Text Is King(experimental-history.com)

151 points by zdw 9 months ago | 69 comments

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

149 points by cwal37 2 months ago | 88 comments

Incentives are for losers(experimental-history.com)

127 points by bkudria 3 months ago | 87 comments

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

30 points by calvinfo 10 months ago | 10 comments

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

154 points by Ariarule 8 months ago | 54 comments

What Is Gridifcation(musicalform.substack.com)

440 points by gumby 25 days ago | 208 comments

Substack essay from the Musical Form Institute comparing tempo variation in 1975 vs 2025 Billboard hits to argue modern pop production is grid-quantized to machine perfection.

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

127 points by rafaelc 1 month 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.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.

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.

Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online(ellsberg.substack.com)

598 points by macawfish 1 year ago | 793 comments

A Substack essay by Michael Ellsberg arguing a Supreme Court ruling effectively ends free speech protections for sexual writing online, and asking whether his literary site is now illegal.

How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs(arxiv.org)

662 points by 50kIters 11 months ago | 619 comments

arXiv economics paper modeling how elites could use cheap AI-driven persuasion to reshape public preferences, tending to push society toward polarization.