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Rebecca Powell
Personal blog · rebecca-powell.com/postsaieconomics
Rebecca Powell writes Site, a personal blog at rebecca-powell.com about ai and economics. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Universe as a Test Harness: Meat AI and God's Admin Panel”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter linked a post on a meat-AI universe test harness, tied to Leary's work, in a thread about William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace. No comment judges the writing.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Universe as a Test Harness: Meat AI and God's Admin Panel2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-18
- Return on Intelligence, Part 1: Echoes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-17
What Hacker News says?
Funny that you mention this. I wrote something recently related to Leary’s work recently: https://rebecca-powell.com/posts/meat-ai-universe-test-harne...
Comment linking /posts/meat-ai-universe-test-harness/
on “William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace”Submitted The Universe as a Test Harness: Meat AI and God's Admin Panel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Universe as a Test Harness: Meat AI and God's Admin Panel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Return on Intelligence, Part 1: Echoes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Return on Intelligence, Part 1: Echoes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT as the AOL of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Return on Intelligence: The Preface to an Eight-Part Series on the AI Bubble as a story · 1 points
HN discussion