The Geological Sublime(harpers.org)
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338 points by trevin | 291 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Jon Haidt and Peter Gray arguing that the decline of unsupervised free play is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis.
342 points by RickJWagner | 561 comments
Derek Thompson essay on his Substack about technological grief, using mathematicians' reactions to AI advances as a lens.
453 points by bx376 | 663 comments
An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.
705 points by jamesrandall | 556 comments
Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.
21 points by joozio | 28 comments
MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.
59 points by luu | 31 comments
An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.