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Charles Eisenstein
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Charles Eisenstein's personal blog at charleseisenstein.substack.com covers philosophy and politics. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Charles Eisenstein's essays on AI and work, covid-era social morality, and whether modern jobs and lifestyles ruin people's meaning-making and social connection.
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.
Essays on civilization. myth, politics, ecology.
Most-linked posts?
- Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-03
What Hacker News says?
Reasonable piece. I always thought the hope/promise of AI was to make it do the work we don't want to do so that we can enjoy life the way we want to which is typically socializing with humans? I get that it generates so much that if you are reviewing thoughtfully everything it is doing, it can suck you away like being a worker at a conveyor belt, but hopefully that is a short period of growing pains. A related take…
Comment linking /p/the-lost-subject-ai-and-the-human
on “I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid”Submitted Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed as a story · 10 points
HN discussionContrast with: https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/mob-morality-and-th... > the Covid-unvaxxed, who are being portrayed as walking cesspools of germs who might contaminate the Sanctified Brethren (the vaccinated).
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on “Unvaccinated People Belong on the No-Fly List”Submitted Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFIRE is a good cautionary example, but I think it makes the point I wanted to get at: people start out as little meaning-making machines. They connect deeply with each other, interact easily, enjoy their lives. Then we ruin that. The FIRE community have won the ruined game -- they're what you get when you remove the financial need, but keep the same psychological objective function, keep the same screwed-up socialit…
Comment linking /p/notes-on-privilege
on “Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless”Submitted Intelligence in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Charles Eisenstein, Antisemite as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual Intelligence (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Temple of This Earth as a story · 1 points
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