arguments

psychology

+13

You can probably just tell the truth much more often than you think

Jan 25, 2026

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2 min read

You can probably just tell the truth much more often than you think

On white lies, tactful honesty, and why most people’s intuitions here are (understandably) incorrect

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

Mar 23, 2024

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6 min read

Critical thinking is not an illusion

A writer recently argued that what we call "critical thinking" is actually just knowing more facts about a topic. I think he is deeply confused about this, and not thinking critically.

Alex Libre

arguments

You can probably just tell the truth much more often than you think

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

Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI

Critical thinking is not an illusion

Orca & Fishbowl