Interesting 2 day exercise. I think it would’ve been more interesting to make this blinded for the reader, then take a poll of which is Caplan and which is GPT.
I think GPT did a pretty good job of capturing the diction and meter of your writing style. And the argument seems to fit as well.
But I think both you and GPT-pretending-to-be-you are conflating “low skilled worker” with “low skilled immigrant”. Both make a good case about the necessity of low skilled workers. I don’t think either have made the case that such necessity justifies “open borders”. I would say that we need flexibility in the workforce such that low skilled jobs are filled, and we can accept enough low skilled immigrants to fulfill that need. But I don’t see your argument justifying accepting low skilled workers as immigrants beyond that threshold.
If these low skilled workers had a net present economic value greater than or equal to zero, then I would not have any disagreements. It should in fact be celebrated. But, alas...
Unfortunately in the real world EVERYBODY is internally judging everybody else and placing us all in a hierarchy of status,it's only in each individual mind in these individualistic,egalitarian and democratic times,so while we might all say yes,you're right,I think that way too,in reality a lot of people do look down on "service workers" even if they don't say so. Recently,and this is very recent I've entered a number of local stores in which all but one of the manned checkouts has been removed. There is a bank of self-checkouts and the entire staff in the store( middling size) is no more than 3 who attend to the manned checkout if requested but otherwise are replenishing shelves,checking stock etc and the store feels strangely empty and ghostly - in mid afternoon. It's feels DIFFERENT. It no longer feels like a "shop" . This observation feels relevant to your subject somehow.
Ok my gut reaction is this is the real human one - more punchy - more sentence length variation - more willingness to be offensive by using terms like “jerk” and “shame” which a polite AI might not. I suppose the fact I’m unsure is the real lesson though.
Interesting 2 day exercise. I think it would’ve been more interesting to make this blinded for the reader, then take a poll of which is Caplan and which is GPT.
I think GPT did a pretty good job of capturing the diction and meter of your writing style. And the argument seems to fit as well.
But I think both you and GPT-pretending-to-be-you are conflating “low skilled worker” with “low skilled immigrant”. Both make a good case about the necessity of low skilled workers. I don’t think either have made the case that such necessity justifies “open borders”. I would say that we need flexibility in the workforce such that low skilled jobs are filled, and we can accept enough low skilled immigrants to fulfill that need. But I don’t see your argument justifying accepting low skilled workers as immigrants beyond that threshold.
One of your best posts, full stop. Well done.
I had forgotten that this post said “version 2” and didn’t see your post yesterday. AI can be very, very good. This is the better post.
If these low skilled workers had a net present economic value greater than or equal to zero, then I would not have any disagreements. It should in fact be celebrated. But, alas...
Unfortunately in the real world EVERYBODY is internally judging everybody else and placing us all in a hierarchy of status,it's only in each individual mind in these individualistic,egalitarian and democratic times,so while we might all say yes,you're right,I think that way too,in reality a lot of people do look down on "service workers" even if they don't say so. Recently,and this is very recent I've entered a number of local stores in which all but one of the manned checkouts has been removed. There is a bank of self-checkouts and the entire staff in the store( middling size) is no more than 3 who attend to the manned checkout if requested but otherwise are replenishing shelves,checking stock etc and the store feels strangely empty and ghostly - in mid afternoon. It's feels DIFFERENT. It no longer feels like a "shop" . This observation feels relevant to your subject somehow.
Ok my gut reaction is this is the real human one - more punchy - more sentence length variation - more willingness to be offensive by using terms like “jerk” and “shame” which a polite AI might not. I suppose the fact I’m unsure is the real lesson though.
This one reads more like Ai to me than v1