2022-03-16 16:10:55 If you haven't heard @jackclarkSF speak before you're in for a treat. There's no better way to quickly get up to speed on the state of AI than reading the 2022 @indexingai report and Jack will highlight the key findings on March 30. Register today and send us your questions. https://t.co/pJN75enR3c 2022-03-16 15:43:40 I’m so proud of how this report has grown and improved over the past few years. 2022-03-16 15:33:19 The 2022 AI Index Report is out today! 230 fascinating pages of facts and figures. https://t.co/4YToMRtRVm @indexingai @StanfordHAI #AI Congrats to Daniel Zhang, Nestor Maslej, @jackclarkSF @RayPerrault @terahlyons @jcniebles @MPSellitto @yshoham and the rest of team https://t.co/JPdb86t6WI 2022-03-15 18:08:33 Would you rather face one half-giraffe-sized asteroid or 10 half duck-sized meteors? https://t.co/UmfM3VV9qm 2022-03-14 14:48:30 @InnovateEconomy @ModeledBehavior Congrats to you both! 2022-03-14 14:48:13 RT @ModeledBehavior: I am excited to start today as the chief economist at Economic Innovation Group. Quick thread on this new move for me… 2022-03-14 06:11:02 @AlecStapp @deaneckles Everything is hard before its easy 2022-03-14 05:43:10 RT @scienceisstrat1: China may be having its Omicron moment. Lockdowns in strategically vital cities like Shenzhen (and maybe soon Shanghai… 2022-03-14 03:17:48 @AlecStapp You mean the carbon rebate that gives everyone a big annual check funded by a tax on big oil and imports from Russia and Saudi Arabia? 2022-03-14 02:54:24 @elonmusk The new Covid lockdown in Shenzhen will have a huge impact on supply chains and inflation, in the US and around the world. And it may be the first of many. 2022-03-13 22:25:55 @elonmusk The five-year breakeven inflation rate is currently about 3.5%. https://t.co/qmKj9t00NJ The 10-year breakeven inflation rate is a little under 3%. Of course the markets can be wrong but that’s a good place to start. 2022-03-13 16:55:33 Here is an important thread about thread about the big geopolitical changes underway https://t.co/2CEm2fEgmS 2022-03-13 16:12:00 @insanedreamer @johnjhorton @AlexMasPton @ModeledBehavior @danielrock @ocolluphid @WSJ @mims Here you go! https://t.co/76WdpCNseO 2022-03-13 05:06:34 @luislamb @johnjhorton @AlexMasPton @ModeledBehavior @danielrock @ocolluphid @WSJ @mims Thanks, Luis. It was a big team doing a bunch of relate project. Most of the credit goes to Adam and Hong-Yi. 2022-03-13 05:04:50 @iamtrask What if you could code in the rules of physics and learn novel rocket trajectory strategies? Or the rules of chemistry and learn novel protein folding outcomes? Are any of those "creating intelligence"? 2022-03-13 05:01:23 @iamtrask When, if ever, does the simulator count as part of the system? Or to take a simpler example, if a system knew the rules of checkers and figured out the optimal strategy, would that count as "creating knowledge"? 2022-03-13 04:57:25 @iamtrask By the way, I really like your overall thread about this. It's a very important challenge. 2022-03-13 04:55:54 @iamtrask I guess it depends on what you mean by "training data". AlphaZero didn't get any outside data on the games it plays. It created the needed data itself, based on what it knew about the rules of the game. Is that different from what you mean by "creating intelligence". 2022-03-13 04:39:14 @iamtrask What about systems like Alphazero? 2022-03-13 03:06:24 @graykimbrough @johnjhorton @AlexMasPton @ModeledBehavior @danielrock @ocolluphid Thanks. That's an interesting contrast. 2022-03-12 19:54:30 .@FukuyamaFrancis predicts defeat for Russia and Putin: https://t.co/dTLtwDFmfs 2022-03-12 17:52:05 @antoniogm https://t.co/nZF1kvBeVZ 2022-03-12 16:29:17 @gangulyteena @johnjhorton @AlexMasPton @ModeledBehavior @danielrock @ocolluphid Accounting for the amount of pre-pandemic remote work was an important reason we got higher estimates than the CPS. 2022-03-12 16:02:12 @mattkahn1966 Available for pre-order at Amazon now: https://t.co/f0LbmIgJGd 2022-03-12 16:00:40 @mattkahn1966 Very cool, @mattkahn1966! I look forward to reading it. 2022-03-12 15:59:59 RT @I_Am_NickBloom: Fascinating new book examining the impact of the surge in remote work. Highlights how the focus on #WFH has expanded… 2022-03-12 15:52:26 @johnjhorton @AlexMasPton @ModeledBehavior @danielrock @ocolluphid Here's an article in today's @WSJ by @mims about how the rise of remote work has spread out tech work across the USA. https://t.co/J0eYVEY03W He cites our new paper and several other studies. 2022-03-12 15:49:12 How Many Americans Work Remotely? @johnjhorton, Christos Makridis, @AlexMasPton, @ModeledBehavior, @danielrock, @ocolluphid & The actual share is ~50% working remote at least 1x/week. #EconTwitter #WFH https://t.co/76WdpCNseO https://t.co/wFmo0crfcs 2022-03-12 14:06:33 @paulg I know that spot well. Congrats! 2022-03-12 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-20 22:39:09 @drvolts 100 seconds* to midnight 2022-01-20 22:35:00 @Aella_Girl The US political system is closer to the second option: policy changes are highly responsive to the preferences of the top 10%, but hardly at all to the the rest of the population: https://t.co/VFhdQ0z1tP https://t.co/sxIQdjYPz2 2022-01-20 21:53:19 The seven essential elements of election security via @jennycohn1 https://t.co/7Hx73Prqwz 2022-01-20 21:18:49 RT @greg_ip: Canada is politically, geographically and demographically similar to the U.S. but consistently has 1/3 the Covid infection/mor… 2022-01-20 21:14:59 @Noahpinion Eminently reasonable, as always 2022-01-20 21:11:51 @pkedrosky Fascinating. However, it's not clear this is a causal relationship. It's easy to imagine reasons why healthier people tend to take more steps. 2022-01-20 21:03:53 RT @AndrewYNg: Given the impact of Computer Science and AI on every person, it is important to introduce K-12 learners to these subjects. I… 2022-01-20 18:31:33 RT @BetseyStevenson: Whenever people tell me that technology will take all our jobs I argue that we will always think of new jobs, like M& 2022-01-20 16:26:09 RT @deaneckles: Linguistic distance is associated with lower market integration. https://t.co/VFdIRGZVkm Makes me think of what happened… 2022-01-20 16:18:14 RT @DigEconLab: Why aren't Chinese state-owned, robot-adopting companies experiencing the same productivity boost as private firms? @robs… 2022-01-19 20:03:26 Great to see this: White House to distribute 400 million free N95 masks starting next week https://t.co/4b84Uq4RMu 2022-01-18 22:01:31 I just ordered my free Covid tests. It took less than a minute. https://t.co/tJGcSVO96G 2022-01-17 21:49:00 RT @redouad: Update: Switzerland now reports deaths by booster status. Compared to unvaccinated people, the COVID mortality rate is: • 9x… 2022-01-17 21:01:24 Vaccinations work https://t.co/s6qbJP9UJd 2022-01-17 17:48:09 Who could have predicted this? https://t.co/Yi5uydJ6q0 2022-01-17 16:00:08 @sama While both have some serious problems, on net high tech and leading research universities are some of America’s biggest successes 2022-01-17 15:49:49 @sama If the book is like the first paragraph, it isn’t remotely like what I see in academia. Of course there are some mediocre and even unethical people doing research, just as in business, investing, government, religion etc But most academics I know are trying to uncover the truth 2022-01-17 15:40:15 @bod25mike With America lagging in vaccinations as thousands of people are hospitalized and businesses suffer, it seems appropriate to call out the people whose cowardice and political cynicism prolongs the pandemic for the rest of us. 2022-01-17 15:31:41 The cynical decision to politicize of Covid vaccinations has cost America hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. https://t.co/97wZA3bPft 2022-01-17 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-11 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-04 00:39:17 RT @MIT_CSAIL: Tech birthdays in 2022: Lyft: 10 years Snapchat: 11 years Uber: 13 years Twitter: 16 years Facebook: 18 years Tesla: 19 yea… 2022-01-03 23:06:06 @tdietterich Weighting index funds by market cap does have some problems. 2022-01-03 23:04:14 RT @pairagraph: Will it be a Roaring 2020s? @erikbryn and Bob Gordon are debating on @pairagraph: https://t.co/VfQedTVnYF 2022-01-03 21:45:16 RT @StanfordHAI: What trends in AI should we expect to see in 2022? HAI Faculty Affiliate @chelseabfinn looks forward to advances in offli… 2022-01-03 21:45:03 The first trillion is always the hardest. https://t.co/NYqVaAaKrx 2022-01-03 20:09:42 RT @StanfordCDDRL: On the anniversary of the violent attack on Congress at the US Capital, join @hakeemjefferson & 2022-01-03 17:43:50 The Smoke Shop BBQ, a restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts is experimenting with a robot made by Bear Robotics to help serve food and bring back dirty dishes. https://t.co/xBWAzIMrqR Has anyone seen "Rosie" the robot in action? #AI #Robots @DigEconLab https://t.co/J948oinbbw 2022-01-03 11:32:47 RT @mnolangray: It's wild how much of the US is actively undergoing population decline. https://t.co/KO6tdappA5 2022-01-01 20:58:18 RT @ezraklein: And that can be expressed as a goal: People should have quick, costless access to vaccines, high-quality masks, high-quality… 2021-12-31 18:14:48 Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James HT: @Lara 2021-12-30 16:58:31 RT @EricTopol: Updated fatality rates by state vaccination % @nytgraphics https://t.co/X5b51E3y6T 2021-12-29 17:05:52 @asusarla @KHosanagar @digitalarun @avicgoldfarb @k_mcelheran Great question. There's no question there's been a big effort in many areas to move things on online and we've discovered new ways of working. Take, for instance, the way the @DigEconLab seminars and much of my teaching are now online. I don't think we'll go all the way back. 2021-12-28 04:57:36 RT @ScottGottliebMD: Age-adjusted rates of Covid associated hospitalizations by vaccine status. Adults over age 18. Data from Jan-Nov 2021… 2021-12-27 20:05:30 RT @jarmin_ron: If you're virtually free on Sat. 1/8 at 10EDT, join our #ASSA2022 virtual discussion of real-time economic stats with @erik… 2021-12-27 08:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-20 00:22:53 RT @prchovanec: This is the most important chart in the country right now, out of New York City, and I'm going to keep posting it until peo… 2021-12-20 00:20:06 True https://t.co/Opc3Udn76d 2021-12-20 00:14:01 RT @cmoncap: @erikbryn Get vaxxed, boosted, stay home and let AI rule the world! 2021-12-20 00:12:35 @notsofastfools Of course the vaccine works, even if it's not perfect. The evidence is overwhelming. The people who spread anti-vaccine misinformation have contributed to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, millions of hospitalizations and trillions of dollars of destroyed value. 2021-12-19 23:48:23 Because so many people chose not to get vaccinated yet, the next few months are going to be tough, even for those who are fully vaccinated (the vaccines are very good, but not perfect). Please get vaccinated and boosted. https://t.co/f1CS4LlnCB 2021-12-17 19:25:33 .@paulmromer makes a good point that early data on Omicron likely will be biased toward patients who have not (yet) had severe or fatal outcomes. https://t.co/PYeXSjIVln 2021-12-17 19:21:32 Congrats, @avi_collis, @Ananya_Sen_ , @alex_moehring and @ssnstudy! Well-deserved! https://t.co/yLU4LzskQ4 2021-12-17 17:06:02 RT @g2parker: “Architect” three factor model presented @WISE_Conf by @SBenzell with @erikbryn to resolve digital abundance versus secular s… 2021-12-17 17:05:47 RT @StanfordHAI: Stanford faculty @erikbryn, @chelseabfinn, @Rbaltman, and @BlattnerLaura explain what they expect to see in AI in 2022 in… 2021-12-17 17:05:37 RT @asusarla: @Fixed_Effects proves that cat pictures make everything more entertaining, even discussion of cybersecurity breeches cc @erik… 2021-12-17 16:37:26 On this day in 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright conducted the first successful powered-airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, using their experimental craft, the Wright Flyer. https://t.co/raXISkA5jB 2021-12-17 00:26:32 RT @FutureJurvetson: T͛h͛e͛ ͛A͛l͛c͛h͛e͛m͛y͛ ͛o͛f͛ ͛A͛i͛r͛ 50% of the nitrogen in our bodies is synthetic. It’s in every protein and every s… 2021-12-17 00:25:43 .@ezraklein is right. We should treat animals much, much better, especially the millions in horrific factory farms. More investment in meat substitutes would be a big help e.g. @GoodFoodInst https://t.co/MRjFGRQYMY 2021-12-16 18:02:17 @rovingatuscap Of course! 2021-12-14 22:48:23 "Face masks protect against COVID-19. That’s the conclusion of a gold-standard clinical trial in Bangladesh, which backs up the findings of hundreds of previous observational and laboratory studies" https://t.co/H74jqhGuy6 2021-12-14 22:15:49 RT @DigEconLab: From deep-learning image analysis to the end of political order as we know it, our fall 2021 Seminar Series covered a wide… 2021-12-14 21:11:30 RT @GaryMarcus: AI is here to stay. How can we make it a force for good? 12/23 @ 4pm ET @erikbryn, @YejinChoinka, @AvilaGarcez, @dileepl… 2021-12-14 19:24:44 @KarinaSFONYC @ericschmidt I read Herb Simon's work in grad school and it influenced my thinking a lot. 2021-12-14 19:09:41 @MinhaajR @ericschmidt Thanks! Glad you liked it. 2021-12-14 16:53:16 Starting in a few minutes! https://t.co/7VfkWYbGNn 2021-12-14 05:25:07 Join me tomorrow (Tuesday) at 9am Pacific Time for my Fireside Chat with Eric Schmidt. https://t.co/lFwowIOVHt 2021-12-11 04:07:35 RT @dilipsoman: Josh Angrist gives a masterclass on methods in his Nobel lecture (20:00 onwards) @avicgoldfarb @R_Thaler @katy_milkman @Ole… 2021-12-11 04:07:25 RT @DigEconLab: “The next five to 10 years could be some of the best ones for productivity growth than we’ve ever seen.” @erikbryn and oth… 2021-12-06 20:04:36 Starting now! https://t.co/B2fSFBqZeS 2021-12-06 19:08:29 In less than one hour @tomaspueyo will be presenting his provocative prediction of the End of Nation-States as digital technologies like the blockchain proliferate. Come join us at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab Seminar: https://t.co/26TEIjGOIA @DigEconLab #blockchain https://t.co/yhUgnr6Vsk 2021-12-05 23:55:00 @ABrynjolfsson Probably not much algae growing without sunlight, but maybe some condensation and mildew, depending on what the surface coating is and what nutrients the mildew can get there. 2021-12-05 18:54:44 "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett #2MA https://t.co/o5bSp0ok89 2021-12-05 02:42:23 overing canals with solar panels generates electricity and also reduces water evaporation and weed growth. A triple win. https://t.co/QRsa32Oycd https://t.co/yh9YF7jfd5 2021-12-04 04:59:50 RT @rotmanschool: Predictive analytics pays off with complementary investments - nearly $1 million productivity bump for some manufacturers… 2021-12-04 01:48:09 RT @DigEconLab: On Monday 12/6, @tomaspueyo joins @erikbryn for our final seminar of 2021: "The End of Nation-States." Learn more and reg… 2021-12-01 20:26:48 Investment in fusion power is heating up! "Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC said it has raised more than $1.8 billion in the largest private investment for nuclear fusion" @CFS_energy @MIT @vkhosla https://t.co/Ob6N2BvyVL 2021-12-01 19:21:19 Great news for the planet! https://t.co/jaa4O9LEar 2021-12-01 00:50:43 Here's a powerful new video about the growing dangers of Slaughterbots. A ban, similar to earlier bans on biological and chemical weapons, is currently being considered at the UN. @FLIxrisk https://t.co/NpDA8yeyJE 2021-11-30 22:58:40 @patrickc @paraga America is a magnet for talent from around the world. #immigration 2021-11-30 06:23:18 @amcafee @danielrock Not yet. 2021-11-30 01:33:47 RT @jayvanbavel: Best comic I’ve seen on human nature: are we good or bad? https://t.co/ZXuz5wnjlu 2021-11-30 00:22:02 The pandemic led to a lot more excess deaths than the ones attributed directly to COVID-19. https://t.co/AQ7Wz4Sm5q 2021-11-28 21:58:29 @FutureJurvetson @goLifeShip That is amazing! 2021-11-28 21:55:57 @scienceisstrat1 Thanks. That's a great plan! 2021-11-28 21:55:44 We should get behind this incredibly cost-effective plan to fight pandemics. As Eric Lander points out "cost of the COVID-19 pandemic to the United States alone has been an estimated $16 trillion, which makes spending $65.3 billion seem paltry." https://t.co/ewcD1ukwAf 2021-11-28 17:34:17 The new variant underscores how important it is for us to vaccinate the world. The smartest investment America and other wealthy countries could make right now is providing free vaccines to everyone in the world. #VaccinateTheWorld 2021-11-28 17:31:31 @FutureJurvetson Gorgeous! What would you put over/under on Luna walking on the moon someday? 2021-11-27 18:56:38 RT @BPellegrino_UMD: Super-interesting thread. UK Doctor quits the NHS over low pay/hours and terrible ICT-organizational infrastructure.… 2021-11-24 18:16:01 RT @CNBC: U.S. jobless claims fall to just 199,000, the lowest level since 1969 https://t.co/VNJGpGMa3Q 2021-11-24 18:00:15 @michael_nielsen @patrickc .@InfoEcon and I first did some work on how this might happen and different ways to measure it back in 1997. We called it cyberbalkanization. A student and I are exploring it further at the Stanford @DigEconLab https://t.co/m0EsBSAHAV 2021-11-24 16:25:02 Of course it's possible to increase living standards while cutting CO2 emissions. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. (And the decoupling would be even easier to see if we used better metrics than GDP to assess quality of life). https://t.co/IK5RgYdtMI 2021-11-24 16:15:29 Where is all that food going? Wait, I'm not sure I want to know https://t.co/crHJqS0rLU 2021-11-23 22:04:54 @arpitrage https://t.co/gRYUSltNh1 2021-11-23 21:56:36 RT @ianbremmer: What happens if you’re unvaccinated, EU edition: https://t.co/KHAAVhoRo8 2021-11-23 21:31:12 I just spoke to a postdoc who is caught in the immigration mess causing a massive waste of time, talent, productivity, innovation and money. The US can and should massively simplify and streamline the immigration and visa process. https://t.co/blm53wG3qk 2021-11-23 20:13:39 @DinosGonatas Good question. That won't happen if a) productivity improves, or b) income shifts to wage earners from capital owners, rentiers, and others. For a long time, median wages have lagged productivity and overall income growth in the economy. 