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stunlaw
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stunlaw is a personal blog at stunlaw.blogspot.com about culture, philosophy and ai. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this blog's essays on media theory and technology, such as Nietzsche's typewriter and the concept of involution applied to software development, as sources for their points.
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.
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
What Hacker News says?
In western thought, this is mostly related to the concept of involution. The most famous study is on Javanese farming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Involution In terms of software development, here's a blogpost from 2025, by a professor at Sussex Uni: https://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/07/involution-and-artifici... There are also some studies in China on the concept but I'm less familiar with that liter…
Comment linking /2025/07/involution-and-artificial-intelligence.html
on “Neijuan”- Mz · 2014-07-30
Submitted Iteracy: Reading, Writing and Running Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussion Most likely, yes. In a previous century: https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/07/26/nietzsche... Nietzsche’s Transformative Typewriter and http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-author-signal-nietzs... The Author Signal: Nietzsche’s Typewriter and Medium Theory. But then: > The case of Henry James’s move from handwriting (typewriting) to dictation in the middle of What Maisie Knew has been studied by Hoover…
Comment linking /2012/12/the-author-signal-nietzsches-typewriter.html
on “Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write?”