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Noor Siddiqui
Personal blog · noorsiddiqui.comphilosophyculture
Noor Siddiqui's personal blog at noorsiddiqui.com covers philosophy and culture. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Inner Ring – C.S Lewis [pdf]”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link a PDF hosted on this site, a copy of C.S. Lewis's essay "The Inner Ring" about social groups of insiders and the desire to belong to them. The comment only cites it.
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.
Noor Siddiqui's Personal Site
Most-linked posts?
- The Inner Ring – C.S Lewis [pdf]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-06
What Hacker News says?
You may be able to weaken it, but you can't eliminate it due to human nature. See, for example, C.S.Lewis's essay on "the inner ring". https://noorsiddiqui.com/papers/TheInnerRing.pdf
Comment linking /papers/TheInnerRing.pdf
on “A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)”Submitted How to get to know someone (2018) as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Inner Ring – C.S Lewis [pdf] as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entropy for Kids as a story · 2 points
HN discussion