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Samuel Hammond writes Second Best, a personal blog at secondbest.ca about ai, philosophy and economics. Since 2022, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Ninety-Five Theses on AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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14mentions?
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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2024

Imperfect takes with uncertain payoff. Click to read Second Best, by Samuel Hammond, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ninety-Five Theses on AI
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-07
  2. Before the Flood
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted We're all Wittgensteinians now (2023) as a story · 3 points

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  2. Submitted Ninety-Five Theses on AI as a story · 3 points

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  3. Submitted Empiricists vs. Extrapolators as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted Does History Have an "End"? as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted Ninety-Five Theses on AI as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Why AGI is closer than you think as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Before the Flood as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Hegel and the AI Mind as a story · 1 points

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  9. Submitted Ninety-five theses on AI – by Samuel Hammond as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted Ninety-Five Theses on AI as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted AI and Leviathan: Part I as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted Reserve currency status is a resource curse as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted How to Profit Off AI as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Before the flood: Ruminations on the future of AI as a story · 1 points

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