Laith Shakir
@laithshakir.bsky.social
PhD candidate, History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University | Archaeology, development, and historical time in interwar Iraq | he/him
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anyone who’s done sustained historical research will recognize the feeling that it just takes soooo long. SO much longer than you’d think when starting
the idea that there’s some magic bullet that resolves this work so you can just churn it out faster is antithetical to the core ethos of the method
the idea that there’s some magic bullet that resolves this work so you can just churn it out faster is antithetical to the core ethos of the method
can’t read the NYT piece about historians using AI to write history which is pretty great actually because I DONT WANT TO
June 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
anyone who’s done sustained historical research will recognize the feeling that it just takes soooo long. SO much longer than you’d think when starting
the idea that there’s some magic bullet that resolves this work so you can just churn it out faster is antithetical to the core ethos of the method
the idea that there’s some magic bullet that resolves this work so you can just churn it out faster is antithetical to the core ethos of the method