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Santi Tafarella
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Santi Tafarella writes Prometheus Unbound, a personal blog at santitafarella.wordpress.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers physicist Lee Smolin's argument in Time Reborn that conservation and symmetry laws may only be approximations. HN readers cite it in discussions of the EmDrive.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Santi Tafarella's blog on books, culture, and politics
What Hacker News says?
Actually, there is still the possibility that conservation/symmetry is also just an approximation of the actual fundamental laws. Lee Smolin argues that way in his book Time Reborn: https://santitafarella.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/lee-smolins-...
Comment linking /2013/06/04/lee-smolins-time-reborn-physics-evolution-atheism-and-buddhism/
on “The 'impossible' EmDrive could reach Pluto in 18 months?”Submitted Is Mind a Fluke of Nature? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted God is Coke? Is the American Model of God Marketing Spreading Globally? as a story · 1 points
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