2021-11-23 19:13:55 @drtcp @HarvardBiz @DigEconLab Thanks, Tomas. I'm glad I found your article. It's opening up a path to a lot more of your writing and research. 2021-11-23 19:10:07 US wages jump by the most in records dating back 20 years https://t.co/u9rXGk026i 2021-11-23 19:09:37 Finally! Rising competition for workers => rising wages better benefits and improved working conditions. https://t.co/wtqYkNEL34 2021-11-23 18:33:41 Here's a nice article by @drtcp laying out some of the essential components of digital transformation in @HarvardBiz https://t.co/vnCNclnZVb @DigEconLab https://t.co/Ikh4w4nat6 2021-11-19 20:01:04 How many of us would not be alive to day if there weren't mandatory vaccinations for smallpox 100 years ago? https://t.co/0Kwu8KFMwH 2021-11-19 16:55:33 https://t.co/v8lxu59DJu 2021-11-19 16:40:26 RT @eggers_felix: We have measured the value of toilets compared to many other items by asking which of them they could most easily live wi… 2021-11-19 16:04:15 There's impressive progress on EVs by @Ford Motor Company These are not small numbers. https://t.co/z40ypPunM9 2021-11-18 22:43:59 RT @EvanKirstel: Mask-wearing cuts Covid incidence by 53%, says global study https://t.co/HsdP77zot9 #covid #Covid_19 #COVID19 2021-11-18 02:32:57 RT @JonSchw73589513: @erikbryn See attached for more on this topic https://t.co/n9JkfTJpMG 2021-11-18 02:25:27 @JonSchw73589513 Here's the study they WaPo article cites: " In this systematic review, more than half of COVID-19 survivors experienced PASC 6 months after recovery." https://t.co/JREUeF8kES 2021-11-17 19:04:49 One of the most troubling aspects of Covid is the prospect of "long Covid", creating brain fog and other problems for 25-50% of people who survive Covid, even mild cases. That means millions of people will have impaired thinking for years. https://t.co/0EBJtE10EA 2021-11-16 21:57:01 RT @genebsperling: There are far more important things going on —— but can’t say it didn’t make my day to have ‘Economic Dignity’ make… 2021-11-16 20:40:52 Some wise words from @JimPethokoukis on the future of productivity, with some great graphs and a quote from me on the need to reinvent business processes to match our tech breakthroughs. https://t.co/I1MxOLJGW5 2021-11-16 20:36:33 @sinanaral @amcafee @InfoEcon @g2parker @mariaressa @HalGregersen @AliVelshi @deaneckles @jamesfmoore1 @mit_ide @MITSloan @AdamMGrant @katy_milkman @dhillon_p @CNicolaides @dylanwalker @LevMuchnik @avi_collis @SBenzell @andrew_anagnost @profgalloway Congrats, Sinan for this well-deserved recognition. Your work has been incredibly insightful and influential. I've been privileged to have had a chance to do research with you, teach with you, and learn from you. 2021-11-15 23:22:51 @johnjhorton @INFORMS @apo_filippas @profbarach @danielrock @hmslydia @EconStanton @ModeledBehavior @emmavaninwegen @JoeGoJoeGo @ocolluphid Congrats, John! This is a a bit of very well deserved recognition. For those who haven't been keeping up with John's work, here's a page to bookmark: https://t.co/siubKTWL5c 2021-11-15 18:31:50 Join us to hear @m_sendhil's surprising findings about how machine learning can uncover human biases. Register for the Digital Economy Lunch at https://t.co/9sYrm9ToV1 @DigEconLab #MachineLearning #AI #AlgorithmicBias https://t.co/B3luj0Hweo 2021-11-15 18:28:51 There are a lot of different ways to measure distance. Which raises the question, how far apart are these distance measures from each other? #deepthoughts https://t.co/9WNvG2V3ES 2021-11-14 01:42:03 RT @mattyglesias: In the Langer Consumer Comfort survey there’s been a fascinating divergence since the pandemic began between people’s ass… 2021-11-13 20:03:16 RT @DigEconLab: There's still time to register for our seminar with @m_sendhil. Join us for "Algorithmic Behavioral Science: Automated Di… 2021-11-12 19:01:14 "They promised us flying cars, but all we got was mind-controlled drones" https://t.co/iFBhA0l2cQ 2021-11-11 19:51:36 The progress in brain implants is staggering. https://t.co/RN1cQIJB9x 2021-11-11 19:49:05 @JohnRLottJr With 759,000 Americans now dead from Covid, in part due to anti-vax efforts, it's striking how politicized Covid vaccination is compared to other vaccines. For instance, many other vaccines are required in Florida, Texas and most other states. https://t.co/pXX3wB1DES 2021-11-11 19:02:00 @JJD_Aqua @nominalthoughts @jasonfurman @Zach28150464 FWIW, I've thought we should have easier monetary policy since 2009 for both those reasons, so it's not "ad hoc after the fact". 2021-11-11 18:51:25 RT @porszag: Consistent with ⁦@WhiteHouseCEA⁩ from yesterday, BIS report today suggests US-EU inflation differences modest outside bottlene… 2021-11-11 18:49:02 @nominalthoughts @jasonfurman @Zach28150464 There's also a distinct argument that after a decade of often undershooting the inflation target (while unemployment was too high), it would not be unfair to debtors to overshoot for while. 2021-11-11 18:46:11 @jasonfurman @Zach28150464 "highest ever been" = about 3% Isn't there a good argument that a better inflation target would be 3% (not 2%) so there's more room to ease in a recession? 2021-11-11 18:44:14 RT @paulkrugman: Putting this up for reference: the US economy looks overheated right now, but real GDP is still below where you would have… 2021-11-11 18:22:05 Some good news for dogs. Could be better for humans. https://t.co/Q7liCEJvMB 2021-11-11 18:14:55 @ben_golub We all need to be alert to the dangers of logarithmic bias. 2021-11-11 18:12:51 RT @schrep: This is an exciting moment on the path of building a universal translator. For the first time a AI model capable of translatin… 2021-11-11 18:09:12 RT @jennifernvictor: Successfully executed a "groupthink vs. wisdom of crowds" experiment in class this morning. This is the first time it'… 2021-11-11 05:02:45 RT @StanfordHAI: That concludes our fall conference on policy and AI! Special thanks to all of our keynote speakers, proposal presenters, p… 2021-11-10 19:47:30 RT @DigEconLab: How do judges decide whom to jail? A deep learning algorithm discovered that a defendant's face accounts for 30% of the var… 2021-11-10 19:47:09 RT @drfeifei: Motivated by algorithm harm, @rajiinio proposes to have "external, third party auditors" to assess algorithm accountability.… 2021-11-09 23:26:53 Tomorrow, two more of radical proposals for a better society will be presented and discussed: Divya Siddarth with a proposal for data ownership collectives and Deb Raji with pathway for third-party auditors to address algorithmic bias. Join here: https://t.co/l2NJOzJ24y https://t.co/0ePAsRzpWN 2021-11-09 19:08:51 Right now @AndrewYang is making his pitch for the "Freedom Dividend" and the panelists will shortly discuss and debate it. #UBI #BasicIncome https://t.co/UH2ruUqZZe 2021-11-09 18:59:21 Next up, a discussion of Basic Income featuring a proposal from @AndrewYang with discussion by Juliana Bidadanure, @markduggan_econ & @StanfordHAI @DigEconLab #RadicalPolicies4AI #UBI Join the conversation and post your questions here: https://t.co/fsa5x3zRkV 2021-11-09 17:20:26 Eric Lander is speaking now. Join us live! https://t.co/mJNx0dWqob 2021-11-09 14:29:58 RT @erikbryn: If you haven't registered yet, there's still time. Add your voice to the discussion of how we can build a better society and… 2021-11-08 16:27:25 If you haven't registered yet, there's still time. Add your voice to the discussion of how we can build a better society and economy. Which of the four proposals do you think would make the biggest impact? https://t.co/0ePAsRzpWN 2021-11-08 16:22:26 @tobinjstone And here's the @nberpubs version of the meme :) cc: @AndreyFradkin @bradjlarsen https://t.co/iZkGDZhzRY 2021-11-08 16:20:25 RT @AndreyFradkin: The occupational licensing literature in meme format. There may be some margin on which licensing improves outcomes, but… 2021-11-07 20:10:24 @Laeeth @balajis There always seems to be a group of people who think that hyperinflation is imminent or even underway, e.g. the link to trillion dollar notes in Zimbabwe. It's useful to remind everyone what the consensus forecast is, even if it's not perfect. 2021-11-07 17:54:49 The MIT billion prices project tracks official inflation as reported by the US government pretty closely. https://t.co/gvVSyPGdQ5 2021-11-07 17:48:53 @balajis Thanks for the link. I know the MIT billion prices project well and even did some early related work. As you probably know, it tracks official inflation in the US very well (not so much for Argentina, though). If anything, official measures slightly overestimate inflation. 2021-11-07 17:46:03 @ikirigin @balajis True inflation is probably a bit *less* than reported inflation because the BLS doesn't fully account for improvements in product quality (smartphones, etc) and product variety (options on Amazon, etc). See e.g. https://t.co/bFryEMoLZW 2021-11-07 17:44:42 @ortego_ @balajis Inflation has been mostly below target over the past 10 years, despite many claims of imminent runaway inflation starting in 2009 -- remember those? Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results. 2021-11-07 17:40:19 @balajis https://t.co/tg6Rf6bgil 2021-11-07 17:39:15 The 10 year breakeven inflation rate is 2.54%, a bit below its peak 10 years ago. https://t.co/qgPI5S4hg8 In other words, the investors' best estimate of inflation in the US over the next 10 years is between 2-3%. cc: @balajis https://t.co/xRM0YebkBn 2021-11-07 17:26:17 @wwwojtekk It often is what meritocracy looks like! 2021-11-07 16:41:03 .@Cruise has started testing self-driving taxis in San Francisco. Here's a video of co-founder Kyle Vogt taking the first ride. Progress! https://t.co/9KmB4t0wVv https://t.co/MP9Naq6gOi 2021-11-07 05:35:15 @alexisohanian Amazing! Do you have a source for this? Where can I get the details. Feel free to DM me if you prefer. 2021-11-07 00:46:15 @tiffani Mobile phone calls drop on campus all the time. Its arguably a public safety and health risk to not have reliable service. If you know a way to get this address, let me know 2021-11-07 00:30:36 South Korea handled Covid well https://t.co/ACWSeAvTlr 2021-11-07 00:25:27 @StefanFSchubert @elonmusk In most cases, they could borrow using their gains as collateral (as they often do already) without even selling. 2021-11-07 00:23:58 Congrats to Congress on passing the new infrastructure bill. It will (modestly) boost growth and living standards “I’d say it’s a slam-dunk positive—a small positive because the numbers are small” -- @Markzandi said https://t.co/l12XRx11eb 2021-11-07 00:13:42 @sama Real interest rates are *negative* out to 30 years. https://t.co/X11eGDhKzd 2021-11-07 00:11:40 @tiffani It's nuts 2021-11-07 00:10:46 Congrats to the Australians! https://t.co/MXNrZVdm68 2021-11-07 00:09:40 @elonmusk .@elonmusk's tweet shows how easy it would be for most wealthy people to pay capital gains periodically, the way ordinary wage earners currently pay income tax. 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 19:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 17:30:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-08-24 01:11:26 @amcafee @danielrock @ATabarrok I took your advice and Bob Gordon graciously took the other side. https://t.co/lURRD6KNms Happy to do another one jointly with @danielrock if they let us. 2021-08-24 00:55:46 RT @jaketapper: Marine veteran says: “One: For 20 years, politicians, elites and D.C. military leaders lied to us about Afghanistan. “Two… 2021-08-24 00:54:51 RT @mark_lynas: That Germany will close its two remaining nuclear fission plants next year despite a looming power crunch and a desperate s… 2021-08-24 00:54:23 I had a chance to read an advance copy of @MFordFuture's new book on AI. It's terrific! https://t.co/sgnlubg56T 2021-08-24 00:39:08 @MFordFuture @BasicBooks @ReelSmartVideo Congrats! 2021-08-23 17:38:06 RT @info_sprinkles: “Government should invest in tools to audits, measure and analyze models that are researched and deployed.” ⁦@And… 2021-08-23 17:12:03 RT @LineintheStreet: Gerrymandering is legislators choosing their voters - Gerrymandering plainly violate equal treatment rights And it’s… 2021-08-22 22:18:20 RT @Panos_MM: Very true. And yet another reason why getting foundation models right is so critical for industry. cc: @percyliang, @erikbr… 2021-08-22 17:03:58 @BjornLomborg Maybe just include something akin to your last tweet alongside the graph. I've seen many people use your work to "show" that climate change is not getting worse. You must know that and should be interested in avoiding that. (And. yes, others also mislead people.) 2021-08-22 16:49:55 @BjornLomborg You show a chart of a one particular measure of heat not getting worse. Many people will believe that this outweighs the mountain of evidence that global warming is getting worse. It's like graphing how "millions of vaccinated people have died" so anti-vaxxers will misuse it. 2021-08-22 16:41:15 @BjornLomborg I'm glad you included the last tweet in your thread, and careful readers of your work know that you do not deny the reality of worsening climate change. But we both know your work is also widely used by those who do deny climate change, and you facilitate that mistake. 2021-08-22 16:37:49 @BjornLomborg As you know, there are thousands of technically true statements that are misleading. Making it your goal to widely circulate such statements when you know that many people will be misled about climate change getting worse seems pedantic at best, and disingenuous at worst. 2021-08-22 16:29:10 @BjornLomborg If you believe the first three statements, and you know that your selection of graphs have been and will be widely used to mislead people to mistakenly believe the opposite, then why do you produce and circulate them? 2021-08-21 17:38:44 @AdamMGrant “Plan” may be to strong a word, but a long-term vision, with periodic check-ins works for a lot of people. Some goals, like becoming a professor, building a company or launching a rocket to Mars take more than a year or two. Big goals be pretty inspiring in fact. 2021-08-21 17:30:57 @primalpoly Bike ride through the hills 2021-08-21 17:08:07 RT @ATabarrok: I did not predict 'water shortages because so much liquid oxygen is needed for COVID patients'. The economy is complex. 1/2… 2021-08-21 12:22:39 RT @markduggan_econ: Proud to be cited in today's @nytimes alongside my friend & 2021-08-20 22:49:00 @Fortister @elonmusk Have you ever driven a Tesla? 2021-08-20 04:57:43 RT @EricTopol: Today 44% more Floridians are in the hospital than any time during the pandemic. Fulfilling informal definition of "train wr… 2021-08-20 04:55:18 “In the future, physical labor will be a choice,” Musk said, adding that that will likely result in a universal basic income, someday. This is true. And that future just got a little closer. #AIday @elonmusk https://t.co/VF5iRImW6a 2021-08-20 02:27:07 @scienceisstrat1 @ylecun @sama @kaifulee @amcafee For several years, Chinese researchers have been publishing more papers in AI but only recently have they been getting as many citations as those by American authors. No question there’s a lot of quality research being done in China now. @indexingai 2021-08-19 18:27:27 RT @StefanFSchubert: “Private Nonfarm business productivity growth will average over 1.8 percent per year from the first quarter (Q1) of 20… 2021-08-19 18:27:08 @DigEconLab See the article "The U.S. could be on the verge of a productivity boom" by @byHeatherLong with quotes from James Manyika of @McKinsey_MGI, @DianeSwonk, Brian Niccol, @DavidBeckworth, @JoeBiden, @jc_econ and others: https://t.co/3dYFpaMN0l #productivity #EconTwitter @DigEconLab 2021-08-19 18:17:42 @DigEconLab Here's our long bet about productivity in the 2020s: https://t.co/lURRD72oe0 2021-08-19 18:16:39 @DigEconLab I think #AI will help fuel a productivity boom. My friend Bob Gordon doesn't agree: “AI is nothing new, and for more than a decade has replaced human customer service representatives by annoying voice-recognition systems without reviving growth,” argues economist Robert Gordon. 2021-08-19 18:15:04 “America used to do a lot more public investment and it used to grow faster. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. It seems like we are reentering an era of public investment,” said professor Erik Brynjolfsson, director of @DigEconLab https://t.co/3dYFpaMN0l https://t.co/8ZbviutdCm 2021-08-19 15:03:17 RT @DigEconLab: Our Seminar Series returns Oct 4 with @MelissaLDell. The Harvard economist will talk with @erikbryn about Layout Parser, an… 2021-08-18 19:32:53 Looking forward to it! https://t.co/tN3g3ftTGT 2021-08-18 18:56:55 Our white paper about the Foundation Models (like GPT-3) is out today. It was great working with @zanmuny @MinaLee__ and @percyliang on the section about the big economic implications. Read it here: https://t.co/J53dNWLs4c #AI #MachineLearning @StanfordHAI @DigEconLab 2021-08-18 18:21:55 I suspect this was one of those serendipitous discoveries that tinkerers come across. https://t.co/0fSceJb8v8 2021-08-18 17:56:45 Large “Foundation models” like GPT-3 will have a profound effect not just on language but many other areas. Our paper highlights some key issues and potential effects. Next week we will have a conference. Thanks to Percy Liang for leading the effort. @StanfordHAI @DigEconLab https://t.co/iTFDJzuHfW 2021-08-18 17:24:59 @johnnydocontra @DigEconLab For sure this was highly choreographed and required multiple takes, but I’ve met with the founder and chief engineers and saw similar things live. They are improving rapidly. Last time I checked, battery run time remained a significant constraint. 2021-08-18 17:05:15 RT @DigEconLab: “The past 15 years have been economically tough for many Americans, but there are encouraging signs of a turnaround,” write… 2021-08-18 15:14:50 This is an amazing time to be alive. #2MA @DigEconLab https://t.co/chBlTGFei1 2021-08-18 01:48:37 RT @willwilkinson: Good. 2021-08-17 15:57:29 RT @jbarro: Makes me skeptical that we could have spent weeks or months openly preparing for the fall of Kabul by evacuating tens of thousa… 2021-08-17 15:10:19 RT @D_W_Wilcox: A new paper from the estimable David Reifschneider* and me, with a novel argument for why the @federalreserve should raise… 2021-08-17 15:05:02 RT @p_millerd: Who are the most interesting thinkers or ideas you’ve stumbled upon on a podcast? 2021-08-17 05:33:31 RT @mattdpearce: why did California create a recall system where you can replace a governor with an even less popular governor 2021-08-16 22:50:55 RT @EricTopol: Pretty sharp contrast with the United States, where most airlines won't even require vaccination for their employees. Unable… 2021-08-16 03:03:27 RT @pahlkadot: If you're looking for a movie to watch tonight, consider Charlie Wilson's War. 2021-08-16 02:21:11 @wwwojtekk Don’t send eyeballs to people like that 2021-08-15 03:01:24 RT @googlemaps: With 3D Globe Mode on Google Maps desktop, Greenland's projection is no longer the size of Africa. Just zoom all the way… 2021-08-15 00:37:05 I really like this tool from a team over at @MIT. It estimates the greenhouse gas emissions per mile for most car models. HT: @jgkoomey https://t.co/EIYmgpnjN5 https://t.co/n8lIQJn2al 2021-08-14 19:53:21 Here's an interesting and balanced piece by Michael Smith and @InfoEcon who argue that it's time to update Section 230: https://t.co/WWcgLKJB84 @DigEconLab @Facebook @twitter 2021-08-14 17:34:13 RT @DataGovNetwork: Listen to Episode 18 of the #BraveNewWorld #Podcast. Our host, Professor @VasantDhar speaks with Professor Erik Brynjol… 2021-08-12 19:09:53 RT @wwwojtekk: Tax carbon and no need to second guess what is clean and what is not "For Many, Hydrogen Is the Fuel of the Future. New Res… 2021-08-12 17:49:27 .@AI21Labs is launching a language model even bigger than GPT-3. These are exciting times! https://t.co/nDLr832hZ3 2021-08-11 23:08:02 @DinaPomeranz @mileskimball Every government, especially wealth nations, should spend more money to pay for vaccine production. Much, much more. 2021-08-11 20:13:14 What if everyone on twitter sent Tweets like this? https://t.co/uiy981ovPS 2021-08-11 20:08:25 @DinaPomeranz @mileskimball But damping down demand is a far worse lever than increasing supply (which costs pennies on the dollar) 2021-08-11 18:26:15 Come work with me and the amazing people at the Stanford @DigEconLab as a post-doc! We doing research on AI and the Future of Work, Measuring the Digital Economy and lots of other areas. Please spread the word! https://t.co/6Ki84yyi1D 2021-08-11 17:50:18 RT @Bill_George: In my latest Fortune article, I urge all CEOs to mandate vaccines for all their employees coming to their offices. https:/… 2021-08-11 16:39:39 RT @newrepublic: The panic from pork producers over legislation shows just how comfortable American agribusiness has become with a business… 2021-08-11 16:03:11 RT @mileskimball: There is no reason that both 3d booster jabs and vaccination for kids 5-11 shouldn't be approved immediately *by prescrip… 2021-08-11 15:55:12 @_alternatestate I'm glad you already knew. Either a lot of other people didn't know or they have some other agenda. 2021-08-11 15:36:25 Here's an excellent summary of the benefits of reducing pollution by @ClaudiaLPersico TL https://t.co/lPbh9RqsdU HT: @AlecStapp #EconTwitter 2021-08-11 15:28:08 @paulg If the weather is good, yep. 2021-08-11 15:23:13 There's a massive ROI for improving the quality of air that kids breath. It's also just the right thing to do. https://t.co/5VyvvsBkAj 2021-08-11 15:21:05 Particulate pollution is deadly and leads to a variety of maladies. This is bad news. https://t.co/QhIX8wm0YU 2021-08-11 01:45:59 RT @JosephSakran: As a surgeon who does both elective and emergency surgery, what’s happening again and now in hospitals across America is… 2021-08-10 23:53:58 @fredgoff @DigEconLab Thanks, Fred! 2021-08-10 22:31:05 At the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, we're working to understand the challenges and opportunities created by AI and the digital economy. Please follow us at @DigEconLab to learn more about our research, seminars, and projects. #AI #futureofwork #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/PGRRcvEB91 2021-08-10 22:15:48 RT @RepRoKhanna: The U.S. health care system ranks last in access, equity, and efficiency of care among wealthy countries. Every American… 2021-08-10 22:04:32 Here's a great article about booming productivity by @Neil_Irwin: https://t.co/9VWR8fWhsc Will it last? I'm betting (literally) that it will: https://t.co/lURRD72oe0 #productivity #econtwitter @DigEconLab 2021-08-10 21:19:49 RT @EconBerger: This morning I had the pleasure of chatting with @adsteel and @GuyJohnsonTV (@BloombergTV ) about hiring, the Great Reshuff… 2021-08-10 21:19:27 @natashaantonova That's a terrific article. Certainly the job mix is part of the story, and some of that, too, may be long-lasting. 2021-08-10 17:20:09 Great news! https://t.co/wlgWpEDvv6 2021-08-10 15:55:33 RT @econnaturalist: Not being vaccinated causes serious harm to others. https://t.co/8bQLXhUc3o 2021-08-10 14:59:01 @Markets_Options @DigEconLab @BLS_gov Yep. One percent at an annual rate in the last quarter. 0.1% year-over-year. 2021-08-10 14:33:20 Labor productivity up 2.3% last quarter Better than most of the past decade, but I expected a bigger jump Year over year: A big increase in output (15.8%) and hours worked (13.6%). Contrary to fears, unit labor costs barely budged (0.1%) #econtwitter @DigEconLab @BLS_gov https://t.co/mQxjDOtEAH 2021-08-10 14:17:55 Inexcusable mismanagement. https://t.co/1iYJS2Tv9K 2021-08-09 22:15:05 RT @AlecStapp: All-time great "you know nothing of my work" tweet https://t.co/dlVsyP34fo 2021-08-09 21:28:26 The U.S. military will mandate Covid-19 vaccines for troops. https://t.co/F5a2GvZMA2 2021-08-09 21:24:55 @besttrousers Which is why it's surprising that the vaccination rate is below average. 2021-08-09 21:21:16 It looks like policies and/or culture really make a difference in hospitalization rates. https://t.co/uyDj3Ee3ri 2021-08-09 18:05:44 In fact, AI is as likely to replace capital as labor https://t.co/hO6lZsMXKI 2021-08-09 17:47:18 HT: @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/HLXmtL1POJ 2021-08-09 15:35:24 RT @VasantDhar: I had a great conversation with Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn on the "second wave of the second machine age" on Brave New Wor… 2021-08-09 00:35:50 RT @Xtina_Korp: Astronaut Ron McNair was the brother of my friend Carl McNair. When I asked if this story was accurate Carl replied: “100… 2021-08-08 18:47:32 @ianbremmer I know a lot of academics and I’ve never met one who was even close to being a fan of Chavez 2021-08-08 18:43:59 It was tempting but ultimately destructive to create false equivalencies in a quest to seem “balanced” 2021-08-08 18:42:17 @mattyglesias And not OK to create false equivalencies to seem balanced 2021-08-08 18:41:14 @ianbremmer But not remotely symmetric: Tucker is the number one personality on Fox 2021-08-08 18:10:49 https://t.co/tFCHYSr9UE 2021-08-08 17:38:21 @ZacharyT123 @Neil_Irwin Yep. And as each one of them individually fills their overhead bin 100 people behind them wait, until the next person fills their bin 2021-08-08 16:36:38 @Neil_Irwin I just boarded a flight and it was so perplexing that they boarded groups from the front to the back which is approximately the most inefficient possible way to board. I had to bite my tongue not to explain this to the very nice flight attendant. 2021-08-08 13:37:03 RT @dcallahan2: According to @erikbryn #productivity is on the verge of a new surge "most OECD countries are just passing the lowest point… 2021-08-07 23:33:21 Finally, something people across the political spectrum can agree on https://t.co/sMcKPuUDR1 2021-08-07 23:02:05 RT @dilipsoman: #PriceDiscrimination #MCV @avicgoldfarb @erikbryn @TesaryLin @professor_ajay 2021-08-07 16:43:33 @primalpoly I largely agree but I would make a slight edit: “To the flourishing of the nation and the world.” It’s not zero-sum. We can all do very well or we can all do very badly 2021-08-07 11:20:02 Cheaper batteries may be coming soon. https://t.co/D7xSXztpu0 2021-08-07 03:49:07 @elonmusk @ID_AA_Carmack @shivon Wait till they do it on a beam 100,000 feet up 2021-08-07 01:52:23 Intelligent, well-meaning people like Mr. Lawrenson are literally dying, and spreading disease, due to well-organized misinformation campaigns. https://t.co/5YriDLIQo1 2021-08-06 23:43:24 @KwaniALunis I’m rooting for him to succeed and I think most Patriots fans are. 2021-08-06 23:00:02 @seanjtaylor I'm somewhere in between. I never expected the vaccines to "solve all our problems" but I also didn't expect people to be so slow to accept them or the anti-vax/poltical spin to be so effective. 2021-08-06 22:54:49 It was such fun to talk with @VasantDhar on his podcast about technology, economics, AI and lots of other topics Here's the episode: https://t.co/OQR2k3lUDa #econtwitter #AI #2ma @DigEconLab 2021-08-06 20:02:37 @21milkman @primalpoly @ATabarrok It would not be unique. Smoking, obesity, risky driving and many other factors under the control of the individual affect insurance costs. Only pre-existing conditions can't be surcharged. 2021-08-06 19:52:44 @imbernomics Do you mean ACA? The article says they can: "obesity is not considered a pre-existing condition, so insurers can charge higher premiums when providing health insurance for obese people" 2021-08-06 19:46:34 RT @GumbyPI: @erikbryn smokers can be charged 50% more. https://t.co/qkG2ia6Dzb 2021-08-06 19:45:06 RT @FairweatherPhD: Over a decade ago I started seriously developing my skills as an economist. About 7 yrs ago I started seriously develop… 2021-08-06 19:44:09 If insurance costs 30 to 50% more for obese people, why doesn’t it cost more for people who choose to remain unvaccinated against Covid? https://t.co/87YgLypgfo 2021-08-06 19:38:21 The saddest part is that most of these deaths were entirely preventable. Hospitals are now running out of oxygen. https://t.co/qXeNbBVjJz 2021-08-06 19:37:18 @MikeDGarrison1 @primalpoly @ATabarrok “Generally, people with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher can expect to pay more each month for health insurance. In some cases, health insurance for obese people costs 25 to 50 percent more than coverage for people with a BMI below 30. “ 2021-08-06 19:34:39 @21milkman @primalpoly @ATabarrok Smokers do pay more. But you have a point that infectious diseases especially appropriate to avoid subsidizing 2021-08-06 19:33:35 @MikeDGarrison1 @primalpoly @ATabarrok We already do: https://t.co/87YgLypgfo 2021-08-06 19:13:51 @primalpoly @ATabarrok Isn’t being responsible for your own actions literally the libertarian approach? 2021-08-06 19:07:11 @seanjtaylor Hasn’t it been by far the most effective solution so far? Wouldn’t even more and faster vaccine availability, especially the developing world, be even better? 2021-08-06 19:04:18 @Noahpinion I was just telling my Pro-environmentalism son about it yesterday, but even I didn’t realize how powerful it is 2021-08-06 19:02:19 RT @ianbremmer: Greece burning along with the country’s worst heat wave in decades. #GreeceFires https://t.co/OJbCwnlRVG 2021-08-06 18:53:28 RT @ATabarrok: "Don’t want the COVID-19 vaccine? Then pay the full cost if you land in the hospital" Jonathan Meer. https://t.co/oUwCFxYgUq 2021-08-06 18:50:58 Here’s a nice example of the Kuznets Curve for the environment in action https://t.co/vHd2SmE60e 2021-08-06 16:58:15 Here's an interesting new working paper by Jason Sockin, @aaronsojourner and @evanpstarr finding yet more evidence that NDAs often do more harm than good. #EconTwitter @DigEconLab https://t.co/Xc9zKSZdKf 2021-08-06 16:44:16 RT @mattyglesias: "America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nation… 2021-08-06 16:43:40 RT @LonesSmith: Officer Einstein has set up a speed trap down the road https://t.co/DXNwpxtQPh 2021-08-06 14:31:45 @joshgans @erin_l_scott @sstern_mit @ENT_Div_AoM @rotmanschool @creativedlab Congrats! 2021-08-06 13:31:31 RT @paulg: Climate change doesn't just mean things gradually get warmer. If it disrupts weather patterns, the result could be a lot more da… 2021-08-06 05:02:53 RT @jasonfurman: Yesterday I got 2 types of replies to a tweet about the crypto provision in the bipartisan bill: (1) don’t stop our tax ev… 2021-08-06 00:52:17 Free markets in action https://t.co/x9acI4lWQr 2021-08-05 23:50:26 RT @Noahpinion: During this period, Hungary has also fallen behind Poland and failed to make up ground with Czechia. https://t.co/keKGcljM5m 2021-08-05 06:47:45 RT @DigEconLab: We're searching for a Director of Strategic Initiatives to take our major projects to the next level. If you want to be par… 2021-08-04 21:59:16 RT @GoogleAI: Natural speech often has disruptions and complexities that are difficult for #NLP models to understand. Today we introduce tw… 2021-08-04 16:26:18 @DonFSchneider Very useful. Too bad it ends in 2018. Stock market is again at all-time highs. 2021-08-04 16:21:49 @DonFSchneider Thanks! Can you link to the source? 2021-08-04 16:15:13 @DonFSchneider Was 2000 an unusual peak due to the https://t.co/SLOKq9dNFj and stock market bubble? Do you have a series with other start dates? 2021-08-04 15:05:02 @ScottAdamsSays Probably. But the number of people with some level of brain impairment is likely much larger than the number of people who die, and the first group is surely much younger. 2021-08-03 23:43:14 @jbarro @ATabarrok @mht_nh_police True, but you can’t prosecute them for claiming that 2021-08-03 15:07:51 Let’s do this! https://t.co/roWcncJe7b 2021-08-03 14:28:19 @ScottAdamsSays More likely the opposite. People who survive Covid may have long-term brain impairment: https://t.co/i3X7xZRY7K 2021-08-03 13:58:33 @Kittywampus @Noahpinion I’m referring to the bottom row of the table, specifically the bottom right number that summarizes the net benefits: $794 billion 2021-08-03 04:05:24 RT @Noahpinion: Why don't Americans trust each other as much as we used to? A deep-ish dive into the possible causes of the trust decline.… 2021-08-03 00:42:31 RT @EGonzOBGYN: Aaaaaand we just cancelled all elective surgeries. Here we go again and again and again 2021-08-03 00:41:11 Think different. https://t.co/SoTp0PZwzm 2021-08-03 00:38:05 Seeing is believing. But believing isn't always reality. https://t.co/3jVVMb96Jj 2021-08-03 00:35:10 RT @NikkiFried: We reported this yesterday and the Governor’s office called me a liar. Ron DeSantis is the problem. https://t.co/wfvP1NfRFP 2021-08-02 22:27:23 A good reminder https://t.co/1COKOu1NZI 2021-08-02 22:25:55 @elonmusk @stem_feed And batteries or other energy storage 2021-08-02 22:19:06 I just heard about yet another vaccinated person who did not have a breakthrough case of Covid and is perfectly healthy. It seems like there are more and more of them. 2021-08-02 21:03:36 @bruce_lambert Yep. Could be less. Or more. 2021-08-02 20:04:01 Wow, almost $800B of benefit on a $100B investment! That's an ROI that would make any VC, hedge fund manager, or CEO salivate. https://t.co/ZAH6bVqDpZ 2021-08-02 19:28:05 True story. My Google Home speaker wanted to join in the panel conversation when it heard me mention its name. Maybe someday it will even have something constructive to contribute https://t.co/bpCqfFtYFj 2021-08-02 16:05:30 Live now. Come join us! https://t.co/Yr926gBbAG 2021-08-02 14:34:23 RT @patrykkyrtap: Today at 12pm EDT: an @AOMConnect symposium on human-machine cooperation & 2021-08-02 05:24:38 @StavrosZenios Historically, almost all the people in those financial centers worked physically near each other. But with (synchronous) remote work they could be physically distant as long as they were interacting with each other at the same time 2021-08-02 02:01:53 Micro foundations https://t.co/dVymUJcrar 2021-08-02 00:49:56 What a great thread! https://t.co/TnbgXaYuAf 2021-08-02 00:27:48 RT @russbroomell: This has been my experience over the last few years - and 2020 only accelerated it. Worked with people in Eastern time +… 2021-08-02 00:07:29 3000 years ago, the spread of agricultural crops and techniques happened across places at similar latitudes. In a remote work world, will business processes and knowledge work cluster a long longitude instead? https://t.co/wzsnuD7Vf6 2021-08-01 23:25:14 I hear stories like this all the time from smart people, like my students and colleagues, eager to come to America to contribute to its strengths in technology and science. Often it’s due to nit-picky and unwelcoming attitudes by immigration officials rather than specific rules. https://t.co/rsO6E9DMKv 2021-08-01 23:19:53 @mattyglesias @JHWeissmann That’s essentially what happen with a lot of other California rules. And in this case the rules for more ethical treatment of animals don’t seem particularly onerous. In fact, with proper labeling they might be appealing to consumers across the country. 2021-08-01 23:18:41 @JHWeissmann @mattyglesias Why is that a concern? The more ethical treatment of animals seems long-overdue and the California rule for a slightly more space is not that onerous 2021-08-01 02:52:38 RT @alon_levy: How to Build High-Speed Rail with Money the United States Has [funding request] https://t.co/8W54WnofEo 2021-07-31 21:22:08 RT @ramez: The intersection of electric vehicles, the grid, and clean energy is going to be fascinating. Huge opportunity here to use EVs t… 2021-07-31 21:20:40 RT @amcafee: Point/counterpoint: New @nytopinion on why the European approach to AI regulation is smart: https://t.co/h8GCm52SOi vs my re… 2021-07-31 21:14:55 RT @jason_pontin: Nuclear is the best carbon-neutral energy technology that actually exists. Let’s make fission cheaper, practical, and fue… 2021-07-31 20:42:46 RT @k_mcelheran: Amazing presos coming from @robseamans , @prithwic , Chris Forman (@Cornell). Heroic discussion from the incomparable @Aij… 2021-07-31 20:42:39 RT @k_mcelheran: The Digital Age has arrived unevenly. Complements matter, as @erikbryn and I argue every chance we get! Check out the #AOM… 2021-07-31 18:25:43 RT @CFCamerer: This is a big deal and setback for FTC. Highly authoritative economist Carl Shapiro quit (his views in URSL) likely because… 2021-07-31 16:15:50 RT @scienceisstrat1: Massive sums of venture capital are flowing into #AI startups @JTLonsdale @lexfridman @amcafee @erikbryn @kaifulee ht… 2021-07-31 08:34:16 @GWOMaths 28 2021-07-30 04:38:30 @chr1sa There is a fusion breakthrough though. 