51 Simulated AI Economists Conclude Free Healthcare Beats EITC on Everything but Meaning
kscottz · x · 2026-09-17
A user generated 51 "robot economists" with an LLM simulation, and the consensus output claimed free healthcare, housing, and transportation don't provide the same kind of meaning and human value as an Earned Income Tax Credit. The poster mocks the result as evidence that LLM-based social policy simulations mostly regurgitate mainstream economics priors rather than real human welfare judgments.
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