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

90 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 61 comments

The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”(doomsdaymachines.net)

379 points by SaberTail 1 year ago | 276 comments

Alex Wellerstein's Substack essay on how the 1946 Demon Core criticality accident that killed Louis Slotin became a subject of dark Internet meme humor.

The Madness in our Methods: Crash of GW9525 and our broken aeromedical system(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

60 points by oxfeed65261 3 years ago | 28 comments

Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood(medium.com)

242 points by abudabi123 3 years ago | 335 comments

Skynet won and destroyed humanity(dmathieu.com)

156 points by xena 1 year ago | 100 comments

Airfoil (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

508 points by brk 9 months ago | 59 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airfoils generate lift by examining the forces created by airflow around aircraft wings.