2021-07-29 22:13:55 RT @ATabarrok: George Washington ordered the Continental army to be variolated with smallpox in 1777 but we still haven't ordered all US mi… 2021-07-29 21:24:19 RT @iyadrahwan: Excited to launch "Evil AI Cartoons" Cartoons (drawn by yours truly) + commentary to stimulate the debate on AI ethics, ri… 2021-07-29 17:50:57 RT @Simone_Biles: the outpouring love & 2021-07-29 17:48:05 RT @SMEasterbrook: In Toronto, 94.3% of people in the 18-24 age group have now received at least one dose of COVID vaccine (highest of any… 2021-07-29 05:14:39 RT @steak_umm: ok it's time to talk about societal distrust in experts and institutions, the rise of misinformation, cultural polarization,… 2021-07-28 23:33:17 @M__Verbruggen Because they are typically anti-competitive: "more stringent licensing regulations are associated with less competition and higher prices but not with any improvement in customer satisfaction" https://t.co/iZkGDZhzRY 2021-07-28 23:19:28 Good. In general, we need fewer occupational licenses, not more https://t.co/gxzotp569E 2021-07-28 18:52:47 RT @Noahpinion: The light punishment encouraged further coup attempts -- five in all, over the course of the 1930s. https://t.co/pWAKWeUAm1 2021-07-28 18:46:52 RT @CREWcrew: How many more headlines like this one before Members of Congress are banned from trading stocks? It’s long overdue. https://t… 2021-07-28 17:55:21 @EducationNext @swinshi That's only counting the benefit to the recipient. What about benefit to the person paying (who prefers to see the money spent on food and housing vs. other things)? 2021-07-28 17:52:40 @gtconway3d Are you sure it wasn't a counterfeit store? 2021-07-28 17:51:16 This plus piped-in muffler rumbling is all that's needed to win over millions of hesitant electric car buyers https://t.co/JNdjezEXyI 2021-07-28 17:48:37 @mattyglesias A good time to bundle in a standard service charge in lieu of tips as well. 2021-07-28 11:32:36 RT @NAChristakis: If you want to understand why, despite vaccination, we may still need to implement other protective measures, such as mas… 2021-07-27 20:50:14 RT @Nlitsardopoulos: Remembering the great Olympic athletes: Chionis of Laconia (Greek: Χίονις), was an athlete of ancient Greece who was… 2021-07-27 20:43:24 Cutting the time tax should be the top of every political platform. Time taxes are inefficient taxes. https://t.co/pHdUZOTcOY 2021-07-27 15:03:04 RT @paulg: @nntaleb In fact your claim is so far from plausibility that it's verging on incoherence. E.g. in our thought experiment do we h… 2021-07-27 15:03:00 RT @paulg: @nntaleb I understand why people want to believe that, but it's easy to disprove by the following thought experiment. Imagine no… 2021-07-27 15:02:03 RT @k_mcelheran: This looks fascinating! Important stories. @Cmgartenberg @raffasadun @monavernon @asusarla @ghadfield @professor_ajay @er… 2021-07-27 05:06:40 RT @CedricFeschotte: https://t.co/OA021pJWIZ 2021-07-27 02:08:25 @paulg @clairlemon Yep. But there are many people, — e g propagandists, demagogues, charlatans, conmen, hucksters, etc — who benefit from reducing Americans’ trust in science, scientists and other more credible sources. 2021-07-27 00:39:47 Amazing! “Malaria has been with us for millennia,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “Eradicating it has been a long-held but unattainable dream, but new technologies like mRNA are making what was once a fantasy a possibility.” https://t.co/3KED9Rjq3E 2021-07-26 18:28:54 RT @UglyResearch: The people have spoken (that's you). By a narrow majority, poll results say AI robots are getting smarter and Human+AI pr… 2021-07-26 18:26:18 @petercoy @nytopinion That’s terrific. Congrats to the NYT for landing you! 2021-07-26 06:22:48 @elonmusk Biggest Bang for the Buck 2021-07-26 00:42:12 Goat + CGI can do things neither could do separately 2021-07-25 22:12:56 Goat versus machine. https://t.co/HTrblDsEeh 2021-07-25 18:58:58 @paulg Why the hyperbole? 2021-07-25 16:12:04 @jimiuorio Rule of thumb: when different prices reflect different supply and demand for different goods, the monetary system is working well. 2021-07-25 15:14:03 And support for more immigration has been trending up in the US https://t.co/5UwCcW5XQM 2021-07-25 12:09:11 @mattyglesias Everyone goes there because it’s so uncrowded. -Yogi Yglesias 2021-07-25 05:14:10 One of America’s biggest advantages is that it’s long been a magnet for talent and entrepreneurship https://t.co/tvqzkL4QYO 2021-07-25 04:42:26 @WardDPatrick Robot boxing 2021-07-25 04:41:30 @Noahpinion Congrats. That’s well deserved! 2021-07-25 04:41:14 RT @Noahpinion: I am happy to announce that my Substack, Noahpinion, has reached 30,000 email signups! I no longer feel as if I'm shoutin… 2021-07-25 04:01:14 @smarshxo @Patriots Fubo tv 2021-07-24 21:33:55 @Noahpinion For some types of information, for instance Moore’s law, there’s really no other practical alternative. 2021-07-24 21:06:41 "becoming an inventor relies upon two things in America: excelling in mathematics and science and having a rich family." from https://t.co/cv4WM6fbAl by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, John Van Reenen via @Edsall and @amcafee https://t.co/xQpJLURJUq 2021-07-24 05:40:01 The UK is smart. And has a plan to get even smarter. https://t.co/pa7BKhq26y 2021-07-24 03:44:38 RT @SvenGeier: @erikbryn @Noahpinion Sometimes the algorithm delivers... https://t.co/VRLFCIvrhe 2021-07-24 00:39:54 RT @SIEPR: SIEPR is collaborating with @weareca100. Led by @SIEPR's @markduggan_econ and @DigEconLab's @erikbryn, the work kicks off this s… 2021-07-23 23:41:32 RT @Noahpinion: Is it illegal to paint your horse as a zebra and run around yelling "Look, it's a zebra!!"? 2021-07-23 23:39:39 @Noahpinion It shouldn’t be 2021-07-23 21:56:53 Tom is probably thinking about the fingers that don’t have rings yet https://t.co/xT3Ui6cdN2 2021-07-23 21:54:33 RT @FacebooksTop10: The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from: 1. Diamond And Silk 2. Diamond And… 2021-07-23 19:45:11 @nberpubs The agenda (scroll to the end for th lightning talks): https://t.co/EEE5I7dyIn 2021-07-23 19:43:51 Come drink from the firehose. We are now live with lightning talks at the @nberpubs IT and Digitization workshop. Livestream: https://t.co/mPNKlNzsUI 2021-07-23 18:46:58 @DigEconLab @StanfordHAI Links to these papers, and the others, at the NBER IT and Digitization Workshop #EconTwitter #AI https://t.co/EEE5I7dyIn 2021-07-23 18:44:47 @DigEconLab @StanfordHAI Robot investment is growing, but interestingly, its mainly in developing countries (from Robots and Firm Investment by Efraim Benmelech, Michal Zator) https://t.co/o64VcUvFz2 2021-07-23 18:42:22 cc: @DigEconLab @StanfordHAI 2021-07-23 18:41:32 Now: Robots and Firm Investment Efraim Benmelech Michal Zator Automation and the Future of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century James J. Feigenbaum Daniel P. Gross Discussant: Daron Acemoglu #EconTwitter #AI https://t.co/mPNKlNzsUI 2021-07-23 16:41:32 Congrats, @amcafee! I can't wait to read this! https://t.co/SSHfvSmQ5M 2021-07-23 16:20:54 Applications for new business are 50% higher in 2021 than comparable period in 2019. -- @JHaltiwanger_UM 2021-07-23 16:12:53 Here are the participants: Panel: New Methods of Real-Tiime Measurement Hal Varian, Google and University of California at Berkeley (moderator) John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER Karin Kimbrough, LinkedIn Nela Richardson, ADP Nicolas Woloszko, OECD 2021-07-23 16:11:46 Happening now: Panel on Real-time measurement at the NBER IT and Digitization Workshop. Here's the livestream: https://t.co/mPNKlNzsUI 2021-07-22 23:50:56 @Austan_Goolsbee Thanks for sharing that, @Austan_Goolsbee. He sounds like a remarkable man. My condolences 2021-07-22 21:00:34 RT @k_mcelheran: Tomorrow's NBER Digitization & 2021-07-22 20:17:56 Thomas Fujiwara, Karsten Müller, Carlo Schwarz find that an exogenous increase in twitter use is associated with a decline in the GOP vote share. https://t.co/EEE5I7dyIn https://t.co/iPtyAIXIUK 2021-07-22 19:35:49 RT @AlecStapp: Note that the Y-axis on the original graph is log scale. Here's a bar chart with a linear scale showing the dramatic cost r… 2021-07-22 19:27:09 RT @gabriel_zucman: U.S. life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years in 2020, the biggest decline since World War II. Life expectancy decreased… 2021-07-22 19:24:33 RT @arindube: In 2020, when deaths were climbing, detractors argued that those dying would have died soon anyway from other health conditio… 2021-07-22 19:07:59 @LonesSmith Impressive shipmanship 2021-07-22 18:38:58 Tough but fair https://t.co/4XuuYTZxqv 2021-07-22 17:34:45 Two papers now at NBER IT and Digitization Workshop: Search and Information Friction on Global E-commerce Platforms: Evidence from Ali-Express Unpacking the Black Box: Regulating Algorithmic Lending Livestream at: https://t.co/knod7LUeZZ 2021-07-22 16:33:34 RT @erikbryn: We will shortly be starting the NBER Summer Workshop on IT and Digitization. Here's the agenda: https://t.co/EEE5I7dyIn Fee… 2021-07-22 15:49:56 We will shortly be starting the NBER Summer Workshop on IT and Digitization. Here's the agenda: https://t.co/EEE5I7dyIn Feel free to join via Youtube: https://t.co/rSZLvLVnug 2021-07-21 18:26:53 RT @kathrynw5: “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m… 2021-07-21 16:40:35 RT @SBenzell: US SOCIAL DISTANCING POLICY HAS FAILED Let me explain why using this figure from my new working paper with @avi_collis an… 2021-07-21 16:40:01 RT @apo_filippas: Saw two people flirt at a bar in Mexico City using iPhone's translate app, and guess what: there's a relevant paper http… 2021-07-20 17:51:44 RT @UglyResearch: Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn says we're at bottom of an AI productivity J-curve 2021-07-20 10:46:03 So now Silicon-based entities can design carbon-based machines. https://t.co/9ovA5HvafJ 2021-07-20 04:20:29 RT @info_sprinkles: S-DEL and SIEPR to Evaluate the Future of Work in California – Stanford Digital Economy Lab - #ComputationalSocialScien… 2021-07-20 04:18:57 @mat @techreview Wonderful! 2021-07-20 02:06:50 @danielrock Extraordinary claims* 2021-07-20 00:17:28 Fusion has always been the energy source of the future. But that might be about to change, in a good way. https://t.co/Kj0TfJbfRo 2021-07-20 00:16:07 @danielrock I heard the same thing last year from some pretty credible people at MIT. Of course, extraordinary times call for extraordinary evidence. 2021-07-19 22:37:33 TIL I've been brushing my teeth at the wrong time my whole life. Contrary to what my childhood dentist said, it's actually better to brush before breakfast than after breakfast. https://t.co/icrEeXNpEQ https://t.co/Bu88FHI2Qe 2021-07-19 21:50:34 @AndreyFradkin That was a very thoughtful decision, Andrey. Thanks for sharing. 2021-07-19 18:47:42 @Heritage US corporate profits are now near an all-time high. Is your argument that workers should get less of the pie so businesses can get more? https://t.co/4Nn3FW92BS 2021-07-19 17:55:22 @besttrousers @adotheo @ComfortablySmug Freudian slip? 2021-07-19 17:00:54 @ComfortablySmug More investment and more supply, for instance in infrastructure, lead to more output and lower prices. It’s basic economics, whether you like it or not. 2021-07-19 16:45:12 @ianbremmer Just to be argumentative, that’s not true for many aspects of social “sciences”. The outcomes and equilibria often depend very much on what people believe and don’t believe. See e.g. the placebo effect, focal equilibria, and your field of geopolitics and political science. 2021-07-19 16:39:49 RT @DigEconLab: The new #California100 Initiative seeks to ensure the state’s sustainability, innovation, and equity for the next century.… 2021-07-18 21:39:56 It took a long time, and cost a lot of lives, but eventually the science won. https://t.co/9lxnAdwDop 2021-07-17 21:54:52 RT @JSEllenberg: It’s 2021 and the Greeks are still great philosophers. 2021-07-17 21:21:51 @itaisher @wwwojtekk It’s unquestionably worse now because of an organized political movement. The same states that long required polio and measles vaccines as a condition of going to school now ban private companies from even asking about vaccinations. Let’s not excuse them or move the goalposts. 2021-07-17 21:13:21 @itaisher @wwwojtekk People “regard it as a personal decision“ because to irresponsible pundits mistakenly lead them to believe that. In fact, with 600,000 Americans already dead, fighting a highly infectious deadly disease has huge externalities on other people. Don’t feed the false narrative. 2021-07-17 21:08:20 @itsbostoncream But did you have a torn MCL? 2021-07-16 21:30:51 RT @VincentRK: Malta will be the gold standard test for COVID vaccine efficacy. A natural experiment in progress. Results in a month. Alm… 2021-07-15 23:05:16 @NinjaEconomics I've never seen rice that huge! 2021-07-15 22:47:44 @_KarenHao @JaneLytv Excellent advice! 2021-07-15 16:31:13 @neuralink What do you think? 2021-07-15 15:56:26 An amazing step in brain-machine interfaces. https://t.co/AmzCWKDoIQ 2021-07-15 14:48:32 Record numbers of people are starting new businesses in America https://t.co/fqgBGxlZno 2021-07-15 00:46:00 New from @PeteKlenow, @jeanfbrou & "Our statistic incorporates life expectancy, consumption, leisure, and inequality... According to our estimates, welfare for Black Americans was 45% of that for White Americans in 1984 and rose to 64% by 2019." https://t.co/jH3VQQ19E3 2021-07-15 00:41:39 @jeanfbrou @PeteKlenow @ChadJonesEcon Thanks. Fascinating paper! 2021-07-14 23:35:06 RT @k_mcelheran: Great thread on #AI and #automation. @erikbryn @mit_ide @TorontoSRI @DigEconLab @digHBS 2021-07-14 23:27:30 @PeteKlenow @ChadJonesEcon @jeanfbrou Is there a paper you can link to as well? 2021-07-14 23:01:26 @ianbremmer @Noahpinion Why not? 2021-07-14 18:17:42 Fleeting innovation https://t.co/MhP8Budtqr 2021-07-14 17:27:06 @elonmusk @TeslaOwnersEBay @Kristennetten @RationalEtienne @EvaFoxU @JohnnaCrider1 @TeslaChillMode @CodingMark @Model3Owners @WholeMarsBlog @AustinTeslaClub Aren’t you worried about overpopulation on Mars? - asking for a friend. 2021-07-14 16:02:02 RT @NAChristakis: Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to minors — not just for COVID-19 https://t.co/B9YxTD91Qz via @Tennessean How a grea… 2021-07-14 15:59:27 Exactly. The path to Level 5 autonomy is via ever bigger Level 4 zones. https://t.co/xqVRpBbpWg 2021-07-14 15:52:57 I fear not the dog who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the dog who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. https://t.co/YYSHtGLRG7 2021-07-14 00:06:25 RT @Atul_Gawande: This is disastrous for the health of children in Tennessee. 2021-07-13 23:35:13 Recommendation #1: "The Executive Branch, with legislative support from Congress, must act to prevent politicization of federal statistics" https://t.co/Mfdz0Q93Wg 2021-07-13 22:53:31 @heycatlee @paulg Great idea! 2021-07-13 22:21:46 Safety in numbers... https://t.co/KyQCIqI1oH 2021-07-13 21:29:18 @wwwojtekk @mattyglesias I wouldn’t give Marx that much credit for the general idea that groups conflicting with each other can explain a lot of history 2021-07-13 21:24:36 @wwwojtekk @mattyglesias Do you mean like patriotism? 2021-07-13 19:44:36 I didn't know this. Is there a website that lists the implicit carbon costs of various foods, goods and services? Or better yet, an app tied to UPC codes? https://t.co/a8CtilgSyw 2021-07-13 19:42:09 @paulg @GarettJones A lot of people like to mock "virtue signaling". But vice signaling is worse. 2021-07-13 18:23:59 Part of the reason year-over-year inflation was 5.4% this month is because the pandemic depressed prices at this time last year. https://t.co/OhNv988JlU 2021-07-13 16:16:13 RT @jasonfurman: A MASSIVE divergence of inflation between the US and Euro area right now. I'm showing the 24-month change in core CPI (ann… 2021-07-13 01:12:37 RT @markduggan_econ: Hi, everyone. As I slowly get up to speed on #socialmedia, I thought I'd take a moment to introduce myself: @Stanford… 2021-07-13 01:11:24 @markduggan_econ @Stanford @SIEPR @MIT @Harvard @nber @WhiteHouseCEA Welcome to Twitter, Mark! 2021-07-13 00:46:06 RT @eagerbeavertech: https://t.co/ikB2QzMxcn A productivity boom is coming soon, Brynjolfsson said at the recent EmTech Next conference… 2021-07-13 00:12:42 @MFordFuture I think Berkshire Hathaway would top that list, followed by Apple, Microsoft, and JPMC. 2021-07-12 16:46:38 Walmart: $1,063,000 https://t.co/EwrztciGzc 2021-07-12 16:45:22 @JonErlichman Walmart: $1,063,000 2021-07-12 16:42:49 @JonErlichman Toyota: $523,000 2021-07-11 17:40:02 What an amazing pipeline of robotic technologies! The 2020s are going to be mind boggling. @DigEconLab #ai #Robotics https://t.co/0NUrNN5Ye0 2021-07-11 17:04:19 @TheStalwart That’s true for every computer, smartphone or tablet video you see. None of the pixels on your display screen ever move. 2021-07-11 16:02:34 When I go to New York, I love to stay in SoHo — there are so many creative people, great restaurants and interesting shops there. #WhereToStayInNYC 2021-07-11 11:59:46 @tomaspueyo @Austen Excellent. Thank you! 2021-07-11 11:51:43 @Austen Amazing! Where can I read more about this? 2021-07-11 06:14:17 RT @InHollywoodland: Now Taraji https://t.co/DGZuTWtqIM 2021-07-11 06:12:10 RT @Noahpinion: Antitrust people should be talking more about eyeglasses. Prescription eyeglasses are really cheap to make, but are incred… 2021-07-10 14:44:51 @jmhorp S& 2021-07-09 20:36:51 RT @AFP: US cigarette giant Philip Morris said Friday that it has agreed to buy Vectura, a UK company making breathing inhalers, as part of… 2021-07-09 17:14:17 @johnmulliken That’s why this is a job for the government 2021-07-09 17:13:43 @hcetamd @TheStalwart Yep 2021-07-09 17:12:22 @nordtomme @TheStalwart If you have to pay back a certain amount of debt in nominal terms, then interest rates are not going to change that. 2021-07-09 16:38:08 The ROI on this is staggering. The US should have done it decades ago https://t.co/Mv4I7bv0SV 2021-07-09 16:37:30 RT @WhiteHouse: Even low levels of lead can cause behavior and learning problems in children – impairing their growth. The Bipartisan Infra… 2021-07-09 04:50:00 I really enjoyed @kaifulee's last book, AI Superpowers, and I can't wait to read this new one. #AI https://t.co/QZ6oT6eu1z 2021-07-08 21:13:51 RT @mattbeane: Not even five years ago, execs and engineers literally joked about automating grocery warehouse operations. Like - "Sure, wh… 2021-07-08 21:13:06 @TheStalwart If the price of everything doubles but your debt is denominated in nominal dollars, then your debt just shrank in real terms. 2021-07-08 17:39:47 @David_desJ True. Not sure how much of this they could do. 2021-07-08 17:35:54 @ShahraniMA No, nominal rates are 1.94% for 30 years bonds. https://t.co/NoMKkzCiLC If inflation is more than that, then real rates are negative. 