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Seva Gunitsky
Personal blog · hegemon.substack.compoliticsaihistory
Seva Gunitsky writes Hegemon, a personal blog at hegemon.substack.com about politics, ai and history. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Age of Academic Slop Is Upon Us”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links this post as a companion to a thread on scientists using Claude for research. The post is about AI-generated filler ("academic slop") in published academic work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
international politics and daily life.
Most-linked posts?
- The Age of Academic Slop Is Upon Us2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-18
What Hacker News says?
Pairs well with this: https://hegemon.substack.com/p/the-age-of-academic-slop-is-u... Taking CV-filler from 80% to 95% of published academic work is yet another revolutionary breakthrough on the road to superintelligence.
Comment linking /p/the-age-of-academic-slop-is-upon
on “How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery”Submitted Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi as a story · 171 points
HN discussionSubmitted Orwell on AI as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Academic Slop Is Upon Us as a story · 2 points
HN discussion