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Frontier models can now produce novel historical knowledge, but in a really weird way
Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
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New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings are familiar, the streets are recognizable, and the crowds move with the same hurried energy, yet the details belong unmistakably to another time. Cars from another generation line the curbs, shop signs have different names, and people […]
On British “Spies” and News from India
I’m wondering how well I might organize my cultural drift messages around a few key slogans.
