Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynskiby Theodore Kaczynski
Shares rank 37 of 60 articles by recommenders
Short essay people cite for understanding self-propagating systems and as a text worth reading. Critics say it picks arguments to reach a predetermined conclusion.
Short essay people cite for understanding self-propagating systems and as a text worth reading. Critics say it picks arguments to reach a predetermined conclusion.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Short essay worth reading
“I recommend reading this short essay to understand what self-propagating systems are”
Comment from 10 Aug 2026 in “John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)” “i’d rather be reading Industrial Society and Its Future by good ol uncle Ted”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “CS Professor: To My Students”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Selects arguments to force conclusion
“picks and chooses the arguments so as to make the terrible conclusion all but inevitable”
Comment from 10 Jun 2026 in “The Cypherpunk Library” Arguments are incoherent or egregious
“you can see it's complete incoherent garbage”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It” “the arguments are a bit egregious”
Comment from 20 Aug 2026 in “Simulacra and Simulation” Few worthy ideas in it
“You have to be very generously looking for the worthy ideas.”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Bin Laden's "Letter to America" (2002)”
Other articles people recommend
The four most recommended other articles, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programming as Theory Buildingby Peter Naur | 32 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Ur-Fascismby Umberto Eco | 18 | 2 | 90% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Politics and the English Languageby George Orwell | 14 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | Approved |
| The Grug Brained Developer by Carson Gross | 13 | 1 | 93% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Industrial Society and Its Futureby Theodore KaczynskiThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“You have to be very generously looking for the worthy ideas.”
“the arguments are a bit egregious”
“I recommend reading this short essay to understand what self-propagating systems are”
“picks and chooses the arguments so as to make the terrible conclusion all but inevitable”
“i’d rather be reading Industrial Society and Its Future by good ol uncle Ted”
“you can see it's complete incoherent garbage”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.