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Rational Dino
Personal blog · rationaldino.substack.com · on HN as RationalDinophilosophywriting
Rational Dino's personal blog at rationaldino.substack.com covers philosophy and writing. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
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This relates to one of the topics I want to get to on https://rationaldino.substack.com/ but which will take a while. There is a very simple litmus test to tell which are likely to fade, versus which aren't. How certain are they? https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Political-Judgment-Good-Know/d... reports on a long-term study about pundits. Basically they can be divided into two groups: 1. Hedgehogs. Have one overarching…
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on “The Death of a Public Intellectual”Submitted Use Simple Language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMental health for me as well. That's the point of https://rationaldino.substack.com/ and this pseudonymous account. Separately I have other children who were impacted by COVID and lockdowns and are part of https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-g... . That's also been hard. All of this is made more complicated by the fact that I regard psychology as having a lot of pseudoscience in it. Feynman wa…
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on “Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment”Submitted Too Important to Be Able to Think as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI agree with the thesis of this post. A blog does work as a search query to find people. But some queries are easier to write than others. For example this blogger hit a key niche with discussing Ivan Illich and systems thinking. Both "Ivan Illich" and "Systems Thinking" are pretty good search terms on their own. Someone who sees those knows pretty fast if they are interesting topics. If the content is good, you're…
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on “A blog post is a long and complex search query to find people”Submitted Graduating Down a Rabbit Hole as a story · 1 points
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