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Stephen Hicks
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Stephen Hicks's personal blog at stephenhicks.org covers philosophy, politics and history. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Stephen Hicks's site for a hosted Heidegger PDF, "What is Metaphysics", and discuss philosophical references in a linked PDF. The comments do not evaluate the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /wp-content/uploads/2013/03/heideggerm-what-is-metaphysics.pdf2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-10
What Hacker News says?
> It conveys that the users are rich, yes. What about it makes them lazy or douchebags? Envy, class warfare, and socialist propaganda. http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hicks...
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on “Magic+”Submitted Civilization and Its Discontents [pdf] as a story · 8 points
HN discussionStephen Hicks produced a flowchart that helpfully explains the recent fixation on inequality: http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hicks...
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on “Shut Up, Paul Graham: The Simplified Version”Submitted The evolution of socialist strategies as a story · 3 points
HN discussion... while at the same time tapping into vast new resources, and making great strides to end poverty and disease, while sending life expectancy and living conditions soaring in most of the world. World population is trending towards stable, and population growth in developed countries is trending downwards. tl;dr: Malthus was wrong. Slightly more detailed explanation of the cultural phenomenon behind the assumption y…
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on “US homes have gotten huge – offsetting the gains from energy efficiency”Submitted Best Insults in History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMarx is relevant? Socialist intellectuals have been moving the goalposts for decades, after failure upon failure to achieve their stated goals. http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hicks... To put it bluntly, Marxism has failed dismally in every place and at every time it's been tried.
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on “50th Anniversary of May 1968, Paris: Memories of an Illusory Revolution”Submitted Explaining postmodernism [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI was trying to see if there were any references to major works on discomfort from a philosophical perspective that I was familiar with, but I couldn't find any. I think its constitutive: here we have a field of thought that has spent the last however many years attempting to understand the mind in a sort of isolated, atomized way, now having to grapple with the social reality of thinking, and having little to no re…
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on “Creeped Out [pdf]”"Next level trolling" XD I wish that had been intentional. Thanks. Here's Heidegger's "What is Metaphysics" partake if you dare. https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/heid...
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on “Emergent Gravity from Randomness”This is a particularly handy flowchart: http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hicks... Why did socialists of old invoke poverty as the reason for their policies, and modern socialists invoke inequality? Because capitalism is in the process of fixing poverty, and you don't gain power over people by promising to fix a problem that's a) fixable, and b) largely already fixed.
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on “The evolution of socialist strategies”