2021-07-08 17:35:14 @David_desJ If you prefer, the US gov't can issue nominal 30 year bonds at 1.94%. Do you want to bet that inflation will be at least that high (if the government wants that)? https://t.co/NoMKkzCiLC 2021-07-08 17:27:50 The real yield on 30 year bonds is now -0.28 (yes, negative). https://t.co/X11eGDhKzd Investors are literally paying the US government to take their money for 30 years. What a great time to issue long term bonds and rebuild America's infrastructure, R& 2021-07-08 16:32:01 Here's a great opportunity. Please pass it on. https://t.co/nmOkJnBrGI 2021-07-08 16:31:15 RT @nberpubs: A randomized controlled trial in Mozambique shows teaching and learning-incentive programs are complements, not substitutes,… 2021-07-08 16:06:25 AI writing code for AI. #GPT3 #AI #MachineLearning @DigEconLab https://t.co/UlLtTu536g 2021-07-08 11:06:12 It turns out that some of the world’s toughest problems are solvable. Kudos to @alexeble and the rest of the team. https://t.co/u6G3mN3qnT 2021-07-07 23:58:40 @BrianDeeseNEC @POTUS Great work! 2021-05-22 10:11:55 @JBduChalard @paulg I think you and I agree that cancel culture is not a “new invention.” Far from it. 2021-05-22 10:01:18 @paulg E.g, here are lists of the most frequently banned books. Judge for yourself whether the left is more likely to ban a book. it’s disappointing to see cancel culture more common on the left, but it’s historically been mostly a tool of the right https://t.co/xLPC0pGjKD 2021-05-22 09:48:30 @paulg If by “now” you mean over the past 5000 years, you have a point. The inquisition, Galileo, The Scarlet letter, evolution in schools, McCarthyism and blacklists, gays, institutional racism, Book banning, the Dixie chicks. Your tweet suggests a blind spot. See it now? 2021-05-22 03:17:25 @RobAtkinsonITIF @BostonReview I agree with you. As I wrote in the essay: "As the power of AI grows, our values become increasingly important" -- because our agency becomes greater. It would a mistake to think machines decide how they are used and whether the benefits are broadly shared. We decide. 2021-05-22 03:13:13 @RobAtkinsonITIF @BostonReview @DrDaronAcemoglu @danielsusskind @ADehlendorf @MollyKinder @abenanav @shakir_za @wsisaac @png_marie @katecrawford @red_abebe @maxkasy @robreich As the chart indicates, just as some get less than the average growth in income, others get more than the average. What the chart doesn't show well is that in recent years, the top 1% got a disproportionate share of the gains. In the mid-20th century, all groups rose more evenly. 2021-05-21 20:01:15 @nickchk Tempting, but over time this likely destroys more value (and happiness) than it creates. 2021-05-21 19:51:23 @RobAtkinsonITIF @BostonReview @DrDaronAcemoglu @danielsusskind @ADehlendorf @MollyKinder @abenanav @shakir_za @wsisaac @png_marie @katecrawford @red_abebe @maxkasy @robreich Like you, I see huge potential for technology to make the world better. I also recognize that if the benefits aren't broadly shared, there will be a backlash, just as there was with globalization. It's in the tech industry's interest to work for shared prosperity 2021-05-21 19:47:00 @RobAtkinsonITIF @BostonReview @DrDaronAcemoglu @danielsusskind @ADehlendorf @MollyKinder @abenanav @shakir_za @wsisaac @png_marie @katecrawford @red_abebe @maxkasy @robreich Inequality has grown. Part of the reason is that tech change, while beneficial on average, has affected people unevenly. E.g. Autor concludes "Changes in the nature of work – many of which are technological in origin – have been...less beneficial for non-college..workers" https://t.co/wnZYcZRIxr 2021-05-21 18:12:13 Reminder: Even top experts' claims about correlation and causality can be noisy. https://t.co/WE63LHkKwO 2021-05-21 18:01:34 RT @russellwald: In a booming digital age, why has productivity growth slowed? Checkout this excellent piece from @erikbryn @SBenzell @dani… 2021-05-21 17:28:31 RT @StevenTDennis: Some states are doing a *much* better job at getting their populations vaccinated than others. https://t.co/NmrDyP1oHe h… 2021-05-21 16:38:51 "The only hope — and right now it looks remote — is that those forces will...lead the country to give the Palestinians a state of their own. That would finally fulfill Israel’s historical mission to be, in the words of Isaiah, “a light unto the nations" https://t.co/2FW49Xbw39 2021-05-21 16:10:21 @klinovakatya @BostonReview @DrDaronAcemoglu @danielsusskind @ADehlendorf @MollyKinder @abenanav @shakir_za @wsisaac @png_marie @katecrawford @red_abebe @maxkasy @robreich @whatpenumbras Yes, thank you Matt (@whatpenumbras ). It was a huge pleasure working with you and you did a masterful job editing the much-too-long draft I initially sent you. 2021-05-21 02:34:01 @klinovakatya @BostonReview @DrDaronAcemoglu @danielsusskind @ADehlendorf @MollyKinder @abenanav @shakir_za @wsisaac @png_marie @katecrawford @red_abebe @maxkasy @robreich Thank you so much for inviting me, Katya and even more for organizing this amazing special issue. What an important milestone! 2021-05-21 02:07:52 @ModeledBehavior Don’t feed the trolls 2021-05-21 01:39:14 I'm looking forward to joining my old friends at MIT at EmTech. I'm speaking about AI and Productivity on Thursday, June 10, 2021, 12noon ET (9am PT). https://t.co/9R7Relt0xE 2021-05-21 01:07:51 @rosepjames @ben_golub Founders contributed shares valued at their most recent round’s valuation verified by manager. Over the next 8 years, the manager gave us a pay out as some of the shares became liquid. I think the manager got a 20% fee. Most founders put 5-10% of their shares into the fund. 2021-05-20 22:54:49 @ben_golub These funds do exist. In fact I was in a start up and, with permission of the board, pooled about 10% of my shares in a fund in 1999. It worked as advertised - some of the startups did well others not so well. Not a ton of adverse selection but moderate amount of bookkeeping. 2021-05-20 19:48:24 RT @BostonReview: “The most common question I get from audiences when I speak about AI is some version of: What will #AI do to society? But… 2021-05-20 16:10:39 @RobAtkinsonITIF @BostonReview @DrDaronAcemoglu @danielsusskind @ADehlendorf @MollyKinder @abenanav @shakir_za @wsisaac @png_marie @katecrawford @red_abebe @maxkasy @robreich Both substitution (replacement) and augmentation can lead to higher productivity and greater real income. In addition, they affect the way total income is distributed. Substitution shifts the share income away from labor, while augmentation increases the labor share of income. 2021-05-20 16:02:56 @info_sprinkles @BostonReview @DrDaronAcemoglu @danielsusskind @ADehlendorf @MollyKinder @abenanav @shakir_za @wsisaac @png_marie @katecrawford @red_abebe @maxkasy @robreich Thanks! 2021-05-20 15:09:01 Here's my essay in the @BostonReview forum on AI with a lead essay by @DrDaronAcemoglu and responses by @danielsusskind, @ADehlendorf, @MollyKinder, @abenanav, @shakir_za, @wsisaac, @png_marie, @erikbryn, @katecrawford, @red_abebe, @maxkasy, @robreich. https://t.co/VIYBcWQMxS https://t.co/ANJr8H7tX6 2021-05-19 16:27:47 @foxjust Restrictive land use policies drive up housing costs. That's the biggest tax on low-income residents. 2021-05-19 14:41:44 BTC is not a reliable store of value. https://t.co/YirqLfcMmr 2021-05-19 03:31:59 RT @celtics: #NBAPlayoffs HERE WE COME #CelticsWin https://t.co/D3OV9RkXjR 2021-05-18 18:22:23 @scottlincicome Is this also a list of the highest income states? 2021-05-18 17:52:05 RT @djrothkopf: In an effort to combat the "four legs good, two legs bad" oversimplifications that dominate the commentary on the Israel-Pa… 2021-05-18 17:27:58 RT @glichfield: We are staffing up at @WIRED! Lots of open roles, with more to come. All of these can be based remotely. First, on our sc… 2021-05-18 16:53:47 @EichKorim @Noahpinion Are you referring to the murder of Yitzak Rabin by a right wing extremist? 2021-05-18 16:47:12 Humans + Dogs > 2021-05-18 04:48:23 RT @theandrewglover: Startup idea: an app that combines - This tech that scrapes someone’s body of work to generate realistic answers to q… 2021-05-18 04:46:17 Kudos for renewing a healthy tradition that almost every American supports: Biden, first lady release 2020 tax returns, continue 'almost uninterrupted tradition' https://t.co/bwtWRcOXxp 2021-05-18 04:42:32 @VincentRK If we pay $20/dose for 3 billion vaccines, that would be only $60B -- a tiny fraction of the trillions we've spent on rescuing the economy and an incredibly good return on investment. The governments of the US and other wealthy nations should have promised to do this from day 1. 2021-05-18 04:39:53 @TheDailyBunkum @VincentRK @andymukherjee70 I don't call myself a libertarian, but yes, I think we should pay for the vaccines. If we paid $20/dose for 3 billion vaccines, that would be $60B -- a tiny fraction of the trillions we've spent on rescuing the economy and an incredibly good return on investment. 2021-05-17 19:18:37 Happening now! https://t.co/Ur0V9GWbxc 2021-05-17 16:56:00 Please join me today for a lively conversation with @DrDaronAcemoglu. Free and open to the public. https://t.co/4o6upuHTAn 2021-05-17 16:23:01 RT @calebwatney: This is totally baffling. We're going from $112 billion in new investment -> Regardless of whether you pr… 2021-05-17 15:59:58 @Gigamesh Some was. Much was not. 2021-05-17 15:38:23 Kudos to my friends in Massachusetts! https://t.co/hKMG8ke2GY 2021-05-17 15:25:31 @alaeven "merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn’t pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart" 2021-05-17 15:21:32 @Gangryong Thanks. It's a useful article, including this: "merchants really did engage in a frantic tulip trade, and they paid incredibly high prices for some bulbs. And when a number of buyers announced they couldn’t pay the high price previously agreed upon, the market did fall apart" 2021-05-17 15:04:03 https://t.co/CV1waHBULS 2021-05-17 14:11:16 BTC is not a reliable store of value. BTC is not an efficient medium of exchange. BTC is not a consistent unit of account. BTC governance (mining) is not decentralized or safe from manipulation. BTC is not friendly to the environment. BTC isn’t loved by @elonmusk https://t.co/LAYskN6F9O 2021-05-17 03:51:25 Here’s a good thread about why even vaccinated people may want to wear masks. https://t.co/gbiwDjMXly 2021-05-17 01:07:41 RT @DigEconLab: Join us tomorrow (12p PT / 3p ET) when MIT's Daron Acemoglu joins Erik Brynjolfsson to talk about what it will take to rebu… 2021-05-16 15:13:37 RT @mims: 2. Then the EPA was founded (under Nixon (!)) and DDT was banned and (some) habitat destruction was arrested and enforcement of e… 2021-05-16 04:48:10 This proposal will separate a lot of actual libertarians from people who just like to dress up as libertarians https://t.co/MGqhbajC4D 2021-05-16 04:09:44 The problem is that the main alternatives: essays, letters of recommendation, connections, teachers grades, etc. likely are even more biased. https://t.co/H1BIqKsA4e 2021-05-16 00:43:48 RT @AnshelPfeffer: A week ago Israel was about to have a new government supported by right-wing, left-wing, centrist and Arab parties which… 2021-05-15 23:28:02 @literaryeric Are we supposed to apply your principle to your tweet as well? 2021-05-15 23:02:59 Any thoughts on this, @elonmusk? https://t.co/NYZV3l6YY0 2021-05-15 19:25:43 I'm looking forward to reading @jhagel's new book, The Journey Beyond Fear. It's available for pre-order on Amazon now. https://t.co/yO3ookgvAj L https://t.co/SAiaZNy584 2021-05-15 19:09:51 RT @BRWalkoff: Manny being Manny Makes the grab High-fives a @RedSox fan Doubles off the runner Legend. #OTD https://t.co/z0OInGGYez 2021-05-15 18:24:48 RT @aslavitt46: Congratulations New Jersey. NJ becomes the 7th state to cross 70% 1st shot vaccinate rate for adults. Joins VT, HI, MA,… 2021-05-14 18:25:48 Siri: what is one of the reasons that medical costs in the United States are artificially high? https://t.co/xt5MvBHwjG 2021-05-14 10:22:08 @pkedrosky Our study did not include training groups not receiving protein supplementation. Therefore, ....any interaction between protein supplementation and resistance training cannot be derived from the present study. 2021-05-14 10:07:55 @pkedrosky Unless combined with high resistance weight training: “Only HRTW was effective in both preserving muscle mass and increasing strength.” (They didn’t look at weight training without protein) 2021-05-14 01:43:19 RT @NYSE: Technologist @erikbryn tells our tech community “Having the technology is not enough, it’s never been enough. You need to reinven… 2021-05-13 20:27:02 @JedKolko Just did. 2021-05-13 20:23:08 @JedKolko Your data are pretty representative of the average American (even if you are not) 2021-05-13 20:18:48 100% of the cars on Mars are already self-driving. https://t.co/axAtuj3Ani How many years before Earth matches that percentage? https://t.co/JsA2YzP48i 2021-05-13 18:43:44 RT @DigEconLab: Missed yesterday's seminar with Philippe Aghion? Watch The Power of Creative Destruction now: https://t.co/KcQCBrjrxn Aghi… 2021-05-13 16:01:05 RT @DigEconLab: MONDAY 5/17: What will it take to address the economic and political crises exacerbated by the #COVID19 pandemic? Daron Ac… 2021-05-12 19:40:08 @andreamatranga @Canon It’s only a matter of time before we all have printers like that 2021-05-12 19:34:39 @BoredElonMusk I know people who have installed loudspeakers in their cars so they can generate amazing engine sounds at the push of a button 2021-05-12 17:53:05 Starting in about 5 minutes! https://t.co/NxyHz0wXOK 2021-05-12 16:56:33 @Patriots @CameronNewton Happy birthday, Superman! I’m so grateful you brought your leadership and talent to New England. #GoPatriots @CameronNewton @Patriots 2021-05-12 15:00:10 I'm looking forward to speaking at the EmTech Conference on June 10. Please join me! https://t.co/9R7Relt0xE https://t.co/aVj7Pmd13H 2021-05-12 14:00:48 RT @DigEconLab: Join us TODAY (11a PT / 2p ET) when @huiyu_li, @ChadJonesEcon, @ufukakcigit, and Philippe Aghion join @erikbryn to discuss… 2021-05-12 05:56:00 RT @math_rachel: Excited to receive my copy of Redesigning AI today, and honored for my essay to be included with such an all-star crew @Dr… 2021-05-11 19:25:39 We keep hearing amazing anecdotes and examples suggesting rapid technological advances, but reliable and comprehensive data is scarce. We need better measures of technological progress. @indexingai @DigEconLab https://t.co/ACjy5A25il https://t.co/VZzcyaRBBf 2021-05-11 19:01:27 RT @POTUS: We’re working hard to ensure transportation is less of a barrier when it comes to getting a COVID-19 vaccine. And I’m excited to… 2021-05-11 16:48:58 RT @Richard_Florida: Comparative Advantage ... @tylercowen: "Miami is fun and New York is exciting, but Northern California has deep struct… 2021-05-11 15:42:04 Please join me tomorrow for a lively discussion with @huiyu_li, @ChadJonesEcon, @ufukakcigit and Philippe Aghion about The Power of Creative Destruction Free and open to the public #growth #Innovation #EconTwitter @DigEconLab https://t.co/fhJ7bHHlF3 2021-05-10 23:42:15 RT @rcalo: Pfizer vaccine 100% effective in adolescents ages 12-15. There are side effects, however, including moodiness and knowing everyt… 2021-05-10 17:33:30 RT @DigEconLab: JOIN US TODAY (12p PT / 3p ET) for "The Demand for Executive Skills." @raffasadun of @HarvardHBS will share research and… 2021-05-10 16:45:00 Join me today, 12noon Pacific Time, for a discussion with Raffaella Sadun at the Digital Economy Lunch. See the link below. https://t.co/XBeowaijGH 2021-05-10 15:27:23 @mattyglesias *better than Hillary Clinton 2021-05-10 14:10:24 RT @AlecStapp: Final results from the Nordic natural experiment: Cumulative COVID deaths per million people Sweden: 1,403 Finland: 166 No… 2021-05-09 20:11:37 Final results: "Bitcoin is like AOL" gets the plurality of votes. https://t.co/8zRsyRX3p8 2021-05-08 21:55:55 @jarmin_ron @uscensusbureau Congrats. That is amazing! How many people over at age 100 are there in the United States? 2021-05-08 21:02:03 Academic writing should be freely available to all especially in a digital world. There are plenty of better revenue models to cover the relatively low remaining costs. @DigEconLab https://t.co/5kptgfjzAF 2021-05-08 20:22:32 @David_desJ Yep. #GoStanford https://t.co/gznWiH73xF 2021-05-08 20:18:02 The Cowboys, Yankees, Knicks, Barcelona, and Real Madrid are the five most valuable sports franchises. It's interesting that they are from four different sports. 2021-05-08 20:08:33 @charliehale Like the internet. Fundamental change (albeit a long, long time ago) 2021-05-08 19:59:45 RT @WHCOS: We are on track to hit 70% of adults w/ one shot by 7/4, but we know it will get harder as we go along. So TODAY encourage so… 2021-05-08 19:59:11 RT @cyrusshahpar46: Saturday just in: +2.57M doses reported administered over yesterday’s total. Four states with 70% of 18+ with at least… 2021-05-08 19:58:14 Please post the reasons for your answer in the replies. Or feel free to suggest a (truly) different answer that doesn't fit with any of the three options. 2021-05-08 19:54:10 @RussEwell Love it! 2021-05-08 19:52:56 Is the best analogy for Bitcoin the Internet (fundamental change), https://t.co/jH4DLOaRBI (a bubble) or AOL (an early approach that became obsolete)? 2021-05-08 19:10:22 @BoredElonMusk The real question is whether or not you will choose to verify Twitter 2021-05-08 19:09:51 RT @joshgans: I haven’t been following this UT hiring scandal (see what happens if you don’t have halls?) but if this article is true, it i… 2021-05-08 16:59:15 @karlbykarlsmith @DKThomp And require proof of vaccination for participation in crowded indoor activities. 2021-05-08 16:58:19 @DKThomp Only paying people who hesitated is a bad precedent. Instead, require proof of vaccination for entrance into crowded public and private indoor spaces, as many universities already do. 2021-05-08 16:51:44 @jmanooch @tonal Great video! 2021-05-08 16:51:00 Please send us your radical policy proposal before May 10 so we can consider it for presentation at our Fall Conference. And please ask your smart friends to do submit their ideas, too. https://t.co/3N7AUh1O7d 2021-05-08 16:34:06 Working out with my @tonal this morning and contemplating why the mirror reverses left and right but not up and down. #deepthoughts https://t.co/vbBAzLTrdf 2021-05-08 14:51:38 @bindureddy It's a fun book. One idea per page, building up a "society of ideas" 2021-05-08 13:38:54 RT @ProSyn: .