The A.I. Monarchy(substack.com)

163 points by zuzuleinen 1 year ago | 190 comments

Under Attila's Gaze(quillette.com)

52 points by doat 2 years ago | 14 comments

AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion(fakepixels.substack.com)

145 points by jger15 1 year ago | 75 comments

The Imminence of the Destruction of the Space Program(robertvanwey.substack.com)

22 points by nabla9 1 year ago | 8 comments

Revisiting Minsky's Society of Mind in 2025(suthakamal.substack.com)

99 points by suthakamal 1 year ago | 25 comments

The Tech Oligarch's Republic(forever-wars.com)

15 points by speckx 6 months ago | 1 comments

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

AI Makes Me Sad(mondobe.com)

121 points by mondobe 24 days ago | 120 comments

A personal blog essay in which the author describes feeling sadness and hopelessness about new developments in AI, despite being positioned to benefit from it.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.