And having seen what happened on Maui after the fires, and seeing just how real the concern of many was - that so many homes were in family for generations, and that's the only way some of those families can afford to be there, and seeing them being unable to rebuild or ... tragic. (Though I don't know that there's the same human element to the Lahaina fires).

I like the way you write, fwiw.

So I guess the hacker news downvote police got after this one because it was actually informative? Am I reading this right?

One cool thing about reading different forums for decades is you get this instinct on spotting AI-generated content. Obviously not 100%, and if you tune your prompts properly it’s impossible to catch. However this just doesn’t sound human-y. No clue how to explain it.

But it also sucks because I’m sure I incorrectly tag some real comments as AI slop.

You are right. However I've found most market absolutists write similar to this. The fault is always someone else's. I had thought I had gotten the contents humanly sociopathic enough to go below the LLM radar.

I actually intended to leave a comment explaining but I started to lose points and deleted the explanation; I was however unable to delete the main comment.

I wouldn’t trip

It’s pervasive at this point that “its AI” is a lazy retort when people have to use a portion of their brains

Ya but in this case, it _is_ AI. It was just an experiment though -- most market absolutists talk like this.

More because it's AI-slop that doesn't say much more than "government and big business bad".

I don’t see a trace of mark down or em dashes. I think maybe you’re perhaps a little too emotionally invested in politics

Firstly, I could care less about the regional politics of Hawaii's infrastructure. I was just answering why this was likely getting downvoted.

As for it being AI, GPTZero puts it at 99% AI. "Insolvency insurance" is used out of context, incorrectly mixing the financial metaphors he told the AI to use with the more-relevant idea of flood insurance (was insolvency supposed to be the AI's attempt at a pun around liquids?). There's the classic AI "it isn't X, it's Y" structure structure at the end. The whole thing reads as a prompt of "Recontextualize the potential flood caused by the failure of Wahiawa Dam in Hawaii through a lens of politics, business, and finance".

Markdown, em-dashes, and emojis were AI-slop 101 a year ago. You gotta keep up.

There is actually an em dash in there,

it isn't a disaster—it's the violent…

I didn't say there wasn't an em dash, but thought it was worth pointing out the totality of things that stuck out to me as AI evidence.

> disaster—it's