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Ryan Briggs Self-regulation rarely works in industry, and I'm not sure why we act as if academia would be different. Sure, there is pressure to publish. But people in finance also get fired if they don't perform well, and yet they go to prison for fraud and misconduct

The problem with survey responses in a nutshell... especially if your sample is high schoolers who enjoy trolling

When I first tried GPT3 I remember thinking writing as a skill was basically over. Now I think the opposite is true. LLMs still can’t write, everybody else’s abilities are atrophying, and being able to clearly express yourself in prose seems like it will only get more valuable

New NBER: "What are the Costs of Weakening Shareholder Primacy? Evidence from a U.S. Quasi-Natural Experiment" nber.org/papers/w33828#… Spoiler: it made things worse. 😲

This and all the other Null effects from unconditional cash transfers are kind of surprising... at some point, giving people free money should have an effect on something, no?

This is what happens when you let A/B Testing or AI optimize your newspaper headline... you wouldn't guess it, but it's from the The Washington Post

Imagine an entire field dedicated to making people poorer. Sounds like unnecessary research production to me. I vote to not do that.

Community Notes show when they’re found helpful by people who normally disagree. What if we could do the same for posts, recognizing posts that are liked by people who normally disagree? We’ve heard requests for this for years since launching Community Notes, and we’re starting a

Ph.D. applications often hinge on access to information, and I benefited tremendously from the uchi predoc community and mentors. If you’re applying for a predoc or Ph.D. in econ, public policy, sociology, or education/health, I’m happy to talk. Feel free to reach out!

In Defense of Looting was an epic bad take... this is, somehow, even worse

ChatGPT record mode (captures meetings, brainstorms, and voice notes and turns them into helpful outputs) is launching today for Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users on the macOS desktop app

Fatalism — believing that your choices don't affect your outcomes in life — is highly transmissible from parents to children and has a bigger correlation with income (i.e. negative) than IQ.

Even among American political consultants there is a massive gap in LLM usage between Democrats and Republicans. theaapc.org/wp-content/upl…

Modern LLMs while travelling feels almost as useful as the jump to smartphones and apps from none. Just wild how useful it is to have a kinda mediocre guide for ~everything.

An interesting risk for people who use precious metals as a hedge in their portfolios: in the coming decades, we should be able to mine asteroids where these metals are abundant, at which point their value will collapse. Presumably, prices would crash in anticipation of this