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Intense Transmissions from Hell
Personal blog · coagulopath.comaiculture
Intense Transmissions from Hell is a personal blog at coagulopath.com about ai and culture. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog as a rebuttal to the theory that Ghislaine Maxwell ran a Reddit account linked to Aaron Swartz's death. They cite it as evidence that the claim lacks support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-secret-reddit-account/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-11
What Hacker News says?
It's incoherent. It simply makes no sense at all that Ghislaine Maxwell, a wealthy socialite, would post a bunch of stuff on Reddit for years to accumulate meaningless internet points, under something based on her own name, while somehow also trying to be anonymous. This is a simply incoherent theory. There's no sense in it. You don't post "anonymously" under your own name. This goes into far more detail on the indi…
Comment linking /ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-secret-reddit-account/
on “A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator”Submitted Is ChatGPT killing StackOverflow? An analysis of four months of data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFunny that you should mention a Reddit-originated conspiracy theory on an article about how Reddit is deteriorating as a source of information. I found this blog post: https://coagulopath.com/ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-se... which appears to conclusively refute the main evidence above, but I haven't independently verified. If you have stronger evidence than what appears to be copy-pasted AI output, I will re-…
Comment linking /ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-secret-reddit-account/
on “A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator”Submitted GPT-4 is not getting worse (tests and a long rant) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo I'm talking about the fact that the only "evidence" is that they share a name. Every other detail doesn't match up, someone did the heavy lifting here: https://coagulopath.com/ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-se... The point is there's been no strong evidence, so it's a huge leap to then decide this is a solid basis for "Aaron Swartz was killed because Ghislaine Maxwell was tight with the Reddit staff and he got…
Comment linking /ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-secret-reddit-account/
on “What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack”Submitted Gemini Ultra is out. Does it beat GPT4? (~10k words of tests/observations) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An in-depth examination of ElsaGate (gross/disturbing kids' videos) as a story · 1 points
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