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Bruce Charlton
Personal blog · charltonteaching.blogspot.comsciencephilosophy
Bruce Charlton's personal blog at charltonteaching.blogspot.com covers science and philosophy. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Human capability peaked before 1975 and has since declined”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Bruce Charlton's blog posts on dysgenics, palliative sedation, and declining human capability. HN readers cite them as sources or link them, and one commenter disputes the capability argument.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Human capability peaked before 1975 and has since declined2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-22
What Hacker News says?
Basic income is a potentially unlimited liability without any government control over fertility. If the needs of the portion of the population that are net consumers grow quicker than the surplus from net producers, an economic apocalypse happens sooner or later. In a world of dysgenic fertility, this is guaranteed[1]. [1] http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2014/06/dysgenics-is-mo...
Comment linking /2014/06/dysgenics-is-mostly-due-to-reduced.html
on “The Economy”Submitted Human capability peaked before 1975 and has since declined as a story · 13 points
HN discussionhttp://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-brompton-co...
Comment linking /2018/06/the-brompton-cocktail-and-decline-of.html
on “Palliative sedation, an end-of-life practice that is legal everywhere”Submitted Why are scientists so dull? Because interesting people are selected against. as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> 40 years ago we could do it – repeatedly – but since then we have not been to the moon, and I suggest the real reason we have not been to the moon since 1972 is that we cannot any longer do it. Humans have lost the capability. This sentence makes a lot more sense of you replace instances of "could" with "wanted to" and "capability" with "desire". As does the remainder of the article. There's no particular reason t…
Comment linking /2010/06/cancer-of-epistemology.html
on “Human capability peaked before 1975 and has since declined”Submitted Mouse Utopia and the potential extinction of modern developed societies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The decline of modernity? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IQ paranoia on the interweb as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is human capability on the decline? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion