Jason Potts (@profjasonpotts) 's Twitter Profile
Jason Potts

@profjasonpotts

maker of fine theories for digital economies

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David Senra (@founderspodcast) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This book is a 100 page biography of the human species A few lessons of history: 1.  In the end superior ability has its way. 2.  History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. 3.

This book is a 100 page biography of the human species 

A few lessons of history: 

1.  In the end superior ability has its way.

2.  History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

3.
John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged: Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.

NEW:

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment.

I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged:

Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI? Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls

🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI?

Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls
YIMBYLAND (@yimbyland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Peter Thiel: "If you add more people to the mix and you're not allowed to build more houses because of zoning laws, then prices go up a lot, and it's this incredible wealth transfer from the young and the lower middle class to the upper middle class and the landlords."

Derek Thompson (@dkthomp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Yes. 

Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.

Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Midnight Maniac Sri (@sridatta) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, 

so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". '

(found via HN)
Theo (@theobtl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Huaqiangbei, Shenzen, China is where „the boundaries between suppliers and customers dissolve into collaborative innovation“. David Li of Shenzen Open Innovation at #OUI2025

Huaqiangbei, Shenzen, China is where „the boundaries between suppliers and customers dissolve into collaborative innovation“.

<a href="/taweili/">David Li</a> of Shenzen Open Innovation at #OUI2025
Garett Jones (@garettjones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the first episode of Bluechip Dialogues, sponsored by Bluechip, tylercowen talks with me about the promise of stablecoins, why some frothy financial innovation is a part of a good system, and where Paul Krugman errs in his stablecoin views. Also at @spotify and YouTube

Vincent Geloso (@vincentgeloso) 's Twitter Profile Photo

đź§µNow available! My paper with Ashruta Acharya and Alek Psrurek on the most generous engagement with the most influential "model" of degrowth. TLDR: It doesnt hold empirically. It predicts the opposite.

đź§µNow available! My paper with Ashruta Acharya and Alek Psrurek on the most generous engagement with the most influential "model" of degrowth. TLDR: It doesnt hold empirically. It predicts the opposite.
BlockchainGov (@blockchaingov) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ding ding ding - a new prototype of what coordinated, translocal governance at scale can look like just dropped 🖤 Read the executive summary of last weeks workshop here: open.substack.com/pub/blockchain…

Ding ding ding - a new prototype of what coordinated, translocal governance at scale can look like just dropped đź–¤

Read the executive summary of last weeks workshop here: open.substack.com/pub/blockchain…
Owain Evans (@owainevans_uk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. đź§µ

New paper &amp; surprising result.
LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data.
Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. đź§µ