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Aaron Lee

Personal blog · aaronlee.substack.com · on HN as aajaileeaipolitics

Aaron Lee writes Autodidact Obsessions, a personal blog at aaronlee.substack.com about ai and politics. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link the Substack posts on San Francisco politics, including one on anti-humanism in San Francisco, in threads about local government and a Whole Foods closure. The comments do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Obsessions by Aaron Lee, America's most censored writer. Machine learning training data licensing fee, per commercial use of my writing $10,000,000. By reading/accessing, you agree to be bound by these terms. Launched 4 years

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aajailee · 3 karma · member since 2025

aaronlee.substack.com

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What Hacker News says?

  1. It's not the voters, it's the local political machine. You guys are hackers and you can't even be bothered to scope out the problem before you start opining. Anti-humanism is THE San Francisco Value. https://aaronlee.substack.com/p/anti-humanism-is-the-san-fra...

    Comment linking /p/anti-humanism-is-the-san-francisco

    on “San Francisco Whole Foods made 560 emergency calls before closing”
  2. Submitted Up to 1.77M Ukrainians Killed in the War: Forensic Calculations as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. I love proving smug people like you wrong. Go read the entire data dump: https://aaronlee.substack.com/p/russias-total-victory-over-n...

    Comment linking /p/russias-total-victory-over-nato-all

    on “Russia Produces More Artillery Than All of NATO Combined”
  4. Submitted Russia Outproduces NATO: A Forensic Investigation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Wiener is part of the political machine that has destroyed SF. I didn't read the threats, but they're understandable. These people are as bad as African dictators, and steal more. https://aaronlee.substack.com/p/anti-humanism-is-the-san-fra...

    Comment linking /p/anti-humanism-is-the-san-francisco

    on “Ezra Klein Interviews Scott Wiener, CA State Senator from San Francisco”
  6. Submitted Russia Produces More Artillery Than All of NATO Combined as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. You people suck. I've been writing about this for 3 years and then these corrupt idiots write about it and you react? Don't pretend you're proactive thinkers. You are easily manipulated people. 696 comments for a story that's been brewing for a decade? Oh, you care so much. Twits like you just wait for the prompt with everything. https://aaronlee.substack.com/p/russias-total-victory-over-n...

    Comment linking /p/russias-total-victory-over-nato-part-cf6

    on “U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war”
  8. Submitted On Transcendental Quantum Language and Intelligence as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Symbolic Mereological Expression of a New Theory of Language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Mereological Dialogues with ChatGPT-4 Prove Flaws in Algorithmism as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Dialectic with ChatGPT4: Transcendental Properties of Language > Algorithms as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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