Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"?(noahpinion.blog)

27 points by anon373839 27 days ago | 8 comments

A Noahpinion guest essay by Ramez Naam offering a skeptical take on recursive self-improvement and the idea of an AI intelligence explosion.

Slowness is a virtue(blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com)

216 points by jakobgreenfeld 10 months ago | 72 comments

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut Was 47(joanwestenberg.com)

115 points by herbertl 1 year ago | 48 comments

The Techlash That Never Happened(eriktorenberg.substack.com)

43 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 50 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

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

13 points by lawrenceyan 1 year ago | 3 comments

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

On the Nature of Time(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

326 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 221 comments

Stephen Wolfram essay arguing that time is best understood computationally, as the progressive application of computational rules by the universe.

The Chalk and the Airplane(unintendedconsequenc.es)

23 points by paulorlando 4 days ago | 9 comments

Blog essay on mathematicians' emotional reactions to AI-generated proofs, framing it as the end of math's romantic era and comparing it to past industrial disruptions.

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us(bessstillman.substack.com)

427 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Substack personal essay by Bess Stillman about grieving her husband Jake a year after his death and how society expects grief to expire.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.