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Lydia Laurenson
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Lydia Laurenson writes Solar Light, a personal blog at lydialaurenson.substack.com about culture and philosophy. Since 2026, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0”. 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
Lydia Laurenson's Substack posts on her falling-out with the rationalist community, the inside story of Leverage Research, and the time she joined a peace-related organisation. Commenters cite them as sources.
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.
a newsletter by Lydia Laurenson.
Most-linked posts?
- The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.04 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-07-02
What Hacker News says?
It's not just that they aren't free of bias. They appear to incubate truly wacky stuff - Leverage Research [1], the Zizians, all the AI/x-risk stuff. I am not the only person to have noticed this [2]. There's something about their approach that appears to actually make people more susceptible to nonsense, not less. [1] https://lydialaurenson.substack.com/p/the-inside-story-of-le... [2] https://asteriskmag.com/issues…
Comment linking /p/the-inside-story-of-leverage-research
on “My falling-out with the rationalist community”Submitted What It's Like to Suddenly Start Completely Believing in God [2022] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAfter reading this https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/breakdown-in-pakistan and this https://lydialaurenson.substack.com/p/the-time-i-joined-peac... I do wonder whether much of USAID and similar programs are an instance of a road to hell paved with good intentions . If professional NGOs hollow out existing local organizations and destroy local ability to organize on the cheap, they may be basically condemning entire c…
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on “SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]”Submitted The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leverage Research 1.0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leverage Research 1.0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RIP Jim Rutt (1953-2026), and Thoughts on Philanthropy and Culture-Building as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
