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Record Low Crime Rates Are Real, Not Just Reporting Bias Or Improved Medical Care
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I bet you feel real good about yourself shitting on randos online.
Does this include crimes perpetrated by governments?
LLM slop.
The cover maybe but the person has a long history of blogging since the 2000s.
Choosing Gen AI is such a bad choice for this article. To me it screams "low effort, ad-filled sensationalist news site that barely counts as one".
Is there are a non-nazi source?
It's interesting that the murder rate can drop to less than half of what it was thirty years ago without us knowing exactly why. (There are theories, of course, and this blog post has links to them.)
people just got bored of murdering?
Everyone's addicted to staring at screens. Less crime happens when people are hypnotized by their screens.
he's a psychiatrist, involved in political discourse but not the kind of thing that gets editorial review. i'd gauge him as much less crank-y but only a bit more reliable than Curtis Yavin, whom he is in roughly similar Bay Area intellectual circles with (and on the opposite ideological side of)