Curating essential pre-2020 AI readings, including influential dead-end research
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-11-09
bradrcarson is assembling a reader of essential pre-2020 AI readings (mostly non-fiction), deliberately including stillborn research ideas that were influential in their time, and is soliciting feedback on the table of contents. JacquesThibs amplified it with a warning: if all you read are shiny new reports, papers, and blog posts, you fall into the same trap as many others and the field converges toward fragile thinking.
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