Many people oppose development because they hate ugly modern architecture. The turn of architecture away from beauty, and the refusal of modernists to acknowledge that their work is horrifying, is to my mind one of the most bizarre stories of the past century. I mean, genocide and war are ancient, but what past culture has embraced uglification with such gusto?
More earthworks mapped in Amazonia lead to a new, higher estimate of the pre-contact population of the region.
My entire fantasy novel, The Voice from the Darkness, is available now on Royal Road. I am planning to publish this on Amazon for fans of physical books.
Some AIs started a religion, and humans immediately joined.
Noah Smith on the spread of dumb populist economic policies.
Sabine Hosenfelder trashes that physics paper from a few weeks ago that claimed to demonstrate that time is an emergent product of other parts of the system and related to entropy, 5-minute video.
Good, clear explanation of the math problems solved by the Astra AI.
Scott Siskind on "the beauty of settled science," much about import and well supported discoveries in psychology.
An argument that regulatory barriers are the main factor limiting productivity growth in the US.
The binmen of Birmingham and the craziness of equal pay for comparable roles.
Experiments disagree on whether AI chatbots increase or decrease loneliness in the people who use them. (Twitter/X)
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