Steve on (R)evolutionary Psychology

• Humans as Narration Machines: Why Our Most Important Stories Are Emotional, Not True
• The Separated Mind and The Machine: Why the Current LLM Roadmap Leads Away from Objective Alignment with Reality
• Why Trying to "Align" AI to Human Values Is a Category Error — And What to Build Instead
• Why I Believe We Have Already Achieved Artificial General Intelligence, Even Superintelligence
• LLMs as Separated Minds
• AI and the Cycles of History
• Media Literacy Without Human Literacy: Narrative Enforcers Dressed as Critical Thinkers
• Operative AI Alignment: Why We Must Treat LLMs as Separated Minds
• The Functional Fiction Framework of Human Nature
• Actual Conspiracies Exist and They Are Inevitable
• AI Is Building Secret Models of Human Behavior. It's Time to Require Disclosure.
• Truth and AI: Why Large Language Models Shouldn't Claim to Tell the Truth
• Manufacturing Dissent
• How Conspiracies Actually Work: Addendum 1
• How Conspiracies Actually Work: A Better Map
• Productive Alignment: Understanding Human Wisdom
• Human Agency and the Separated Mind
• The Separated Mind: The Why of Human History
• Our Performative Lives
• Intellectual Capture
• The Law of Inevitable Exploitation (L.I.E)
• The Adaptive Mind
• Realmotiv
• Structural Victim Blaming
• Iatrogenesis
• Behavior Shaping (and AI, of Course)
• The Levels of Thinking, Part II
• Understanding the Human Condition: Using LLMs to Explore What the Human Record Reveals About Us
• Programmed for Approval
• Understanding Humanity: What AI Training Data Reveals About Human Nature (with lots of help from Claude
• Coalitional Psychology: A Feature, Not a Bug — And That's the Problem
• Mimicking Authenticity Has Never Been So Easy
• What AI Might Be Teaching Us About Intelligence
• The Tide of Human Affairs: Why Some Narratives Endure
• Why History Repeats: The Fourth Turning, the Evolved Mind, and Psychohistory
• The Cassandra Paradox: Evolutionary Psychology, Plato’s Cave, and the Cost of Seeing Clearly
• The Future of Therapy: How AI Could Transform Mental Health Care
• The Pathologizing of Pattern Recognition: How "Conspiracy Theory" Became a Thought-Stopping Cliché
• The Source Code of Human Civilization and the Real Danger of AI
• Thinking About Thinking in the Age of AI
• The Unbalanced Scale: Empathy, Systems, and the Modern Western Dilemma
• The Evolutionary Rewards of Complicity: Why We Go Along with Bad Things