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Cultural Evolution Works in Not-So-Mysterious Yet Often Misunderstood Ways
It's easy to underrate it, but I'm here to help!
Sep 27, 2025
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Hopeful Monsters
Not a rebranding 🎃
Oct 31, 2024
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Karl Popper’s Theory of Evolution
Natural selection as creative and purposeful problem-solving ☁️
Oct 25, 2024
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Poetic Prose on Evil, Written on the Occasion of Having Purchased a Venus Flytrap
Carnivorous plants and their horrendous little red mouths 🐜
Aug 29, 2024
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Beauty as the Original Solution to the Alignment Problem
Four paths to determining goodness 🪻
Aug 22, 2024
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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The Watchmaker Analogy Argues, at Most, for Polytheism
In fact it supports (cultural) evolution at least as much as intelligent design ⌚️
May 3, 2024
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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An Uncommonly Cited Reason to Colonize the Stars
Cultural diversity across the galaxy 🪐
Apr 19, 2024
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)
On the complexity limits of fictional worlds 🌍
Jan 18, 2024
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Family Curses Are Real
And not easily defeated 👩👧
Sep 1, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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No But Really, Why Are Flowers Beautiful?
Commentary on David Deutsch's view of beauty 🌺
Jun 1, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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Chinese Noodles, Swedish Tacos, and Other Authenticity Puzzles
On food, categories, and being tricked 🥡
May 11, 2023
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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The Overfit Theory of Everything
What is the point of dreams, fiction, art, novelty, even boredom? 🧚♂️
Dec 14, 2022
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Étienne Fortier-Dubois
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