When I first heard this snake cult idea, I thought it would be silly. Then I watched Andrew's presentation and was captivated But, I asked: How could a snake cult explain culture in places without snakes? So he pulled up an image of a snake cult icon from an area without snakes

A few months ago I gave a talk at @joinedgecity on what ‘kind of problem’ consciousness is. The core theme was “to have knowledge [about consciousness] we need a place to put it.” Why do I post so much about consciousness? Because I think it’s important. We are building the

Still haven't recovered from Ghislaine Maxwell being a reddit poweruser

TIL "4o users" have class consciousness

The New Yorker The article discusses d'Huy and Witzel, who argue some global myths precede the Out of Africa migration. Much more likely, if there is a root of global mythology, it is in Ice Age Eurasia (which is ignored for ideological reasons): x.com/AndrewCutler13…

After months of painful research, my article is published! Huge thanks to Elizabeth Weiss, Hugo & CelestialObserver for reviewing, to the anonymous Australian archaeologist who offered crucial insights, and to Samo Burja for asking me to write it palladiummag.com/2025/10/17/the…

Today we reveal CogPGT, the world’s most powerful genetic predictor of IQ. We achieve a correlation with IQ of 0.51 (0.45 within-family). Herasight customers can boost the expected IQ of their children by up to 9 points by selecting the embryo with the highest CogPGT score. 🧵

This was before the Puranic Universe of gods & goddesses expanded. ------------------------- Long before Brahma created, before Vishnu preserved, before Śiva dissolved, there was goddess Vāc, the goddess of Word. In the Ṛgveda, Vāc speaks: “I am the Queen, the gatherer of

proud of both the companion and imagine team. We didn't have any usable video gen models 3 months ago and most efforts started 3 months ago.

"The very sense of self that we identify with, the distinct ontological unit that exists within an external world, is itself the result of a trapped prior." ~ Alex Zhu Excellent description of the Fall

When dealing with Native American trickster stories, you can see the separation of the northern tribes from the southern based on one criteria The southern tribes see the trickster as a fool worthy of the mockery he gets, while for the northern tribes he is a heroic character

"Physical inventions are easy to see & track; steam engines, color photography, combustion engines, etc. Mental inventions are more difficult to spot, but imo are just as real. Often we won't be able to trace back to "patient zero", the first person to do a specific thing with

Extremely interesting project. Larry gives a good overview of some of the shortcomings (and wins)

Crawling isn't innate (unlike walking). Every baby must *invent* crawling, from scratch, using extremely little data, and no reference to imitate. Which is why different babies end up with different ways of crawling. Sometimes people tell me, "you say AI isn't intelligent until

One of the most interesting questions about human history is one no one is asking right now: why did human intelligence increase so much between 9000 and 6500 years ago, and why has it mostly leveled off since then?

POV: you’re the first man to grok the human condition

The genetics of human intelligence and the origins of Homo sapiens are deeply connected. The first sapiens were likely the most intelligent of their time—but what genes gave rise to that advantage?