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samim
Personal blog · samim.io/pphilosophycultureai
samim is a personal blog at samim.io about philosophy, culture and ai. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover AI-designed chips, an antenna image, and an updated version of an old IBM slide about computers and accountability. HN readers link them for that slide update.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
NFT's are Bullshit: https://samim.io/p/2021-03-05-non-fungible-tokens-nft-are-bu... In Summary: 1. The NFT doubles down on the worst of copyright, the property metaphor, & tries to impose old ideas of scarcity & exclusion on the digital realm, where both are obsolete. 2.NFTs are an absolute ecological disaster
Comment linking /p/2021-03-05-non-fungible-tokens-nft-are-bullshit/
on “NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap”Submitted Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change – By Neil Postman, 1998 as a story · 45 points
HN discussionHere's the link to that antenna: https://samim.io/static/upload/Screen_Shot_2018-03-15_at_09....
Comment linking /static/upload/Screen_Shot_2018-03-15_at_09.05.24.jpg
on “AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'”Submitted No Escape from Our Techno-Feudal World – By Pepe Escobar as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLately loving this update of the old IBM slide [1]: A computer can never FIND OUT, so a computer must never FUCK AROUND. https://samim.io/p/2022-01-24-a-computer-can-never-be-held-a...
Comment linking /p/2022-01-24-a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable-an-ibm-slid/
on “Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know”Submitted Thoughts on the generative AI creative economy: there will be blood as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote login is a lot like astral projection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Photo of the first computer bug: A Moth (1947) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Object Process Methodology (OPM) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Network Theory of Power – by Manuel Castells as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Synthetic Telepathy: The Microwave Auditory Effect as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World – By Herbert Simon (1969) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tobler's First Law of Geography as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Network-Centric Warfare Domains: Information/Cognitive/Social/Physical as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring Abductive Reasoning – The Logic of Maybe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unity of Knowledge and Action – The Philosophy of Wang Yangming as a story · 1 points
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