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Why do we associate the word 'martyr' with suicide?
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Substack·2025
a look at the etymological root of 'martyrdom'
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View paper →Why I Am So Mean - Lyman Stone
Lyman Stone
Substack·2025
Somebody has to clean up the riffraff in this joint.
"But style is just one part of good writing. The other is that it in fact be good, that is, that it fulfill the telos of effortful public communication: to be extremely information dense. Good writing, in the sense of virtuous writing, by moral necessity must make for rather hard reading. Easy reading offends the soul and degrades the man. Good writing should confront the reader with recurrent challenges."
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View paper →I've Been Filling Notebooks for Decades. Here's Why I'm Finally Sharing Them
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Substack·2025
Since my teens, I’ve kept notebooks about all the things that fascinate me, from human nature to the nature of the universe, from the origins of life to the future of life on our planet.
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View paper →What Evolution Can Teach Us About Aligning with AI
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Substack·2025
How the evolutionary logic of fitness interdependence sheds light on the problem of AI alignment
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View paper →Evolution Will Happen Inside AI Whether We Like It or Not
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Substack·2025
The Inevitable Rise of the Replicons
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View paper →Stop Trying to Align AI. Start Brewing Better Ecosystems.
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Substack·2025
What kombucha can teach us about building cooperative AI
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View paper →Go Fast, Die Young: Ecological Succession in the World of AI
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Substack·2025
How Life History Theory Explains AI’s Changing Market Dynamics
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View paper →Why You Should Have A Beer With Your Pizza
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Substack·2025
How fermented beverages help manage microbial conflict inside you
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