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Matthew Eric Bassett
Personal blog · mebassett.info · on HN as mebassettpoliticseconomicsphilosophy
Matthew Eric Bassett's personal blog at mebassett.info covers politics, economics and philosophy. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Why is AI so useless for business?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Why is AI so useless for business?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-26
What Hacker News says?
Location: London Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: People, Processes, Product, Data. Also skilled with Haskell, node, postgresql, python, tensorflow, aws, gcp. Résumé/CV: https://mebassett.info/cv.pdf email: see profile. Startup cofounder/CTO. I can help with: - building an mvp - finding product/market fit - building a team - minimizing bugs and improving shipping times by improving engineering and p…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020)”Submitted Why is AI so useless for business? as a story · 384 points
HN discussionOP is correct, actually. I am not sure how you define or measure "standard of living" but common measurements include human development index [1] and quality of life index [2]. by both measurements the US lags behind many european countries. life expectancy in the US has been declining [3]. and the corruption in US healthcare is massive [4], especially considering that it can be three times more expensive for worse…
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on “The Collapse of American Identity”Submitted Human attention has become a commodity as a story · 221 points
HN discussionhttps://mebassett.info/essays - whatever idea I have that I think is worth exploring in a rambling essay.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Empathy and Failures of Democracies as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted Brexit needs a consitutional convention as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pandemics, Politics, and Beliefs as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse Job Application for University Grad as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Late Stage Social Capitalism as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is AI so useless for business? (2020) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is Useful for Capitalists but Probably Terrible for Anyone Else as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ukraine and the Sorry State of Non-Proliferation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What cryptocurrency and Modern Monetary Theory get wrong about money as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Future of Copyright and Competition Law in Media as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Local-Global Principle of Lovingkindness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tolkien and Politics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Healthcare's Distortion of the US Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative AI Turns Ordinary Computers into Weapons of Mass Copyright Violation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dark Parallels for the American Liturgy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimization runs the universe and our lives as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chasing Glory as a story · 1 points
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