Erik Hoel

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  • Pompeii Recommends

    I recommend visiting Pompeii because it’s one of the few places left where you can touch history itself.

    theintrinsicperspective.com 2026-07-24

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  • The Nutcracker Loved

    So too do we own a 1988 edition of The Nutcracker that has become a favorite read beyond its season.

    theintrinsicperspective.com 2026-01-26

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  • The Decline of Deviance Loved

    My favorite recent piece on our cultural stagnation is Adam Mastroianni’s

    theintrinsicperspective.com 2025-12-08

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  • The Sistine Chapel Loved

    Which remains my favorite “painting” I’ve personally seen in my whole life.

    theintrinsicperspective.com 2025-01-02

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  • Watership Down Loved

    If asked to name my favorite movie, the beautiful 1970s watercolor Watership Down is a contender.

    theintrinsicperspective.com 2024-10-14

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• Everything, newest firstFeed Posts and recommendations from the cards above, in one stream.

  • Buying a house as a mid-century modern midwit 21 Aug
  • Goodbye Slopstack! Also, a $50,000 essay/fiction contest, adversarial consciousness tech, & more 24 Jul
  • Anthropic runs like Wile E. Coyote into the brick wall of consciousness research 13 Jul
  • 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
  • Don't dethrone consciousness! 5 Jun
  • But Dumbo could already fly? 23 May

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  • We consciousness researchers have failed you 29 Apr
  • 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
  • Hubris 19 Mar
  • RIP Dan Simmons. Why weren't you more famous? 13 Mar
  • Bits In, Bits Out 5 Mar
  • 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
  • It only snows like this for children 26 Jan
  • Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious 15 Jan
  • How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America 19 Dec 2025
  • The Sistine Chapel 2 Jan 2025 Loved
  • Watership Down 14 Oct 2024 Loved