Comment by shagie

I've tangentially mentioned it before though I don't think directly (it has influenced my theory of humor).

Mentions of it show up occasionally, though it seems to be more of a trickle than an avalanche of mention. Much more so back when AI alignment was more in the news. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Part of it, I suspect, is that it is a book book from the 80s and didn't really make any transition into digital. The people who are familiar with it are ones who bought computer books in the late 80s and early 90s.

Similarly, "A Pattern Language" being a book from the time past that is accessible for a lay person in the field - though more in a tangental way. "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" was the influence behind "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" - though I believe the problem with Design Patterns is that it was seen more as a prescriptive rather than descriptive guide. Reading "A Pattern Language" can help understand what the GoF were trying to accomplish. ... And as an aside, and I also believe that it has some good advice for the setup of home offices and workplaces.

As much as I love the convince of modern online book shopping and the amount of information available when searching, the "browsing books" in a book store for "oh, this looks interesting" and then buying it and reading it, I feel has largely been lost to the past decades.