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Nick Clegg

Personal blog · nickclegg.medium.compoliticsaiculture

Nick Clegg's personal blog at nickclegg.medium.com covers politics, ai and culture. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts are Nick Clegg's Medium essays on the metaverse. The one comment criticises his lobbying for VR headsets in schools, which is the topic rather than the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. Nick Clegg (public affairs guy at FB) is currently lobbying to get VR headsets on schoolchildren. I can't think of anything I want less than my kids wearing those things while in class all day. https://nickclegg.medium.com/how-the-metaverse-can-transform...

    Comment linking /how-the-metaverse-can-transform-education-20ed9d355b5f

    on “Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses”
  2. Submitted Nick Clegg's attempted defence of social media as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Data: What It Isn't, and How Misunderstanding It Is Fracturing the Internet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Making the metaverse: What it is, how it will be built, and why it matters as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted You and the Algorithm as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted You and the Facebook Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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