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Insight
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Insight is a personal blog at zeynep.substack.com about philosophy, science and politics. Since 2020, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zeynep's Substack as a concise summary of studies on indoor COVID-19 spread, and cite its essays on science and epistemology. Most comments simply link or quote the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Smarter thinking for puzzles worth pondering. A newsletter by Zeynep for a complex world.
Most-linked posts?
- What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-12-04
- The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave Us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-30
- The Clubhouse App and the Rise of Oral Psychodynamics4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-17
- Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-14
- The problem with the tech hearings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-29
- On Randomized Trials and Medicine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-08
What Hacker News says?
Or maybe just five minutes: > If you just want the results: one person (Case B) infected two other people (case A and C) from a distance away of 6.5 meters (~21 feet) and 4.8m (~15 feet). Case B and case A overlapped for just five minutes at quite a distance away. These people were well beyond the current 6 feet / 2 meter guidelines of CDC and much further than the current 3 feet / one meter distance advocated by th…
Comment linking /p/small-data-big-implications
on “London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain”Submitted What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study as a story · 173 points
HN discussionThe tweeter has written up their observations here: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications
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on “What we can learn from the latest indoor dining study”Submitted The Gaslighting of Science as a story · 128 points
HN discussionThat's a fair point. The big problem I see with "lots of exciting live events at any time", and I agree this is not everyone's perspective, is how I am again confronted with a curation dilemma. Need someone to vet the content (reviews, ratings etc) to help me choose, and it's still a pain. With live content, review of content before consumption is no longer possible. I guess new forms of creator review could come up…
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on “Clubhouse’s Inevitability”Submitted Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process as a story · 117 points
HN discussionHer earlier two related posts on metaepistemology were amazing as well: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/lessons-from-a-pandemic-annive... https://zeynep.substack.com/p/critical-thinking-isnt-just-a-...
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on “The Gaslighting of Science”Submitted The problem with the tech hearings as a story · 75 points
HN discussionRestaurants are majorly associated with spread. They’re unmasked, indoor environments where people talk. Here’s an interesting report where two people were infected with just five min of overlap by an unmasked person. Extremely detailed contact tracing by the south koreans. TV, by contrast, gets other people to stay at home in front of the TV and not be bored. A super vital service right now! https://zeynep.substack…
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on “She Couldn’t Open for Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could”Submitted Why You Should Take Any Vaccine as a story · 46 points
HN discussionNice concise write up of the same study here: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25305573
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on “Infected after 5 minutes, from 20 feet away: Coronavirus’ spread indoors”Submitted Critical Thinking Isn't Just a Process as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hunter Biden Story Everyone Is Missing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Long Covid: How Bungle Reporting on a Thorny Topic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave Us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Clubhouse App and the Rise of Oral Psychodynamics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Clubhouse App and the Rise of Oral Psychodynamics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Clubhouse App and the Rise of Oral Psychodynamics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave Us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave Us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Randomized Trials and Medicine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is choice always worth the anxiety? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vaccine efficacy, statistical power, and mental models as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moralizing Everything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vaccines and Decision-Making with Imperfect Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pandemic Heroes Who Gave Us the Gift of Time and Gift of Information as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Balancing Epistemic Humility and Prior Knowledge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Randomized Trials and Medicine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with (All) the Tech Hearings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A newsletter for thinking deeply about complex puzzles worth pondering as a story · 1 points
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