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The Strong Paw of Reason
Personal blog · bearistotle.substack.comphilosophypolitics
The Strong Paw of Reason is a personal blog at bearistotle.substack.com about philosophy and politics. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Rich Fool and the Race Scientist”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links this Substack's long post arguing that free speech is best understood as a set of material conditions rather than an abstract idea. Comments do not judge its quality.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Rich Fool and the Race Scientist2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-16
What Hacker News says?
I'm not sure what to make of this yet, but yeah, solein is by solar foods which George Monbiot wrote about in 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-gr... . The questions for me are what the input costs really are (from energy material sourcing all the way to distribution). I've seen a bunch of critiques of cellular ag from the 'regenerative' spaces (which make good arguments around monocrop…
Comment linking /p/labriculture-now-4f1
on “Solein – Protein out of thin air”Submitted Free speech as a set of material conditions worth fighting for (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"Free speech as an idea is of limited value. Free speech as a set of material conditions from which we speak is worth fighting for." Explored at incredible length here: https://bearistotle.substack.com/p/bearistotle-solves-free-s...
Comment linking /p/bearistotle-solves-free-speech
on “Weapons firms influence the Ukraine debate”Submitted The Rich Fool and the Race Scientist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rich Fool and the Race Scientist as a story · 1 points
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