The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)(blog.andymasley.com)

84 points by mef 2 months ago | 62 comments

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck(writingruxandrabio.com)

99 points by rruxandra_l 2 months ago | 75 comments

The ISBN was invented in 1970. Your books don't care(shelvd.org)

10 points by bvanbranden 1 month ago | 3 comments

Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow(doctorow.medium.com)

187 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 125 comments

Schrödinger's Cat and Heisenberg's Cut(jimbaggott.substack.com)

13 points by lawrenceyan 1 year ago | 3 comments

Dostoyevsky isn't difficult(autodidacts.io)

212 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 268 comments

How to live an intellectually rich life(utsavmamoria.substack.com)

509 points by TheLadyParadox 1 year ago | 287 comments

A Substack essay by Utsav Mamoria on living an intellectually rich life, opening with the Wikipedia first-link game that leads to Philosophy.

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.

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.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

Thoughts on thinking(dcurt.is)

588 points by bradgessler 1 year ago | 367 comments

Dustin Curtis's blog essay reflecting on how AI and LLMs have made his own writing, coding, and creative thinking feel pointless.