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danmcquillan.org is a personal blog at danmcquillan.org about ai and politics. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for an essay arguing that universities should resist AI. The one commenter found the article vacuous and its most coherent points wrong.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-05
- AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-21
What Hacker News says?
American universities are important institutions and do a lot of good work. However, look no further than this article for the source of the "white hot rage". It's bloviating, vacuous, empty fluff, no meaningful point or persuasive argument, and the statements which come the closest to resembling coherent points are wrong and bad (see https://www.danmcquillan.org/questions_for_anthropic.html ). The author feels thre…
Comment linking /questions_for_anthropic.html
on “The role of the University is to resist AI”Submitted The role of the University is to resist AI as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted The role of the University is to resist AI as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evidence to House of Lords inquiry into Large language models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
