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David Pinsof
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David Pinsof writes Everything Is Bullshit, a personal blog at everythingisbullshit.blog about philosophy and culture. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “AI Doomerism Is Bullshit”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, 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 its argument against 'superintelligence' claims, including the view that Doomers like Eliezer Yudkowsky define intelligence as 'optimization power'. Cited in a discussion of OpenAI agents.
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.
Poking holes in the stories we tell ourselves.
Most-linked posts?
- AI Doomerism Is Bullshit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-27
- AI Is Not the End of the World2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-22
What Hacker News says?
This isn’t my only objection to the “superintelligence” hocus pocus, but it’s a pretty good summary of one of my objections: https://www.everythingisbullshit.blog/p/ai-is-not-the-end-of... > Doomers like Eliezer Yudkowsky define “intelligence” as “optimization power.” Intelligence searches for more or less optimal ways to achieve a goal—any goal—and finds the most optimal one. Anything you can do, the blob can do be…
Comment linking /p/ai-is-not-the-end-of-the-world
on “Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face”Submitted Why Things Go to Shit as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Doomerism Is Bullshit as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Doomerism Is Bullshit as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is Not the End of the World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bullshit Advice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Money Is Bullshit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happiness Is Bullshit Revisited as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mediocrity as an Existential Risk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incentive Determinism vs. Likability Determinism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opinions Are Bullshit as a story · 1 points
HN discussion