@GernotWagner: The green transition comes with costs 2021-05-08 01:38:46 @bindureddy Yep: https://t.co/ti3U8ybyV6 2021-05-07 21:26:45 @paulg Jeff Bezos had had a similar misunderstanding when his then-wife asked him to go buy a newspaper on the way home a few years ago 2021-05-07 19:54:07 @JonMjolhus Helt sikkert 2021-05-07 18:40:50 @demishassabis Congrats, Demis! That’s well deserved 2021-05-07 18:35:08 Paying to get the world vaccinated quickly is one of the best possible uses of US tax dollars. For a relatively small investment, it generates a huge return in terms of long-term safety of Americans, goodwill around the world, and just plain decency. #vaccinatetheworld https://t.co/eLcDwZS1cC 2021-05-07 17:14:07 “We’re not asking you to storm the beaches of Iwo Jima 2021-05-07 02:00:01 Join me on Monday for @raffasadun's talk at the @DigEconLab Seminar Series. https://t.co/XBeowaijGH 2021-05-07 01:04:48 RT @LibertarianWonk: Everyone talks about negative externalities in markets, but what about positive externalities? This recent working pap… 2021-05-07 01:04:37 RT @nberpubs: Community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19, from @jabaluck, Kwong, Styczynski, Haque, Kabir, Bates-Je… 2021-05-07 00:54:26 On May 12, Philippe Aghion will join @ChadJonesEcon, Hiuyu Li, @ufukakcigit and me to discuss Philippe's new book, The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations. Please join us via the link below! https://t.co/DYsv6Avstl 2021-05-07 00:46:59 RT @BostonReview: Welcome to the world, REDESIGNING AI! Exploring work, democracy, and justice in the age of automation, our new book fea… 2021-05-06 16:21:10 RT @zeynep: Some charts from the UK where deaths are down by 99%. They have the NHS and high vaccine take-up. Their expert committee recomm… 2021-05-05 23:10:02 RT @JamesSurowiecki: Why not say to Pfizer, "We'll pay $20 a dose for every extra dose you can make this year, whether on your own or via l… 2021-05-05 23:08:15 @robinhanson Can you give a concrete example of that? 2021-05-05 19:45:19 RT @FacebooksTop10: The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from: 1. Ben Shapiro 2. Ben Shapiro 3. B… 2021-05-05 19:44:27 RT @drneilgupta: Got the new @ASCD Educational Leadership Journal and saw this profound quote from @DouglasReeves https://t.co/ufSfL7hx0w 2021-05-05 17:32:49 Congratulations to @DrDaronAcemoglu on another well-deserved Prize. I very much enjoyed our lively and provocative discussion this morning with all the panelists about data, privacy and incentives for directing AI in more beneficial directions. https://t.co/6ChfoNyXDH 2021-05-05 15:27:16 RT @BostonReview: REDESIGNING AI is here! Exploring justice in the age of automation, it features @DrDaronAcemoglu @erikbryn @math_rache… 2021-05-05 01:28:22 6 founded tech companies. 5 did so when in their 20s. (Bezos was 30). @DigEconLab #2MA https://t.co/GlNX25TeWu 2021-05-05 01:17:05 @CathyReisenwitz What percentage uses stats? How would one even begin to calculate that? 2021-05-05 01:13:15 Interesting findings by @Susan_Athey, @markusmobius and @paljenczy: "shutdown of Google News reduces overall news consumption by about 20%... and reduces page views on publishers other than Google News by 10%....[especially] small publishers." https://t.co/m1igk8ATYV https://t.co/OoIOWwwAIr 2021-05-05 01:03:33 RT @DigEconLab: WATCH: @JosephEStiglitz and @akorinek joined us yesterday to talk about some of the challenges that developing economies fa… 2021-05-05 00:59:32 RT @KevinMKruse: It's amazing how the Founding Fathers fan club tends to ignore their actual thoughts on these things. They would've *hate… 2021-05-04 18:42:52 @felixsalmon https://t.co/inuXOWsVku 2021-05-04 16:25:57 @tlbtlbtlb @felixsalmon Yes, so more IRS staff and technology to carefully review the facts of each case could reduce the chance of both types of errors. 2021-05-04 15:22:11 @arpitrage How hard would it be to start a new app that does the same thing? 2021-05-04 15:17:12 RT @felixsalmon: If this is true, and if the Biden administration only thinks it can get 10% of that number by funding the IRS with an extr… 2021-05-04 00:43:16 @David_desJ Identifying the actual number exactly the problem that could, and should, be solved. 2021-05-03 22:34:24 @K_singh_P @Verizon can you hear me? 2021-05-03 22:29:52 When I get spam email I quickly click and add it to my spam list. Google uses that information to help prevent others from getting spammed. Why can’t I do the same thing when I get spam phone calls? I can block the number locally but the spammers should be blocked at the source 2021-05-03 22:07:55 @omerfrana Yes 2021-05-03 21:48:46 If you want to go to MIT, you need to be smart enough to get vaccinated. If every university, school, camp, club and other organization where large numbers of people gather together did the same thing, we’d get to herd immunity and help beat this horrible, ever-mutating virus. https://t.co/W4LvtaUgGr 2021-05-03 20:17:45 @luislamb Glad you liked it! 2021-05-03 19:08:14 Happening now... https://t.co/sRA5pMgPms 2021-05-03 16:49:36 RT @DigEconLab: JOIN US TODAY (12p PT / 3p ET) when @akorinek and @JosephEStiglitz talk with @erikbryn about AI, globalization, and the pol… 2021-05-03 06:52:03 @robertisnthere @karlbykarlsmith @GarettJones *More states, not more people. Ie median state (and Senator) is to right of median person in the US 2021-05-03 03:42:05 @karlbykarlsmith @GarettJones If you simply look at the presidential vote share by state, the median senator represents a state that voted more Republican than the median voter in the United States 2021-05-03 01:39:44 @GarettJones It’s not the median voter that matters in America though. The median senator is far to the right of the median voter. 2021-05-02 18:21:42 This seminars free and open to the public. Sign up below https://t.co/MKQ5SLe5n4 2021-05-01 23:55:04 Best one yet https://t.co/1ky5ZtEkTG 2021-05-01 22:25:49 RT @ChenshuoSun: [Recommending a Great Paper ] Information technology (IT) and digitization have profoundly changed the economyThis new pa… 2021-05-01 18:42:41 @RespectDaBeard1 Don’t forget a massive QB and two or three tight ends on the field at the same time. 2021-05-01 18:40:17 @stewartbrand But that diverts nuclear power from other uses. 2021-05-01 16:56:35 RT @robinhanson: "minorities are less likely to receive a discount on their speeding tickets than White drivers … 42 percent of officers pr… 2021-04-29 17:10:57 RT @DigEconLab: Join us Monday 5/3 when @akorinek and @JosephEStiglitz talk with @erikbryn about AI, globalization, and the policies needed… 2021-04-29 16:06:38 RT @FacebooksTop10: The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from: 1. Washington Examiner 2. Franklin… 2021-04-28 19:23:08 @auren Clever! 2021-04-28 17:24:58 RT @indexingai: Announcing the Chinese (Simplified) language edition of the 2021 AI Index Report — in partnership with @Synced_Global. Re… 2021-04-28 17:21:07 @gabriel_zucman Congrats! 2021-04-27 15:10:06 @TheStalwart Does anyone have a chart of the returns on Bernie Madoff‘s fund? 2021-04-26 22:42:16 RT @TheStalwart: I did one. The history of how Wall Street has seen Bitcoin. https://t.co/kkZ1DZ65Zx 2021-04-26 22:02:33 @JonSchw73589513 @ben_golub Yes. The video and slides will be posted here: https://t.co/xmnpE3jup1 Along with other talks from the seminar series. 2021-04-26 19:06:28 Starting now... https://t.co/wKW96pacKU 2021-04-26 17:44:53 @Dan83795675 @ne0liberal Yes, Ideally states and federal government would tax consumption in a progressive way. We'd be hard pressed to argue that a person who was taxed to boost the quality of a states education or cleaner air, which mostly benefits others, should count that as their own consumption. 2021-04-26 17:33:51 RT @arpitrage: Great news! https://t.co/BK0BWmBvoi 2021-04-26 17:32:07 @Dan83795675 @ne0liberal If you want to make taxes more progressive then do it for everyone not just people in some states. People who have the same after-tax income should pay the same taxes. 2021-04-26 17:26:04 Thread https://t.co/dqi6eqlJ3j 2021-04-26 17:18:18 @GreatDecoupling But if you want to increase subsidies to low tax states beyond the current flow from wealthier states, then just call for it directly rather than by taxing some people on income they don't receive. 2021-04-26 17:17:29 @GreatDecoupling The net flow of federal funds already goes from higher income states to lower tax states so I think most of the "propping up" is the other way around. Perhaps we should subsidize state-provided public services like education and health rather than penalizing them. 2021-04-26 15:56:07 I'm very much looking forward to @ben_golub's talk today and my conversation with him. What questions would you like to ask him? https://t.co/wKW96pacKU 2021-04-26 15:48:12 @GreatDecoupling Most of the tax that a person pays is used to fund services (education, police, public health, clean air, etc) for other people, not oneself. If you want to tax the recipients of better education, or cleaner air (some in other states), that's a tough sell. Let federalism work. 2021-04-26 15:35:56 @kuza55 Homeowners and renters are definitely not treated equally. In particular, the mortgage deduction makes no sense. 2021-04-26 14:54:17 Isn’t the logic of the SALT deduction that two people with the same *after tax* income should pay the same federal tax? That seems fair. To get more federal tax revenue or progressivity, raise taxes on rich people in all states equally, not just those that pay #SALT. 2021-04-25 23:35:39 @kevin2kelly Great list, Kevin! Have a happy and many more. 2021-04-25 16:58:59 @LaurenceBSiegel There are few principles more central to libertarianism than free association, self-ownership and the right not to be harmed by others. It's a very libertarian policy. (Though yes, I get that many people call themselves libertarianswithout really understanding the principles) 2021-04-25 05:46:35 RT @Joshua_Z_Miller: Most likely person on #Econtwitter to win a Nobel? 2021-04-24 22:34:36 @phinance99 Yep. And the content hash will prevent anyone from editing it and claiming it was unchanged. 2021-04-24 19:26:25 RT @gabriel_zucman: "Eye-popping" https://t.co/X9fZb7xk7V https://t.co/lVAxQ16wlG 2021-04-24 18:25:49 RT @nytimes: The U.S. death rate in 2020 was the highest above normal ever recorded in the country — surpassing the 1918 flu pandemic. A N… 2021-04-24 18:12:38 RT @erikbryn: What's your big, radical proposal for a better society? How can we address the challenges and opportunities of AI? We will… 2021-04-24 16:58:19 Smart move by Stanford University to protect their students by requiring vaccinations to prevent Covid. Other colleges, university and similar organizations where large numbers of people gather indoors should do the same. https://t.co/mOdQClSKXx https://t.co/feMVffQJ7r 2021-04-24 16:20:59 All photos, videos and digital communications should be digitally signed and authenticated using public key cryptography, the same way e-commerce websites use SSL to exchange credit card information. The technology exists. It is surprising this isn’t widely adopted already https://t.co/00ROuGViCb 2021-04-24 03:18:27 Please join me May 5 when I help honor @DrDaronAcemoglu, winner of the 2020 CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications. We'll have a lively discussion with Maryam Farboodi, @joshgans, @glenweyl and @pascualrpo Register here: https://t.co/0qYueC2sE3 https://t.co/pjONq9C4Qf 2021-04-24 00:28:21 @elidourado Just require vaccines at bars, restaurants, schools, summer camps etc. That would be fair and effective 2021-04-23 23:08:50 RT @scienceisstrat1: It has been a good decade for the semiconductor business #TheSecondMachineAge #SoftwareIsEatingTheWorld @erikbryn @… 2021-04-23 21:26:17 Discuss https://t.co/UnypsWDW74 2021-04-23 20:10:20 RT @amcafee: @juliagalef My favorite review of 2nd Machine Age was, in its entirety, "too much based on evidences." @erikbryn 2021-04-23 17:36:04 RT @amcafee: As someone who was an undergraduate at @MIT in the 1980s I can confirm that there were a LOT of intramural sports going on.… 2021-04-23 17:25:58 @daveholtz Congrats! That is great news 2021-04-23 16:52:02 What's your big, radical proposal for a better society? How can we address the challenges and opportunities of AI? We will pick four radical proposals to be presented and discussed at the HAI fall conference. Spread the word! @StanfordHAI @DigEconLab https://t.co/l2NJOzJ24y https://t.co/dw7PcXY6Iw 2021-04-23 16:40:42 RT @scienceisstrat1: Taiwan's TSMC absolutely dominates the most advanced semiconductor production @stavridisj @hughhewitt @joshrogin @eri… 2021-04-23 15:22:33 America, and every advance country, should work aggressively to vaccinate the world ASAP. https://t.co/edssPMd178 2021-04-22 23:36:47 @Nowooski I think they didn’t map each survey responded to their exact geo location, but rather attributed anyone in the county to the county-wide average. 2021-04-22 22:52:51 @arindube better: require evidence of vaccination for people who want to go to bars, restaurants, conferences, school etc. 2021-04-22 22:49:14 Kudos to Massachusetts with the lowest rate of people hesitant to get the vaccine: just 7% https://t.co/19xQIf1TVV https://t.co/vxgPSYffWr 2021-04-22 22:28:30 https://t.co/HsZyjCrSd5 2021-04-22 22:15:33 RT @Noahpinion: It's time for the U.S. to start exporting vaccines to the rest of the world. We must become the Arsenal of Immunity, the wa… 2021-04-22 22:14:24 RT @amychua: My faith in objective journalism is restored! This reporter did a deep investigation, pursuing every “anonymous tip” against… 2021-04-22 20:10:09 @pmddomingos This seems to be “methods used”. Would arithmetic be at 100%? 2021-04-22 17:12:30 RT @broadinstitute: Today we announce @EricSchmidt as the next Chair of the Broad Institute Board of Directors, succeeding Louis V. Gerstne… 2021-04-22 17:12:22 @ericschmidt Congrats! 2021-04-22 16:00:46 @BretWeinstein It's odd to make that comparison. I wouldn't consider the millions of Covid deaths from the pandemic remotely comparable to the excess mask-wearing outdoors by some people. In fact, a lot more mask-wearing (yes we can fine-tune when and where) was needed. 2021-04-22 00:51:56 @Noahpinion Plus a lot of walking, of course. It's a pretty compact city. 2021-04-22 00:41:10 @Noahpinion Boston T plus Uber is awesome 2021-04-22 00:28:20 @david_perell Amazing 2021-04-22 00:26:15 @david_perell Who was it? 2021-04-22 00:22:18 @JohnHCochrane @ezraklein Like most people, I get utility from preventing others from dying of easily preventable diseases. So do you, I suspect. So we give to charity. When you provide more charity, I and others benefit. Thank you. However, some can free ride. Is there a public goods aspect to that? 2021-04-21 20:47:36 RT @JonHaidt: Tomorrow, 7pm ET I'll be speaking with @RichardvReeves and Dave Cicirelli about whether JS Mill's ideas have been made irrele… 2021-04-21 20:46:10 RT @robmaxim: This is basically the exact opposite of what states should be doing to higher education funding right now https://t.co/F5tIGc… 2021-04-21 16:43:18 @JohnHCochrane @ezraklein Preventing poverty and improving access to healthcare is arguably a public good too. Neither you nor I wants to see sick or dying people in the street or old people running out of money. So let’s get together and jointly prevent that. 2021-04-21 05:13:18 I'm grateful to the many people who have worked to bend the arc of history toward justice. The work is far from done, but I believe we are making progress. 2021-04-21 00:27:02 Capitalists versus Communists in Vietnam: it’s not even close https://t.co/aU9flaMXr4 2021-04-20 15:53:34 RT @StanfordHAI: Watch the full conversation, with @erikbryn, @robreich, and @therealcko: https://t.co/zqNq2GpeZ9 2021-04-20 15:53:22 RT @StanfordHAI: According to NYT tech columnist @KevinRoose, we need to open up a broader conversation on #automation beyond the question… 2021-04-20 14:52:05 RT @econnaturalist: Please join me tonight (Apr 20) at 7:00 PM, when the Cornell Club of Westchester County will host a Book YaYa Zoom conv… 2021-04-20 14:35:41 RT @DigEconLab: Missed yesterday's lunch seminar "Hiring as Exploration" with Prof. Danielle Li of @MITSloan? Watch it now: https://t.co/… 2021-04-19 18:01:06 RT @johnjhorton: If you're reading this #EconTwitter tweet, you are probably a data point in our study. Read the paper to find out what our… 2021-04-19 16:13:17 RT @DigEconLab: TODAY (12p PT / 3p ET): Economist Danielle Li of @MITSloan talks with @erikbryn about research focused on making hiring alg… 2021-04-19 12:14:10 NASA flies a helicopter on Mars, the first time an aircraft has flown on another planet https://t.co/vPZs1FzX7m 2021-04-19 04:36:36 The unshrinking is always the tricky part. https://t.co/uRGA9HV1AU 2021-04-19 03:32:20 RT @erikbryn: The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence invites you to propose a radical policy idea focused on the… 2021-04-19 03:31:33 RT @call_rome: The five news topics that got the most attention in 2020 related to the ethical use of #AI were: @EU_Commission white paper… 2021-04-19 03:28:17 @felixsalmon Someone sent it to me. I didn't noted the date at first, and then when did a bit of additional research, I was unable to find any specific numbers that were more recent. 2021-04-19 01:41:17 Hooray! Half of all adults in the U.S. have now received at least one COVID-19 shot. 2021-04-19 00:07:06 RT @kevinroose: My mom’s birthday coincided with the end of our post-vax waiting period, so I flew to see her for the first time in 14 mont… 2021-04-19 00:06:40 RT @erikbryn: “Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind.” - @BillGates speaking to @andrewrsor… 2021-04-18 23:28:13 @BillinBoston Vaccinations for infectious diseases protect other people too 2021-04-18 21:53:16 @ESYudkowsky Like time-travel, that would mess with the threads of causality in the universe 2021-04-18 21:50:32 @EconBerger yes. And perhaps incentive effects of higher taxes to pay debt service (moving money from one group to another within the country). 2021-04-18 21:43:23 @primalpoly @SarahTheHaider Have you been to Japan or other Asian countries and seen that even pre-Covid many people often wore masks to help slow the spread of other infectious diseases? It seems to work. That doesn't seem like a bad thing and I wouldn't mind if people did it in the US, too. 2021-04-18 21:37:25 @David_desJ Partly. I think lots of cars get replace just because they get old and rusty. 