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/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

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  • ai simulates conversations 24 Feb 2026 [marginalium] AI simulates conversations. Sometimes, when a problem is hard, LLMs with ‘thinking’ will simulate an internal conversation between different...
  • digital personhood 1 Jul 2025 [marginalium] On the possibilities for secure digital personhood. I am fairly obsessed with this, but my first project on it isn’t very user-friendly. Nor...
  • is culture socially costly 30 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Risks and Social Costs of High Culture: High culture now functions like a counterculture, entailing a conscious act of dissent from the...
  • god without god 26 Jun 2025 [marginalium] God without god. Hard to explain in a marginalia. But there is this ‘hard’ problem of consciousness (not conscious access). Why do we have e...
  • love is about betterment 24 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Love is about betterment. Love, in the ancient Greek world, is not about sacrifice but eudaemonia: Diotima shows Socrates that love is a ki...
  • romantic friendships 24 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Romantic Friendships and Their Unique Dynamics: there is nothing essential or inevitable about the ways we conceive of romantic relationshi...
  • the long history of association between god and unusual smells 19 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The long history of association between God and unusual smells. some scholars believe that the English language suffered from the “cultural...
  • why individuals avoid information 17 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Why Individuals Avoid Information: A common hypothesis posits that individuals strategically avoid information to hold particular beliefs o...
  • graduates have multiplied faster than the room at the top 12 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Graduates have multiplied faster than the room at the top: The result is a stock of nearly-men and women whose relationship with their own...
  • preferring skilled migration enhances xenophobia 7 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Preferring skilled migration appears to make us less amenable to migrants more broadly. This is an email about the Australian situation—we o...
  • what is centrism? 6 Jun 2025 [marginalium] What Is Centrism? This is a mildy interesting critique of centrism as a political destination, and of the flaws in the Democratic approach t...
  • how to do soul-craft with state tools 6 Jun 2025 [marginalium] How To Do Soul-Craft With State Tools: We seem to be grieving literacy in public lately. Thoughtful essays keep appearing—in TheGuardian, T...
  • does testosterone effect economic preferences? 30 May 2025 [marginalium] Does Testosterone Effect Economic Preferences? This paper says no: Participants were randomly allocated to receive a single dose of either...
  • superstition in a godless state 30 May 2025 [marginalium] Superstition In A Godless State. On the rise of superstition in the notoriously anti-superstitious Chinese State. It’s hard not to see paral...
  • strawson on panpsychism 8 May 2025 [marginalium] Strawson on panpsychism. I think panpsychism—the idea that everything is trivially ‘conscious’—is disappointing: Panpsychists say that, per...
  • social media and moore's law 1 May 2025 [marginalium] Social Media and Moore’s Law. From Tyler Cowan, who is confusing me recently, but I still like his predictions. I have a draft article that...
  • welcome to the chaoscene 18 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Welcome to the Chaoscene: The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient c...
  • does social media abstinence work 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Does social media abstinence work? The findings thus suggest that temporarily stepping away from social media may not be the most optimal a...
  • more lawless than you realise 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] It’s more lawless out there than you realise: I have been told that the section on insurance in the tax code is so complex that fewer peopl...
  • the religious don't trust scientists' moral character 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] The religious don’t trust scientists’ moral character (in the US) How do perceptions of scientists’ moral values relate to support for scie...

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