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David Auerbach
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David Auerbach writes Waggish, a personal blog at waggish.org about culture and philosophy. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Robespierre the Incorruptible, Robespierre the Daemonic (2014)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
One HN commenter linked a David Auerbach review of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, which they read after a thread on overlooked books. They were put off by the review's point about unanswered questions.
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Most-linked posts?
- Robespierre the Incorruptible, Robespierre the Daemonic (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-20
What Hacker News says?
Great take on DMT: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th... Also worth a read: https://www.waggish.org/2011/benny-shanon-the-antipodes-of-t...
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on “The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (2016)”Submitted Common Knowledge in the Age of Many-to-Many Broadcast Networks as a story · 35 points
HN discussionUgh. Because you've piqued my curiosity I read http://www.waggish.org/2007/gene-wolfe-the-book-of-the-new-s... The reviewer disagrees that all the questions are answered. Unanswered mysteries for the sake of nothing? Not sure I can stomach it.
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on “Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have?”Submitted Robespierre the Incorruptible, Robespierre the Daemonic (2014) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionBest article I've ever read regarding DMT and its affects on the human mind: https://www.waggish.org/2011/benny-shanon-the-antipodes-of-t...
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on “Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans”Submitted DMT: The Antipodes of the Mind (2011) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's a great article on Benny Shanon, perhaps the foremost researcher on DMT: https://www.waggish.org/2011/benny-shanon-the-antipodes-of-t... One of the reports of his own experiences with the substance was as follows: >Another pattern of interpreting-as is one I shall characterize as seeing the particular as generic, or rather, seeing the generic in the particular. I have experienced this on a number of occasion…
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on “What Hallucinogens Will Make You See”Submitted DMT: The Antipodes of the Mind (2011) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion20th Century, but here's a great article on Benny Shanon, perhaps the foremost researcher on DMT: https://www.waggish.org/2011/benny-shanon-the-antipodes-of-t... One of the reports of his own experiences with the substance was as follows: >Another pattern of interpreting-as is one I shall characterize as seeing the particular as generic, or rather, seeing the generic in the particular. I have experienced this on a…
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on “The 19th-Century Trippers Who Probed the Mind”Submitted DMT: The Antipodes of the Mind (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DMT: The Antipodes of the Mind (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robespierre The Incorruptible, Robespierre The Daemonic (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Charles Hinton and His Cubes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DMT: The Antipodes of the Mind as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Social Science a Joke? (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C.D. Darlington, Sociobiology, and Reductionism in the Sciences as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Battle Lines as a story · 1 points
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