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Azeem Azhar
Personal blog · exponentialview.coaieconomics
Azeem Azhar writes Exponential View, a personal blog at exponentialview.co about ai and economics. Since 2019, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “The state of the AI economy from bottom up”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Azeem Azhar's newsletter on 'exponential thinking', covering economics, climate change, AI and computing. HN readers link it for analysis of emerging technology and where current developments are heading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AI analysis worth reading.
Most-linked posts?
- The state of the AI economy from bottom up5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-06-25
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-09
- Why everyone missed solar's exponential growth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-21
- Is AI a Bubble? [Exponential View]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-17
What Hacker News says?
I read Azeem Azhar's Exponential View https://www.exponentialview.co/ - wide ranging topics on 'exponential thinking'. Economics, climate change, AI, computing
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on “Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?”Submitted How might the coronavirus change our world? as a story · 100 points
HN discussion>despite at least a decade of people pointing at it being historically exponential and asking they don't assume the exponent will continue. So crazy and true. Sources: https://www.economist.com/interactive/essay/2024/06/20/solar... https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-forecasters-gap 7 years ago (!): https://xwpxpfefwalgifkr.quora.com/A-modest-proposal-to-the-...
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on “Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential”Submitted Why everyone missed solar's exponential growth as a story · 46 points
HN discussionIt’s so totally misguided IMO that I feel like I am maybe not understanding that. It seems to inspired or in the spirit of ‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson. “ It’s called Carbon Coin in the book, a Bitcoin-like currency that the Ministry gives out for carbon sequestration — that is, any project that sucks CO2 out of the air, whether it’s carbon capture or farmers rewilding their fields — at a ra…
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on “Bitcoin as a Battery”Submitted Is AI a Bubble? [Exponential View] as a story · 14 points
HN discussionLooks like you can, for example, https://www.exponentialview.co/
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on “Where to Blog”Submitted Eric Schmidt's AI prophecy: The next two years will shock you as a story · 13 points
HN discussion'Let’s say we really do create AGI. Right now, if I’m doing a bad job with that, our board of directors, which is also not publicly accountable, can fire me and say, “Let’s try somebody else”.' - Sam Altman 0. https://www.exponentialview.co/p/openais-identity-crisis-and...
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on “Sam Altman Exposes the Charade of AI Accountability”Submitted What's the Deal with Manus? as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> "Substack is to newsletters what Spotify is to podcasts, Medium was to blogs, and what Google Reader was to RSS: an aggressive player that dominates an entire segment with artificial and unsustainable advantages in a risky bet." As someone who is writing a reasonably popular Substack newsletter - and have used several newsletter platforms in the past - I have to disagree. The biggest difference between Substack an…
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on “Substack Is the Biggest Threat to Newsletters Ever”Submitted X-raying OpenAI's unit economics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSome of my favorite ones are - Exponential view for a fascinating insight into the world of tomorrow through today's developments in emerging technologies http://www.exponentialview.co/ - "The download" by the MIT Technology review - great and brief newsworthy tidbits https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/ - For well-curated and high quality content revolving around blockchain topics, definitely "Token Econo…
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on “Ask HN: Which Newsletters are Worth Discussing?”Submitted Just how big is China's AI market? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBlog post here https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-state-of-the-ai-economy
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on “The State of the AI Economy”Submitted Why I changed my mind on self-driving cars as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Network Effects in the Exponential Age as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted After the Virus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The reason tech companies want regulation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How "95%" escaped into the world – and why so many believed it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenAI's Unit Economics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The only AI curve that matters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The cheat codes of technological progress as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI in 2030: Part II as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The state of decarbonization in five charts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jevons and the Automated Developer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if every day was a pandemic day? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted For Startups, Relevance Matters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is bigger than AI? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anthropic: The Agony and the Ecstasy as a story · 1 points
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