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Creativity Without a Creative Source
If human novelty starts in randomness, Brett Hall needs another line between people and LLMs
2 hrs ago • David Mc
The Randomness Beneath Thought
Where thoughts come from, and why they don’t look random
23 hrs ago • David Mc
The Rationality Tribes
Everyone wants to be rational. They disagree about what rationality is.
Oct 3 • David Mc
The Unpredictability of Superintelligence
If we could reliably predict its consequential strategies, it would not be superintelligent.
Oct 2 • David Mc
Consciousness Inside the Level
Why knowing where to look doesn’t tell you what to look for.
Oct 1 • David Mc

September 2026

Defend and Accelerate
The case for d/acc in a world where technology is both dangerous and necessary
Sep 29 • David Mc
The Reductio Problem
When an argument reaches an absurd conclusion, what exactly have we learned?
Sep 28 • David Mc
When Agent Safety Reaches the Execution Layer
Behavioral constraints are not enough.
Sep 28 • David Mc
Evolutionary Rationality
Popperian error correction extended recursively to frames, generators, and selection criteria
Sep 27 • David Mc
The Missing Faction
P(doom) is not a policy.
Sep 26 • David Mc
The Optimist’s Asymmetry
You cannot invoke the unknowability of future knowledge only when the future looks bad
Sep 24 • David Mc
Insect Ethics
Counting Before Knowing What Counts
Sep 19 • David Mc
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