If you walked into someone's house and looked at their bookshelves, and they had most of these on them, or their books were mostly in the union of a subset of these, I'd wonder what one might speculate about them.
Looking forward to the criticism that results from mapping the co-ordinates of this ontology, as one could weave a narrative around most of the books that aggregates them into types and categories themselves, then transmit the criticism without the substance to some believers, which could codify into an "anti-HN" ideology (which is just a peculiar form of fan club.) Calling "hacker-critical" as a pseudo academic backlash trend now, and a "hacker studies" course designed to encircle these ideas with criticism as levers to manage people who have them. Really, if you aren't using AI to create predictive levers about people's beliefs and behaviors to manage and extract value from them, what are we doing with it. :)
Super cool to create this though, as it would be really interesting for other comminities, potentially subreddits.
The algorithm is definitely missing some recommendations in it's current form, but I suspect if it weren't I'd be pretty close to your description.
Edit: I just did an HN search for the few books I couldn't find with this app and was able to find comments recommending all of them. Not sure if this means I need to branch out or just that HN reads a lot..
Looking forward to the criticism that results from mapping the co-ordinates of this ontology, as one could weave a narrative around most of the books that aggregates them into types and categories themselves, then transmit the criticism without the substance to some believers, which could codify into an "anti-HN" ideology (which is just a peculiar form of fan club.) Calling "hacker-critical" as a pseudo academic backlash trend now, and a "hacker studies" course designed to encircle these ideas with criticism as levers to manage people who have them. Really, if you aren't using AI to create predictive levers about people's beliefs and behaviors to manage and extract value from them, what are we doing with it. :)
Super cool to create this though, as it would be really interesting for other comminities, potentially subreddits.