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How I look at buildings, with aphantasia
A photograph is not a substitute
Oct 3 • Hollis Robbins

September 2026

Darwin and AI
Relax. Humans are not degenerating.
Sep 17 • Hollis Robbins
Aristotle and AI
Before tokens, words
Sep 11 • Hollis Robbins
“After the University” (Review)
On Chad Wellmon’s newest higher ed book
Sep 10 • Hollis Robbins
Just one more thing....
What Columbo might say about the Hugging Face postmortems...
Sep 4 • Hollis Robbins

August 2026

Teaching the Ocean to Swim
Why LLMs keep failing their Big Five personality tests
Aug 27 • Hollis Robbins
The Medium Eats the Message
The Singularity is Post-Privacy
Aug 22 • Hollis Robbins
What a Time to Be an Agent!
Anthropic’s agents assumed the worst of each other. My new paper explains why.
Aug 19 • Hollis Robbins
What if Wirecutter Rated Universities?
It might be the end of the shell game
Aug 15 • Hollis Robbins
DeepMind and The Visualizer's Fallacy
DeepMind's eye was never the mind
Aug 9 • Hollis Robbins
Universities would prefer not to.
AI and the degree monopoly
Aug 5 • Hollis Robbins
The Zoë: Life Abundant Conference report
Fertility, longevity, and post-Vatican II aesthetics in Napa
Aug 1 • Hollis Robbins
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