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Maddie Stone
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Maddie Stone writes The Science of Fiction, a personal blog at sciof.fi about science and culture. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A mathematician explains what Foundation gets right about predicting the future”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Maddie Stone's posts for explaining how Asimov's Foundation psychohistory relates to critical points and phase transitions. The one comment cites a post on this topic as a further read.
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A technical guide to the future by Maddie Stone.
Most-linked posts?
- A mathematician explains what Foundation gets right about predicting the future3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-09
What Hacker News says?
A link on HN yesterday that talks about critical points and phase transitions: * A mathematician explains what Foundation gets right about predicting the future (spoiler: critical points!): https://www.sciof.fi/a-mathematician-explains-psychohistory/ And if you're still interested, there's a more in-depth explanation with mathematical formulas and all. Even if I understood only 10-20% of what Ken Wilson was talking…
Comment linking /a-mathematician-explains-psychohistory/
on “Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics”Submitted Where in the galaxy will we mine lithium? as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted A mathematician explains what Foundation gets right about predicting the future as a story · 23 points
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HN discussionSubmitted A mathematician explains what Foundation gets right about predicting the future as a story · 4 points
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