August Subscriber Post
Join my retreat for snake enlightenment (it’s just a petting zoo)
How Humans Evolved
Research Articles
The Bullroarer: a history of man’s most sacred ritual object
Mystery cults worldwide say the instrument is the voice of god, once belonged to women, was stolen by men, and use it to turn boys into men through a process of death and rebirth
Review: Supernatural Selection
How religion evolved
Eve Theory of Consciousness: The Evolutionary Emergence of Recursive Attention Loops
A reframing of the Eve Theory of Consciousness (EToC) as the evolutionary emergence of recursive attention loops, driven by gene-culture coevolution.
How to prompt chatGPT
Some advice from a prompting wizard
July Subscriber Post
Help me make a FAQ
Memetic Eve Solves the Sapient Paradox
On leaving the uncanney cultural valley of the Stone Age
The Doomsday Debate
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bots
Snake Cult (LessOnline presentation)
An update on the Snake Cult in a new format
Secrets of the Snake King
The snake detection hypothesis vs an Armenian folktale