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Brian Chau

Personal blog · cactus.substack.compoliticsai

Brian Chau writes From the New World, a personal blog at cactus.substack.com about politics and ai. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.

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9mentions?
7HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2023

See the world as it is, not as you wish it to be. Click to read From the New World, by Brian Chau, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. canjobear · 2023-05-20
    Some examples here https://cactus.substack.com/p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1

    Comment linking /p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1

    on “Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT”
  2. jseliger · 2022-09-15

    Submitted College Tuition Is Marketing Fraud as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  3. jmeister · 2023-02-02
    This article has a good investigation of the various ways the employees had their thumbs on the scale. >Other journalists have speculated that ChatGPT is biased due to the politically leaning of “Established sources”, such as academia and legacy journalism. While there is some documentation of OpenAI products being biased towards established sources, this paper reveals a far broader and more extensive intrusion into…

    Comment linking /p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1

    on “The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation”
  4. barry-cotter · 2022-01-17

    Submitted The War on Disinformation Is Dead as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. epivosism · 2022-12-23
    details on how they inserted present-day political beliefs into chatGPT https://cactus.substack.com/p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1

    Comment linking /p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1

    on “Are Progressives in Denial About Progress? Yes, but So Is Almost Everyone Else”
  6. jger15 · 2023-05-23

    Submitted Curtis Yarvin: There Is No Artificial Intelligence as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. kvee · 2022-12-28

    Submitted Why it’s easy to Brainwash ChatGPT as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. kvee · 2023-02-15

    Submitted The Prompt Engineering Layer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. kvee · 2023-01-25

    Submitted The New Hippocratic Oath of AI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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