Aneesh Sathe

Sloptraptions

Mostly AI Generated

This is section is posts created largely by AI to slake some or the other curiosity of mine.

  • The Small God of the Internet

    It was a small announcement on an innocuous page about “spring cleaning”. The herald, some guy with the kind of name that promised he was all yours. Four sentences you only find because you were already looking for a shortcuts through life. A paragraph, tidy as a folded handkerchief, explained that a certain popular reader…

  • Briefing: The State of Explainable AI (XAI) and its Impact on Human-AI Decision-Making

    This post is a sloptraption, my silk thread in the CloisterWeb. The post was made with the help of NotebookLM. You can chat with the essay and the sources here: XAI NotebookLM Chat I. Executive Summary The field of Explainable AI (XAI) aims to make AI systems more transparent and understandable, fostering trust and enabling…

  • Financial Instruments and the Ottoman Empire’s Decline (16th–19th Centuries): A Comparative Analysis

    This essay was explored with ChatGPT o3 as a curiosity while reading Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Douglas E. Streusand as part of the Contraptions Book Club Introduction The decline of the Ottoman Empire from the reign of SĂĽleyman the Magnificent (1520–1566) through the 1800s was closely intertwined with its financial system. A combination of internal…