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CGP Grey
Personal blog · cgpgrey.com/blogculturewriting
CGP Grey's personal blog at cgpgrey.com covers culture and writing. Since 2013, 57 different Hacker News readers have linked it 70 times, most often “Humans Need Not Apply (2014)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 15 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
CGP Grey's videos and blog posts on voting systems, politics, history and automation, which commenters link as primers to share with friends or as sources for their points.
- Recommended for · 15 comments
- Voting series called simple and understandable; Rules for Rulers 'well worth a watch'; 'excellent youtuber'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Homepage for CGP Grey. Videos, articles and links.
Most-linked posts?
- Humans Need Not Apply (2014)7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-04-08
- Politics in the Animal Kingdom – CGP Grey5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-05-08
- /blog/rules-for-rulers4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-03-12
- CGPGrey: Why TV News Is a Waste of Human Effort (2013)4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-03-11
- Americapox: The Missing Plague (2015)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-03-07
- /blog/this-video-will-make-you-angry3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-05-17
- /politics-in-the-animal-kingdom3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-01
- /blog/rules-for-rulers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-16
- /blog/the-secret-city-of-london.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-09
- Why TV News Is a Waste of Human Effort: One Example Worth a Trillion Dollars2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-03
What Hacker News says?
Major this. Also plug for CGP Grey's "politics in the animal kingdom" video series that explains exactly why we have that 'lesser of two evils' problem, and how exactly RCV and Alternative vote systems resolve that problem, in a very simple, understandable way. https://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom
Comment linking /politics-in-the-animal-kingdom
on “Oppose the Earn IT Act”Submitted Voyage to Nowhere: The Amazon Kindle Story as a story · 316 points
HN discussionPournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within…
Comment linking /blog/rules-for-rulers
on “Boeing whistleblower found dead in US”- vl · 2019-10-31
Submitted Which Planet Is Closest? as a story · 240 points
HN discussion In case you want a general understanding of some alternatives and how they work: http://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/
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on “US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules”Submitted Americapox: The Missing Plague (2015) as a story · 45 points
HN discussion>Bloomberg journalists are compensated for stories that “move markets”. Possibly, but that is fundamentally different from infotainment. Even with that bias, Bloomberg never writes an article which fails to answer the most basic questions one could ask about a given story (unlike most "news" [1]). I also qualify them as decent because they generally report trends not anecdotes. Contrast with your local TV station ru…
Comment linking /blog/why-tv-news-is-a-waste-of-human-effort-one-video-is-worth-a-trillion-dollars
on “Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety”Submitted CGPGrey: Why TV News Is a Waste of Human Effort (2013) as a story · 16 points
HN discussionIn case anyone here wants a quick primer on the differences between voting systems, or just something easy to hand to friends and relatives who don't have time for deep study, Politics in the Animal Kingdom by CGP Grey is a great start. At least one of the videos has already been mentioned, but here's the whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkLBH5Kzphe0Qu8mCW1Le... http://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in…
Comment linking /politics-in-the-animal-kingdom
on “Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City”Submitted How Do Machines Learn? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou come up on your niche, and then when you have access to the broader market, you pivot to the group that will help you grow market power [1]. Similar dynamics exist in a lot of different ecosystems, and Pine seems to be responding to the challenges that have come with becoming big. It's sad that they won't be supporting OS hackers anymore, but they have to pivot if they want to bring onboard more customers (which…
Comment linking /blog/rules-for-rulers
on “Why I left Pine64”Submitted The Simple Solution to Traffic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhy TV News is a Waste of Human Effort: One Example Worth a Trillion Dollars - by C.P.P. Grey http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/why-tv-news-is-a-waste-of-human-...
Comment linking /blog/why-tv-news-is-a-waste-of-human-effort-one-video-is-worth-a-trillion-dollars
on “News is bad for you”Submitted On Bitcoin, Illegal Drugs & First Impressions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think came across as too aggressive in my reply, I apologise. Just yesterday when the news story broke, we saw people dropping the "gamergate" name randomly just to score some points on whatever they were arguing. The name is extremely toxic, especially when there is a massive misunderstanding between people pushing for news stories which are less biased , written in a neutral point of view... and media spinning i…
Comment linking /blog/why-tv-news-is-a-waste-of-human-effort-one-video-is-worth-a-trillion-dollars
on “New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Journalism”Submitted Humans Need Not Apply (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe good tech picks are already posted, so I'd like to share a bit of a broader scoped list: - Adrian Kennard's (revk - CEO of Andrews & Arnolds UK ISP) blog: http://www.revk.uk/ - GOV.uk's digital services blog [UX, Design, Govt]: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/ - Canonical design blog [UX & Design]: http://design.canonical.com/ - CGPGrey, excellent youtuber and podcaster [misc. history/politics/sciences]: http://www.cgpg…
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on “Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?”Submitted Why TV News Is a Waste of Human Effort: One Example Worth a Trillion Dollars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPeople still say Great Britain all the time (it refers to something slightly different than the UK though [1]). It's what the Olympic team is called, for example. [1] https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-difference-between-the-unit...
Comment linking /blog/the-difference-between-the-united-kingdom-great-britain-england
on “Get in zoomer, we're saving React”Submitted Dialing Down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCGP grey did a great video on The Dictators Handbook : https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers It is well worth a watch. Anyone with an interest in democracy (or corporate politics or dominance hierarchies) definitely should watch it. I feel that his discussion of the making of the video was even more interesting (although long winded): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvD7zVN2jo The interesting conclusion tha…
Comment linking /blog/rules-for-rulers
on “Notes on El Salvador”Submitted Dialing Down – CGP Grey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA somewhat related video: "This Video Will Make You Angry" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc Script: https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/this-video-will-make-you-angry Linked Paper (from video description): "What Makes Online Content Viral?" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1528077
Comment linking /blog/this-video-will-make-you-angry
on “Outrage culture is out of control”Submitted Iteration (Or: how to write something that will be seen by millions) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI feel like this is a more general symptom of attempting to apply a democracy where every citizen's is valued equally in a very large population. At some point, it's simply impossible to have a whole population which is both properly educated and able to voice it's opinion. This line of reasoning is a large part of the reason that Rousseau suggested that societies would be best served by an educated aristocracy[1].…
Comment linking /blog/how-the-electoral-college-works.html
on “MIT economist believes U.S. is shifting to be more similar to developing nations”Submitted Why TV News is a Waste of Human Effort: One Example Worth a Trillion Dollars as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> What I really want though, is proper commenting system under videos. I'm curious to know what you mean by that? As far as youtube comments being the butt-end of jokes about bad comments, I think this is just due to the fact that video is the great common denominator (and thus, the intellectual filter is very very low). Reddit's r/videos is limited to "non-political" videos for much the same reasons (and given that…
Comment linking /blog/this-video-will-make-you-angry
on “YouTube Community goes beyond video”Submitted Politics in the Animal Kingdom – CGP Grey as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFreedom exists because, for a while anyway, freedom was more effective at increasing the wealth and power of nations. This video has a great outline: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers
Comment linking /blog/rules-for-rulers
on “New EU law prescribes website blocking in the name of consumer protection”Submitted The Trouble with the Electoral College as a story · 1 points
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