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Ben Podgursky
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Ben Podgursky's personal blog at bpodgursky.com covers ai, philosophy and economics. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “The corporate / academic / public AI value gap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-23, 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 is a skeptic asking for evidence of the AI productivity claims being discussed, and says the author's GitHub and projects page show nothing to back them. It does not comment on the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The corporate / academic / public AI value gap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-07
- I think it's OK to want your children to be healthy even if world falls apart2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-09
What Hacker News says?
I found this site super cool, and last year tried to extend this idea out, to actually map the areas that may be plausible targets (I'm not a researcher or anything, I just was curious to see how close a given location was to military bases, power plants, etc). Wrote up my general approach here: https://bpodgursky.com/2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-w... Tried to make the map exploreable, although the UI could u…
Comment linking /2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-worst-places-to-wait-out-a-nuclear-war/
on “Nukemap”Submitted Legislative Performance Futures – Incentivize Good Laws by Monetizing the Future as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI put this visualization together over the past couple weeks. I have a more detailed description of the motivation and datasets, and methods used here: https://bpodgursky.com/2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-w... , but the brief version is: Tools: - QGIS for buffers and shading - Mapbox + Mapbox GL JS to combine layers Data - Ports, military bases: https://maps.bts.dot.gov/services/rest/services/NTAD - Railroads:…
Comment linking /2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-worst-places-to-wait-out-a-nuclear-war/
on “Show HN: Bunker.land – The Best (and Worst) Places to Wait Out a Nuclear War”Submitted Complete tree of life visualization using d3 and Catalog of Life as a story · 52 points
HN discussionI didn't post this, but I am the OP who put this site together. Here's a post where I talk about the data I pulled in to make this site and the rationale behind it: https://bpodgursky.com/2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-w... Happy to discuss. Not an expert in the slightest, just a minor hobby of mine.
Comment linking /2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-worst-places-to-wait-out-a-nuclear-war/
on “Bunker.land: Where to Avoid the Apocalypse”Submitted I think it's OK to want your children to be healthy even if world falls apart as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNothing I can see on https://github.com/bpodgursky/ nor https://bpodgursky.com/projects/ but I'd be curious. Honestly it's a pattern when arguing about the topic : - wow AI is amazing! - OK, why? - because it can do so much stuff! I'm making so much projects and earning a lot! - cool, care to share a link to anything? - ... radio silence or yet another NES emulator or something that is clearly so curated it might ha…
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on “How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery”Submitted The corporate / academic / public AI value gap as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 is the Elephant, not the Rider as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Imperial High Modernist Cathedral vs. the Bazaar as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Decadent Society: Maybe the internet isn’t a force for change as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The best gift the Coronavirus can give us? The normalization of remote work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted (2013) Average Income per Programming Language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The corporate / academic / public AI value gap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embryo screening: It's OK to want healthy children even if the world falls apart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jurassic Park is a bad bioengineering parable but a great AI alignment allegory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electoral Savings Accounts: One Person, One Vote (but you can save it for later) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ithaca, Traverse City, and Roswell are great places to live if the world burns as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ‘Education Facts’ Labels – A Modest Proposal to Fix the Student Debt Crisis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our family's IVF cycle using whole-genome embryo screening as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Peacetime Bureaucracy / Wartime Bureaucracy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Schrödinger’s Gray Goo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ineffective Altruism as a story · 1 points
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