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Abel Jansma
Personal blog · abeljansma.nlscienceaimath
Abel Jansma's personal blog at abeljansma.nl covers science, ai and math. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment does not discuss the linked writing. It argues in a thread on GPT-5.6 Sol pricing that brand personality, such as energy drink branding, can be deliberately designed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Abel Jansma is a scientist studying emergence, higher-order interactions, information theory, and complex systems across biology and artificial intelligence.
Most-linked posts?
- Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-10
- Complex Systems and Quantitative Mereology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-04
What Hacker News says?
Doesn't just sound like it, it is. That's life for you. That's what I'm pointing out to you. [0] Just consider your own example. Do you think a less or more "rebellious look" is not something designers can actually ellicit? Less so in software design, sure, but in character design for example? Or general product design? Do you think e.g. Monster energy drinks are branded the way they are completely due to happenstan…
Comment linking /2026/07/10/truth-is-not-a-direction.html
on “GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%”Submitted Complex Systems and Quantitative Mereology as a story · 89 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complex Systems and Möbius Inversion as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new way to share cake fairly among n people as a story · 1 points
HN discussion