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Centuries of Childhood (resobscura.substack.com)
84 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past | 42 comments
Why I love etymologies (resobscura.substack.com)
1 point by benbreen 3 months ago | past
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal (resobscura.substack.com)
8 points by benbreen 3 months ago | past
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal (resobscura.substack.com)
3 points by arbesman 3 months ago | past
Why I Love Etymologies: Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8k years old (resobscura.substack.com)
4 points by benbreen 4 months ago | past
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI (resobscura.substack.com)
134 points by arbesman 5 months ago | past | 36 comments
How well can AI imitate an early modern doctor? (resobscura.substack.com)
1 point by benbreen 6 months ago | past
How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor? (resobscura.substack.com)
3 points by benbreen 6 months ago | past | 1 comment
The (history of) spice must flow (resobscura.substack.com)
71 points by benbreen 7 months ago | past | 22 comments
Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history (resobscura.substack.com)
53 points by benbreen 7 months ago | past | 22 comments
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators (resobscura.substack.com)
154 points by benbreen 9 months ago | past | 101 comments
The most interesting things I read in 2023 (resobscura.substack.com)
2 points by benbreen 9 months ago | past
When Technology Follows Art (resobscura.substack.com)
49 points by benbreen 9 months ago | past | 41 comments
Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide (resobscura.substack.com)
149 points by benbreen 9 months ago | past | 81 comments
How to use generative AI for historical research: Four real-world case studies (resobscura.substack.com)
37 points by benbreen 10 months ago | past | 18 comments
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century (resobscura.substack.com)
57 points by arbesman 10 months ago | past | 26 comments
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update (resobscura.substack.com)
53 points by benbreen 10 months ago | past | 17 comments
There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries (resobscura.substack.com)
101 points by arbesman 10 months ago | past | 29 comments
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update (resobscura.substack.com)
2 points by benbreen 10 months ago | past
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis (resobscura.substack.com)
86 points by benbreen 11 months ago | past | 32 comments
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude (resobscura.substack.com)
170 points by benbreen 11 months ago | past | 113 comments
Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes? (resobscura.substack.com)
63 points by benbreen 11 months ago | past | 54 comments
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I (resobscura.substack.com)
145 points by benbreen 11 months ago | past | 93 comments
Simulating History with ChatGPT (resobscura.substack.com)
175 points by arbesman 12 months ago | past | 79 comments
Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s (resobscura.substack.com)
70 points by arbesman on Aug 9, 2023 | past | 44 comments
Why early modern books are so beautiful (resobscura.substack.com)
225 points by benbreen on Aug 3, 2023 | past | 61 comments
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular? (resobscura.substack.com)
52 points by benbreen on July 25, 2023 | past | 119 comments
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, revolutionary, cryptologist… suspected spy? (resobscura.substack.com)
74 points by benbreen on July 18, 2023 | past | 4 comments
Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work? (resobscura.substack.com)
113 points by benbreen on July 11, 2023 | past | 40 comments

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