Sitemap - 2025 - Conspicuous Cognition

Tribalism Corrupts Politics (Even When One Side Is Worse)

AI Sessions #6: AI Companions and Consciousness

America's epistemological crisis (reprise)

AI Sessions #5: How AI Broke Education

Let's Not Bring Back The Gatekeepers

AI Sessions #4: The Social AI Revolution - Friendship, Romance, and the Future of Human Connection

On Becoming Less Left-Wing (Part 1) (unpaywalled)

AI Sessions #3: The Truth About AI and the Environment

On Highbrow Misinformation

Should We Blame Institutional Failures For MAGA Insanity?

AI Sessions #2: Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness - A Deep Dive

Superintelligence and the Decline of Human Interdependence

Is Social Media Destroying Democracy—Or Giving It To Us Good And Hard?

Evolutionary Psychology, Politics, and the Humanities

AI Sessions #1: AI - A Normal Technology or a Superintelligent Alien Species?

Against Bluesky (and Blueskyism)

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: 10-Week Syllabus & Readings

Against Political Chmess

Domination and Reputation Management

Will AI Change Everything?

The Stench of Propaganda Clings to Everything

The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think

Thinking Beyond the Misinformation Wars

The Standpoint of the Oppressed Doesn't Lead to Truth

The Decline of Legacy Media, Rise of Vodcasters, and X's Staying Power

Stupidity, gullibility, and other adaptive strategies

Status, class, and the crisis of expertise

Criticising misinformation research doesn't make you a Trump supporter

On becoming less left-wing (Part 2)

Advice for bloggers

Contra critical theory

The puzzle of populist devotion: How alliances and propaganda explain right-wing populism

People embrace beliefs that signal their traits and loyalties

What if the truth about AI is more boring than we'd like?

Social media isn't destroying society

Misinformation isn't a contagious virus you can be inoculated against

The "everyone is biased" bias

Conversations about misinformation

Against Bluesky

On conspiracy theories of ignorance

False consciousness and the dominant ideology thesis

The world outside and the pictures in our heads

Citizens, experts, and democracy

Politics, truth, and ideology: A syllabus

Is the internet worse than a brainwashing machine?

One year on Substack