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forkingpaths.co is a personal blog at forkingpaths.co about economics and science. Since 2023, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on billionaires, wealth taxes and the claimed millionaire exodus, and cite it in threads on Eric Schmidt, Charlie Kirk and Boeing. One commenter calls a related piece excellent.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-05-31
- The World of Undersea Cables3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-17
- The Death of the Student Essay–and the Future of Cognition3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-19
- The Big Gods Hypothesis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-26
- The evolution of stupidity (and octopus intelligence)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-23
- We are different from all other humans in history2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-10
- The crisis of zombie social science2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-13
What Hacker News says?
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/its-the-guns
Comment linking /p/its-the-guns
on “Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah”Submitted The evolution of stupidity (and octopus intelligence) as a story · 53 points
HN discussionIf 90% of startups fail, why would you think winning wasn't mostly chance? Regardless of how many people work hard and grind, you can still fail (and most do, that's just life). Some are more lucky than others, and capital begets capital. Once you've "won" enough, it becomes much harder to lose, even if you make terrible forward decisions and run off the inertia of past wins (Twitter). Bezos built Amazon, but also h…
Comment linking /p/billionaires-and-the-evolution-of
on “Boeing workers vote to strike”Submitted Longitude and our neurons of navigation as a story · 25 points
HN discussionBrian Klass wrote an excellent article on this topic. However it is behind a paywall: https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/does-taxing-the-rich-cause-mil... (I subscribe to his substack)
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on “UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals”Submitted The crisis of zombie social science as a story · 22 points
HN discussionWould you count group hunting as “highly complex social behavior”? It’s not just a numbers thing, they communicate and coordinate with the group. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5120912/octopuses-and-f... Octopuses also build colonies, using coconut shells and other tools. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18281-octopuses-use-c... https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-discover-... https://mash…
Comment linking /p/the-evolution-of-stupidity-and-octopus
on “The Silurian Hypothesis”Submitted Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence as a story · 16 points
HN discussionhttps://www.forkingpaths.co/p/billionaires-and-the-evolution...
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on “Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview”Submitted Does taxing the rich cause millionaires to flee? as a story · 13 points
HN discussionForget the quality of the data, you can give the same data to different researchers and get wildly different conclusions. [1, from 2, from 3] (Disclaimer: not my area of expertise.) [1] N. Breznau et al., “Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty,” PNAS, October 2022, URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2203150119 [2] B. Klaas, “The Crisis of Zombi…
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on “Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018)”Submitted The "Need for Chaos" Voter as a story · 12 points
HN discussionLucky old retired executive shares opinion and makes excuses for poor management without evidence in the pursuit of relevance. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/billionaires-and-the-evolution...
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on “Former Google CEO blames remote work for company's struggles”Submitted The "Need for Chaos" Voter as a story · 12 points
HN discussionMillionaire flight is mostly myth: https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/does-taxing-the-rich-cause-mil... And, like 'trickle-down economics', a very convenient myth for the rich.
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on “Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man”Submitted Doge and the Coming Tsunami as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jerome Powell and the Authoritarian Sirens of Odysseus as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Student Essay–and the Future of Cognition as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Don't Have to Destroy Ourselves as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Tyrants Fall as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perils of Moneyballing Everything as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prigozhin is dead. But Putin is now weaker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We are different from all other humans in history as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Are Different from All Other Humans in History as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Student Essay–and the Future of Cognition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Big Gods Hypothesis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The World of Undersea Cables as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The World of Undersea Cables as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiment with Everything as a story · 3 points
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