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The Grey Literature
Personal blog · blog.bgcarlisle.comhealthai
The Grey Literature is a personal blog at blog.bgcarlisle.com about health and ai. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link posts on AI, anti-fascism and technology politics, in threads about Libreboot and AI. The comments say little about the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-16
What Hacker News says?
> Yes, anti fascism is a radical position these days. Given that these groups are basically composed of communists, if not tankies, that's not surprising. Specially when some of those served as sabotours for the USSR (notorious for its respect for human dignity). > https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-... This is an incredible piece of anti-intellectualism. Its arguments aren't compelling eith…
Comment linking /2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/
on “Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support”Submitted On techbros in healthcare and medical research as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, anti fascism is a radical position these days. Already in 2022, before the rise of these LLMs, there was a book "Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence" by Dan McQuillan. And then: > The rapid development of digital technologies, including applications of artificial intelligence (AI), is having a significant impact on the social, economic, and political life. From the way individuals…
Comment linking /2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/
on “Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support”> The game has change. The ‘how’ we build it is easy. The ‘what’ we build is and always has been the hardest part of any SaaS or business. This is what the promptfondlers don't want to admit: the how has been easy for a long time. This last, I dunno, 35 years or so, Visual Basic, Delphi, whatnot, producing code has been very easy. You don't need a fundamentally fascist probabilistic nightmare to do it. The hard prob…
Comment linking /2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/
on “The Sideprocalypse”