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SE Gyges
Personal blog · verysane.aiaiphilosophy
SE Gyges writes Very Sane AI Newsletter, a personal blog at verysane.ai about ai and philosophy. Since 2025, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “AGI: Probably Not 2027”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link verysane.ai (SE Gyges) for essays on AI hype, AGI timelines, anthropomorphizing LLMs, and the Luddites. Commenters cite these posts as related reading in discussions of AI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ideas in AI, preferably in English. Mostly what and why, a little how.
Most-linked posts?
- AGI: Probably Not 20274 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-08-12
- Do we understand how neural networks work?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-13
- METR is not a meaningful check on Anthropic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-16
- Polly Wants a Better Argument2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-17
What Hacker News says?
I feel this article should be paired with this other one [1] that was on the frontpage a few days ago. My impression is, there is currently one tendency to "over-anthropomorphize" LLMs and treat them like conscious or even superhuman entities (encouraged by AI tech leaders and AGI/Singularity folks) and another to oversimplify them and view them as literal Markov chains that just got lots of training data. Maybe tho…
Comment linking /p/do-we-understand-how-neural-networks
on “The Timmy Trap”Submitted AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley as a story · 121 points
HN discussionWe're probably not going to see human corgi-making AIs in 2027. https://www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probably-not-2027 It may be a gripping narrative, but that doesn't make it realistic.
Comment linking /p/agi-probably-not-2027
on “The Future Worth Building Is Human – Thinking Machines Lab”Submitted Did Anthropic ask for this? as a story · 49 points
HN discussionThe Luddites-as-labour-movement view is not entirely wrong, but also misses a lot. They were also an elite group that fought to preserve their own status and the exclusion of women from the industry. I thought this was a pretty good post about it: https://www.verysane.ai/p/against-the-luddites
Comment linking /p/against-the-luddites
on “The Eternal Sloptember”Submitted Do we understand how neural networks work? as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult in Berkeley, California as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted AGI: Probably Not 2027 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Biggest Statistic About AI Water Use Is a Lie as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted METR is not a meaningful check on Anthropic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AGI: Probably Not 2027 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AGI: Probably Not 2027 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is AI? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is METR a Meaningful Check on Anthropic? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Stochastic Parrot Argument Considered Harmful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polly Wants a Better Argument as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Chinese Room as a story · 1 points
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