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Philosophy

You best start believing in ghost stories

hey little train, we're jumping on

Jul 15 • Stefan Kelly

Who burned down the Shoreditch cereal café?

my dear, what if this actually is how an algorithm feels from inside

Oct 27, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

Give it a name and make it real

how to (un)fix something in time

Sep 1, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

Someone else was in the room where it happened

yo chat you seeing this shit?

Oct 27, 2024 • Stefan Kelly

Psychology

There’s something alive down there

platonic space, the unconscious, hemispheric asymmetry

Sep 12 • Stefan Kelly

Hyper-hypotheticals in Psychological Research

a real méconnaissance man

Sep 11 • Stefan Kelly

Desire as a Responsibility

So stay therrrrre, Cause I'll be comin' overrrrr

Aug 29 • Stefan Kelly

On Groups and Individuals

this is and isn't about behavioural science and policy

Dec 25, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

AI

Synthetic men can't jump

ai & human creativity

Aug 17 • Stefan Kelly

how to move two goalposts at the same time

it helps if you don't know what you're trying to achieve

Sep 7, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

AI Agents have a trust-value-complexity problem

screw it i'll do it myself

Aug 20, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

The things you don't want to know about yourself

i met sam altman in the bathroom, he said everything was going to be ok

May 28, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

Artefacts

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Meanwhile… Already Happened is a reader-supported publication.

Jul 16 • Stefan Kelly

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it is almost time

Nov 13, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

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artefacts1, we're bringing image essays back

Aug 29, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

Media Analysis

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you can go on dreaming

Sep 13 • Stefan Kelly

If it's on TV, it's a TV show

and if it's on your phone, it's a Tiktok

Sep 9, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

Priced In: The 'Collapse' of Conscientiousness

people love a graph

Aug 10, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

Priced In: Self-sabotage edition

why do bad things keep happening to me

Jul 17, 2025 • Stefan Kelly

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