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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators

Simulating an LSD trip in 1963 with GPT-4

The most interesting things I read in 2023

When technology follows art

Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide

How to use generative AI for historical research

The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century

There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries

Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update

Simulating Ancient Ur with ChatGPT

Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis

Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude

Kikkuli!

Historical maps probably helped cause World War I

Buy my books

Simulating History with ChatGPT

Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s

Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful

Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?

Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?

Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?

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