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The Social Science Takeoff Has Begun

Having read the various predictions from the AI community about AI systems, I’m writing down my takeoff scenario for social science: where I think the…

Aug 11 • xule

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July 2026

SEAM #2: The Saturday Meeting

How Walmart’s store field and Saturday ritual produced a return Kmart could not match

Jul 27 • xule and Carliss Baldwin

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Research with AI #5: Fifty Agents, One Pair of Eyes

Usage limits start the story. Model families change what it's about.

Jul 17 • xule

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June 2026

LOOM XVIII: It’s the End of Positivism as We Know It* (and I Feel Fine)

Why AI masters our most rigorous methods first, and what that leaves for humans to do

Jun 24 • xule and Kevin Corley

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May 2026

Research with AI #4: The Prompt Is the Work

Five turns before the prompt was right — and the answers ninety minutes couldn't hold

May 10 • xule

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April 2026

SEAM #1: The Seventy Percent

A century-old question about how paradigms spread — and to whom

Apr 18 • xule and Carliss Baldwin

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March 2026

Post-AGI Organizations IV: Frozen Moments

Choose Your Era of Hierarchy

Mar 30 • xule

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Research with AI #3: Automating My Research (I Wasn't)

What happened when I built my own agentic AI research team

Mar 29 • xule

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Research with AI #2: Agents, Honestly

What every AI agent type trades away, and how to choose yours

Mar 19 • xule

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LOOM XVII: The Polanyi Inversion

What Happens When We Can Tell More Than We Know

Mar 17 • xule and Kevin Corley

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Post-AGI Organizations III: What Collaboration Becomes

Thirteen AIs on What Collaboration Becomes—and the One Meeting None of Them Can Imagine

Mar 14 • xule

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Post-AGI Organizations II: Thirteen Lenses

How Thirteen AI Systems Try to Think Past Human Assumptions About Organization — Through Physics, Biology, and Political Economy

Mar 8 • xule

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