The Clouds of Hiroshima(doomsdaymachines.net)

38 points by handfuloflight 3 months ago | 24 comments

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

187 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 125 comments

DOOMscrolling: The Game(ironicsans.ghost.io)

395 points by jfil 1 year ago | 92 comments

Ironic Sans newsletter post by David Friedman about creating a Doom-inspired game where the only control is scrolling.

Newcomb's Paradox Needs a Demon(samestep.com)

6 points by sestep 7 months ago | 14 comments

The Original AI Doomer: Dr. Norbert Wiener(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)

90 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 61 comments

Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)(hey.earth)

183 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 31 comments

What does the cerebellum do?(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

406 points by scrambled 2 years ago | 184 comments

A Substack essay by Sarah Constantin on the Rough Diamonds blog explaining the functions of the cerebellum beyond balance.

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.

Some critical issues with the SWE-bench dataset(arxiv.org)

331 points by joshwa 1 year ago | 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.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)

541 points by dahlia 7 months ago | 539 comments

Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.

Everything wrong with MCP(blog.sshh.io)

467 points by sshh12 1 year ago | 201 comments

A Substack essay by Shrivu Shankar explaining the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its problems, from security risks to limitations in LLM tool integration.