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Andrew Maynard
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Andrew Maynard writes The Future of Being Human, a personal blog at futureofbeinghuman.com about ai, science and philosophy. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Andrew Maynard's posts on AI in scientific research and on a reported tardigrade gene-editing experiment in human stem cells. The comments only cite or link them, with no judgment of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Reflections on AI, tech, society & the future from Andrew Maynard, ASU Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions and self-confessed "undisciplinarian." Text mirror for LLMs, saving & printing: https://text.futureofbeinghuman.com/substack/index.html. Click to read The Future of Being Human, a Subs
What Hacker News says?
The market seems excited to charge in whatever direction the weathervane has last been pointing, regardless of the real outcomes of running in that direction. Hopefully I’m wrong, but it reminds me very much of this study (I’ll quote a paraphrase) “A groundbreaking new study of over 1,000 scientists at a major U.S. materials science firm reveals a disturbing paradox: When paired with AI systems, top researchers beco…
Comment linking /p/is-ai-poised-to-suck-the-soul-out-of-science
on “Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist”Submitted When ChatGPT turns informant as a story · 136 points
HN discussionMore here: Did Chinese scientists gene-edit tardigrade DNA into human stem cells? https://www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/did-chinese-scientists-...
Comment linking /p/did-chinese-scientists-gene-edit
on “Scientists Put Tardigrade DNA into Human Stem Cells”