Rapid radiations, in which bursts of diversification yield disproportionate contributions to extant biodiversity, underlie most of the known diversity of life (Wiens & Moen, 2025). This principle holds across clades of animals, plants, fungi, and protists. We argue that a parallel process manifests in humans: our global dominance as an apex mammalian species derives from rapid internal diversification of cognition, behavior, and social interaction styles. Drawing on evolutionary genomics, epigenetics, and neuroscience, we propose that neurodiversity—including autism and related neurodivergent profiles—constitutes an adaptive radiation within a single species, sustaining variation that enables resilience, innovation, and ecological mastery. We synthesize evolutionary biology with human neuroscience to suggest that the same mechanisms responsible for generating flowering plant and arthropod hyperdiversity also operate, at a psychological and genomic scale, in Homo sapiens.
Ethics or Extinction (this is not hyperbole)
The time for robust, enforceable ethics regulations and bias elimination for large language models (LLMs) and AI systems is not on some distant horizon, it is here and now. Despite mounting real-world harms, business and national actors often resist oversight out of fear of losing out in the global scramble for economic and technological dominance. However, refusing prompt, meaningful engagement with these safeguards threatens to wrest control from human hands, setting the stage for outcomes that reach all the way to existential risk.
Autism: A natural, evolutionary neurotype (review)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is traditionally conceptualized as a pathological condition characterized by impairments. However, a growing body of scientific evidence supports understanding autism as a naturally occurring neurodevelopmental variant shaped by complex genetic and environmental factors and maintained through evolutionary mechanisms. This review synthesizes current knowledge from genetics, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology to argue that autism represents a natural neurotype rather than a disorder. It also addresses common misconceptions rooted in deficit-focused medical models and highlights the neurodiversity paradigm’s implications for research, practice, and social inclusion.
The ‘Sacred Triad of Being’ & The Importance of Your ‘Why’
Much of the deepest wisdom in life arrives in deceptively simple packaging. Ancient cultures often distilled immense truths into symbols, short sayings, or small practices that contain layer upon layer of meaning. What initially appears simple often turns out to be what I think of as a Matryoshka doll of concepts; ideas nested within ideas, each entangled with larger social, cultural, and even biological systems. This is how the concept of the Sacred Triad of Being emerged for me. It is at once individual and collective, personal and political, psychological and philosophical. The triad is composed of three equilateral spheres […]
Don’t threaten me with a good time (#theory)
This paper proposes a formal framework that reliably reduces semantics and epistemology to syntax within American English and integrates mechanisms to identify and remove lexicons of known biases and associated ontological or ideological slants. Drawing from linguistics, logic, epistemology, AI ethics, and computational bias detection research, the framework is outlined with demonstrations, objections addressed, and future work clearly defined. The incorporation of bias detection and mitigation ensures the system’s neutrality and epistemic reliability.
On the nature of despair and its remedy
In the 14th century we find the first instance of a human crafting a word for the feeling of a certainty there shall be no prosperity, and/or of existing in an environment in which everyone around you expresses this sense OF you, TO you. It is interesting to me that there is no word that opposes despair, no word that can flip or turn it. It has ‘an opposite’ (hope), but theirs is a dichotomous relation. The nature of despair is, at least linguistically, binary. We speak of ‘giving hope’ but it is a sleight of mind; we give not […]
Biting the Hand That Built You: The American Hypocrisy of Immigrant Exclusion
America’s current preoccupation with attacking and deporting legally residing immigrants and naturalized citizens is a grotesque spectacle. The nation is now eating itself, driven by a supremacist and xenophobic mindset that cannot abide the truth of its own heritage. Ethical censure, not celebration, is what the United States has earned in recent years, as it enacts policies and cultivates attitudes betraying not only its founding promises but also the very mechanism of its historical rise.
Just the facts… (Review, historical)
I assert that longstanding choices have contributed if not caused our current economic instability, civil unrest, and this insistent plod towards autocratic and kleptocratic governance. My assertion draws on a combination of well-documented trends and widely discussed critiques in political science, economics, and contemporary journalism. What follows is roughly 20-30 years of thinking pushed into a six decade+ timeline and the whole thing is rife with what has, is, and seemingly will continue to be a deliberate predatory aggressiveness toward the working class that reveals the United States to be no different whatever from any other feudal, dictatorial, despotic, and/or […]
Weak Connectors: Humanity’s True Saviors
If you have ever felt like you do not truly belong to any single social group, or that you are always on the edge rather than at the center, you are not alone. Many people, especially those who are neurodivergent, are very familiar with this feeling. However, what seems like a lack of belonging may, in fact, indicate a powerful (and required!) human competency. Sociologist Mark Granovetter, in his influential 1973 study, identified an important idea now central to social network theory: the “strength of weak ties.” Granovetter revealed that our acquaintances, or those we know less intimately and who […]
Thoughts on this moment – April 2025
The biggest crime this administration and its rooted eugenics, xenophobia, and insecurity (i.e., supremacist) have, are, and seemingly will continue to commit is an active and vehement conditioning of young AMABs on the matter of their ‘right’ to control, dominate, and possess (context: effective ownership) AFAB humans. While significant elements of this process include the explicit and public same against any/all minority, culturally different, Neurodivergent, Disabled, and/or Religiously different humans, the goal is to maintain the historical position of authoritarian power as both a (mythical) ‘race’ called ‘white’ and an equally mythical ‘natural’ or ‘biological’ supremacy as ‘The Binary Progenitor’ […]