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Philosophy bear
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Philosophy bear is a personal blog at philosophybear.substack.com about philosophy and ai. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments share this Substack's essays as links or quotes, on AI and Sam Altman, science fiction predictions, self-driving taxi incidents and politics. None judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Formerly de Pony Sum. A blog for philosophy, politics, political economy, psychology & more.
What Hacker News says?
I don't have much experience with the MAGA folks. I know far fewer of them than the wokes. In my experience they are more likely to live and let live, at least outside of their incessant facebook posts, but that could just be my bubble. Since antiracism has essentially become a religion, I won't bother trying to persuade anyone who is obviously a true believer. You mostly can't convince someone out of their religion…
Comment linking /p/woke-vs-anti-woke-asexual-bisexual
on “An open letter to Jason and David”Submitted Language models are nearly AGIs but we don't notice as a story · 26 points
HN discussion"The only thing stupider than thinking something will happen because it is depicted in science fiction is thinking something will not happen because it is depicted in science fiction." https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/position-statement-on-...
Comment linking /p/position-statement-on-ai-and-leftwing
on “The Contradictions of Sam Altman”Submitted Update on Russian equipment losses: Oryx numbers as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWe are that far gone. https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/a-short-comment-on-sel...
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on “S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’”Submitted GPT-3 is already more than capable of enabling student plagiarism as a story · 7 points
HN discussion"The only thing stupider than thinking something will happen because it is depicted in science fiction is thinking something will not happen because it is depicted in science fiction." https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/position-statement-on-...
Comment linking /p/position-statement-on-ai-and-leftwing
on “Researchers and executives call for ‘pause’ on advanced AI systems”Submitted Lie Detection and Language Models as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does AI moderate political extremes? I'm not convinced as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to change the world a lot with a little: Government Watch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rationalism and Social Rationalism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My big bet on the future of AI: Verbal parity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I've Solved Content Discovery Conditions May Apply as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A proposal for an experiment on Scott Alexander's book review contest as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Prison and Crime: Much More Than You Wanted to Know": My Thoughts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rich and dynamic tapestry of AI plagiarism or: You're not an AI detector as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Challenge for AI Sceptics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fear as an evolutionary process within an individual as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted That some emotions are wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The tragedy of the artistic intellect and artificial intellect as a story · 1 points
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