bklosky

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by bklosky 20d ago
how are these claude written blogs consistently making front page?
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by bklosky 22d ago
you could fetch the text from linked blog posts over time and run 'em through pangram, I bet >20% of blogs linked on HN today are totally LLM written
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by bklosky 25d ago
Yeah, I find the notion that human judgement is superior to algorithmic judgement to be pretty suspect… look at Jens Ludwig’s work on judges, it’s not like involving a human improves outcomes somehow
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by bklosky 1mo ago
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" does not prevent a "long firm" from skip
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by bklosky 1mo ago
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 have anything beyond KYC/escrow?
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by bklosky 2mo ago
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 the proceeds for some feel-good social programming, an
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by bklosky 3mo ago
it's wild to me how many AI written articles get front page on HN
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by bklosky 3mo ago
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 thinks the same, that&
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by bklosky 3mo ago
Pangram reports 76% of this text is AI generated.
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by bklosky 4mo ago
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 "unsolved."
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by bklosky 4mo ago
Poverty alleviation is not a silver bullet (or anywhere close) for crime reduction, as nice as it would be if that were true.
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by bklosky 4mo ago
According to Pangram, this is likely AI generated, surprised that no one has pointed this out
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by bklosky 5mo ago
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) do cost more, but a lot of these examples don't make an
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by bklosky 7mo ago
Rent seeking via occupational licensing, there is nothing new under the sun
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by bklosky 8mo ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0254477200A
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by bklosky 11mo ago
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, and if their game sells sufficient volume, the fee is returned