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Index of / is a personal blog at programmablemutter.com about ai, economics and politics. Since 2023, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “What OpenAI Shares with Scientology”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- What OpenAI Shares with Scientology3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-21
- The Village and the Sewer – Behind the "Blueskyism" Debate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-24
- Why did Silicon Valley turn right?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-04
- Shoggoths Amongst Us2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-29
- The Map Is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-12
What Hacker News says?
'Every time an international relations professor wishes that their work was ‘policy relevant,’ another stubby, desiccated digit uncurls on the monkey’s paw.' from https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/my-time-in-the-torment-...
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on “How the weak win wars: A theory of asymmetric conflict [pdf] (2001)”Submitted Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy as a story · 176 points
HN discussionWell, that only shows that those 95% of folks are truly either religious fanatics or are just in it all for money [1]. No fucks given about moral principles. (although there's or course a third possibility of them just being bright but too naive to STILL not see the sham that Sam has played for years and manipulated them into believing it) [1] https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/look-at-scientology-to-...
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on “OpenAI Message to Board”Submitted LLMs show cultural theory was right about the death of the author as a story · 20 points
HN discussion> You have to go read it yourself afterwards ^ this is important. Otherwise you may very well be missing anything really surprising or novel. See for example https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/after-software-eats-the... , an experience report of NotebookLM where > It was remarkable to see how many errors could be stuffed into 5 minutes of vacuous conversation. What was even more striking was that the errors system…
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on “OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform”Submitted The Map Is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI as a story · 12 points
HN discussionOriginal author here - this is a sister essay to an earlier Economist piece on LLMs co-authored with Cosma Shalizi, and there is a non-paywalled extended remix here - https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/shoggoths-amongst-us . Anything intelligent should be attributed to Cosma.
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on “The Singularity Is Nigh!”Submitted How the Feds bounced Binance: Crypto isn't "incentive compatible" as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pundit's Trilemma – Authoritative, general, prolific: pick any two as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Village and the Sewer – Behind the "Blueskyism" Debate as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silicon Valley is an aristocratic culture as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weaponizing Financial Payments as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What OpenAI Shares with Scientology as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Aaron Swartz production function as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted When tech CEOs are like grumpy ducklings as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why did Silicon Valley turn right? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Small yard, high fence: these four words conceal a mess as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine god metaphors eat your brain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Downside of Robot Solutionism as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted John Crowley Has Died as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blitzscaling for Tyrants as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs Will Transform the World – But Quietly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted After software eats the world, what comes out the other end? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What OpenAI Shares with Scientology as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic AI is myth set in motion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What AI debates have to do with alchemy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Future Is Being Devoured by Feral Thought Experiments as a story · 2 points
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