Top Hackernews posts from scottaaronson.blog

1. The Demise of Scientific American (scottaaronson.blog)
   563 points by KKKKkkkk1 over 4 years | 413 comments
2. An update on the campaign to defend serious math education in California (scottaaronson.blog)
   450 points by Tomte over 4 years | 619 comments
3. Book Review: “Viral” by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley (scottaaronson.blog)
   360 points by feross over 4 years | 238 comments
4. Shor, I’ll do it (2007) (scottaaronson.blog)
   308 points by monort about 4 years | 48 comments
5. AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English (scottaaronson.blog)
   297 points by Tomte over 4 years | 254 comments
6. An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter (scottaaronson.blog)
   292 points by feross almost 5 years | 484 comments
7. Publicity Stunt Fallout (scottaaronson.blog)
   286 points by jjgreen almost 4 years | 193 comments
8. If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason (scottaaronson.blog)
   229 points by nsoonhui over 3 years | 462 comments
9. Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring (scottaaronson.blog)
   229 points by FartyMcFarter over 3 years | 60 comments
10. OpenAI (scottaaronson.blog)
    209 points by 2mol about 4 years | 152 comments
11. GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam (scottaaronson.blog)
    201 points by amichail over 3 years | 251 comments
12. Why Quantum Mechanics? (scottaaronson.blog)
    183 points by alberto_ol over 4 years | 241 comments
13. I had a dream (scottaaronson.blog)
    166 points by gone35 about 4 years | 30 comments
14. The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016) (scottaaronson.blog)
    156 points by wglb almost 5 years | 27 comments
15. The False Promise of Chomskyism (scottaaronson.blog)
    138 points by nikbackm over 3 years | 213 comments
16. Einstein-Bohr debate settled once and for all (scottaaronson.blog)
    138 points by nsoonhui about 4 years | 102 comments
17. Busy Beaver Updates: Now Even Busier (scottaaronson.blog)
    135 points by nsoonhui about 4 years | 52 comments
18. The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016) (scottaaronson.blog)
    114 points by jkubicek almost 3 years | 97 comments
19. My values, howled into the wind (scottaaronson.blog)
    108 points by ggoo over 4 years | 197 comments
20. The Zen anti-interpretation of quantum mechanics (2021) (scottaaronson.blog)
    97 points by Tomte over 3 years | 167 comments
21. Should GPT Exist? (scottaaronson.blog)
    96 points by richardfeynman over 3 years | 110 comments
22. Umeshisms (scottaaronson.blog)
    93 points by duck over 4 years | 93 comments
23. On whether we're living in a simulation (scottaaronson.blog)
    79 points by FergusArgyll over 2 years | 201 comments
24. Sam Bankman-Fried and the geometry of conscience (scottaaronson.blog)
    74 points by Tomte almost 4 years | 107 comments
25. Rosser's Theorem via Turing Machines (2011) (scottaaronson.blog)
    67 points by dargscisyhp about 2 years | 9 comments
26. Explanation-Gödel and Plausibility-Gödel (scottaaronson.blog)
    64 points by furcyd almost 4 years | 20 comments
27. On being wrong about AI (scottaaronson.blog)
    63 points by nsoonhui almost 3 years | 73 comments
28. Statement of Jewish scientists opposing the “judicial reform” in Israel (scottaaronson.blog)
    62 points by nsoonhui over 3 years | 43 comments
29. Book Review: “Quantum Supremacy” by Michio Kaku (Tl;Dr Do Not Buy) (scottaaronson.blog)
    60 points by nsoonhui over 3 years | 15 comments
30. Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer? (scottaaronson.blog)
    59 points by nsoonhui over 2 years | 108 comments
31. Why am I not terrified of AI? (scottaaronson.blog)
    58 points by nikbackm over 3 years | 49 comments
32. Why are amplitudes complex numbers? (2018) (scottaaronson.blog)
    57 points by furcyd over 2 years | 34 comments
33. Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said (scottaaronson.blog)
    53 points by feross almost 5 years | 16 comments