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awanderingmind
Personal blog · awanderingmind.blog · on HN as awanderingmindphilosophymath
awanderingmind is a personal blog at awanderingmind.blog about philosophy and math. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “LLM generation of a new Tao te Ching”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.
Most-linked posts?
- LLM generation of a new Tao te Ching3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-01-20
What Hacker News says?
Since this thread is full of Tao Te Ching enthusiasts, someone might enjoy this blog post of mine: https://www.awanderingmind.blog/posts/2024-01-14-tao-te-chin...
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on “Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997)”Submitted Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread' as a story · 193 points
HN discussionI recommend writing for the sake of writing. Posting content can be scary, but as others have said: just don't add a comments section. You'll avoid the majority of the unhelpful 'your writing is awful and you suck' type responses if you add even the tiniest barrier to giving feedback. I've had a blog since May 2021, although I haven't posted much: https://www.awanderingmind.blog/ . Sometimes people send me nice emai…
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on “Ask HN: Experience Starting a Blog”Submitted The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid as a story · 140 points
HN discussionMy personal site where I post essays about various things - generated using hakyll: https://www.awanderingmind.blog/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted What does the end of mathematics look like? as a story · 62 points
HN discussionhttps://www.awanderingmind.blog/ People seem to have enjoyed my book reviews, of which there are currently a grand total of two: https://www.awanderingmind.blog/tags/book%20review.html . Most recently I have tried to make a case against the dangers of intelligence explosions (I am unsure I succeeded): https://www.awanderingmind.blog/posts/2023-05-31-the-case-ag... I have an RSS feed you can subscribe to. I welcome c…
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Vipassanā – Calming a Wandering Mind as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What LLM coding agents have taken from me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM generation of a new Tao te Ching as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Thoughts on the Tao Te Ching as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tao Te Ching as Translated by an LLM as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Geometric Algebra and Classical Mechanics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On being mentally unwell (part 1) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freud's 'Civilization and Its Discontents' as a story · 1 points
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