[phoronixrly]

I could not make the basic premise of this article... Is it that 15-minute cities would limit social mobility?? Is it that congestion pricing would limit social mobility? Am I just trying to make sense of an llm-generated word soup?

[TheOtherHobbes]

From 2021, so not an LLM.

The premise seems to be that making everything local means diversity will be inaccessible.

In reality economic diversity is heavily gatekept anyway - sometimes literally.

Forcing people to commute wastes time with no obvious upside.

[allemagne]

Wow, I was 100% convinced this was written by AI.

I maintain that this article is eerily similar to something produced by an LLM, but maybe I need to reexamine my priors.

- The "contrastive negation" with em-dashes in: "But the basic concept of a 15-minute city is not really a city at all. It’s an enclave — a ghetto – a subdivision."

- The extended discussion of business regulations seemed out of place: "I also believe that cities should be freed from the business regulations that make it difficult..." This really read to me like someone directed an LLM to make sure to include these arguments rather than this naturally arising during the human writing process.

- The writing itself (as noted elsewhere in this thread) is vague and hard to follow.

[mrhottakes]

Mainstream western economists are essentially LLMs that have been trained incorrectly as a joke

[allemagne]

I don't know that I'd throw a whole field under the bus like that (I'm reminded of similar accusations against students of sociology and gender studies) but I acknowledge this author isn't doing his profession any favors.

[queenkjuul]

I'm pretty confident that mainstream Western economists are all jokes, I'm even more confident that all of them at Harvard are

[breezybottom]

Well now you know what it was trained on.

[blensor]

The funny thing is that the page has a broken Google Tag Manager script

  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
  j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-NZXZ6MK');</script><!-- End Google Tag Manager -->

Causing the top of the page show the script and nobody from that site noticing it.

[whynotmaybe]

The whole US societal model of judgment of anyone's wealth can't be maintained because anyone walking is supposedly poor.

So if you create cities where someone has to "walk", in their minds you're forcing them to be seen as poor.

That's what also included in the concept of valet parking, you're rich because you can go directly from your car to the hotel/restaurant entrance without walking among the poors.

[dpark]

Proof that humans can also generate low quality slop.