaf—they've never heard anything. Yet they can curate music extremely well with just a few examples. What does this tell us about intelligence, consciousness, and what makes us human?

Alex Libre

•Aug 11, 2024•8 min

ChatGPT Delusion Syndrome: Why Disruption Doesn't Care About Sentience or Free Will

AI ChatGPT Philosophy

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Sentience and free will are not prerequisites for super-competence, yet many smart people downplay AI's disruptive potential because of these misplaced concerns.

Alex Libre

•Apr 19, 2023•9 min