Reason as rationality is only useful for transforming truth, not discovering it

Reading part 2 of The Matter With Things by Dr Iain McGilchrist It’s indescribably excellent. I feel like he’s said so much of what my own thoughts have been circling around on truth, reason and intuition, in a deep and eloquent way

I've had a few conversations with friends recently about an odd phenomenon. We were reflecting on how each year we feel better and better, more and more joyous, that life is somehow more meaningful. And yet, at the same time, we were aware of the darkness of the world, how things

Maybe alignment is about to run into a second bitter lesson? Tying AI to consciousness is the only solution.. Check out my first new essay in too long here: open.substack.com/pub/pursuingre…

As we move into a world dominated by AI agents, the only way to keep control of the future will be to maintain human consciousness in the loop open.substack.com/pub/pursuingre…

Happy to share the preprint of our NAACL 2025 paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.11664 "An LLM-Based Approach for Insight Generation in Data Analysis"

Can ancient wisdom promote moral behavior in LLMs? Published with new data! Contemplative insights improve alignment (d = .96) AND boost cooperation + joint reward on the iterated Prisoner’s dilemma task (d = 7+) using GPT-4o + 4.1 Here’s the basic logic 1/x

We're fundraising for the new *Wisdom & AI* network - a hub of AI professionals and Buddhist teachers - and its forthcoming Symposium. Your help is needed by 15 September 2025! Any help is appreciated! gofund.me/c6998d73