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Paul Cockshott
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Paul Cockshott's personal blog at paulcockshott.wordpress.com covers economics and politics. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Paul Cockshott's blog for a post on lambda calculus and booleans, and for his part in a debate on Soviet optimisation, with a reply paper on hypercomputation also cited.
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What Hacker News says?
Thank you for the pointer to this. Searching for the paper led me to a few things. If anyone would like to read the paper mentioned in OP's post, you can find it here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243784599_The_Myth_... This is a response to "The Myth of Hypercomputation" (entitled "The Myth of 'The Myth of Hypercomputation'"): http://kryten.mm.rpi.edu/PRES/TURKUHYPER/NSG_SB_MoMoH_presen... This is an in…
Comment linking /2018/02/13/no-mysteries-davis-and-the-myth-of-hypercomputation/
on “All you need is λ, part one: booleans”Submitted Why the Lambda Calculus is not equivalent to the Universal Computer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor those more interested in this, there's a follow-up to comments, which results in this (still on-going?) exchange: - The original article (linked by OP): http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza... - A comment made by Paul Cockshott (a Marxist economist and computer scientist, most known for "Towards New Socialism" book): http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza... - Shaliz…
Comment linking /2018/06/25/plan-balancing-algorithms-reply-to-some-criticisms/
on “In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (2012)”