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Soroush Pour
Personal blog · soroushjp.com · on HN as soroushjpaiprogrammingcareer
Soroush Pour's personal blog at soroushjp.com covers ai, programming and career. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Yes, avoiding extinction from AI *is* an urgent priority”. The last post was in 2023, 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 posts explain Bitcoin multisig and pay-to-script-hash contracts. The only comment is a bare link cited as background for a Bitcoin contract product, with no judgment of the writing.
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.
When things make it from my head to the Interwebs.
Most-linked posts?
- Yes, avoiding extinction from AI *is* an urgent priority2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-01
What Hacker News says?
Pay to script hash https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Pay_to_script_hash https://www.soroushjp.com/2014/12/20/bitcoin-multisig-the-ha...
Comment linking /2014/12/20/bitcoin-multisig-the-hard-way-understanding-raw-multisignature-bitcoin-transactions/
on “Stochastic – Create and manage contracts backed by Bitcoin”Submitted Go concurrency isn't parallelism: Real world lessons with Monte Carlo sims as a story · 57 points
HN discussionThere are a lot of critiques here and elsewhere of the statement and the motivations of its signatories. I don't think they are right and I think they take away from the very serious existential risks we face. I've written up my detailed views, see specifically "Signing the statement purely for personal benefit": https://www.soroushjp.com/2023/06/01/yes-avoiding-extinction...
Comment linking /2023/06/01/yes-avoiding-extinction-from-ai-is-an-urgent-priority-a-response-to-seth-lazar-jeremy-howard-and-arvind-narayanan/
on “Statement on AI Risk”Submitted Bitcoin multisig the hard way: Understanding raw P2SH multisig transactions as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere are a lot of critiques here and elsewhere of the statement and the motivations of its signatories. I don't think they are right and I think they take away from the very serious existential risks we face. I've written up my detailed views, see specifically "Signing the statement purely for personal benefit": https://www.soroushjp.com/2023/06/01/yes-avoiding-extinction...
Comment linking /2023/06/01/yes-avoiding-extinction-from-ai-is-an-urgent-priority-a-response-to-seth-lazar-jeremy-howard-and-arvind-narayanan/
on “Statement on AI Risk”Submitted Sustainability in food production: moving beyond the pastoral ideal as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Healthy ways of dealing with persistent boredom at work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Honest summary of nutritional advice out there as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helpful Bash Scripts for Working with Byte Arrays and Hex (in Bitcoin) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beautifully Simple Benchmarking with Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Your Own Toshi API Bitcoin Node Using CoreOS + Docker + AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yes, avoiding extinction from AI *is* an urgent priority as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inspiration for you to learn a language and read a book (Factfulness) as a story · 1 points
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