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AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth)
Watch now | What is it like to be a ChatGPT?
Feb 17
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What Kind Of Apes Are We?
This is a guest post by David Pinsof, who writes the excellent ‘Everything is Bullshit’ Substack.
Feb 16
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Why Have Academics Failed To Study Social Justice Ideology?
This is a guest post by Thomas Prosser (who writes at The Path Not Taken) and Edmund King (who writes at Paroxysms) about their very interesting new…
Feb 11
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We Are Confused, Maladapted Apes Who Need Enlightenment
With Homo sapiens, Darwinian evolution produced a new kind of animal: a species that builds worlds it struggles to understand.
Feb 2
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January 2026
AI Sessions #8: Misinformation, Social Media, and Deepfakes (with Sacha Altay)
Watch now | Henry and I chat with Dr Sacha Altay about:
Jan 23
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Dan Williams
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The harder it is to find the truth, the easier it is to lie to ourselves
A simple observation with complex implications
Jan 12
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AI Sessions #7: How Close is "AGI"?
Listen now | And does the concept even make sense?
Jan 9
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Dan Williams
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2025: Review and Recommendations
My top ten essays, how I use AI to read, and my favourite books, articles, and more.
Jan 5
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December 2025
Tribalism Corrupts Politics (Even When One Side Is Worse)
Opposing the far right isn’t an excuse to indulge our tribal instincts.
Dec 29, 2025
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AI Sessions #6: AI Companions and Consciousness
Watch now | A deep dive into the philosophy, ethics, politics, social science, and likely future of human-AI relationships.
Dec 20, 2025
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Dan Williams
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America's epistemological crisis (reprise)
Polarization, populism, and perspective
Dec 14, 2025
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AI Sessions #5: How AI Broke Education
Watch now (56 mins) | How can AI help with learning and education? And does it pose an extinction-level threat to the teaching and assessment models…
Dec 4, 2025
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