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Grace Blakeley
Personal blog · graceblakeley.substack.comeconomicspoliticsai
Grace Blakeley's personal blog at graceblakeley.substack.com covers economics, politics and ai. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack in threads on AI data center debt, the AI economy and criticism of the tech industry. The comments discuss those topics and do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I write about capitalism - about the economic and political systems that dominate our lives, and how we can resist!
Most-linked posts?
- /p/the-ai-circular-economy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-06
What Hacker News says?
I think it's only a matter of time, like the build-up to the financial crash in 2008 or the dot-com bubble. There's currently a huge amount of money being bet on the big AI tech companies without any real sense of return. And the companies like Oracle that are funding data centre build-out are sitting on unused GPU stock. Recently, the Australian AI firm failed to secure an IPO [1], [2]. OpenAI is looking to go for…
Comment linking /p/the-ai-circular-economy
on “Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote”> The automobile did not cripple the economy, even as it ended the buggy-whip barons. So many replies in these responses that assume I am concerned or aggrieved about "losing my job/high pay/prestige/gatekeeping". With my comment on the valuations and economy I was referring to the circular investing accounting for a substantial chunk of the economy. Propping up the economy: https://investorsobserver.com/news/stock-…
Comment linking /p/the-ai-circular-economy
on “Opus 4.5 is going to change everything”Funnily enough, I ran across an article this morning titled "What you hate about AI is the capitalism." and I feel like you can basically apply that to all tech! It’s probably naive to assume a different system would cure all our ills. But I do wonder - if humanity acted for the collective good instead of individual self-interest, how different would our technology be? And how different would we be because of it? Li…
Comment linking /p/what-you-hate-about-ai-is-the-capitalism
on “Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)”