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Iris van Rooij
Personal blog · irisvanrooijcogsci.comphilosophyai
Iris van Rooij's personal blog at irisvanrooijcogsci.com covers philosophy and ai. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for an argument that AGI is computationally intractable, at least via machine learning. The one commenter cites it while saying they do not endorse it.
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.
Welcome to my homepage
Most-linked posts?
- AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-13
- Critical Lenses on ‘AI’2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-15
- Stop feeding the hype and start resisting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-15
What Hacker News says?
Not an endorsement, but here's an argument that AGI is computationally intractable (edit: at least via ML). https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inev...
Comment linking /2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inevitability-claims/
on “Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time”Submitted AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge as a story · 57 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop feeding the hype and start resisting as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Slop and the Destruction of Knowledge as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can a brain think a finite or infinite number of thoughts? (2018) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop feeding the hype and start resisting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refusal to Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Critical Lenses on ‘AI’ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Critical Lenses on ‘AI’ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Automated Plagiarism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Combinatorial Trolley Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
