https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1608.01987/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12391462urn:hackerpapers:mention:1608.01987:12391462Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:19:36 GMT<p>This is what I completely fail to understand about Thiel: he says stuff like that, and then goes and says that democracy was a mistake, monopolies are the proper way to do business, and we need something more like a monopolist-monarch to run the place[1]. That seems like a very selective view on modernity which tries to embrace &quot;science and technology&quot; for the profits they can bring, while deliberately discounting what the many human sciences tell us about how humans can work and work together. Can you actually believe in, say, &quot;human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1608.01987/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12311402urn:hackerpapers:submission:1608.01987:12311402Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:13:30 GMT<p>Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference</p><p></p><p>91 points; 22 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1608.01987/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CY