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drafts is a personal blog at drafts.interfluidity.com about economics and politics. Since 2023, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Higher education is shockingly right-wing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in threads on antitrust, AI regulation and trade taxation, usually as a source for a point. One commenter finds its piece on regulating AI interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
drafts @ interfluidity
Most-linked posts?
- Higher education is shockingly right-wing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-04
What Hacker News says?
Not directly related to antitrust but rather national industrial policy - there is a really good article on "Industrial policy without National Champions"[1] where the author also touches upon antitrust - worth a read. "During that event, Cardiff Garcia did a fascinating interview with Paul Krugman, at the end of which Joe Wiesenthal asked a critical question. The United States, under Joe Biden, is embarking on an a…
Comment linking /2024/09/27/industrial-policy-without-national-champions/index.html
on “US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case”Submitted Higher education is shockingly right-wing as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThis perspective on regulation was interesting: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/12/28/how-to-regulate-... "Congress should declare that big-data AI models do not infringe copyright, but are inherently in the public domain. Congress should declare that use of AI tools will be an aggravating rather than mitigating factor in determinations of civil and criminal liability."
Comment linking /2023/12/28/how-to-regulate-ai/index.html
on “Things are about to get worse for generative AI”Submitted A pocketbook history of postwar US macro regimes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDon't tax trade, rather foreign capital gains. See https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/27/how-can-taxing-f...
Comment linking /2025/04/27/how-can-taxing-foreign-investors-balance-trade/index.html
on “Should We (Ever) Tax Trade? A Theoretical Guide”Submitted If we weren't idiots, Balance of Payments edition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Higher education is shockingly right-wing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seeing Like a CEO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nimble nationality will define state capacity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constant real wages can hide a lot of pain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Degrowth for Whigs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Banks should fail much more often as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Higher education is shockingly right-wing as a story · 1 points
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