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What's the point of intellectual work, if AGI is around the corner?
Feb 17 • David Bessis
Attention is all we have
A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality
Feb 3 • David Bessis
Thinking fast, slow, and super slow
How mathematicians train their intuition
Dec 18, 2025 • David Bessis
Twins reared apart do not exist
The shaky science of genetic determinism
Dec 5, 2025 • David Bessis
The curious case of broken theorems
Mathematics shouldn't survive logical errors—yet it does
Nov 14, 2025 • David Bessis
Writing is hard — and it should be
The excruciating art of clarifying your mind
Sep 15, 2025 • David Bessis
Genes can't explain genius
The mathematical structure of cognitive inequality
Jun 15, 2025 • David Bessis
Paperback is in! — a cryptographic giveaway
Win a signed copy of Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
May 15, 2025 • David Bessis
David Bessis
I write about mathematics and human cognition.
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