I'd like to thank Guy for the conversation we had on 26 November 2025. Late last year, the rationalist community leader and artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky claimed that chickens do not have qualia: Post from Twitter. This caused something of a stir – for what seem to me like...
The following post discusses my personal experience of the phenomenology of feminising hormone therapy. It will also touch upon my own experience of gender dysphoria. I wish to be clear that I do not believe that someone should have to demonstrate that they experience gender dysphoria – however one might...
DMT has a certain popular reputation – that of something discombobulating, inscrutable, not necessarily for the faint of heart. While I do believe DMT is capable of providing a comprehensible and even wholesome experience, it definitely deserves its reputation as an extremely powerful psychedelic. While it may only last twenty...