[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.