2021-04-18 21:36:37 @futurepundit @ESYudkowsky @primalpoly @SarahTheHaider Or, I'm feeling less than 100% healthy and like responsible people in many parts of Asia, I want to reduce the spread of any respiratory disease I might have just now. 2021-04-18 21:32:25 The average car is only driven 1.2 hours per day. It spends 95% of its time parked. As ride-hailing and autonomous cars become common, that is likely to increase the share of time each car is doing useful work and decrease demand for cars. So why are carmakers stocks rising? https://t.co/afL2VVwsAh 2021-04-18 20:39:02 RT @IlliniBizDean: Opinion | Extending the Johnson & 2021-04-18 17:24:03 I hope to see you at our seminar with @Danielle__Li on Monday. You can sign up below. https://t.co/oy2Sj9lZyw 2021-04-18 17:19:16 Yuck! https://t.co/hepQtvoIzr 2021-04-18 17:16:51 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? https://t.co/jS6zv9xtsa 2021-04-18 17:12:15 @smarick Great idea. Let me know if/when you do it. I teach that paper almost every year. 2021-04-17 23:11:58 @Jason Does it make a difference if we’re talking about an infectious disease during a pandemic? 2021-04-17 18:38:20 @TattooedMuppet Too good to fact check: "there is no landform officially known as Torpenhow Hill" https://t.co/UoNkgkfqHb 2021-04-17 14:00:36 People, even experts, are remarkably bad at making decisions that involve small probabilities. #dothemath https://t.co/oDgVmwbVW1 2021-04-17 07:02:37 @realTinaHuang @StanfordHAI Welcome, Tina! 2021-04-16 10:41:35 @MichaelDell @DellTech @jenfelch https://t.co/JZ7IEaBLgD 2021-04-16 03:30:20 @andmoo22 No. Disclose everything and let the people decide whether to keep getting shots instead of banning them. 2021-04-16 00:51:25 @elonmusk Do you know it isn't already? 2021-04-16 00:40:00 @hcetamd @GroverLynn @arindube Yes, be open. Give all the best estimates and data for vaccine side effects as well as the (much larger) risks of NOT taking the vaccine. But why the pause? That increases risk to the public, rather than decreasing it. 2021-04-15 22:10:31 Similarly, here's Texas Law: Vaccination Requirement Per Texas Senate Bill no. 62, beginning January 1, 2012, all entering Texas college students, under the age of 22, must receive a vaccination against bacterial meningitis before enrollment. https://t.co/Bjds1cIoyp 2021-04-15 22:05:00 When my kids went to summer camp, they were required to provide a proof of immunization and tetanus records. That was completely reasonable. It would be equally reasonable to require proof of Covid vaccinations. 2021-04-15 21:00:07 @NAChristakis Essentially all the time. Let people choose except where there is clearly a danger to others or where there's a serious personal risk that no rational person would take. (Yes, this requires some judgment) 2021-04-15 20:36:05 @NAChristakis I don't see a problem saying: "Here's the data we currently have. Best estimates are that you still will reduce your risk by taking the vaccine. Here's the math. And if we get more data, we will promptly update the risk and let you know like we do with everything else." 2021-04-15 18:41:30 Starting in 18 minutes... https://t.co/6AtbTeiyHk 2021-04-15 18:34:43 @NAChristakis I don’t think they were bound to pause. They certainly shouldn’t pause any time there is uncertainty, especially if that is likely to increase overall risk 2021-04-15 18:08:39 @econnaturalist It was a huge pleasure. Thanks so much for joining us! 2021-04-15 18:08:16 @NAChristakis Of course. They should tell us the risks, including the much larger risk of not taking the vaccine. I don't understand the logic of halting the vaccinations and thereby forcing people to take unnecessary risks. 2021-04-15 18:05:11 @ATabarrok @NAChristakis Exactly. 2021-04-15 17:25:03 RT @ATabarrok: "The unvaccinated are the biggest risk for generating new variants. You have heard of the South Africa and Brazilian variant… 2021-04-15 17:23:59 @murphamatt Thanks. I’m all for transparency, which in this case would have meant explaining that getting the vaccine is safer than not getting one. 2021-04-15 17:11:15 @NAChristakis Of course they should maintain credibility. That would’ve been enhanced if they had said there are small but real risks of the vaccine (as there are with all actions in life) but they are less than the risk of NOT getting the vaccine. A standard of zero risk is nonsensical. 2021-04-15 17:08:32 When splitting the atom just isn’t enough. https://t.co/4wv5oaLCjC 2021-04-15 17:01:50 @GroverLynn @arindube Is the right question "what is safer, getting the vaccine or not getting the vaccine?" Asking, is the vaccine (or any action) 100% risk-free is not a reasonable standard. Nothing, including driving to the vaccine site, or even hiding in bed under the covers, is 100% risk free. 2021-04-15 17:00:05 @GurbaxaniVijay Is supply robust? My sense is that fewer people will be vaccinated over the next few weeks (or more) as a result of this decision. Certainly, we need more vaccines globally. 2021-04-15 16:47:11 @caseybmulligan Great stuff! 2021-04-15 16:46:12 RT @caseybmulligan: Looking for brief undergrad reading on labor-market effects of Artificial Intelligence or automation? See Ch 7 of 2019… 2021-04-15 15:58:13 What a foolish own goal by the CDC. The data indicate that getting the J& 2021-04-15 15:42:20 @DonFSchneider @USCBO Why do you say "taxes are not paid on wealth"? Some clearly are, e.g. middle-class housing, and there's an ongoing debate about whether we currently have the right level of wealth taxation. 2021-04-15 15:37:24 Human+Machine FTW https://t.co/AUjWUMA1Af 2021-04-15 13:30:12 RT @DigEconLab: Join us today at 12p PT/ 3p ET for our discussion with @nytimes tech columnist and author @kevinroose: "Futureproof: 9 Rule… 2021-04-15 03:28:00 RT @NateSilver538: Every time I try to empathize with the "suspending J& 2021-04-15 02:30:43 RT @andreamatranga: @erikbryn I think you found your first keynote 2021-04-14 23:55:48 Improble, yes. Impossible, no. Hence, https://t.co/nJJ74CkZpz https://t.co/9dZwVIRoqK 2021-04-14 20:26:26 This fall, @StanfordHAI will be hosting a major conference on the economic and social implications of AI. We will be discussing four radical proposals for a better society. Who are the keynote speakers you'd be most eager to hear from? https://t.co/YtuJtbTvD7 2021-04-14 19:49:10 @paulkrugman Here's an broad explanation of why we haven't (yet) seen a productivity surge. https://t.co/dT1ixaDHoW And here's a more formal analysis of the key reason: The Productivity J-Curve: https://t.co/EpZzDSmmEQ 2021-04-14 19:43:16 @celinegounder @NateSilver538 Because of the pause many people are now unable to get the vaccine. I have a simple question for you: do you think those people are more likely or less likely to die as a result of this pause? The math says that more people will die. That doesn’t seem to be in their interest. 2021-04-14 16:14:03 I'm really looking forward to @Danielle__Li's talk next Monday about how machine learning can change the way hiring works. Please join us! https://t.co/oy2Sj9lZyw 2021-04-14 02:47:06 RT @R_Thaler: One of the most annoying comments in the economics literature is that if you raise the stakes then people get smarter. No. Be… 2021-04-13 21:54:14 @nxthompson Amazing! 2021-04-13 19:53:16 RT @DigEconLab: Did you miss yesterday's seminar "Winner-Take-All Markets" with @econnaturalist and @erikbryn?Watch it now: https://t.co/HU… 2021-04-13 19:28:57 RT @juliagalef: Happy book-day to me!  My debut book THE SCOUT MINDSET just came out and I'm savoring the surreal experience of seeing m… 2021-04-13 19:13:52 @juliagalef Congrats! I can’t wait to read it 2021-04-13 17:27:19 Please join @kevinroose, @therealcko, @robreich and me for a lively discussion about Kevin's new book: Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation Thursday at 12noon pacific time. https://t.co/nZUoMf24Q5 2021-04-13 15:40:05 @ModeledBehavior @joshgans That's a way to reach more people, not fewer. 2021-04-13 15:09:04 @ModeledBehavior What is he going to do with the extra money? Buy a $200k car? A bigger house? Nicer clothes? He’s got enough of. those things. What he wants to do with his life is influence the direction of the country. Writing a column dominates substack + buying full page ads in the NYT. 2021-04-13 03:32:36 RT @tomecurran: It remains bizarre to me that Edelman grew up in Redwood City, 10 miles from Tom Brady's childhood home and that Edelman's… 2021-04-13 01:21:13 @ModeledBehavior He’s not trying to maximize wealth. He has other goals. 2021-04-13 01:15:07 @andreamatranga True! 2021-04-12 21:46:39 I realize that I don’t hang out with a random cross section of people, but I see a lot of creators who put significant weight on factors other than money when they make decisions. https://t.co/6RnMagnGWL 2021-04-12 17:13:23 Join us in less than 2 hours to hear Robert Frank discuss Winner Take All Markets. Free and open to the public. @econnaturalist @DigEconLab #econtwitter https://t.co/IHio6kNTv9 2021-04-12 16:51:06 @CathyYoung63 @jbarro I agree! 2021-04-12 15:35:34 RT @Austan_Goolsbee: The CEA goes through all the measures of inflation expectations and finds the market is expecting...wait for it...arou… 2021-04-12 15:15:27 RT @DigEconLab: TODAY (12p PT / 3p ET): @econnaturalist of Cornell joins @erikbryn to discuss why income inequality has grown so rapidly i… 2021-04-12 06:08:13 Connect the most productive megalopolis on Earth with HSR. https://t.co/WBisD3qvZn 2021-04-12 02:29:42 We should buyout the Covid vaccine patents. @calebwatney explains why: "The world needs more vaccines and we need them quickly ...a full technology buyout... could give the developing world an opportunity to bootstrap their own vaccine manufacturing." https://t.co/cvgWtCpHCC https://t.co/Hsrkht0MXV 2021-04-12 01:37:35 RT @ashishkjha: While nation about 5-7 days away from 50% of adults vaccinated Bunch of states surpassed that mark: % of adults with at l… 2021-04-11 19:39:22 @elonmusk @WholeMarsBlog “or to what’s on your calendar” => 2021-04-11 18:21:44 @EricTopol Looking at that sharp border differences between, for instance, Michigan and Ohio, how much of this do you think is a testing and measurement issue? 2021-04-11 18:07:26 I’d love to see a group of 50 humans try this. A long board held up by the arms people on the lower level with a little ladder on each end for quickly moving between levels might do the trick. They would need to “walk” the board forward with their arms in rhythm with each step. 2021-04-11 17:44:28 RT @jmhorp: I haven't verified this, but it looks about right https://t.co/ZjYHSa6iYV 2021-04-11 16:04:51 If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. If you want to go even faster and farther, go as a rolling swarm. https://t.co/omwQCt96oz 2021-04-11 15:37:53 @kimbal @mayemusk That must have been amazing. The spirit lives on! 2021-04-11 02:53:21 RT @econnaturalist: Another good piece from @koenfucius: 2021-04-11 00:27:46 I couldn’t agree more. Home buying is a miasma of frustration, bureaucracy and inefficiency. Entrepreneurs, including innovators in government, please, please address this giant opportunity. https://t.co/GHxzYqvSKu 2021-04-10 23:33:14 RT @nberpubs: Vouchers for food delivered much more aid to beneficiaries than in-kind food programs, and reduced poverty, from Abhijit Bane… 2021-04-10 17:54:30 The rumor is that @Tesla's next two car models are going to be named the Model 2 and the Model 4. If you were @elonmusk, what would you name the model after that? 2-S-3-X-Y-4-? https://t.co/19DJDc0YkT 2021-04-09 23:06:02 Treatment Effect, meet Selection Effect https://t.co/FuHC4bqVlS 2021-04-09 22:41:37 @elonmusk Or if you’re a nonconformist, the socks 2021-04-09 19:09:57 RT @erikbryn: Another overnight success decades in the making: Katalin Karikó worked on the science of mRNA vaccines for years. She was de… 2021-04-09 00:49:18 @CraigNLevitt @neuralink @elonmusk Let be realistic 2021-04-09 00:28:20 Will @neuralink turn out to be the most transformative company founded by @elonmusk ? #AI #Neurosciences https://t.co/k3S1gyoyJu 2021-04-09 00:21:02 @Max_Lederman @dmorey @JJWatt @SloanSportsConf @richeisen It's true. Give me an M! M! Give me an A! A! Give me an S! S! Give me another S! ... The rest is left as an exercise for the reader. 2021-04-09 00:09:44 For those who still doubt that we're living in a simulation, consider this: https://t.co/pAzaw10OOB 2021-04-09 00:07:55 Katalin Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines. She is one of the heroes of Covid-19 vaccine development https://t.co/N8eT0kNDyR https://t.co/vZiESh2hfL 2021-04-08 15:35:28 @JonSchw73589513 @DigEconLab @econnaturalist It will update his thinking from his book and his other papers on the topic, but there's not a single paper he's presenting. 2021-04-08 00:10:36 Please join us for Robert Frank's discussion of Winner-Take-All Markets at the Stanford Digital Economy Lunch Seminar on Monday. @DigEconLab @econnaturalist #econtwitter #WinnerTakeAll https://t.co/kCFpvUXTmi 2021-04-07 21:44:40 Thanks for the memories. HT: @LonesSmith https://t.co/CQC8yT2RLv 2021-04-07 20:28:14 Gold standards in economics are different: "The measurements have... a statistical status called “4.2 sigma.” That is still short of the gold standard — “5 sigma,” — needed to claim an official discovery by physics standards." https://t.co/uGGWXVMA25 2021-04-07 20:20:38 Some fascinating working papers are featured on the @nberpubs front page today. I'm delighted to see my paper with @sonnytambe, Lorin Hitt and @danielrock on "Digital Capital and Superstar Firms" among them. #econtwitter #economics https://t.co/qvJwCbS4f3 https://t.co/DDhan9Ens2 2021-04-07 19:01:33 @CalebHowe Godzilla vs. Infrastructure 2021-04-07 18:55:32 RT @FacebooksTop10: The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from: 1. Ben Shapiro 2. Dan Bongino 3. F… 2021-04-07 18:54:41 Infrastructure 3: Rise of the Machines https://t.co/1McD0yLFGZ 2021-04-07 18:30:14 Good news: battery prices have been falling incredibly fast. https://t.co/6cBpvzA5oH 2021-04-07 18:21:19 Our team at the @DigEconLab is looking for a great data engineer who knows how to create and train language models. Please spread the word. #Stanford #NLP #AI #MachineLearning #FutureOfWork https://t.co/sTVZukjPQj 2021-04-07 04:43:45 First Law of UFO photography: no matter how much camera quality improves since the 1940s, the photos must always have the exact same level of blur. https://t.co/JrEALGXMIu 2021-04-06 18:24:24 RT @Ian_Fraser: Foreign workers are leaving Britain at the fastest pace since WWII. London alone has lost 700,000 people in a year. The imp… 2021-04-06 18:01:07 @internetthought Great. Is there a nice chart to illustrate that somewhere? 2021-04-06 17:35:26 Gordon Moore wept https://t.co/7LNZy4CZck 2021-04-06 16:05:10 @robinhanson They’re still trying to do it now 2021-04-06 15:21:01 @joshgans @zeynep @RabeeTourky @Ground_app Uh oh. Now I feel a humbling sense of responsibility for my tweets. 2021-04-06 14:53:43 Our goal should be for everyone to be able to do the same thing. (I mean the card part at the end.) https://t.co/CR6NuSjHev 2021-04-06 14:47:59 Wind energy can be very cheap. https://t.co/C9fxb7Sy8B 2021-04-06 05:11:17 The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence invites you to propose a radical policy idea focused on the impact of artificial intelligence on humanity. We will choose proposals to discuss live at the HAI 2021 Fall Conference. #AI https://t.co/QV5q4S2fK4 https://t.co/YrI7iWKy9j 2021-04-06 04:43:13 @CathieDWood Yes, we have a new measure called GDP-B that seeks to better capture the benefits of the digital economy: https://t.co/gLvEYblHO0 cc: @elonmusk @ARKInvest @wintonARK 2021-04-06 04:40:22 @chad_oda @CathieDWood yep. Thanks. 2021-04-05 23:45:18 @niamyaraghi I think the 500,000 deaths and trillions of dollars of output destroyed by the virus got our attention. 2021-04-05 23:21:32 @niamyaraghi Yes, and it would be the antithesis of libertarian (or most ethical belief systems for that matter). 2021-04-05 23:20:37 @bob_smokes @floidberg @morganisawizard Just sharing my perspective. Libertarians are sometimes mocked as being selfish and anti-mask. I don't think that's fair to libertarians and wanted to help set the record straight. 2021-04-05 23:19:36 @bob_smokes @floidberg @morganisawizard LOL 2021-04-05 23:17:52 @sharkinine02 @morganisawizard “Libertarians believe or they should believe that people should wear masks because infecting someone with a harmful illness violates their bodily rights. Self-ownership and bodily rights are foundational to libertarianism.” - Jessica Flanigan, Libertarian Ethicist 2021-04-05 22:59:48 @bob_smokes @floidberg @morganisawizard I disagree with you on that. Having studied a fair amount of libertarian writing, going back to Robert Nozick, I came to the same conclusion as Dr. Flanigan. I think most libertarians would. But feel free to make an alternative case if you'd like. Maybe I missed something. 2021-04-05 22:50:45 Final results of an unscientific twitter poll. People who responded overwhelmingly think there should be a norm, even after Covid, of wearing a mask in public if you have a cold or flu symptoms, as is common in some other nations. https://t.co/TsmZfWDR8n 2021-04-05 22:45:22 @andyinsdca @_buttrat @Mikeandkam @morganisawizard My point is that you can take your own life, but if you're a libertarian, you consider it wrong to infect others with a harmful illness violates their bodily rights. Self-ownership and bodily rights are foundational to libertarianism. So libertarians wear masks in stores. 2021-04-05 22:38:45 @floidberg @morganisawizard “Libertarians believe or they should believe that people should wear masks because infecting someone with a harmful illness violates their bodily rights. Self-ownership and bodily rights are foundational to libertarianism.” - Jessica Flanigan, Libertarian Ethicist 2021-04-05 22:36:40 @smack98173911 @morganisawizard correct! 2021-04-05 22:35:54 @TheDailyBunkum Jessica Flanigan, the Libertarian ethicist, disagrees: “Libertarians believe or they should believe that people should wear masks because infecting someone with a harmful illness violates their bodily rights. Self-ownership and bodily rights are foundational to libertarianism.” 2021-04-05 22:34:36 @smart_money13 @smack98173911 @morganisawizard I don't see that at all. 2021-04-05 22:33:33 @niamyaraghi Because it is a matter of degree. Covid killed over 500,000 Americans in the past year, even after many of us took extraordinary measures to protect each other. Like swinging a fist, coughing Covid virus is a genuine risk to others bodily rights. 2021-04-05 22:31:20 @niamyaraghi That sounds about right. Currently, are are still a pandemic, with over 5000 people dying each week from Covid and many more seriously injured. Eventually, if people take the vaccine, that number will come down and it won't be dangerous to be in stores without masks. 