The Ritual of Capitalization (2021)(economicsfromthetopdown.com)

63 points by benaadams 3 years ago | 52 comments

Nixing Technological Lock In(economicsfromthetopdown.com)

23 points by abathur 2 years ago | 8 comments

An Unfolding Scientific Revolution in Cosmology(economicsfromthetopdown.com)

22 points by empiko 9 months ago | 5 comments

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

12 points by aragonite 3 months ago | 3 comments

Why software stocks are getting pummelled(economist.com)

146 points by petethomas 8 months ago | 208 comments

Economics and Similar, for the Sleep-Deprived (2005)(blog.danieldavies.com)

14 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 2 comments

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes(dank.systems)

426 points by jaykru 1 month ago | 552 comments

Personal blog essay by Jay Kruer arguing LLMs remain overhyped despite headline results like Navier-Stokes, citing poor generalization, reward hacking, and specification costs.

You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites(lelouch.dev)

625 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 351 comments

A personal blog post arguing that struggling with math usually stems from missing prerequisite knowledge rather than lack of intelligence.

The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing(ergosphere.blog)

814 points by zaikunzhang 6 months ago | 550 comments

Blog essay arguing that the risk of AI in science is researchers, especially PhD students, drifting into not understanding their own work.

AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder(blundergoat.com)

441 points by weaksauce 8 months ago | 295 comments

A blog article on blundergoat.com arguing AI makes easy work easier and hard work harder; the captured page shows a 404 Page not found error.

Most arguments are about ego, not ideas(wangcong.org)

560 points by backlit4034 3 months ago | 431 comments

Personal blog post by a software engineer explaining why he stopped arguing with people over technical correctness and what he learned about arguments.

Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better(addyosmani.com)

597 points by twapi 3 years ago | 149 comments

Addy Osmani blog post arguing that writing about what you learn deepens understanding and reveals gaps in your knowledge.