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Elliot Temple
Personal blog · curi.us/blog · on HN as curiphilosophyprogramming
Elliot Temple writes curi, a personal blog at curi.us about philosophy and programming. Since 2008, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Lying Microsoft Advertising”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Elliot Temple's blog for posts on parenting, epistemology, philosophy and how to think better, plus critiques of Hacker News, Microsoft advertising and a book's scholarship. The comments give no judgment of the writing.
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Philosophy blog posts by Elliot Temple about reason, criticism, discussion, and related topics.
Most-linked posts?
- Lying Microsoft Advertising2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-23
What Hacker News says?
Parenting advice: http://curi.us/archives/list_category/61 http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/
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on “Congratulations, Paul & Jessica; Welcome to the world, George”Submitted Lying Microsoft Advertising as a story · 397 points
HN discussionThese are just starting points. I do think goals are themselves good or bad, but it's much harder to explain how you can objectively make assertions like that, so I wanted to make the lesser claim, for now: there are ways to explore morality objectively. I'm definitely not claiming consistency of this sort is the only criterion of morality. Only that it's an important and objective one. I don't mean to be a tease, b…
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on “PG on trolls”Submitted Feynman Quotes/Anecdotes as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMy comment on how this is related to epistemology: http://curi.us/blog/post/1339-steve-yegge-on-epistemology
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on “The Universal Design Pattern”Submitted Conspiracies Are Often Unnecessary as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI came across this: > (2015-10-16) The people behind the scenes at Hacker News now hand pick stories they want on the front page. It's not a user-generated voting-controlled news site. But it pretends to be one and tries to look like one. It's deeply dishonest. http://www.curi.us/1612-anti-israel-bias-at-hacker-news / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402465 This is outrageous, and I will find a way to create a…
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on “I Am Alex St. John’s Daughter, and He Is Wrong About Women in Tech”Submitted Taleb Is Wrong: Killing Millions Is Risky as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMicrosoft lying in an advert? Impossible! They've never had to resort to that before! http://www.curi.us/1571-lying-microsoft-advertising http://blog.debate.org/2010/12/06/the-cloud-is-a-lie-how-mic... http://techrights.org/2010/01/09/guardian-microsoft-podcast/ http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/23/microsoft-caught-l... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-zq2JD-3A http://modmyi.com/content/10764-microsoft-bashes-…
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on “Challenging the Bing It On Challenge”Submitted Sucking in Your Gut (An Unconventional Explanation for Fewer Female Programmers) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDon't marry. http://curi.us/blog/post/1168-monogamy
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on “Ask HN: Marriage”Submitted Programming and Epistemology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI thought this ad was beautiful. It reminds me of Don's "Carousel" pitch from Mad Men ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus ) the way it focuses on experiences and feelings. This is it. This is what matters. The experience of a product. How will it make someone feel? Will it make life better? Does it deserve to exist? We spend a lot of time on a few great things. Until every idea we touch enhances each life i…
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on “Apple’s new ads make the company look lame”Submitted The Surprising Way Apple's Supply Chain Reforms are Self-Interested as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> I mean Notch's views are literally that some people are less than people. Quotes or it didn't happen. https://curi.us/2194-discussion-policy-quotes-or-youre-presu...
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on “‘Minecraft’ Creator Excluded from Anniversary Due to ‘Comments and Opinions’”Submitted Quicktime Player 7 Lies About Playback Speed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhy Philosophy? free iOS app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/why-philosophy/id354900479 And short pro-thinking/philosophy website presenting an argument/reasons: http://curi.us/think/
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on “Philosophy - What's the use?”Submitted Don't Believe Everything You Read With Footnotes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI read http://www.takingchildrenseriously.com/ and its email list. (Note: website not updated recently.) I also write about parenting. Try http://www.curi.us/archives/list_category/50 or http://www.curi.us/archives/list_category/6 It's not especially organized and other topics are mixed in. I also write to the email list above.
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on “Ask YC: Hacker moms & dads, what do you read?”Submitted The Only Thing That Might Create Unfriendly AI is the Friendly AI Movement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you want to stalk me, please also enjoy my blog. You can even find some political posts there! http://curi.us/
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on “Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired”Submitted Three Mistakes Karl Popper Made as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou're missing http://www.curi.us/ , enjoy :) And http://www.settingtheworldtorights.com/
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on “The best blogs you are not reading”Submitted Be Very Careful w/ Time Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor example of already-thought-of important ideas, William Godwin is very neglected. In part due to sexual scandal -- basically just sex outside marriage which was a lot worse then (1800ish). In part due to honest memoirs about his dead wife Mary Wollstonecraft (the first feminist). Partly due to the getting lumped in with French Revolution supporters. But in the long run, mostly because his ideas are not popular. O…
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on “Ad exec driven to suicide (partly) by trolls”A reply: http://curi.us/blog/post/1423-ftc-and-reason
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on “FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments”Much of philosopher Elliot Temple’s work is about how to think better. That’s a big topic that includes, among many other things: - becoming aware of and fixing mistakes ( https://www.elliottemple.com/essays/life-overreaching-correc... ) - identifying and working with bottlenecks ( https://criticalfallibilism.com/most-factors-arent-borderlin... ) - managing your error rate for faster progress ( https://fallibleideas…
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on “Ask HN: How do you become smarter?”Book has fact checking problems: http://curi.us/1561-bad-scholarship-merchants-of-despair-by-...
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on “Merchants of Despair: ...Environmentalists...Pseudo-Scientists...Antihumanism”
