jhanschoo (u/jhanschoo)

jhanschoo commented on Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us... · Posted by u/fortran77

coldtea · 17 hours ago

A high trust society reduces the incidence of scams/becoming victims to scams by reducing the number of scammers and increasing the number of honest people and honest behavior. That's what a high trust society is and does by definition.

If you want "mechanics", that would be an increased focus on community, with positive community best-behavior incentives (reputation, pride in work, solidarity, rewarding good behavior) and negative ones (shame, ostracism, punishing bad actors), social cohesion, and an emphasis on duty and morality, while reducing cynicism, and selfish individualism. This includes the appropriate role models and media/entertainment landscape.

jhanschoo · 2 hours ago

> A high trust society reduces the incidence of scams/becoming victims to scams by reducing the number of scammers and increasing the number of honest people and honest behavior.

Considering that the scammers in this instance haven't been identified, there's a good possibility that the phone scammers belong to an out-group (e.g. infamous Indian/Nigerian scammers) of the victim's society. In fact, it seems to me that trusting more (because the in-group are honest) without appropriate safeguards preventing out-group members from impersonating in-group members exacerbates the problem. So I do not really see the connection between your solution and the problem.

jhanschoo commented on Why is Singapore no longer "cool"? marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/paulpauper

budududuroiu · 8 hours ago

TIL detention without trial is a thing in Singapore [^1], ministers love to brag about increasing the severity of detention without trial [^2], and that the longest someone was held in detention without trial in Singapore was 23+9 years [^3]. That person was never charged.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Law_(Temporary_Provis...

[^2]: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/my-views-on-...

[^3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Thye_Poh

jhanschoo · 2 hours ago

Regarding [2], what arguments did that politician put forth and what are your thoughts on the strength of those arguments?

jhanschoo commented on Man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us... · Posted by u/fortran77

coldtea · a day ago

We need a high trust society.

Everything else is band aids on a broken one.

jhanschoo · a day ago

Cah you clarify the mechanisms by which a high trust society reduces the incidence of scams/becoming victims to scams?

jhanschoo commented on India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/thisislife2

simianwords · 4 days ago

That poor people get the worst of the jobs? What’s the alternative?

jhanschoo · 4 days ago

Jury duty for all online fora maybe?

jhanschoo commented on Why poor countries stopped catching up davidoks.blog/p/why-poor-... · Posted by u/j-bos

WalterBright · 5 days ago

I cannot think of an example were protectionism made a country more prosperous.

I do agree with protectionism for the purpose of protecting strategic industries - but that comes at a cost to the country.

jhanschoo · 5 days ago

Off the top of my head due to proximity, Mainland Chinese requirement for Joint Ventures for foreign entrants trying to participate in their market led to a lot of technology and human capital transfer; the case of ARM China comes to my mind. I don't remember details beyond that, but instead of spending time reviewing sources I think this Gemini conversation on this topic should suffice for an introduction and overview https://gemini.google.com/share/42b75fbf2e61

I suppose that there is room to make argument to be made that less protectionism in these respects would have been more sustainable, but it won't be easy. It seems to me that one would have to point to one of:

- enormous short-term benefits of allowing foreign entities to enter the market while controlling their intellectual capital / capital equipment

- a reason why they would acquire such intellectual capital / capital equipment anyway through less protectionist means

- a reason why they would obtain a substitute for the long-term value represented by such intellectual capital / capital equipment

jhanschoo commented on Why poor countries stopped catching up davidoks.blog/p/why-poor-... · Posted by u/j-bos

WalterBright · 6 days ago

Free markets correlate with prosperity. Those "poor countries" are most likely unfree economies.

jhanschoo · 6 days ago

Maybe you would be more persuasive by discussing a concrete example where manufacturing was decimated by imports and yet more liberalization would be more economically beneficent thae protectionism (modulo say IMF, world bank policies), rather than parrot an ideological talking point without substantiating it with the concrete examples that form the empirical evidence for such general rules.

jhanschoo commented on Why poor countries stopped catching up davidoks.blog/p/why-poor-... · Posted by u/j-bos

WalterBright · 6 days ago

A long essay, which ignored the elephant in the room.

Prosperity and growth come from free markets. The correlation is very strong. Poor countries are poor because they eschew free markets.

jhanschoo · 6 days ago

The article comes to different conclusions. In fact cheap imports from China ravaged manufacturing in certain "poor countries". Can you reconcile your general thesis with that?

jhanschoo commented on Why poor countries stopped catching up davidoks.blog/p/why-poor-... · Posted by u/j-bos

A_D_E_P_T · 6 days ago

The entire essay obsesses over GDP convergence while ignoring that GDP (especially in the West) increasingly measures asset shuffling, imputed rents, and healthcare billing rather than anything humans actually experience. (Healthcare, finance, real estate, and legal services combined are ~40% of US GDP!)

So we've got 3000 words eulogizing a metric that tells you more about financialization than flourishing. Look at life expectancy, infant mortality, or caloric intake and you'll find a more interesting story -- with some poor countries doing very well, and increasingly so, whereas others are on a fairly grim trajectory.

jhanschoo · 6 days ago

I don't see how this comment relates to the article, which claims that the observed quick growth in "poor countries" was all just China modernizing. And Chinese growth is indeed correlated with better material conditions for the Chinese.

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YetAnotherNick · 7 days ago

> It(Solar) works, but it isn't somehow magically better than installing solar panels on the ground

Umm, if this is the point, I don't know whether to take rest of author's arguments seriously. Solar only works certain time of the day and certain period of year on land.

Also there is so limited calculations for the numbers in the article, while the article throws of numbers left and right.

jhanschoo · 7 days ago

> Solar only works certain time of the day and certain period of year on land

The same goes for LEO!