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Kevin Kelly
Personal blog · kevinkelly.substack.comaiculturephilosophy
Kevin Kelly writes KK, a personal blog at kevinkelly.substack.com about ai, culture and philosophy. Since 2025, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “Kevin Kelly – The Influence of Science Fiction on Science”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kevin Kelly's Substack essays on the singularity and AI hype, and on copying ideas in the 'better than free' piece. Commenters cite them as sources for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kevin Kelly's works in progress.
Most-linked posts?
- Kevin Kelly – The Influence of Science Fiction on Science3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-06
- Some Contemporary Heresies3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-06
- Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-10
- Better Than Free3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-20
- The Singularity Is Always Near3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-04
- Most Improbable Agent of You3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-21
- Robot Basketball2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-14
- Latent Space as a New Medium2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-13
- Our Uncertain Uncertainties2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-28
- Protopia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-27
What Hacker News says?
Nick Bostrom and his ilk are exhausting. I really don't think that the singularity / intelligence explosion is going to happen in the way that they think; I don't think ASIs will work the way they think they do; and I don't think we're anywhere close to AGI, even if some of the ideas happening right now are pretty cool. Some good sources on the matter in general: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/the-singularity-is-…
Comment linking /p/the-singularity-is-always-near
on “New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]”Submitted Swarm Intelligence as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAlmost every idea is copyable. Digital ideas are even easier to copy. Here's the antidote: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/better-than-free
Comment linking /p/better-than-free
on “Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself”Submitted Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Use as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Predicting the Present as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better Than Free as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Latent Space as a New Medium as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Most Improbable Life as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Future as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Singularity Is Always Near as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Handoff to Bots as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Improbable Agent of You as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swarm Intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kevin Kelly – The Influence of Science Fiction on Science as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Influence of Science Fiction on Science as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Billion Dollars as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kevin Kelly – Latent Space as a New Medium as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Essentials for Independent Travel in China as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kevin Kelly – We don't want the best AI, we want the only AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Influence of Science Fiction on Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Use as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fast Life of a Hot Atom as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Protopia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quiet, My Exoself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Are LLMs Smart? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Emergent Self Loop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speculations on the Future of the Scientific Method as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Uncertain Uncertainties as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Big Here Quiz as a story · 2 points
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