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Sergey Alexashenko
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Sergey Alexashenko writes How the Hell, a personal blog at howthehell.substack.com about ai, politics and science. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Brain-Computer Interfaces: Emerging Technologies”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-10, 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 this Substack for posts critiquing press coverage of Slate Star Codex, including a check of whether a NYT article actually quoted SSC, and a brain-computer interface post.
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.
All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/nyt-ssc-quoting3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-13
- Brain-Computer Interfaces: Emerging Technologies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-28
- How the Hell Do You Govern in a Complex World2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-28
What Hacker News says?
> My take: it doesn't actually quote SSC, what a failure. > https://howthehell.substack.com/p/nyt-ssc-quoting Am I reading that right? It complains the article didn't actually quote SSC, then contradicts itself by listing ten actual quotes from SSC that are in the article, and then lists ten other quotes that he happens to particularly like (one of which is a dreamlike thing that appears to be from some fiction). I…
Comment linking /p/nyt-ssc-quoting
on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space”Submitted How the Hell Do You Govern in a Complex World as a story · 63 points
HN discussionMy take: it doesn't actually quote SSC, what a failure. https://howthehell.substack.com/p/nyt-ssc-quoting
Comment linking /p/nyt-ssc-quoting
on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space”Submitted How the Hell Are We OK with China? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionJournalists may not literally think they're going to write a hit piece, and they may try their best to be unbiased, but that does not make them fully unbiased, either. And it's hard to think there's not some bias going on in the "Silicon Valley's Safe Space" article. The article took 14 pages to say three things: • the NY Times wanted to reveal Scott's full name, and Scott took down SSC because of it • a lot of Sili…
Comment linking /p/nyt-ssc-quoting
on “Slate Star Clusterfuck”Submitted Building General-Purpose Robots as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHow about injectable nanotransducers in humans? https://howthehell.substack.com/p/bci-part-2 Ctrl+f Brainstorms
Comment linking /p/bci-part-2
on “Wireless activation of targeted brain circuits in less than one second”Submitted Brain-Computer Interfaces: Emerging Technologies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Hell Do You Govern in a Complex World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Hell Do We Keep Losing Psychic Wars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Hell Do We Deal with the Virus Mutating? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
