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Sharing this here because it makes fun of rationalists: "Consumer Reports’ results also fit in with a large grifting industry that includes a lot of influencers. These influencers frequently go out and use poor testing instruments and inconsistent and unreliable testing methodologies on every product under the sun, in order to claim that those products contain harmful levels of different chemicals that consumers should avoid. Some of the worst examples of this include blackmailing companies to not report results. Others just scare the public. If all these claimed lead exposure levels from different foodstuffs were truly correct, that would show up in NHANES data, but it doesn’t. So take all of these results with a pinch of salt." https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/is-there-lead-in-your-protein?r=1ejwk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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There is something uncanny about offering 5K USD max, or 10K award pool in hackathons targeting the emergent economies, the Global South, Near East, South Eastern Asia etc. Majority of those people are not "poor" compared to the first world peers just because of exchange (dis)parities. Many are dealing with extreme volatility day-over-day, hyperinflation, and a low purchase power, which renders even the Eurodolllars, US dollars or even petrodollars feeble with even lower purchase power in the process. That is, you won't have any meaningful hackers unless they're truly at the edge of starving or some poseur looking for another easy parlay deposit into the prediction markets. In fact, you can read Scott Alexander's "Information Markets, Decision Markets, Attention Markets, Action Markets" from 2012 to make sense of this from another perspective re: incentives.
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