My Friend Aaron: From World of Warcraft Pro to AI Scam Empire

A personal essay recounts the author's friendship with Aaron, a brilliant but directionless schoolmate who becomes obsessed with prediction markets and later uses AI hackathon credits to build a bot network that scams the elderly. The story explores Aaron's addictive personality, his delusions of grandeur, and the moral compromises that strain their friendship.

I've got about forty-thousand grannies' emails.

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2026-08-25