Death by AI(davebarry.substack.com)

494 points by ano-ther 1 year ago | 188 comments

Dave Barry's humorous Substack essay about Google AI Overview erroneously reporting that he had died.

In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death(quantamagazine.org)

109 points by theafh 3 years ago | 85 comments

Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over(derekthompson.org)

764 points by barry-cotter 27 days ago | 684 comments

Derek Thompson essay on the decline of hosting in America, noting a 70 percent drop since 1975 in adults who regularly have friends over.

Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed(friedkielbasa.substack.com)

99 points by fkozlowski 4 months ago | 25 comments

If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?(derekthompson.org)

441 points by momentmaker 6 months ago | 818 comments

Derek Thompson Substack essay examining the sharp post-COVID decline in self-reported American happiness despite national wealth, citing Sam Peltzman's research.

Visiting Death(overcomingbias.com)

31 points by jger15 3 years ago | 12 comments

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.

One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is(hannahritchie.substack.com)

50 points by gumby 11 days ago | 22 comments

Hannah Ritchie's Substack post analyzing the ages of world leaders and how long they've held power compared to the populations they govern.

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.

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

369 points by TomAnthony 4 months ago | 216 comments

Hacker News discussion of Anthropic requiring 30-day data retention for Mythos-class Claude models on AWS Bedrock, moving data outside AWS's security boundary.

AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment(edworkingpapers.com)

57 points by bryan0 21 days ago | 42 comments

An Annenberg EdWorkingPapers research paper page on a two-year school experiment evaluating AI tutoring with Khan Academy's Khanmigo.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.