Jakob Schwichtenberg’s Newsletter

The Trouble With AI

Neither energy consumption, nor human unemployment or paper clip maximization

Jun 1 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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May 2026

Wild Universities

Reclaiming the Little Tradition of Science

May 21 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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Alternative Interpretations of Special Relativity

Steelmanning Poincaré and Lorentz

May 12 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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Impossible Assumptions

Don't look too closely.

May 9 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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April 2026

What Foundational Questions Are Worth Asking?

An Invitation

Apr 16 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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December 2025

Slowness is a Virtue

... at least when you're doing research, not development

Dec 18, 2025 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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What scientific ideas are worth pursuing?

A unified model of scientific elegance and convergence.

Dec 16, 2025 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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October 2025

The Cage of Casualness

I. I still remember how shocked I was when I realized that virtually no one at university was serious about studying physics.

Oct 28, 2025 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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In Praise of Amateurism

I. One of my icks is reading anything that was clearly only written because the author felt like they had to write, not because they actually felt the…

Oct 26, 2025 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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The Games Mathematicians Play

I. One thing I always found frustrating is that no one properly explained to me what modern mathematicians do.

Oct 9, 2025 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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February 2025

The Quantum Tower of Babel

"If God is a mathematician, in what dialect does She/He/They/It speak?"

Feb 11, 2025 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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The unreasonable effectiveness of beauty in science

Tons of famous scientists emphasize the importance of aesthetics.

Feb 6, 2025 • Jakob Schwichtenberg

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