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Andrew Kemendo
Personal blog · kemendo.com · on HN as AndrewKemendoaiphilosophy
Andrew Kemendo's personal blog at kemendo.com covers ai and philosophy. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “The Myth of scarcity and its threats to human society”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
75mentions?
8HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments give only bare links and one report of a broken link (404), so the writing is not discussed. The linked posts cover the myth of scarcity, techno-utopian futures and TEOTWAWKI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Myth of scarcity and its threats to human society3 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2023-03-21
- The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)2 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2023-02-07
- Stream Inference2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-30
- The Future Is Superhuman Agents2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-08
- /blog/TEOTWAWKI.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-25
What Hacker News says?
Yes, I just started this month with a paid account ($1 a month) and it's basically what medium was supposed to be - custom urls and rss. See the dead simple layout: https://kemendo.com/ I do wish they allowed email subscriptions but from what I understand that is coming soon. I also don't love the "published with write.as" text at the bottom of every page for paid accounts but that's no big deal.
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on “Ending our Medium integration”Submitted The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023) as a story · 100 points
HN discussionhttps://www.kemendo.com Basically just a personal storage space Handcrafted HTML, CSS, JS on the smallest FreeBSD box on NFSN. I wanted to be able to fully post edit etc in my terminal and serve blindingly fast.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Yes I Understand How LLMs Work as a story · 13 points
HN discussionCapitalism (an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit) was invented prior to written history so the reformation only exists in the context of private property being a core assumption of society. That assumption is NEW in the history of humanity, the concept of "property" has only existed for about 50,000 years The protestant reformation then was an at…
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on “The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)”Submitted Human behavior isn't coherent enough to be a benchmark for AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI built a measurement framework for this called a cohesion matrix. You can rate your integration/coherence/cohesion based on this rubric: https://kemendo.com/CohesionMatrix.html
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on “You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving”Submitted The Myth of scarcity and its threats to human society as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are contradictory criteria here: "The theory has given rise to the construction of a consciousness-meter that is being tested in various clinics in the U.S. and in Europe. The idea is to detect whether seriously brain-injured patients are conscious, or whether truly no one is home... but the consciousness-meter tells us that about a fifth of them remain conscious, in line with brain-imaging experiments." The c…
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on “Can AI Become Conscious?”Submitted Stream Inference as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo exemptions, I don’t really mess with science fiction other than what I’ve written. Are you seriously asking if the US president is a semi literate person? The answer is obvious Read this and be enlightened: https://kemendo.com/benchmark.html
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on “What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality”Submitted The Only AI Explainer You'll Ever Need as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you’re really interested at the furthest depth then take a look at my paper: https://kemendo.com/GTC.pdf If that resonates further let me know at my un on icloud domain
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on “The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful”Submitted The Future Is Superhuman Agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPlease don’t, that just speeds up the Turing Syndrome The last thing we need is for the internet to be harder to tell truth from fiction [1] https://kemendo.com/blog/Turing-syndrome.html
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on “Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments”Community activists have been saying his for millennia but it’s not possible. Like literally every “prophet” as said almost exactly this since pahotep ( https://kemendo.com/WOPFirstPrint.pdf ) I’ve personally started a half dozen different communities over the last 20 years. some last longer than others but almost none last beyond the moment leaders stop putting effort into them, which is the fate of every community…
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on “If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?”To your question on property: The claim that the idea of private property ownership is universal is just incorrect. Proudhon famously deconstructed the concept mathematically: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudho... (You can ignore the fact that it's on a Marxist site - Proudhon and Marx were not friends and had bitter disagreements - but unfortunately and unsurprisingly Marx's "Communism" go…
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on “Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth”This matches my hypothesis on Deja vu https://kemendo.com/Deja-Vu-Experiment.html I think it also supports my three loops hypothesis as well: https://kemendo.com/ThreeLoops.html In effect, my position is that biological systems maintain a synchronized processing pipeline: where the hippocampal prediction system operates slightly “ahead” of sensory processing, like a cache buffer. If the processing gets “behind” the…
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on “The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps”This looks strikingly similar to my 2017/20 patent: https://kemendo.com/pdfs/USPatent10757400.pdf Pretty much all my patents are being infringed at this point. Lesson to anyone getting patents, they don’t matter unless you have $100M to fight Microsoft or oracle with. At that point might as well just keep your 100M and forget it
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on “Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror”All around agreement - though I’d nitpick the degree to which psychopathy was pervasive, accepted, recognized and promoted Namely it seems to be very rare in hunter gatherers and highest in “advanced” economies You can read my theory on the original resource trauma was here: https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html Yd might be causal to the loss of megafauna, but ultimately my claim is that was the loss of megafaun…
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on “The coming long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns [pdf] (2023)”This answers a lot of questions for me. I was obsessed with Tetris from 2018-2021, specifically NES Tetris (because I grew up with it) to the point that my Max score on a NES CRT was 943252(1) on level 28, with DAS. Not long ago I got a C-PTSD diagnosis, oddly cause I was able to finally see the situation I used to be in, and that was during a hard decade which included 2019-2021 I got out of that situation and have…
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on “Tetris shows promise in reducing PTSD symptoms”Claude did a pretty good quality job explaining Retrieval Augmented Generation to me [1]: A choice quote: "The RAG model needs to retrieve memories that are relevant for the generation task, not just any random memories. It does this through two mechanisms: Memory indexing: The retrieved memories are indexed in a latent space, where similar memories are close together and dissimilar memories are far apart. The RAG m…
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on “Claude 2”The term Artificial Intelligence was coined in 1955 for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. The Gods of AI all got together: John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. They defined the entire concept of Artificial Intelligence in a single sentence: The conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precise…
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on “I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools”Ownership of what? https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/bloodsculpt-20261 https://kemendo.com/Images/bloodsculpt.jpg Which one is the real one?
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on “NFTs and a Thousand True Fans”You might like my latest work id be curious your feedback https://kemendo.com/GTC.pdf
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on “The era of exploration”HTML version: https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html
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on “The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)”I made the web version optimized to use with mobile reader mode https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html
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on “The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)”Oh brother there is no space that isn’t filled with dualists. To the point where I just send this to people when they try and argue with me: https://kemendo.com/dualists.html
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on “The evolution of effective altruism”Yes you nailed it! Thanks for the thoughtful response. > I just don’t think it’s a realistic expectation to expect this at the global scale. This is exactly my point. We dont have the biology for it - mammals don’t have eusocial traits because we’re too complex and egocentric, to the extent that game theoretic defections are individually risky but can have individual benefits. A group of soldier ants can’t start the…
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on “Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses”You might be interested in my theory. High school version: https://kemendo.com/basiccohesion.html Full draft PDF https://kemendo.com/GTC.pdf
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on “Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses”
