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Hilarius Bookbinder
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Hilarius Bookbinder writes Scriptorium Philosophia, a personal blog at hilariusbookbinder.substack.com about philosophy and ai. Since 2025, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The average college student today”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for its essay arguing that the average college student is illiterate, which sparked discussion of student note-taking, lecture slides, and education. Comments mostly quote or discuss the article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on philosophy, reasoning, knowledge, academia, and occasionally bookbinding.
Most-linked posts?
- The average college student today4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-03-29
What Hacker News says?
> I am frequently asked for my PowerPoint slides, which basically function for me as lecture notes. It is unimaginable to me that I would have ever asked one of my professors for their own lecture notes Unimaginable to not have the lecture slides ahead of time so that I don't have to spend the whole time copying. > Last semester I had a good student tell me, “hey you know that kid who sits in front of me with the la…
Comment linking /p/in-praise-of-old-men
on “The average college student today”Submitted The average college student today as a story · 777 points
HN discussionThough there seems to have been some editing and a change in title, the article was posted yesterday here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43522966 Original article: https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-colleg...
Comment linking /p/the-average-college-student-today
on “The Average College Student Is Illiterate”Submitted A Defense of Philosophical Intuitions as a story · 26 points
HN discussionHere's my list so far: Differential Privacy (2025) by Simson Garfinkel. This is an accessible and enjoyable introduction to differential privacy from the MIT Press essentials series. The Philosopher in the Kitchen (1825) by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. This is a primer on gourmandism or the art and science of cooking, eating, and hosting. An interesting look at the French intellectual milieu at the turn of the nin…
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on “Ask HN: What were the best books you read in 2025?”Submitted Comments on "The average college student today" as a story · 11 points
HN discussionMost of comments seem to assume that education system have been functioning up to this point, LLM-s appear and there are somewhere solutions ready to adapt. That's just not the case. For many reasons – parental problems, early development, phones, social media, decline of responsibility, changes in educational principles in general etc etc etc – education is already in free fall almost all over the world. Average st…
Comment linking /p/the-average-college-student-today
on “The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says”Submitted AI can never produce sublime art as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hallucination, Bullshit, Confabulation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The average college student today as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is AI a tool or are you? as a story · 1 points
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