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The Multidisciplinarian

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The Multidisciplinarian is a personal blog at themultidisciplinarian.com about science and philosophy. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.

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2016–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for a Feynman clip on explaining the 'why' behind a phenomenon rather than only describing 'what' happens, cited in a discussion of the simulation argument and compared to Hume.

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.

I don't have pronouns, I have verbs.

What Hacker News says?

  1. EGreg · 2021-04-04
    That’s not what Feynman is saying. He was against cargo-cult science based on end-results and appearances only. What he is referring to here is what he goes into at length about the “deep meaning” behind “why” something is happening, rather than just describing “what” is happening. Here is a full clip: https://themultidisciplinarian.com/2016/07/21/feynman-as-phi... It’s similar to what David Hume, the great skeptici…

    Comment linking /2016/07/21/feynman-as-philosopher/

    on “A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument”
  2. Amorymeltzer · 2021-04-22

    Submitted Smart Folk Often Full of Crap, Study Finds as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  3. Amorymeltzer · 2016-05-06

    Submitted Multidisciplinary as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  4. another · 2016-01-23

    Submitted My Trouble with Bayes as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  5. another · 2016-07-24

    Submitted Love Me I’m an Agile Scrum Master as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  6. ilt · 2025-07-22

    Submitted All but the Clergy Believe as a story · 3 points

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  7. Amorymeltzer · 2016-04-11

    Submitted Leaders and Managers in Startups as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Amorymeltzer · 2016-02-16

    Submitted Can Science Survive? as a story · 3 points

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  9. another · 2016-09-04

    Submitted Was Thomas Kuhn Right about Anything? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. another · 2020-02-02

    Submitted The Trouble with Probability as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. wyclif · 2016-08-09

    Submitted The Myth of Scientific Method as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. another · 2016-07-17

    Submitted Quantified Risk and the Dearth of Dinosaurs on Jupiter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Amorymeltzer · 2016-02-01

    Submitted The Trouble with Strings as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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