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Nathan Witkin
Personal blog · arachnemag.substack.comaicultureeconomics
Nathan Witkin writes Arachne, a personal blog at arachnemag.substack.com about ai, culture and economics. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The case against social media is stronger than you think”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nathan Witkin's posts for evaluating AI research, including METR's work. One commenter said the post on the METR graph was super valuable for that purpose.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Social theory for empiricists.
Most-linked posts?
- The case against social media is stronger than you think2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-08
- Against the 'METR Graph'2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-09
What Hacker News says?
I read this today and found it super valuable in evaluating METRs research. https://arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-metr-graph-is-hot-garb...
Comment linking /p/the-metr-graph-is-hot-garbage
on “Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration”Submitted The case against social media is stronger than you think as a story · 348 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Jevons Paradox for Intelligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI's Reliability Gap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against the 'METR Graph' as a story · 1 points
HN discussion