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Robert Paul Wolff
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Robert Paul Wolff writes The Philosopher's Stone, a personal blog at robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com about philosophy and politics. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “What is meant by a “Zero-Sum Game”?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link Robert Paul Wolff's blog as follow-up reading on the zero-sum game concept, a tribute to a philosopher, and an anecdote about Hubert Dreyfus. The comments do not assess the writing.
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A Commentary on the Passing Scene by Robert Paul Wolff rwolff@afroam.umass.edu
Most-linked posts?
- What is meant by a “Zero-Sum Game”?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-30
What Hacker News says?
See also: http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2007/04/value-of-harvard...
Comment linking /2007/04/value-of-harvard-ph-d.html
on “The PhD Octopus (1903)”Submitted What is meant by a “Zero-Sum Game”? as a story · 38 points
HN discussionUpdate: It turns out the great von Neumann came back to extend the zero-sum game to other cases https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2017/04/balm-for-soul.h...
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on “What is meant by a “Zero-Sum Game”?”Submitted Rat Race for the Top Jobs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe discussion continues here as well: https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2017/04/initial-respons...
Comment linking /2017/04/initial-response-questions-for-i-m-flaud.html
on “What is meant by a “Zero-Sum Game”?”Submitted A Meditation on Blogging as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe article was something of a tribute to the author of => https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-completion-...
Comment linking /2017/11/the-completion-of-kants-moral.html
on “Why should I care? Or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong”Robert Paul Wolff @ The Philosopher's Stone left a touching story/anecdote on his blog: https://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-sad-day.html
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on “Hubert Dreyfus, preeminent philosopher and AI critic, dies at 87”