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James Baker
Personal blog · jamesfbaker.substack.comaiphilosophy
James Baker writes James’s Newsletter, a personal blog at jamesfbaker.substack.com about ai and philosophy. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why the AI Renaissance Keeps Not Arriving”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in an HN thread on Ted Chiang's essay arguing AI is not conscious, as a counter-source on AI creativity going beyond training data, which one commenter says is backed by studies.
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.
All Things Legal Technology. Launched 2 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Why the AI Renaissance Keeps Not Arriving2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-12
What Hacker News says?
I will not thank you, talking with you was a waste of time. I've just read https://jamesfbaker.substack.com/p/why-the-ai-renaissance-ke... (and the Rich Sutton take on AI creativity, too) that explains exactly the opposite of you, but backed by real studies and real facts, instead of "that looks 'beyond training data' to me, so I will pretend it is, even if I have no objective ways to know if it is indeed the case".
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on “No, Artificial Intelligence is not Conscious - Ted Chiang”Submitted Why the AI Renaissance Keeps Not Arriving as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted DeepSeek's Innovation Can Reshape Legal Technology as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an AI Assistant for Legal Citations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is Bayesian Evidence That We Live in a Simulation as a story · 2 points
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