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Wilsons Blog
Personal blog · wilsoniumite.comeconomicsai
Wilsons Blog is a personal blog at wilsoniumite.com about economics and ai. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Labor Is a Market Distortion, we need VAT and UBI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Economics posts on labour markets, such as 'Labor is a market distortion' and 'Labor pressures'. HN commenters debate whether the author's writing is AI-generated, not its quality.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A personal blog on engineering and everything else.
Most-linked posts?
- Labor Is a Market Distortion, we need VAT and UBI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-13
- Are LLMs any good at ranking people?2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-12-20
- Calculating a Wordle Leaderboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-05
- Cooperating in a Conversation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-05
What Hacker News says?
Yes and no. People also exhibit these biases, but because degree matters, and because we have no other choice, we still trust them most of the time. That's to say; bias isn't always completely invalidating. I wrote a slightly satirical piece "People are just as bad as my LLMs" here: https://wilsoniumite.com/2025/03/10/people-are-just-as-bad-a...
Comment linking /2025/03/10/people-are-just-as-bad-as-my-llms/
on “Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments”Submitted People are just as bad as my LLMs as a story · 203 points
HN discussionI wrote about this a bit on my blog [1] but to add to this idea, > Maybe prostitution to the owners will be the only available job. Pre industrial revolution, labor was in a sense cheaper than it was during the industrial revolution, and one genuinely interesting set of professions that existed then was house servants. Butlers, maids, cooks, under butlers and so on. It would not be inconceivable to see the return of…
Comment linking /2024/09/09/how-do-we-fix-it/
on “100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)”Submitted We've lost our respect for complexity as a story · 105 points
HN discussionhttps://wilsoniumite.com/ - I write about things sometimes
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted If I Could Wave a Magic Wand as a story · 80 points
HN discussionThe one they claim is in their voice [1] has zero of the tells I am referring to. You can compare and contrast it with your fully/generated reference 0 (although that is fable and I have little experience reading its writing it seems to use many similar comventions) and the title piece and see what I mean. [1] https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/07/labor-is-a-market-distor...
Comment linking /2026/06/07/labor-is-a-market-distortion/
on “The room the economy can't see”Submitted Working on Economics with Fable 5 as a story · 74 points
HN discussionIt's possible we're at the point now where it fools me, but I didn't see it that way. I think more evidence against would be the fact that the author discloses genAI usage in another article [0] and provides their own version of the same [1]. [0] https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/14/labor-pressures-causing-... [1] https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/07/labor-is-a-market-distor...
Comment linking /2026/06/07/labor-is-a-market-distortion/
on “The room the economy can't see”Submitted France needs to read my paper as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThey already are out! They're linked at the end of the post, but here's a link to the next one: https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/19/make-work-and-sub-subsis...
Comment linking /2026/06/19/make-work-and-sub-subsistence-work/
on “The room the economy can't see”Submitted Why do we assume everyone should be working? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI have a new version that uses US and Finnish consumption data to model the mechanisms effects. https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/06/14/labor-pressures-causing-...
Comment linking /2026/06/14/labor-pressures-causing-market-distortion-and-a-minimally-invasive-solution/
on “Labor Is a Market Distortion, we need VAT and UBI”Submitted Surely [the crash of the US economy] has to be soon as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Need VAT and UBI as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's a bug in the Economy, and Fable found it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Millions of Lifetimes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cooperating in a Conversation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you should not write library code (probably) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memorisation versus Generalisation for AI and for Us as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A thing we may be able to learn from AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perfection Is Faceless as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working on Economics with Fable 5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working on Economics with Fable 5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working on Economics with Fable 5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Terence Tao's insight translates to how we need to think about the economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The room the economy can't see as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make LVT politically doable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does using LLMs make me dumber? as a story · 2 points
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