in high school i spent about 3 months obsessing over my theory of parallel universes, heavily inspired by bad documentary that i liked at the time "what the bleep do we know." it was convincing, until someone *else* showed me their own theory and i realized we were both just making shit up for fun.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
Feb 3, 2026 19:23
