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Carl Hendrick
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Carl Hendrick writes The Learning Dispatch, a personal blog at carlhendrick.substack.com about science and ai. Since 2025, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for posts on education and cognition. This thread cites its discussion of the 'children of the magenta line' idea, about pilots over-relying on cockpit automation, as relevant to AI.
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Making sense of how learning happens. https://www.carlhendrick.com/.
What Hacker News says?
Children of the Magenta Line seems very topical, especially wrt AI >In 1997, American Airlines captain Warren VanderBurgh gave a lecture warning about the dangers of autopilot. He titled it "children of the magenta line," after the magenta coloured course line the flight computer draws across a cockpit display. He noticed that pilots were so used to following that line, to managing the automation rather than actuall…
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