Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes?(resobscura.substack.com)

47 points by benbreen 3 years ago | 39 comments

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto(pmarca.substack.com)

4 points by jger15 3 years ago | 0 comments

Against Alcohol(thefitzwilliam.com)

84 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 79 comments

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck(writingruxandrabio.com)

99 points by rruxandra_l 2 months ago | 75 comments

Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?(blog.jovono.com)

28 points by ejz 2 years ago | 44 comments

Wikipedia hosting costs are 1.5% of revenue(pallasblog.substack.com)

31 points by LucasLanglois 3 years ago | 5 comments

Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll(news.gallup.com)

9 points by randycupertino 1 month ago | 4 comments

Gallup poll news article reporting that the share of Americans who drink alcohol remains at a record low.

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.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

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.

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)

474 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 471 comments

An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts(arstechnica.com)

335 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 524 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that teen drug use continued an unprecedented decline in 2024, with the pandemic-era cohort showing high rates of abstaining.