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Sol Quy
Personal blog · solquy.substack.comwritingculture
Sol Quy writes Daydreams, a personal blog at solquy.substack.com about writing and culture. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Gunslinger”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sol Quy for its monthly short stories, such as one about humans handing more decisions to AI. One commenter plugs the blog alongside other fiction recommendations.
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.
Short Stories.
Most-linked posts?
- The Gunslinger2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-12
What Hacker News says?
People have already mentioned qntm, but I’ll put another plug in for “Valuable Humans in Transit” https://qntm.org/vhitaos Sol Quy with monthly short stories: https://solquy.substack.com/p/111123-the-gunslinger Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” series is fantastic. Vernor Vinge can be a bit variable, but I would start with “A Fire Upon the Deep”
Comment linking /p/111123-the-gunslinger
on “Permutation City (1994)”Submitted A Haunting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReminds me of a short story I read in which humans outsource more and more of their decision making to AI’s, so that even if there are no AGI’s loose in the world, it’s unclear how much of the world is being run by them: https://solquy.substack.com/p/120722-nudge I also think it’s funny how people rarely bring up the Turing Test anymore. That used to be THE test that was brought up in mainstream re: AGI, and now it’…
Comment linking /p/120722-nudge
on “Sam Altman's ouster was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough”Submitted Jailbreak as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gunslinger as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Field Trip to the Island of Stability as a story · 1 points
HN discussion