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Arnold Kling
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Arnold Kling writes In My Tribe, a personal blog at arnoldkling.substack.com about economics, politics and philosophy. Since 2021, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 231 times, most often “Software Development in the Old Days: Try Being Agile on an IBM 370”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Software Development in the Old Days: Try Being Agile on an IBM 3702 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-28
- The Marginal Revolution Is Dead2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-19
- Will Computer Science become useless knowledge?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-01
- What Is Probability?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-28
- The 1990s Web vs. today's AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-03
What Hacker News says?
When I cite such things, it's because "all models are wrong, but mine are useful" :) And yeah I think big five is useful in the above context, and also for things like this: https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/keeping-up-with-the-fits-... "Empirically, men and women to tend to differ on the trait that personality psychology calls agreeableness. More women show up as high in agreeableness than men. [As an aside, I onc…
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on “How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (2013)”Submitted Why are corporations cutting managers? as a story · 78 points
HN discussionMoral Dyad theory I think helps give insight to this behavior: https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/the-moral-dyad-and-health...
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on “Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online”Submitted Crypto and Other New Faiths as a story · 22 points
HN discussion> [Fukuyama’s] view is that the Republicans are hopeless because they support Donald Trump. But that seems like a solvable problem. Perhaps Mr. Trump will not run in 2024. Perhaps he will lose, in either the primaries or the general election, and then no longer be a factor. > In fact, I think it is fair to say that Mr. Trump moved the Republican Party closer to the center. He did so in part by rejecting libertarian…
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on “Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization”Submitted We Don't Need a Civil War: On avoiding “high conflict” as a story · 10 points
HN discussionA recent defense of the Bayesian approach: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-non... (and Kling's response: https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/what-is-probability ) Likelihood statistics is another approach that combines the classical and Bayesian approaches. Its main benefit is that it does not rely on prior probabilities about an event. Instead, you can use MLE (maximum likelihood estimation,…
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on “I Teach Statistics, And how I apply probability”Submitted Can Marriage Be Saved? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI use the fantastic Inoreader that is better than Google Reader was. I follow things that post maybe once or twice a week or once a month. For things with new information every day, like Hacker News, I check the website. A few of the things that I follow that may be a bit different for people are : Arnold Kling - a PhD economist who worked in technology and is genuinely different. https://arnoldkling.substack.com/ N…
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on “Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?”Submitted We Have a Gambling Problem as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI agree: a "state of nature" leads to lives that are "nasty, brutish and short." How do we find legislators who are good stewards for the public trust and welfare. We subject public companies to transparency regulations, perhaps legislator would benefit from more transparency. I am not sure where to draw the line to prevent mob rule or other undesirable outcomes, but legislators manage enormous budgets. Arnold Kling…
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on “The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies”Submitted The UBI should be inadequate as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are we badly governed? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Libertarian Gets Mugged as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lifelong Learner As opposed to the righteous, closed-minded activist as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Elite Overproduction" Problem as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Copper, Abundance, and Scarcity Julian Simon vs. Thomas Malthus as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productivity down as Remote Work up? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Number One Issue: The anti-intellectual turn in higher education as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Teach Statistics, And how I apply probability as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Government Wants Unrestrained Power as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 1990s Web vs. today's AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Love the 2025 Economics Nobel Laureates as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted University and State as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Do Stupid People Exist? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Midwit Hypothesis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Economic Theory of Woke Takeovers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is no AI in Team as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Average Is over with AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Land, Debt, and Crises as a story · 3 points
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