Top Hackernews posts from scottaaronson.blog

The Demise of Scientific American (scottaaronson.blog)

563 points by KKKKkkkk1 over 2 years ago | 413 comments
An update on the campaign to defend serious math education in California (scottaaronson.blog)

450 points by Tomte over 2 years ago | 619 comments
Book Review: “Viral” by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley (scottaaronson.blog)

360 points by feross over 2 years ago | 238 comments
Shor, I’ll do it (2007) (scottaaronson.blog)

308 points by monort about 2 years ago | 48 comments
AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English (scottaaronson.blog)

297 points by Tomte over 2 years ago | 254 comments
An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter (scottaaronson.blog)

292 points by feross almost 3 years ago | 484 comments
Publicity Stunt Fallout (scottaaronson.blog)

286 points by jjgreen almost 2 years ago | 193 comments
If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason (scottaaronson.blog)

229 points by nsoonhui over 1 year ago | 463 comments
Cargo Cult Quantum Factoring (scottaaronson.blog)

229 points by FartyMcFarter over 1 year ago | 60 comments
OpenAI (scottaaronson.blog)

209 points by 2mol over 2 years ago | 152 comments
GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam (scottaaronson.blog)

201 points by amichail over 1 year ago | 251 comments
Why Quantum Mechanics? (scottaaronson.blog)

183 points by alberto_ol over 2 years ago | 241 comments
I had a dream (scottaaronson.blog)

166 points by gone35 about 2 years ago | 30 comments
The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016) (scottaaronson.blog)

156 points by wglb almost 3 years ago | 27 comments
The False Promise of Chomskyism (scottaaronson.blog)

138 points by nikbackm over 1 year ago | 213 comments
Einstein-Bohr debate settled once and for all (scottaaronson.blog)

138 points by nsoonhui about 2 years ago | 102 comments
Busy Beaver Updates: Now Even Busier (scottaaronson.blog)

135 points by nsoonhui about 2 years ago | 52 comments
The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016) (scottaaronson.blog)

114 points by jkubicek 11 months ago | 97 comments
My values, howled into the wind (scottaaronson.blog)

108 points by ggoo over 2 years ago | 197 comments
The Zen anti-interpretation of quantum mechanics (2021) (scottaaronson.blog)

97 points by Tomte over 1 year ago | 167 comments
Should GPT Exist? (scottaaronson.blog)

96 points by richardfeynman over 1 year ago | 110 comments
Umeshisms (scottaaronson.blog)

93 points by duck over 2 years ago | 93 comments
On whether we're living in a simulation (scottaaronson.blog)

79 points by FergusArgyll 7 months ago | 201 comments
Sam Bankman-Fried and the geometry of conscience (scottaaronson.blog)

74 points by Tomte almost 2 years ago | 107 comments
Rosser's Theorem via Turing Machines (2011) (scottaaronson.blog)

67 points by dargscisyhp 3 months ago | 9 comments
Explanation-Gödel and Plausibility-Gödel (scottaaronson.blog)

64 points by furcyd almost 2 years ago | 20 comments
On being wrong about AI (scottaaronson.blog)

63 points by nsoonhui 9 months ago | 73 comments
Statement of Jewish scientists opposing the “judicial reform” in Israel (scottaaronson.blog)

62 points by nsoonhui over 1 year ago | 43 comments
Book Review: “Quantum Supremacy” by Michio Kaku (Tl;Dr Do Not Buy) (scottaaronson.blog)

60 points by nsoonhui over 1 year ago | 15 comments
Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer? (scottaaronson.blog)

59 points by nsoonhui 8 months ago | 108 comments
Why am I not terrified of AI? (scottaaronson.blog)

58 points by nikbackm over 1 year ago | 49 comments
Why are amplitudes complex numbers? (2018) (scottaaronson.blog)

57 points by furcyd 7 months ago | 34 comments
Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said (scottaaronson.blog)

53 points by feross almost 3 years ago | 16 comments