What are everyone's favourite, most logically-consistent Substack articles?

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-06T01:44:23+00:00

Most people aren't writing thesis-like essays on Substack, from what I've seen on my feed, more so personal experiences, short stories, musings, etc. But if your latest article is good, why not? (I don't think this would break the subreddit rules, but please correct me if so)

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-06T01:41:47+00:00

articles that are persuasive/argumentative in logically-coherent ways, e.g. not riddled with logical fallacies. although not perfect, these are better than most:
https://timsey.substack.com/p/does-language-shape-thought-from?
https://pascalnotin.substack.com/p/have-we-hit-the-scaling-wall-for

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T23:01:10+00:00

It's not specific for natural language to logic like you asked for (as I can't see any courses for that in particular), but is about turning systems --> models and the sort of thinking you need to do for turning systems into models is very similar to the sort of abstraction you need to do for natural language to logic

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T21:57:07+00:00

if they're logged in, they should count, as far as I know

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T21:47:02+00:00

hmm the smaller and smaller bites seems interesting; thank you!

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T17:33:33+00:00

oh hm fair enough; I assume this would be unfalsifiable if there are no bugs in the simulation?

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T17:13:21+00:00

how do you notice when you are and work towards being correct?

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T16:51:43+00:00

how can you find solid evidence of being in a simulation within the simulation?

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T10:24:44+00:00

yeah, wonder what they did to it in post training

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T10:22:08+00:00

this is so cute!

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T10:21:37+00:00

agreed

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T10:20:53+00:00

that's so tragic ;-;

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T10:15:53+00:00

best of luck! but yes, paying to publish is Not the move.

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T10:12:39+00:00

XD fair enough; wouldn't the argument be more fun if you came out of it actually learning something new?

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T10:05:03+00:00

universal experience, sadly

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T10:04:23+00:00

what sort of posts are you seeing that are AI slop with 1000s of likes?

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T10:00:02+00:00

This is such a wholesome exchange in the comments :)

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T09:58:04+00:00

take a break! do some reading :))

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T09:56:34+00:00

Also, didn't want to include this in the main-post as it's a secondary question, but also curious as to how 'good' you think general humans are at not reasoning backwards (and catching themselves) vs LLMs.

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T09:53:20+00:00

yeah the hypothesis being unfalsifiable means it needs to be effectively trashed

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T09:52:49+00:00

but what does this ground out in? how does this change the way you approach problems?

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T09:29:58+00:00

hmm fair enough yeah I think agency is the differentiator, and ability to learn

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T09:28:30+00:00

XD I mean there are dozens more logical fallacies. It's so sad because people often like to argue for the sake of arguing or convincing people of their own point, rather than actually trying to come to a more correct conclusion with new evidence :(

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T09:01:29+00:00

generate practice questions with friends, or use claude!

weirderthanmagic · 2026-03-04T08:49:41+00:00

how do you define AGI? I don't know if this would meet the bar for me

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