ai

writing

+11

Jan 5, 2026

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1 min read

If you're not yet using AI to get feedback on your human writing, you should start

Especially considering a humanities professor at Dartmouth once admitted to me that he and most of his colleagues "honestly just kind of skim [the essays students submit for their courses]".

Alex Libre

technology

Everything worth inventing has not, in fact, already been invented

Jan 3, 2026

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4 min read

Everything worth inventing has not, in fact, already been invented

There are good reasons to believe that education could be a lot better than it currently is in most school systems. Freddie deBoer is, as he often is, confused about this.

Alex Libre

openAI o3

+20

Dec 22, 2024

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7 min read

Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI

New evidence from the past week (e.g. Anthropic's "alignment faking" paper + OpenAI's new o3 model scoring 87% on ARC-AGI) gave me the courage to speak truth to podcast.

Alex Libre

debates

How (and why) to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved by the FDA

Dec 14, 2024

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4 min read

How (and why) to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved by the FDA

Recommendations for Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS), and arguments for the Food and Drug Administration.

Alex Libre

honesty

Stop lying to children about Santa Claus

Mar 19, 2024

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7 min read

Stop lying to children about Santa Claus

An argument for instilling honesty and critical thinking during the holidays, rather than deception, conformity, and magical thinking. Also, some AI-written counterarguments and my responses to them.

Alex Libre

psychology

How AI helped me interpret and decode my manic/psychotic notes to self

Nov 5, 2023

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4 min read

How AI helped me interpret and decode my manic/psychotic notes to self

The AI provided impressively useful interpretations of various rambling notes I'd written during my first and (knock on wood) only manic & psychotic episode, back in 2020.

Alex Libre

ai

If you're not yet using AI to get feedback on your human writing, you should start

Everything worth inventing has not, in fact, already been invented

Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI

How (and why) to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved by the FDA

Stop lying to children about Santa Claus

How AI helped me interpret and decode my manic/psychotic notes to self

Orca & Fishbowl