Erik Hoel
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
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Creating entities as intelligent as ourselves is dangerous, because intelligence is what makes an entity dangerous
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Creating entities as intelligent as ourselves is dangerous, because intelligence is what makes an entity dangerous
It goes: intelligence makes entities dangerous, which is why humans are the dominant species on Earth.
All the existential risk, none of the economic impact. That's a shitty trade Said 22 Jul 2024
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Recommends Pompeii
I recommend visiting Pompeii because it’s one of the few places left where you can touch history itself.
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Loved The Nutcracker
So too do we own a 1988 edition of The Nutcracker that has become a favorite read beyond its season.
theintrinsicperspective.com 26 Jan 2026
Loved The Decline of Deviance
My favorite recent piece on our cultural stagnation is Adam Mastroianni’s
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Loved The Sistine Chapel
Which remains my favorite “painting” I’ve personally seen in my whole life.
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Loved Watership Down
If asked to name my favorite movie, the beautiful 1970s watercolor Watership Down is a contender.
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- How do I tell my kids about AI? 1 Oct 2026 Or, Why education should recapitulate civilization
- Humanity’s Flight 93 Moment 15 Sept 2026 It’s time to ban smart machines making smarter machines
- Culture Becomes a Dark Forest 9 Sept 2026 “Wallfacing” to solve Navier-Stokes
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- Buying a house as a mid-century modern midwit 21 Aug 2026 2.8%—that’s the mortgage rate I just gave up.
- Goodbye Slopstack! Also, a $50,000 essay/fiction contest, adversarial consciousness tech, & more 24 Jul 2026
- Anthropic runs like Wile E. Coyote into the brick wall of consciousness research 13 Jul 2026 When the AI companies first began talking about existential risk, it was common to hear some version of:
- Screentime correlates more with kids' brains than IQ; Matt Yglesias gets Dan Dennett wrong; Why literary fiction awards keep falling for AI scams; & more 23 Jun 2026
- Don't dethrone consciousness! 5 Jun 2026 LLMs aren't conscious (and thinking they are is culturally dangerous)
- But Dumbo could already fly? 23 May 2026 100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems
- We consciousness researchers have failed you 29 Apr 2026 In Which I Become Shackleton
- IVF epigenetic damage gets worse across generations; The next Project Hail Mary; AI's "odorless" math proofs; Waymo at 100% human oversight? & more 2 Apr 2026
- Hubris 19 Mar 2026 The Lore of the World: Part 4
- RIP Dan Simmons. Why weren't you more famous? 13 Mar 2026 The world hates a polymath
- Bits In, Bits Out 5 Mar 2026 Six years of AI and the world got stupider
- My New Org to Solve Consciousness (or Die Trying); A Rogue AI Community That Wasn't; David Foster Wallace Is Still Right; Cow Tools Are Real, & More 5 Feb 2026 Desiderata #38: links and commentary
- It only snows like this for children 26 Jan 2026 The Lore of the World: Part 3
- Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious 15 Jan 2026 There is nothing it is like to be a Large Language Model
- How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America 19 Dec 2025 Teaching (Very) Early Math: Part 1 of.... yikes
- Our overfitted century 8 Dec 2025 Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution
- Pluribus and Our Age of Hive Minds 18 Nov 2025 The tyranny of online life
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