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fakenous.net is a personal blog at fakenous.net about philosophy. Since 2018, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Against History of Philosophy”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Fake Nous, a philosophy and economics blog, often in discussions of Rawls, academic politics and diversity. It is also listed among favourite individual blogs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Against History of Philosophy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-12
- The Gender Pay Gap and Empirical Facts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-15
- /?p=29322 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-12
- Why I am not a utilitarian2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-22
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-29
What Hacker News says?
Gwern: https://www.gwern.net/ Slate Star Codex: https://slatestarcodex.com/ | Astral Codex Ten: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html Bryan Caplan on Econlog: https://www.econlib.org/author/bcaplan/ --Economist Fake Nous: https://fakenous.net/ --Philosopher Debarghya Das: http://debarghyadas.com/writes Nicky Case: https://ncase.me/ Quanticle: https://wiki.quanticle…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here as a story · 75 points
HN discussionThis seems prescient: “The most “woke” people are the ones who aggressively try to silence all dissent ( https://fakenous.net/?p=2932 ) and to exclude conservatives, libertarians, etc., from the Academy. So they not only fail to value intellectual diversity; they are just about the most stridently anti-diversity people in the entire country.”
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on “Who cares about diversity?”Submitted Why I am not a utilitarian as a story · 44 points
HN discussionIn the academy, left-wing beliefs dominate; therefore, the affirmative action supporters would be first and foremost demanding preferences for conservatives, libertarians, moderates, fascists, monarchists, and other people who do not accept the current progressive orthodoxy. Everyone knows that isn’t happening. Virtually none (maybe actually zero) of the woke, social-justice-warrior people support philosophical dive…
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on “Who cares about diversity?”Submitted A solution to Newcomb's paradox as a story · 26 points
HN discussionWell, yeah, it was an analytic department. I also happen to think that's the "right" view. To clarify, I don't think reading the original texts is a bad use of time if you're already in deep, just that it's not good for a first introduction (for the reasons I mentioned). Plato was simply confused about a ton of things and makes egregious errors while reasoning through ideas. We don't read him because he was right, w…
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on “Ask HN: Learning about philosophy”Submitted Direct Realism and the Brain-in-a-Vat Argument as a story · 18 points
HN discussionFor a much more critical take on Rawls, see Michael Huemer's "John Rawls is an Awful Reasoner" [0] Huemer is definitely writing in a polemical style that might turn some folks off, but I think the basic point -- that Rawls contorts himself to avoid a framework that just boils down to 'maximize utility' -- is more or less on point. [0] https://fakenous.net/?p=1824
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on “John Rawls and the “Veil of Ignorance” (2020)”Submitted Google Is Evil as a story · 11 points
HN discussionAlso https://fakenous.net/ looks like someone's installing a new Wordpress. I've seen this situation before and was able to literally install Wordpress on someone's server.
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on “There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here”Submitted Outlaw Universities – Discrimination in Academia as a story · 10 points
HN discussion"Too many redirects occurred trying to open “ https://fakenous.net/?p=2365/wp-admin/install.php” . This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page, which then is redirected to open the original page." EDIT: I'd love to understand the downvote, considering as I write this the linked website is still presenting an open installer wizard for Wordpress!
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on “There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here”Submitted The Fallacy of Rationalism as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's a Good Thing I Don't Care What You Think as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Is Academic Writing Terrible? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ideology and Outrage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gender Pay Gap and Empirical Facts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gender Pay Gap and Empirical Facts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gender Pay Gap and Empirical Facts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Important Piece of Knowledge as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Cheer for Social Conformity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don’t Agree with Karl Popper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for Tyranny as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intellectual Conformity Is Adaptive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Amateur vs. Professional Philosophy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is “Magic”? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rule Utilitarianism Isn’t So Crazy as a story · 1 points
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