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Paul Bloom
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Paul Bloom writes Small Potatoes, a personal blog at smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net about philosophy and science. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Progressives should worry more about their favorite scientific findings”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A bare link to the post "Psychology is OK" in a thread on whether research into dishonesty was itself a lie. The post appears to defend psychology as a field. No commenter discusses its 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.
Psychology, philosophy, jokes, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- Progressives should worry more about their favorite scientific findings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-22
What Hacker News says?
https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/psychology-is-ok
Comment linking /p/psychology-is-ok
on “They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?”Submitted Kids These Days as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressives should worry more about their favorite scientific findings as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody finishes reading my books as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assistant to the Regional Manager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressives should worry more about their favorite scientific findings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Right Back as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Worst of the Deadly Sins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Productivity Tips for the Restless as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
