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Hollis Robbins
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Hollis Robbins writes Anecdotal Value, a personal blog at hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com about ai, culture and writing. Since 2024, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 128 times, most often “LLM poetry and the "greatness" question: Experiments by Gwern and Mercor”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on personal knowledge tools such as Obsidian, Roam and org-mode. The one comment discusses using LLMs for creative writing and poetry and does not evaluate the post itself.
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.
Observations informed by having paid attention for a long time.
Most-linked posts?
- LLM poetry and the "greatness" question: Experiments by Gwern and Mercor4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-08
- Major Adjustments in Education Required in AI Era4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-02-09
- AI and the Last Mile: Discerning human judgement as a luxury good3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-16
- Is Higher Education Ready for Acceleration?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-05
- Decoding Without Pictures2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-11
- Milgram's subjects were never "aligned"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-01
- How to Tell If Something Is AI-Written2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-13
- Colleges need to teach last-mile knowledge2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-08
- I Read Poems with Aphantasia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-22
- Diogenes the Cynic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-03
What Hacker News says?
No, but I haven't been following the space. (I suspect that with Claude Code-level coding agents, you should be able to do something amazing that thoroughly obsoletes Obsidian/Roam/org-mode, but I don't actually know of anything.) I've been focused on creative writing, with poetry as my test case, to see what the bottlenecks are to truly amplifying myself through LLMs (as opposed to helping my boss automate away my…
Comment linking /p/llm-poetry-and-the-greatness-question
on “Intellectual Junkyards”Submitted AI and the Last Mile 2: Subsidiarity as a story · 42 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Universities would prefer no AI as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Scandal of Outdated Science as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seeing Like a State University as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM poetry and the "greatness" question: Experiments by Gwern and Mercor as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is embracing AI intellectual or anti-intellectual? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Read Poems with Aphantasia as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Major Adjustments in Education Required in AI Era as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's later than you think as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Singularity Is Post-Privacy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Attention is all you need to bankrupt a university as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cold Cases in the AI Era as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Higher Ed's Dirtiest Secret as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Is Ladling the Chum? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The faculty are riding horses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Higher Education Ready for Acceleration? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Tell If Something Is AI-Written as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Claude Test as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remember Corporate Training Programs? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Scandal of Outdated Science as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted IQ Tests and Virtual Substitution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted " as It Turns Out " as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The God's eye view is death to poetry as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Emperor's New DOGE as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Teaching Without Knowledge? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Colleges need to teach last-mile knowledge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Look at Buildings, with Aphantasia as a story · 2 points
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