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Johnathan Bi
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Johnathan Bi's personal blog at johnathanbi.com covers philosophy. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The only comment links to the author's book notes and summaries, citing a passage on artificial empathy and conspicuous caring in healthcare. Readers use the site as a source of book summaries.
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.
Studying the great books, sharing my learnings through lectures & interviews.
What Hacker News says?
> Kind of fascinating that the benefit here is not so much artificial intelligence as artificial empathy. In their book "The Elephant in the Brain", Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson argue that a large subset of health care is already something like that: conspicuous caring with little benefits other than social signaling and feeling that one's being care for. [1] [1]: https://johnathanbi.com/book-notes-summaries/notes-…
Comment linking /book-notes-summaries/notes-on-elephant-in-the-brain
on “I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients”Submitted Nietzsche's Guide to Greatness as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interpreting Girard: seven lectures on mimetic theory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Elephant in the Brain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fractal-Summary Method (+ case studies) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Digestion of Great Books as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interpreting Girard Lecture I as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Completing Girard: Antidote to the Apocalypse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Summaries (Philosophy) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes: Things Hidden Since the Foundations of the World by Rene Girard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fractal-Summary Method: How to Fully Digest Great Books as a story · 1 points
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