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Hugo Montenegro
Personal blog · hugomontenegro.com/blog · on HN as montenegrohugophilosophyai
Hugo Montenegro's personal blog at hugomontenegro.com covers philosophy and ai. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Absurdity of Free Will”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Hugo Montenegro's personal blog on AI, crypto, predictions, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- The Absurdity of Free Will3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-18
What Hacker News says?
https://waitbutwhy.com/ - so good https://dcgross.com/ - good design, smart guy http://www.paulgraham.com/ - classic https://mtlynch.io - love the openness https://www.gwern.net/ - love the design. very well organized https://coderscat.com/ - some fun projects https://shauninman.com/ - simple but good And shameless plug of my own: https://www.hugomontenegro.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted The Absurdity of Free Will as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm currently building namy.ai (AI domain name generator) solo, and here's my tech stack: BACKEND: - Python for the backend. Just a great, batteries included language that lets me do what I want fast and doesn't get in my way. - Flask: a web framework for Python. There's Django too, but Django is no fun. Flask is small and exactly what I want. - Pytorch: My DL framework of choice. Again, understandable, makes sense,…
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on “Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?”Submitted The Absurdity of Free Will as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's basically what John Rawls ends up concluding [1]. But the same line of thinking also leads to the conclusion that Free Will doesn't really exist, rather we humans are a product of our environment/genetics (and thus don't inherently deserve better treatment or rewards since all our efforts and subsequent results aren't 'really' our own doing). I wrote a little bit about this here [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.o…
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on “Face retouching settings should be off by default”Submitted The Absurdity of Free Will as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTo me it seems like we should separate the notion of being conscious with the notion of having free will. Everyone is conscious and knows this; it is trivially easy to prove (at least for one self. I don't know if all you guys reading this are [1]). However, how do we know if we have free will? Assuming we can even land on a common definition of free will, how do we prove it? I think the "intuitive" notion people se…
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on “The Libet experiment doesn't disprove free will (2019)”I think to define what is "fun" I'd take the reverse approach: What's NOT a fun stack to work with? For me personal hell is a giant stack that I barely understand, a stack that I'm very slow to iterate on, a stack that has 9999 exceptions and custom rules and "quirks" that I need to remember and work around. This is infuriating, and definitely not fun. So then what's fun? For me it's something small, fast, something…
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on “Ask HN: What is the most *fun* web development stack?”