The age of average (2023)(alexmurrell.co.uk)

221 points by synergy20 1 year ago | 141 comments

The forecasting fallacy (2020)(alexmurrell.co.uk)

83 points by rognjen 2 years ago | 65 comments

The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year(tomtunguz.com)

34 points by 2bluesc 10 months ago | 15 comments

Rating 26 years of Java changes(neilmadden.blog)

191 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 209 comments

The days are long but the decades are short (2015)(blog.samaltman.com)

84 points by dbrereton 3 years ago | 54 comments

Redefining Observability(hazelweakly.me)

35 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 13 comments

Most people prefer traditional architecture(worksinprogress.news)

332 points by alihm 1 month ago | 285 comments

A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

On AI writing(bolkunov.com)

72 points by dbolkunov 5 days ago | 61 comments

Blog post by Dima Bolkunov arguing that AI-generated writing averages out style, making the author harder to see and empathize with.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Slow(michaelnotebook.com)

911 points by calvinfo 1 year ago | 215 comments

Michael Nielsen's essay and curated list of projects humans have pursued over exceptionally long periods, asking how to build institutions for slow problems.

Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)

5 points by samstress 18 days ago | 6 comments

A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.