Featuring (among other things) something that AI is demonstrably better at than a typical human: talking people out of their conspiratorial beliefs. Unlimited patience really is a virtue.

Title card for Mindscape AMA episode.

Mindscape Ask Me Anything | October 2025. Hopefully this one answers once and for all why the universe isn't a black hole if it was so densely packed at early times. #MindscapePodcast

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Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode on Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse.

Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Title card for Mindscape episode with Steven Pinker.

Mindscape 329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge. #MindscapePodcast

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Title card for Mindscape AMA, Sept 2025.

Mindscape Ask Me Anything | September 2025. Entropic gravity, democratic equilibrium, discrete space, exorcising Laplace's Demon, and so much more. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Quantum Mechanics: Volume 3: Lectures on Theoretical Physics Buy Quantum Mechanics: Volume 3: Lectures on Theoretical Physics on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Today in QM1: just a basic motivational overview. I will give a quick summary of what quantum mechanics actually is, then some (logically reconstructed) history: blackbody radiation, photons, Bohr atom, de Broglie waves.

We're using David Tong's brand new book: www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mech...

They'll come for interracial marriages next

Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode with Jacob Barandes

Mindscape 323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics. We go on for a while. #MindscapePodcast

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Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan Telling children they will go to hell for not joining religious activities will be regarded as abuse. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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china pays those...😎😂

What does it take, man. They’ve arrested mayors, broken into Congressman’s offices. Does anyone doubt they would arrest governors or Senators? What line needs to be crossed before we all recognize this as lawless authoritarianism?

when pretty white women are targeted, the rest of us are in big, big, big trouble

sure sign of a strong economy 💪

This is going to be one of those hard life lessons

We could have just had a normal president and a functioning country.

I hope that going forward, the “both parties are the same” motto gets laughed out of polite discourse as the cheap cynicism it always was.

Working on zeroing out all my trade deficits. Whenever I go to a store to buy things, I'm going to demand that the store buy goods from me of precisely equal value. I'm going to be so goddamned autonomous.

I clicked it so fast lol...#AntiquesRoadshow and the new @seanmcarroll.bsky.social podcast dropping are the only things I have to look forward to on mondays.

The United States is like that trope of the bully grabbing the weakling’s arms, hitting him with his own hands, and going “Stop punching yourself! Why are you punching yourself?”

Except there is no bully. Just us, the weakling. Punching ourselves.

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Albert Camus

#Philsky

“The people who built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky “ ~Nina Simone #blacksky