Selected
Spirits and the incompleteness of physics
Complexity, renormalization, and the spirits beyond the horizon of theory
Jun 20, 2025
Equations that demand beauty
The remarkable physics of constraints
Dec 02, 2025
God is NaN
How skepticism leads back to a God, pragmatist mysticism, and the nonsense of Bayesian metaphysics
May 09, 2025
Beauty as entropic fine-tuning
Why beauty should be measured in bits, why conscious AI would experience beauty, and the evolutionary function of the aesthetic experience
All essays
The best books I read in 2025
Why had I not heard of the School of Chartres?
Jan 02, 2026
Equations that demand beauty
The remarkable physics of constraints
Dec 02, 2025
My holy text
The most important book I've read in the last 10 years
Sep 01, 2025
Revising God
The atheists, theists, and agnostics are wrong
Aug 03, 2025
Ornaments from first principles
Grand unified theories and their pleasures
Jul 22, 2025
Spirits and the incompleteness of physics
Complexity, renormalization, and the spirits beyond the horizon of theory
Jun 20, 2025
God is NaN
How skepticism leads back to a God, pragmatist mysticism, and the nonsense of Bayesian metaphysics
May 09, 2025
I left academia yesterday
Why I left
Feb 21, 2025
My favorite Norwegian painter
A tour of his gallery
Jan 22, 2025
How I make audioreactive art: an illustrated guide
How I make visual arts reacting to my music
Dec 30, 2024
Taste is like physics, porn, and grammar
Predictive processing explains objective beauty, aesthetic grammar and hedonic treadmills of beauty. Contra Scott Alexander, and elaborating on Zvi.
Dec 22, 2024
Sacrality in leather boots (short story)
Durability and the weaving of meaning
Dec 15, 2024
Six lessons from producing electronic music
The power of mutants, complexity-conservation, and art as perishable
Dec 08, 2024
Why I am here
Introducing Mechanics of Aesthetics and the obsessive pursuit of an aesthetic
Nov 27, 2024
Against expressing yourself in art
A rant
Oct 15, 2024Cathedral yearning
I finished a piece of music paired with audio-reactive visual art
Sep 18, 2024
Untangling meaning, mystery, and beauty
Are beauty and meaning two sides of the same coin?
Sep 12, 2024
Today's nugget
A brain scan of the collective artistic consciousness
Aug 21, 2024
Beauty opioids
Attempts at addictive visual arts
Aug 14, 2024
N-beauty
A natural family of objective beauty measures does exist
Jul 23, 2024
Beauty as entropic fine-tuning
Why beauty should be measured in bits, why conscious AI would experience beauty, and the evolutionary function of the aesthetic experience