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> at the point where enough customers can pay you > (other than through price-discovery: which is slow, messy and fuzzy) I notice a distinct lack of reading o
by altruios 5mo ago
> at the point where enough customers can pay you
> (other than through price-discovery: which is slow, messy and fuzzy)
I notice a distinct lack of reading or comprehension (from everyone around me now, not just this comment) which worries me. I worry if LLM's are to blame. No one reads anymore...
- no-name-here 5mo agoI imagine a number of Hacker News members might be devs that haven't dealt with terms like “price discovery” before, so we should all try to show grace.
- altruios 5mo agoMy apologies. I was taught that term in 7th grade econ. I assumed it was common vernacular.
- no-name-here 5mo agoEven among college graduates, only 17% could correctly answer a basic econ question (pre-AI) [1]. I looked up one ~1,000 page econ textbook, and it does not seem to mention price "discovery", or at least the only uses of the word "discovery" were about things like a scientific/oil discovery [2]. "Even high-achieving students demonstrate relatively lower understanding of economics compared with other subjects." [1] [1] https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/why-americans-flunk-economics-and-why-it-matters/ https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/why-americans-flunk-... [2] https://assets.openstax.org/oscms-prodcms/media/documents/principles-economics-3e_-_WEB.pdf https://assets.openstax.org/oscms-prodcms/media/documents/pr...