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Kevin Kelly
kevinkelly.substack.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2025
Kevin Kelly, a Wired co-founder, writes about technology, the future, AI, travel, and life advice.
What HN saysHN commenters link his "Better Than Free" essay as an answer to easy copying of ideas, and one pushes back on his singularity views.
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olek1983 · 2026-08-10
Almost every idea is copyable. Digital ideas are even easier to copy.
Here's the antidote: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/better-than-free
logicprog · 2026-02-14
Nick Bostrom and his ilk are exhausting. I really don't think that the singularity / intelligence explosion is going to happen in the way that they think; I don't think ASIs will work the way they think they do; and I don't think we're anywhere close to AGI, even if some of the ideas happening right now are pretty cool.
Some good sources on the matter in general:
https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/the-singularity-is-always-near
https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rupturing-the-nanotech-rapture
https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/