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Helen Toner

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Helen Toner writes Rising Tide, a personal blog at helentoner.substack.com about ai and politics. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The term "AGI" is almost useless at this point”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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Intermittent thoughts on navigating the transition to a world with extremely advanced AI systems.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The term "AGI" is almost useless at this point
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-06
  2. Taking Jaggedness Seriously
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy as a story · 455 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Taking Jaggedness Seriously as a story · 5 points

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  3. Submitted Personalized AI is rerunning the worst part of social media's playbook as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The term "AGI" is almost useless at this point as a story · 1 points

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  5. Submitted The term "AGI" is almost useless at this point as a story · 1 points

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  6. Submitted Taking Jaggedness Seriously as a story · 1 points

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  7. Submitted In search of a dynamist vision for safe superhuman AI as a story · 1 points

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  8. Submitted 2 Big Questions for AI Progress in 2025-2026 as a story · 1 points

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