First screen, captured .
358 points by tosh | 123 comments
John Salvatier's 2017 essay arguing that reality contains surprising detail, illustrated by building stairs, and how this 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
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.
358 points by tosh | 123 comments
John Salvatier's 2017 essay arguing that reality contains surprising detail, illustrated by building stairs, and how this explains why people get intellectually stuck.
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.
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.
350 points by 42point2 | 152 comments
Andreas Fragner's blog post arguing that writing summaries of good books yields more comprehension than reading more books.
369 points by meetpateltech | 246 comments
Anthropic research post on whether reasoning models' Chain-of-Thought faithfully reflects their actual reasoning, linking to the accompanying paper.