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I agree with you that most humans are trustworthy, but fraudulent actors will build trust with counterparties on your marketplace and then abscond. "Personally meeting with them" d…

I’m very curious about how you’re fending off fraud— just wondering about how a lot of dark web transactions supposedly have escrow, but people waive it and then get burned. Do you…

Regardless of your personal feelings about AI, this is pretty clumsy regulation that will just cause Tiebout sorting away from NY. If there are negative externalities, tax 'em, use…

it's wild to me how many AI written articles get front page on HN

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-papers/artificial-writing-a... The OP article is also just so, so obviously AI slop... if you're already thinking "this is probably AI" and pangram…

Pangram reports 76% of this text is AI generated.

You're making a strong statement about the counterfactual here; how could you know? Clearance rates for most crimes in the US are abysmal, the expected outcome for most crimes is "…

Poverty alleviation is not a silver bullet (or anywhere close) for crime reduction, as nice as it would be if that were true.

According to Pangram, this is likely AI generated, surprised that no one has pointed this out

This is straight up AI generated economic disinformation. Are you seriously claiming that computers cost more in real terms today than 20 years ago?? Some of these goods (housing) …

Rent seeking via occupational licensing, there is nothing new under the sun

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0254477200A

Companies soliciting big bounties should charge a fee to submit, making slop costly. Steam, the video game publisher, does this. Developers need to pay a fee to list their game, an…