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David Chapman
Personal blog · meaningness.substack.comphilosophyai
David Chapman writes Meaningness, a personal blog at meaningness.substack.com about philosophy and ai. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link David Chapman's philosophy posts, 'Undoing Philosophy' and 'Philosophy doesn't Work', and one mentions his board game industry piece. The comments do not comment on the writing's quality.
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Essays on meaning, technical work, Vajrayana Buddhism, and self in society.
What Hacker News says?
Penny Arcade posted about their business person negotiating nuclear disarmament in class. Kiko's strategy was to show them a fake, "See I disarmed," while holding onto the real one. And people fell for that, and he won. So we reward that thinking in reality, of awareness of things, and how to get the goal, and while our board games have complex mechanics and people who live and breathe gameplay and testing, the minu…
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on “The Board Game Industry Is Burning – and It's Their Own Fault”Submitted Meaning After an AI Eucatastrophe as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWish we could get some compare & contrast between this and these: Undoing Philosophy - https://meaningness.substack.com/p/undoing-philosophy Philosophy doesn't Work - https://meaningness.substack.com/p/philosophy-doesnt-work
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on “Yes, We Have Noticed the Skulls (2017)”Submitted Making Meta-Rationality Available as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultraspeaking as a story · 2 points
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