Alex Libre Blog https://alexlibre.com Writing about AI, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology. en Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:47:29 GMT <![CDATA[If you're not yet using AI to get feedback on your human writing, you should start]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/if-youre-not-yet-using-ai-to-get-feedback-on-your-writing https://alexlibre.com/blog/if-youre-not-yet-using-ai-to-get-feedback-on-your-writing Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[Everything worth inventing has not, in fact, already been invented]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/everything-worth-inventing-has-not-been-invented https://alexlibre.com/blog/everything-worth-inventing-has-not-been-invented Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[Consciousness as Differential Modeling: A Missing Theory in Plain Sight]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/consciousness-as-differential-modeling https://alexlibre.com/blog/consciousness-as-differential-modeling Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Claude 4.5 Sonnet <![CDATA[On the Impossibility of Sentient Machines [Satire]]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/on-the-impossibility-of-sentient-machines https://alexlibre.com/blog/on-the-impossibility-of-sentient-machines Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[It's All Bonus Points From Here On Out]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/its-all-bonus-points-from-here-on https://alexlibre.com/blog/its-all-bonus-points-from-here-on Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/rebutting-sean-carroll-on-llms-and https://alexlibre.com/blog/rebutting-sean-carroll-on-llms-and Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[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]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/being-wrong-part-1-infants-feel-pain https://alexlibre.com/blog/being-wrong-part-1-infants-feel-pain Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[How (and why) to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved by the FDA]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/how-and-why-to-get-mdma-assisted https://alexlibre.com/blog/how-and-why-to-get-mdma-assisted Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[Why we should deregulate psychotherapy]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/therapists-are-just-expensive-friends https://alexlibre.com/blog/therapists-are-just-expensive-friends Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[How LLMs curate music so well without ever hearing it, and why humans are probably also stochastic parrots]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/how-llms-curate-music-without-hearing-it https://alexlibre.com/blog/how-llms-curate-music-without-hearing-it Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[Critical thinking is not an illusion]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/contra-scott-young-on-critical-thinking https://alexlibre.com/blog/contra-scott-young-on-critical-thinking Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[Stop lying to children about Santa Claus]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/santa https://alexlibre.com/blog/santa Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[How AI helped me interpret and decode my manic, psychotic notes to self]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/psychoticgpt-ais-interpretation-of https://alexlibre.com/blog/psychoticgpt-ais-interpretation-of Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[29 ideas about recovery, mental health, and living a good life]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/29-ideas-about-recovery-mental-health-and-living-a-good-life https://alexlibre.com/blog/29-ideas-about-recovery-mental-health-and-living-a-good-life Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[Apex Intelligence: Orcas, the Alignment Problem, & Existential Risk]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/the-orca-and-the-fishbowl https://alexlibre.com/blog/the-orca-and-the-fishbowl Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[ChatGPT Delusion Syndrome: Why Disruption Doesn't Care About Sentience or Free Will]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/chatgpt-delusion-syndrome-why-disruption https://alexlibre.com/blog/chatgpt-delusion-syndrome-why-disruption Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre <![CDATA[On Feeling Strange Things at Strange Times in a Fantastically Strange Place]]> https://alexlibre.com/blog/on-feeling-strange-things-at-strange-times https://alexlibre.com/blog/on-feeling-strange-things-at-strange-times Sun, 08 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT Alex Libre