@jmrphy

Independent scholar. New book: The Independent Scholar (2026), a history from Plato to Nietzsche.

 Austin, TX
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Joined November 2010
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On Whiplash: AI Psychosis and Optionality Paralysis

When creative power increases dramatically every few months, how does one decide what to do?

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Everyone is Still Wrong About Lola the Lionhearted (Including Now the BBC)

Yesterday, a sheriff in Dundee, Scotland, found a 22-year-old Bulgarian man guilty of assaulting and threatening a 12-year-old girl. Within hours, dozens of people were tagging me, asking me to retrac…

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On Helen DeWitt

I'm obsessed with Helen DeWitt now, she's very cool and I think symbolically load-bearing for a particular cognitive fault-line today, namely the repressed war between schizo-leaning and autism-leanin…

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AI, ZK, and the New +$1T Market for Truth

AI is going to drive +$1T of new demand for ZK-proving systems in the next ten years. Here's some napkin math on just one example: verifiable software security.

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First thoughts on Nockchain

Disclaimer: Not financial advice. I'm long $NOCK. Do your own research.

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