Essays

Your AI agent needs randomnessAvoiding slop2026 The laws of physics might not fit inside the universeIs the universe unknowable?2026 The best books I read in 2025Why had I not heard of the School of Chartres?2026 Equations that demand beautyThe remarkable physics of constraints2025 My holy textThe most important book I've read in the last 10 years2025 Revising God The atheists, theists, and agnostics are wrong2025 Ornaments from first principlesGrand unified theories and their pleasures2025 Spirits and the incompleteness of physicsComplexity, renormalization, and the spirits beyond the horizon of theory2025 God is NaN Pragmatist mysticism and the nonsense of Bayesian metaphysics2025 I left academia yesterdayWhy I left2025 My favorite Norwegian painterA tour of his gallery2025 How I make audioreactive art: an illustrated guideHow I make visual arts reacting to my music2024 Taste is like physics, porn, and grammarPredictive processing explains objective beauty, aesthetic grammar and hedonic treadmills of beauty. Contra Scott Alexander, and elaborating on Zvi.2024 Sacrality in leather boots (short story)Durability and the weaving of meaning2024 Six lessons from producing electronic musicThe power of mutants, complexity-conservation, and art as perishable2024 Why I am hereIntroducing Mechanics of Aesthetics and the obsessive pursuit of an aesthetic2024 Against expressing yourself in artA rant2024 Cathedral yearningI finished a piece of music paired with audio-reactive visual art2024 Untangling meaning, mystery, and beautyAre beauty and meaning two sides of the same coin?2024 Today's nuggetA brain scan of the collective artistic consciousness2024 Beauty opioidsAttempts at addictive visual arts2024 N-beautyA natural family of objective beauty measures does exist2024 Beauty as entropic fine-tuningWhy beauty should be measured in bits, why conscious AI would experience beauty, and the evolutionary function of the aesthetic experience2024