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On record since
Oct 2026
Posts we hold
33
First published
25 Apr 2022
Last published
1 Oct 2026
Last cited
3 Oct 2026

Blogs linking here · all time

different blogs have linked to experiencemachines.substack.com, 19 times in all. The page they cite most is What to think when a language model tells you it's sentient, linked by 3 blogs.

Citations by period

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No. 2,908
links from other blogs in the last 90 days
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Posts per week6 Oct 2025 to 28 Sept 2026
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Most cited pages

Pages on experiencemachines.substack.com, ranked by how many different blogs link to them.

Most cited pages on experiencemachines.substack.com, page 1
#PageBlogs
1What to think when a language model tells you it's sentient/p/what-to-think-when-a-language-model (opens in a new tab)3 blogs
2Carl Shulman on the moral status of current and future AI systems/p/carl-shulman-on-the-moral-status-11b (opens in a new tab)2 blogs
3Agency and AI moral patienthood/p/agency-and-ai-moral-patienthood (opens in a new tab)1 blog
4Experience Machines | Robert Long | Substack/ (opens in a new tab)1 blog
5Can AI systems introspect?/p/can-ai-systems-introspect (opens in a new tab)1 blog
6Experts who say that AI welfare is a serious near-term possibility/p/experts-who-say-that-ai-welfare-is (opens in a new tab)1 blog
7Key questions about artificial sentience: an opinionated guide/p/key-questions-about-artificial-sentience (opens in a new tab)1 blog
8Language models are different from humans, and that's okay/p/language-models-are-different-from (opens in a new tab)1 blog
9Lots of links on LaMDA/p/lots-of-links-on-lamda (opens in a new tab)1 blog
10Machines of loving bliss/p/machines-of-loving-bliss (opens in a new tab)1 blog

Blogs citing it

Ranked by how many of their posts link here.

Blogs citing experiencemachines.substack.com, page 1
#BlogPostsLinks
1Ben Matthews - Free tools and articles for freelance consultantsbenrmatthews.com22
2Home - Joe Carlsmithjoecarlsmith.com22
3conspicuouscognition.com13
4qualiacomputing.com12
5alexwennerberg.com11
6bayesianinvestor.com11
7dailynous.com11
8Jono's Cornerdgt.is11
9joecarlsmith.substack.com11
10opentheory.net11

Posts counts the posts that link here; links counts every link. A blog counts once as a citing blog either way. Atom feed of new citing blogs

Words blogs link it with

The words citing blogs put inside the link, ranked by how many different blogs used them.

The most used link texts for experiencemachines.substack.com
WordsBlogsLinks
carl shulman22
agency, robust12
article11
have argued11
key questions about artificial sentience: an opinionated guide11

The top 5. The owner of experiencemachines.substack.com sees every phrase after claiming the blog.

Similar blogs

Blogs that link to the same sites as experiencemachines.substack.com, weighted toward rarely cited sites, blended with blogs whose recent posts are about the same things. Blogs on both lists come first.

Blogs similar to experiencemachines.substack.com
Blog Sites linked in common Why similar
Astral Codex Ten30Links and writing
conspicuouscognition.com11Links and writing
Home - Joe Carlsmith15Shared links
The Splintered Mind—Similar writing
theintrinsicperspective.com—Similar writing
howstrangeitistobeanythingatall.com—Similar writing
newsletter.danielpaleka.com9Shared links
henrikkarlsson.xyz8Shared links
euler-maruyama-method.tumblr.com—Similar writing
Cold Takes7Shared links

Publishing habit

Counted from the 31 posts we hold with a date, in UTC.

Posts in the last 12 months
21
Usual gap between posts
3 weeks
Most posts on
Sunday (23%)
Last post
1 Oct 2026
Comebacks after 6 months or more of silence
2 (latest Jul 2024)
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Posts
Nov 2025
1
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Feb 2026
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Mar 2026
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Jun 2026
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Oct 2026
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Posts, all time
Monday
4
Tuesday
3
Wednesday
6
Thursday
5
Friday
2
Saturday
4
Sunday
7

Sites experiencemachines.substack.com cites

114 sites linked from its posts; the ones linked from the most posts come first.

Sites that experiencemachines.substack.com links to
SitePosts linking
arXivarxiv.org14
en.wikipedia.org13
x.com11
LessWronglesswrong.com9
philarchive.org8
open.substack.com6
philpapers.org6
Mozilla Datayoutube.com6
nickbostrom.com5
plato.stanford.edu5

Recent posts

All 33 posts, by year
The most recent posts on experiencemachines.substack.com
PostOriginal
Some things I’ve been wondering about in empirical AI welfare1 Oct 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
Things I read and liked in September1 Oct 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
Things I read and liked in August30 Aug 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
“Merely” functional is still a big deal30 Aug 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
Things I read and liked in July1 Aug 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
Digital minds and effort levels: a problem for the 'virtual instance' view22 Jul 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
How I talk when I talk about AI consciousness1 Jul 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
Things I read and liked in June1 Jul 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
Magnifica Humanitas and the AI Ensoulment Hypothesis1 Jun 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
Things I read and liked in May1 Jun 2026Read at experiencemachines.substack.com (opens in a new tab)

33 posts on record from experiencemachines.substack.com, cited by 14 other distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 11 October 2026).