History is wild. “Numerous medieval writers told tales of monks who ate too well, and consequently experienced a violent desire for sex, along with almost continuous emissions of semen.” https://aeon.co/essays/getting-down-and-medieval-the-sex-lives-of-the-middle-ages
Seems to me it is. I see people changing because of AI overuse to the point, it is almost impossible talk with them. “From this morass, we are told, an “artificial general intelligence” will eventually emerge, turbo-charging the human race… Read More »AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
At least not rich in the modern sense. “Imperialism is very old — the Romans, the Persians, the Mongols, and many other empires all pillaged and plundered plenty of wealth. But despite all of that plunder, no country in the… Read More »Nations don’t get rich by plundering other nations
Great illustration of what currently LLMs are good for and what not. “I think we will be more distracted than ever. We can’t even have 2 seconds to think before Grammarly, Copilot, or Cursor suggests something. So instead of doing… Read More »Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Never heard of this. It is really crazy.
Nuclear weapons are still an issue. “Do we view Hitler’s apocalyptic attitude as a singular historical anomaly? I’d like to believe that, but I can’t. Mao Zedong let tens of millions of his people die in a famine of his… Read More »We still haven’t solved the Nuclear Age
Great principles, not only for programmers.
Article explaining why China is likely to start WWIII. “People who have taken a game theory class will immediately see that the way I’ve set this game up, what happens is that China attacks Taiwan AND attacks U.S. bases, and… Read More »Game Theory and WWIII
History is not always portrait correctly in movies. “Period strictures on drinking could get quite vivid. In one Penitential, a monk who vomited from drinking was to do thirty days penance, a priest or a deacon, forty. Throwing up the… Read More »Getting drunk in Medieval France
Nice crash course into doing a business or understanding how a company works.