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guy is a personal blog at rivalvoices.substack.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post as a counterpoint defending the 'purpose of a system is what it does' (POSIWID) phrasing against critics, in a thread on school AI surveillance.
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.
just a guy.
What Hacker News says?
But the usage of "purpose" here simply doesn't make sense on any plausible interpretation I can find. Scott Alexander tried as well and failed: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo... More discussion: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comment... Here is a counterpoint: https://rivalvoices.substack.com/p/the-purpose-of-posiwid-is...
Comment linking /p/the-purpose-of-posiwid-is-what-it
on “School AI surveillance can lead to false alarms, arrests”Submitted Smile vs. Poop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What even is Focusing and why Eugene Gendlin is the greatest man as a story · 1 points
HN discussion