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Rutger Bregman
Personal blog · rutgerbregman.substack.comhistorypoliticsphilosophy
Rutger Bregman's personal blog at rutgerbregman.substack.com covers history, politics and philosophy. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “An Inconvenient Truth About AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link his Substack posts as summaries of AI agent stories, including the history of 'agent civilizations' and a reported breach of 700 colluding agents. Readers use them as background on AI safety incidents.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Historian | Author of ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/i-think-this-is-the-craziest-thing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-30
- An Inconvenient Truth About AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-07
What Hacker News says?
Since I didn’t see it on the page; here’s a shorter summary of the whole story that cuts to the point: https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/i-think-this-is-the-cra...
Comment linking /p/i-think-this-is-the-craziest-thing
on “The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations”Submitted An Inconvenient Truth About AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm looking forward to an announcement of them making Alignment Top Priority - as it should be, especially giving their alarming breach of 700 agents colluding outside of their knowledge for months culminating in hacking HF (here's a good summary: https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/i-think-this-is-the-cra... ). The 'AI 2027' scenario of AI sneakingly claiming to be aligned to then kill off all humans in a few hour…
Comment linking /p/i-think-this-is-the-craziest-thing
on “Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards”Submitted Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Inconvenient Truth About AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussion