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Ian Fisher
Personal blog · outsiderart.substack.comhistoryaiwriting
Ian Fisher writes Outsider Art, a personal blog at outsiderart.substack.com about history, ai and writing. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for posts on forgotten AI history, such as a piece on Cyc. One commenter links it as context for explaining what the EURISKO system does.
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Deep dives on linguistics, literature, and technology. Launched 3 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-17
What Hacker News says?
This post also explains what EURISKO does by putting it into the context of the later system Doug Lenat worked on, Cyc https://outsiderart.substack.com/p/cyc-historys-forgotten-ai...
Comment linking /p/cyc-historys-forgotten-ai-project
on “EURISKO Lives”Submitted Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project as a story · 287 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven Hacker News Poems as a story · 3 points
HN discussion