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But I've saved so much time since I started using mturk to compose all my hn comments. I barely even need to read it anymore!

"So, what do you see as your greatest weakness?"

In the opening words of the 1972 Knapp commission report "we found corruption to be widespread"

I like to express this as "if corruption is a price we all must pay we should at least get value for money."

The 1972 Knapp Commission report is essential reading on the topic

This is so incredibly useful to me right now for incidental reasons I am commenting to make sure I can get back to it.

The 1972 Knapp Commission into police corruption introduced some really great vocabulary to express "the rank and file are complicit".

"Meat eaters" and "grass eaters".

The meat eaters were the officers that actively pursued opportunities to be corrupt and spent a great deal of time on the job engaging in corrupt activities instead of police work. The grass eaters were essentially normal officers who would turn a blind eye or do things that had been normalized such as accepting or soliciting small bribes opportunistically.

In the words of the report, "the grass eaters are the heart of the problem".

Recently I've been reading the report of the Knapp Commission, which was a 1972 inquiry into police corruption in New York City. That sounds tangential at first but it really isn't, the findings of the commission are broadly applicable. One of the major points of it being that corrupt officers correctly judged they had very little to fear from prosecution. There's this great table on page 250 showing the complete lack of prosecutions in the years leading up to the commission, driving home the point.

The reasons for that utter lack of prosecution leading to massive corruption is a microcosm of the broader circumstance to which you've pointed out.

Having read the Knapp Commission report, I am no longer of the view I have anything original to say on this.

Umm, I think you may have been misinformed what the Nash equilibrium is in the prisoners dilemma

On account of the earth spinning, and all the globally universal constants that derive from this fact, from the magnetic field to the sun rising in the East, at the very least an orientation which puts a cardinal direction on top was inevitable.

Go forth and C

I had no idea Newton also pioneered British understatement.

"Is this really a bird I'm communicating with or is it just a statistical parrot?"

Every generation of parrots just parrots what the last generation of parrots said about them.

I once asked it to emulate being air traffic control so I could practice for a pilot exam. It generated a full transcript of a pilot character called "you" talking to air traffic control...