Hacker News: stafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stafford_beerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:12:51 +0000<![CDATA[Peer Review 2027]]>Article URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/594zj_v1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808209

Points: 1

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]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:30:11 +0000https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/594zj_v1stafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808209https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808209<![CDATA["The Algorithm" Does Not Exist]]>Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/the-algorithm-social-media-facebook-technology-the-apparatus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43408397

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]]>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:02:43 +0000https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/the-algorithm-social-media-facebook-technology-the-apparatus/stafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43408397https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43408397<![CDATA[New comment by stafford_beer in "In the belly of the MrBeast"]]>haha I'm not saying that MrBeast couldn't have sex if he wanted to -- I'm saying that, because he's constructed himself to only care about maximizing audience metrics, having sex would be a waste of his time

]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:18:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707927stafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707927https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707927<![CDATA[New comment by stafford_beer in "In the belly of the MrBeast"]]>thank you!

]]>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:14:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707901stafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707901https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42707901<![CDATA[New comment by stafford_beer in "In the belly of the MrBeast"]]>totally agree--and I think this is key to Trump's success as well, that he used audience feedback on Twitter to figure out that there was unmet demand for harsh anti-immigration policy and then win the 2016 primary

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:11:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700249stafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700249https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700249<![CDATA[New comment by stafford_beer in "In the belly of the MrBeast"]]>OP here -- I like Baudrillard and McLuhan but the media theorist who best captures the present IMO is Flusser: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-discourse-is-the-cybe...

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:05:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700127stafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700127https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700127<![CDATA[New comment by stafford_beer in "In the belly of the MrBeast"]]>OP here -- excellent suggestion, I've been heavily influenced by this book and would also recommend Postman's "Technopoly"

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:03:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700096stafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700096https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700096<![CDATA[In the belly of the MrBeast]]>Article URL: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/in-the-belly-of-the-mrbeast

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696691

Points: 511

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]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:05:31 +0000https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/in-the-belly-of-the-mrbeaststafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696691https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696691<![CDATA[New comment by stafford_beer in "The Tragedy of Stafford Beer (2023)"]]>I agree, this guy gets it

]]>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:12:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319539stafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319539https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319539<![CDATA[Scientists should not use LLMs to torture simulated agents]]>Article URL: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-strongly-feel-that-this-is-an-insult

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34522047

Points: 3

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]]>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:18:41 +0000https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-strongly-feel-that-this-is-an-insultstafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34522047https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34522047<![CDATA[Sympathy for the Wordcel]]>Article URL: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/sympathy-for-the-wordcel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30211039

Points: 1

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]]>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:38:37 +0000https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/sympathy-for-the-wordcelstafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30211039https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30211039<![CDATA[Why TikTok Is Incompatible with Human Dignity]]>Article URL: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/its-about-time

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929910

Points: 1

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]]>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:36:49 +0000https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/its-about-timestafford_beerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929910https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929910