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The AI Underwriter
Personal blog · theaiunderwriter.substack.comaieconomics
The AI Underwriter is a personal blog at theaiunderwriter.substack.com about ai and economics. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link its posts on AI-generated images, such as an archaeologist adventurer image and possible training-data leaks in Midjourney output. The comments cite them as sources without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
ML, AI, Trading, risk, quantitative finance, books. And some stories for my kids.
Most-linked posts?
- An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-03
What Hacker News says?
Creepy Craig is hilarious. can't be Daniel Craig because the physiology is too different. And whoever this is they're Daniel Craig's dark younger brother. https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-arche... and I'm all in on this conclusion: > It’s stealing, but also, admittedly, really cool.
Comment linking /p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer
on “An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip”Submitted An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip as a story · 1503 points
HN discussionIt's like the world turned upside down in the last 20 years. I used to pirate everything as a teenager, and I found it silly that copy right would follow along no matter how anything was encoded. If I XORed copyright material A with open source material B, I would get a strange file C that together with B, I could use to get material A again. Why would it be illegal for me to send anybody B and C, where the strange…
Comment linking /p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer
on “This website is for humans”Submitted "We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it" as a story · 61 points
HN discussionWait, what happened to "it's just learning hands have five fingers"? A few comments ago you seemed to be saying that copying one artist's style on purpose might be bad, but that with billions of training images, no one source will be recognizeable in the output, and under that condition the impact to the artist is minimal. (and yet...[1]). Now you're taking the position that even using their work without permission…
Comment linking /p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer
on “Benn Jordan's AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise”Submitted Failure Is Required as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wonder if it's actually leaking training data and these are real images, as per this: https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-arche...
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on “People Are Using Camera Filenames to Make Midjourney More Photorealistic”Submitted Books That Change Trajectories as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failure Is Required as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failure Is Required as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Failure Is Required as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Verifying LLM Output, Sorta, Kinda as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My 2nd Worst Job Interview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will AI make us Dumber? (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asking Different Questions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Impede Hyperbole? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who told you you couldn't do that? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who told you you couldn't do that? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Favorite Books of 2025 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who told you you couldn't do that? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Commodity and the Moneymaker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted False Confidence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goldfish Memory as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Possessing No Valued Vocation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Innovation Equals Ass in Seat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why hasn't Insurance adopted Quantitative Underwriting? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if an AI company "solves" Insurance? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is an Expert? as a story · 1 points
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