Text Is King(experimental-history.com)

151 points by zdw 9 months ago | 69 comments

I swear the UFO is coming any minute(experimental-history.com)

154 points by Ariarule 8 months ago | 54 comments

So you wanna de-bog yourself (2024)(experimental-history.com)

30 points by calvinfo 9 months ago | 10 comments

Incentives are for losers(experimental-history.com)

127 points by bkudria 2 months ago | 87 comments

Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos(experimental-history.com)

149 points by cwal37 2 months ago | 88 comments

Science is a strong-link problem(experimental-history.com)

38 points by calvinfo 1 year ago | 7 comments

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.

Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)(experimental-history.com)

127 points by rafaelc 16 days ago | 56 comments

Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay arguing against the claim that new ideas are getting harder to find, saying discovery is still possible.

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did(davidoks.blog)

502 points by colinprince 7 months ago | 527 comments

Substack essay by David Oks arguing that ATMs did not eliminate bank teller jobs but smartphone mobile banking did, exploring how automation replaces labor.

Okay, I Like WezTerm(alexplescan.com)

410 points by alexpls 2 years ago | 223 comments

A blog post by Alex Plescan describing his switch from iTerm 2 to the WezTerm terminal emulator and why he likes it.

I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me(marcusolang.substack.com)

700 points by florian_s 10 months ago | 436 comments

Substack essay by Kenyan writer Marcus Olang' arguing that his formal writing style, shaped by Kenyan education, is wrongly mistaken for ChatGPT output.

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first(blog.katanaquant.com)

411 points by dnw 7 months ago | 368 comments

Substack essay from Vagabond Research arguing that LLMs produce plausible rather than correct code, using a simple database primary key lookup test as an example.