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Marcel Salathé

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Marcel Salathé's personal blog at blog.salathe.com covers ai, economics and culture. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2015–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Only one comment, which gives the author's Swiss background and links a post titled 'Europe's technological irrelevance'. The comment says nothing about the writing itself.

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.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. The author is actually from Switzerland, see http://blog.salathe.com/europes-technological-irrelevance-ti...

    Comment linking /europes-technological-irrelevance-time-to-panic

    on “Dear Volkswagen: you are probably doomed (but not because of diesel)”
  2. Submitted Dear Volkswagen: you are probably doomed (but not because of diesel) as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Creating a European Culture of Innovation as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted AI-phobia – a convenient way to ignore the real problems as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Serendipity in the Digital Age as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Self-driving cars: the public health breakthrough of the early 21st century as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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