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368 points by lis | 190 comments
John Salvatier's 2017 essay arguing, via examples like building basement stairs, that reality has hidden detail which explains why people get intellectually stuck.
351 points by vinhnx | 134 comments
John Salvatier's 2017 blog essay arguing, via examples like building stairs, that reality's hidden detail explains why people get intellectually stuck.
318 points by afilipovski | 190 comments
Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.
134 points by johnrushx | 60 comments
368 points by lis | 190 comments
John Salvatier's 2017 essay arguing, via examples like building basement stairs, that reality has hidden detail which explains why people get intellectually stuck.
351 points by vinhnx | 134 comments
John Salvatier's 2017 blog essay arguing, via examples like building stairs, that reality's hidden detail explains why people get intellectually stuck.
444 points by cal85 | 164 comments
James Somers' 2015 blog essay arguing that working quickly matters more than it seems; the page loaded as a 500 server error.
463 points by benbreen | 222 comments
Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.
331 points by joshwa | 113 comments
arXiv paper introducing SWE-Bench+, an empirical analysis revealing data quality issues in the SWE-bench coding benchmark for LLMs, such as solution leakage and weak tests.
450 points by ilamont | 240 comments
Kelsey Piper essay in The Argument on how AI models like Claude Opus 4.7 can identify her from about 150 words of writing, ending anonymity with AI.