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		Why I Love Etymologies: Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8k years old (resobscura.substack.com)
		4 points by benbreen on April 30, 2024 \| past
		Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI (resobscura.substack.com)
		134 points by arbesman on March 19, 2024 \| past \| 36 comments
		How well can AI imitate an early modern doctor? (resobscura.substack.com)
		1 point by benbreen on Feb 29, 2024 \| past
		How well can AI imitate a 17th century doctor? (resobscura.substack.com)
		3 points by benbreen on Feb 16, 2024 \| past \| 1 comment
		The (history of) spice must flow (resobscura.substack.com)
		71 points by benbreen on Feb 9, 2024 \| past \| 22 comments
		Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history (resobscura.substack.com)
		53 points by benbreen on Feb 2, 2024 \| past \| 22 comments
		Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators (resobscura.substack.com)
		154 points by benbreen on Dec 12, 2023 \| past \| 101 comments
		The most interesting things I read in 2023 (resobscura.substack.com)
		2 points by benbreen on Dec 5, 2023 \| past
		When Technology Follows Art (resobscura.substack.com)
		49 points by benbreen on Nov 29, 2023 \| past \| 41 comments
		Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide (resobscura.substack.com)
		149 points by benbreen on Nov 21, 2023 \| past \| 81 comments
		How to use generative AI for historical research: Four real-world case studies (resobscura.substack.com)
		37 points by benbreen on Nov 14, 2023 \| past \| 18 comments
		The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century (resobscura.substack.com)
		57 points by arbesman on Nov 8, 2023 \| past \| 26 comments
		Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update (resobscura.substack.com)
		53 points by benbreen on Oct 24, 2023 \| past \| 17 comments
		There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries (resobscura.substack.com)
		101 points by arbesman on Oct 24, 2023 \| past \| 29 comments
		Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update (resobscura.substack.com)
		2 points by benbreen on Oct 18, 2023 \| past
		Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis (resobscura.substack.com)
		86 points by benbreen on Oct 10, 2023 \| past \| 32 comments
		Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude (resobscura.substack.com)
		170 points by benbreen on Oct 3, 2023 \| past \| 113 comments
		Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes? (resobscura.substack.com)
		63 points by benbreen on Sept 26, 2023 \| past \| 54 comments
		Historical maps probably helped cause World War I (resobscura.substack.com)
		145 points by benbreen on Sept 19, 2023 \| past \| 93 comments
		Simulating History with ChatGPT (resobscura.substack.com)
		175 points by arbesman on Sept 12, 2023 \| 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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