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James Padolsey
Personal blog · blog.j11y.ioaisecurity
James Padolsey's personal blog at blog.j11y.io covers ai and security. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments do not discuss this blog's writing. They concern a claim that NASA cannot quantify Starliner propulsion risk and AI-generated filler phrases appearing in Google Books, so the linked posts seem to cover those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays and experiments by James Padolsey.
Most-linked posts?
- Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-11-23
What Hacker News says?
Genuinely fascinating! I'd show you the instances on Reddit of similar comments where people admitted it after I pointed it out, but unfortunately I don't really want to link my accounts. You're also free to confirm in my HN history that in hundreds of comments (and tens of thousands read), this is the single one time I've pointed it out. I did do a cross-check of their profile to confirm it, just in case it was a f…
Comment linking /2023-11-22_multifaceted/
on “NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues”Submitted Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers as a story · 505 points
HN discussion:] By their tongue, you will know them. Tangentially related: I really loved the 'shibboleth' that went like complex and multifaceted [things] that encompass [other things] from November 2023 [1]. Even though it was clear this will soon disappear from newer models being too obvious, I was still quite surprised, that "multifaceted" didn't even get into more recent study from March 2024 [2] that pointed out skyrocketi…
Comment linking /2023-11-22_multifaceted/
on “Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage”Submitted A letter to the AI labs shouldering the great burden of humanity's survival as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sorry, We Deprecated Your Friend as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sorry, We Deprecated Your Friend as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Git diffs to circumvent Fable's safeguards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't let the LLM speak, just probe it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tipping AI for Better Responses? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tipping AI for Better Responses? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forcing Fable to Generate Disinformation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM Security: Keep Untrusted Content in the User Role–Always as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
