The survival skills of Helena Valero(woodfromeden.substack.com)

85 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 27 comments

Slut-onomics: How the scarcity of sluts tears the social fabric apart(woodfromeden.substack.com)

21 points by jinjin2 2 years ago | 6 comments

On the experience of being dirt-poorish, for people who want to be(woodfromeden.substack.com)

33 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 38 comments

Homo sapiens declared extinct (1999)(bruces.medium.com)

201 points by cubefox 3 years ago | 58 comments

Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow(doctorow.medium.com)

187 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 125 comments

Happiness is a reward from our ancestors(woodfromeden.substack.com)

80 points by jinjin2 3 years ago | 67 comments

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

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.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.

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.

We are entering a period of overlapping crises(hamishcampbell.com)

60 points by speckx 11 days ago | 63 comments

Blog post by Hamish Campbell on the Open Media Network site arguing that climate breakdown, inequality, tech disruption, war and political instability form overlapping crises.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.