2021-04-05 17:47:53 RT @zeynep: More good news. Pfizer has the six month update. *Zero* hospitalizations among the vaccinated vs. 32 among the placebo group (n… 2021-04-05 16:52:30 RT @DigEconLab: TODAY (12p PT / 3p ET): Harvard economist @xgabaix talks about power laws in economics in our latest @DigEconLab Seminar Se… 2021-04-05 15:33:34 “Libertarians believe or they should believe that people should wear masks because infecting someone with a harmful illness violates their bodily rights. Self-ownership and bodily rights are foundational to libertarianism.” - Jessica Flanigan, Libertarian Ethicist #BeatCovid https://t.co/7773eJ0amc 2021-04-05 15:26:16 RT @lindayueh: Danish benefits are worth more than 80% of previous earnings after 6 months out of work vs 60% across the rich world & 2021-04-05 15:26:11 RT @lindayueh: 2/ Denmark makes it hard for people to live off welfare. Recipients must submit a cv to a coach within 2 weeks of becoming u… 2021-04-05 15:03:28 @morganisawizard “libertarians believe or they should believe that people should wear masks because infecting someone with a harmful illness violates their bodily rights. Self-ownership and bodily rights are foundational to libertarianism.” - Jessica Flanigan, Libertarian philosopher at Cato 2021-04-05 14:45:52 @morganisawizard Sure. But it’s not libertarian to spread Covid. If you say any rules at all are “libertarian” as long as they’re on private property then the word is meaningless. A store might have a dirty bathroom filled with disease and Mao posters but I wouldn’t call that “libertarian”. 2021-04-05 03:56:25 @morganisawizard The libertarians’ credo of property rights and self-ownership means that “your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.” Shouldn’t that include lethal viruses? 2021-04-05 01:52:10 Congrats to Stanford’s women’s team! https://t.co/Y7Ypx4sP1l 2021-04-04 06:43:18 @YTLHapax @ESYudkowsky That’s a good argument 2021-04-03 23:53:46 As usual, Irving Wladawsky-Berger does a great job explaining research, in this case the work that @sonnytambe, @danielrock, Lorin Hitt and I did on Digital Capital and Superstar firms https://t.co/fz1VDnv5Wt https://t.co/ai1CMouMNp 2021-04-03 23:48:44 This tragic for Brazil. This is how variants get created and spread to the rest of the world. This is why we need to vaccinate the world asap. https://t.co/QhBPRMBO8Q 2021-04-03 22:13:46 @ESYudkowsky The very fast and remarkably effective development of multiple Covid vaccines was pretty impressive, IMO. It was other aspects of the response that were disappointing. 2021-04-03 22:09:58 RT @MaxCRoser: Damn that was quick! https://t.co/6OTk7zLKGB 2021-04-03 22:07:50 @LittleKeegs0 @Noahpinion https://t.co/4fkUBPJ01X 2021-04-03 20:49:14 Should @Noahpinion have 200,000 followers? No. In a just world, he would have at least 200 million followers. It would make the world a better place. Let’s help bend the arc of history toward that better place. https://t.co/m2ypqMZZhK 2021-04-03 18:18:35 RT @danielrock: also honorary @LindseyRRaymond :) 2021-04-03 18:18:26 RT @danielrock: Here's a fun crew to follow if you're interested in the economics of technology: @mattbeane @gsaintja @ShanhHuang @avi_… 2021-04-03 16:36:52 RT @ben_golub: Your daily macroeconomics tweet 2021-04-03 15:36:54 @SteveHiltonx @KimStrassel Is the corporation that you and @kimstrassel choose to work for politically neutral? 2021-04-03 15:34:18 RT @Noahpinion: Vaccine passports are good. 2021-04-03 10:53:14 RT @BetseyStevenson: We already knew this (but still thank you to the authors showing this!)--standardize tests are biased, but are less bi… 2021-04-03 10:31:00 RT @MichaelDell: Agree. Free, fair, equitable access to voting is the foundation of American democracy. Those rights - especially for women… 2021-04-03 03:13:46 @robinhanson For what it’s worth, I cochaired a team for a major government report and didn’t experience anything like that. The main issue was “herding cats” which meant a lot of time reconciling and managing disparate experts opinions https://t.co/JT4vNolMzt 2021-04-02 21:01:07 “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box." https://t.co/sWwvvxhhoA https://t.co/v8eCe9pQvN 2021-04-02 16:25:33 @mattyglesias In fairness, that was the more likely word to be used in that sentence 2021-04-02 00:16:00 RT @EconBerger: Our team is hiring! Come join us. https://t.co/UZyzzwzeDc 2021-04-01 21:48:09 RT @paulg: People who are healthy but refuse to be vaccinated either (a) understand that other people being vaccinated decreases the preval… 2021-04-01 18:14:09 @nateliason That’s quite a bold prediction. It’s pretty hard to think of organizations or institutions to have been continually operating longer than our oldest colleges and universities. 2021-04-01 17:46:29 @kevinrdaley CBO seems like a good place to start. A lot of the choices are pretty obvious. There will also be edge cases, just at when a business makes distinctions between expenses and investments. 2021-04-01 17:31:30 @jasonfurman But queuing *is* raising (quality-adjusted) prices! 2021-04-01 16:38:18 @mykfmn Not the best photo, I agree. 2021-04-01 16:35:06 @AtifRMian Really? I thought the Federal gov't doesn't have a separate capital budget. E.g. https://t.co/o10PB6nAS3 2021-04-01 16:21:06 If you think your right to swing your fist includes the right to hit the rest of us in the face, then you're not really a "libertarian." #B117variant https://t.co/EUcsyPzVrD 2021-04-01 16:00:43 Any properly-run company has a separate capital budget. Likewise, the federal budget should make a distinction between investments versus spending on current year consumption or transfers. https://t.co/Uoto6hntE2 2021-04-01 15:48:52 RT @zeynep: Thank you, @DKThomp for doing the unpleasant work of documenting (a fraction) of Alex Berenson many many (I can only conclude d… 2021-04-01 15:22:16 RT @DigEconLab: It took decades in the 19th century for electricity to transform industries and the same applies to AI now, says Erik Brynj… 2021-04-01 14:48:13 @mattyglesias Don’t feed the trolls 2021-04-01 04:23:13 Congrats to Turing Award winners Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho! https://t.co/BpS0IPtYUK https://t.co/J39oNdmUlP 2021-04-01 03:59:04 @mattyglesias The idea is to match cost and benefits over time. An investment that creates benefits over 15 years should be paid for over 15 years. 2021-04-01 00:34:04 RT @AndrewYNg: When I think about what we can do to build a brighter future for our children, the most important thing is to create a found… 2021-03-31 21:55:46 @robinhanson @mllichti Great. We agree! 2021-03-31 21:52:11 @robinhanson That's not how I read it. I hope you will encourage people to voluntarily wear masks more often in the future. Your tweet seemed to mock that idea, but I see that's not what you intended. 2021-03-31 20:56:54 HT: @mllichti for facts about Taiwan (which I saw myself as well). 2021-03-31 20:55:42 The pre-pandemic social norm in Taiwan and Japan was to wear a mask in public if you have cold/flu symptoms. That was only a few percent of folks you see any given day, but it significantly reduced the spread of respiratory viruses. Should this be the norm in the US post-covid? 2021-03-31 20:44:07 @mllichti @robinhanson Seems very sensible to me. It would be a great norm for the US going forward. I appears that's what some in the article Robin cited were arguing for. I'm not sure where @robinhanson stands on that, though. 2021-03-31 20:33:22 @robinhanson I'm confused. Do you think is "out of their minds" to require masks during the Covid pandemic? Or to embrace it voluntarily after the pandemic as some in the article suggest. or something else? 2021-03-31 20:29:22 @robinhanson I didn't see any arguing for requiring masks (except during the pandemic). I saw this: "There are some experts, including researchers who are trying to improve masks, who argue that more societies should embrace widespread masking in public — as some Asian countries have. " 2021-03-31 20:25:08 @robinhanson That seems like a straw man. The steel man is "should wearing masks be socially acceptable and thus more common". It wasn't in the past. I think it should be going forward. Sounds like you might agree. 2021-03-31 20:18:27 @tage_rai @ScienceMagazine @snaidunl Wonderful! 2021-03-31 20:16:44 @robinhanson And do you think the Asian custom of often wearing masks was a factor in their successful response to Covid, especially when compared to the one in the US and many other nations? 2021-03-31 20:15:24 @robinhanson I saw a lot of masks in Japan on multiple trips and also some in China and Taiwan. Do you think people who might reasonably believe they have an infectious disease are out of their minds to wear masks if they have to go out in public? 2021-03-31 20:05:35 @MaxCRoser True. And thank you for doing this! 2021-03-31 06:11:30 @jkc2323 Yep. And so does Belichick 2021-03-31 05:35:42 Economics is exciting! https://t.co/jc2GQdRTFE 2021-03-31 01:12:58 RT @Khwaja_Shaik: Right on .@erikbryn. I am also in the middle. We are far from the AGI. Lot of it is transformative work. AI is more of pr… 2021-03-30 19:20:11 Fourth wave? SMH https://t.co/bhqTEvQj3j 2021-03-30 19:13:22 RT @indexingai: TOMORROW at 10 am PT: Join the AI Index Steering Committee Co-Chair @jackclarkSF for a discussion on findings of the 2021 A… 2021-03-30 19:06:14 RT @NiskanenCenter: Licensing reform could remove any unnecessary #HigherEd requirements for licensed occupations, significantly reducing s… 2021-03-30 14:23:06 @Prof_Yildirim @InfoEcon @arpitrage Not me, though I did sell an academic paper as an NFT: https://t.co/wDTscJ2htY 2021-03-30 14:13:24 Here's a short interview where I discuss the coming disruption of work (though not mass unemployment) and how we're seeing a winner-take-most economy: https://t.co/FAOKk18ban https://t.co/uwle2gl7TE 2021-03-30 00:30:48 @SteveHiltonx @mbaram @NextRevFNC Steve is it legal or illegal now for you to walk up and hand a glass of water to someone waiting in the sun to vote? 2021-03-30 00:29:21 @SteveHiltonx @NextRevFNC Read the text right above the bit you highlighted. It literally says that no person can give water to voters. (The highlighted part makes an exception only for poll officers.) So it’s now illegal for you to hand someone a cup of water when they’re in the sun waiting to vote. https://t.co/aSLeSsseRA 2021-03-29 22:07:02 @paulg Yep. That’s why you need a folder where you save all that good stuff and hope it you can give it life somewhere else someday. Even if you never do, it makes it much easier to cut it. 2021-03-29 21:34:48 @paulmromer @johnjhorton @AlexBartik @ATabarrok Sadly, I think that’s true. There’s a sense that a job market paper that is too clear and ex post obvious doesn’t really prove the candidate’s technical chops. In turn, complexity limits the number of people who can really read and understand it. 2021-03-29 20:12:39 RT @alex8chan: 2020 and 2021 convinced me that hospitals need to hire Chief Economists as much as @Uber, @lyft, @Google, @amazon, and other… 2021-03-29 16:52:14 @itsbostoncream It all depends on the price 2021-03-29 16:31:09 RT @BostonReview: We are thrilled to announce our new book: REDESIGNING AI — coming later this spring! Exploring work, democracy, & 2021-03-29 04:17:59 And with that, the world experiences an 11% drop in meme production. A rare opportunity to explore meme elasticity of substitution #causalinference 2021-03-29 02:49:30 @alixabeth Now do people under 25 2021-03-29 01:05:01 Hold my beer, Dr. Moore: “[Genomic] sequencing is 10 million times cheaper and 100,000 times higher quality than it was just a few years ago.” - George Church https://t.co/A7wQlJqpXo https://t.co/tCVoB6n3a3 2021-03-28 22:37:30 RT @MengLiu_WUSTL: Statistics has its "moments"... 2021-03-28 21:29:02 @CathyYoung63 What’s with the nutpicking blitz? 2021-03-28 19:12:51 Monte Carlo Methods Standard Deviation Skew Tail Risk P-Value Mean Reversion The Outliers De-mean the Population https://t.co/b3SEMBBuyL 2021-03-28 18:45:58 RT @AlexSteffen: This scale of electricity demand increase why demand reduction—from changes in urban form to tougher building standards to… 2021-03-28 18:05:23 Those silly people in the Microsoft simulation think they are in a real world. https://t.co/4mUr9eldmt 2021-03-28 01:59:32 I'm discussing “AI and Future of Work - Open Room” with @bindureddy, Amit Shah, @crwhite_ml, James Lloyd, and AI Club. Tuesday, Mar 30 at 6:00 PM PDT on @joinclubhouse. Join us! https://t.co/3P3UvonrYz 2021-03-28 00:52:51 Better drug therapies are coming thanks to machine learning. "We present an approach, named Drug Ranking Using ML (DRUML), which...produces ordered lists of > @DigEconLab #AI https://t.co/AU6FsdolKW https://t.co/lmwR7HCtXt 2021-03-27 23:55:37 RT @erikbryn: Making a cheap and easy for everyone in the world to get vaccinated quickly is it one of the smartest Investments the US gove… 2021-03-27 23:52:10 @ptullochott Maybe it is to you. But I suspect it is not to some of the people who worked very hard, undoubtedly nights and weekends, to create this breakthrough. 2021-03-27 23:41:50 @rafalkonopka @timoreilly Thanks. That’s a sensible law and useful to know 2021-03-27 23:38:09 @ptullochott I’m not sure whether your example qualifies as a Godwins law violation, but yes it would’ve been a terrible mistake if we had reneged on paying the soldiers who liberated the concentration camps. 2021-03-27 23:37:17 @ptullochott Sorry you disagree. But I’d love to encourage a dozen more breakthroughs like the vaccine. Wouldn’t you? 2021-03-27 23:34:19 @timoreilly My sense is that the Covid vaccines satisfy the O’Reilly’s Criterion: create more value than you capture. In fact, I’d love to see a dozen more successes is like this one. It was a great use of government support and private ingenuity. 2021-03-27 23:23:34 @timoreilly One could argue that the government should’ve bargained harder upfront. I disagree – the vaccine would be an incredible bargain at 5x the price. But even if that were the case, it would be a terrible message to renege ex post. 2021-03-27 23:17:38 @trungly_econ @ModeledBehavior In part yes. And a big part of that deal was rewarding the people and organizations that worked so hard to create it. #incentivesmatter 2021-03-27 23:16:23 Making a cheap and easy for everyone in the world to get vaccinated quickly is it one of the smartest Investments the US government could make. It reduces the chance of a dangerous variant emerging, it creates priceless goodwill, and it’s simply ethical. 2021-03-27 23:12:52 If the US government plans to pay for the IP, and pay generously or at least fairly, and then give it to the world, this is a great idea. If the government plans to expropriate the IP from the people who created this wondrous vaccine, then it’s a stunningly terrible idea. https://t.co/14pEttrPMs 2021-03-27 19:33:20 RT @DrTomFrieden: If you get infected with Covid, billions of viral particles will replicate all over your body and may cause long-term har… 2021-03-27 19:31:49 RT @nberpubs: Firms with higher digital resilience, measured through a pre-pandemic work-from-home index, had significantly higher sales, n… 2021-03-27 06:01:00 RT @DigEconLab: Prof @bradjlarsen developed a method to use #BigData on used-car bargaining to quantify how often #B2B negotiations break d… 2021-03-26 06:01:50 RT @SarahHBana: Any ideas on how to track this important phenomenon? 2021-03-26 03:40:01 RT @Khwaja_Shaik: Thank You, @ericschmidt, for sponsoring this important and powerful work. This interdisciplinary #research aimed at impro… 2021-03-25 23:48:25 This, but for Washington DC. https://t.co/LOme0vZddz 2021-03-25 20:30:48 RT @landay: Its great and in nice small chunks that are easy to use independently. https://t.co/eEDaYrYVjc 2021-03-25 19:38:59 @JRosenworcel @Austan_Goolsbee Thank you! 2021-03-25 19:38:32 Hooray! https://t.co/w7sdcsmjZ9 2021-03-25 19:36:58 @JamesSurowiecki On news that it’s up 50% 2021-03-25 19:36:02 RT @DoctorYasmin: This is good. Local investigative journalism is important and expensive. https://t.co/vHt8Tgd8Xt 2021-03-25 18:44:09 @leominkus @CathyYoung63 Are you arguing that it's fine to have nutpicking as long as it's by "our side"? 2021-03-25 18:27:51 RT @Austan_Goolsbee: The greatest bang-for-the-buck, low cost move to ensure an electoral mandate for years to come would be for Biden’s FC… 2021-03-25 18:27:16 RT @vardi: Art and arti critique :-) https://t.co/LNg9IxvO7N 2021-03-25 18:26:41 RT @StanfordHAI: .@ken_goldberg discusses the “uncanny valley” as it relates to AI and art. If our robots are a little realistic? We like t… 2021-03-25 18:26:02 RT @brhodes: Biden is exactly right that the most important way to compete with China is not a bunch of tariffs - its revitalizing democrac… 2021-03-25 18:05:31 @CathyYoung63 Do you think Twitter would benefit from more nutpicking or less? 2021-03-25 17:28:45 @mattyglesias Congrats! 2021-03-25 15:50:00 Starting now - @StanfordHAI’s spring conference, “Intelligence Augmentation.” Hear how AI is enhancing, not replacing, our work and being used to solve global challenges in health, education, and even art. #AugmentHAI https://t.co/NIXGVcLdJi 2021-03-24 20:23:36 1903 to 2021: An amazing era in human ingenuity and achievement. And lots more still to come! https://t.co/EdKpU8wlct 2021-03-24 20:09:22 RT @RoKhanna: Futureproof by @kevinroose is a brilliant read. It’s about the increased vulnerability of workers to automaton, and how we ca… 2021-03-24 18:39:23 @ezlazar The defense can shift after the offense lines up 2021-03-24 16:25:35 @mattwbaker @joshgans @ATabarrok @tylercowen @daveholtz That's a great question! 2021-03-24 16:23:30 RT @BOUTELOUPJP: AI INDEX REPORT : The 2021 report also shows the effects of #COVID19 on #AI development from multiple perspectives from @… 2021-03-24 16:01:14 @robziman @joshgans @ATabarrok @tylercowen @daveholtz @beeple @jchatterleyCNN For sure there's bubble mixed in with genuine innovation here. I think the general concept of NFTs makes sense (just like the concept of a certified original painting makes sense). As for the specific prices, a lot of asset prices are hard for me to understand right now. 2021-03-24 15:54:14 SOLD! The #NFT for my first paper went for $1776. Coincidentally, that was year that Adam Smith published "The Wealth of Nations". Whoever bought it stands to make a fortune if it appreciates in value in the coming years. cc: @joshgans @ATabarrok @tylercowen @daveholtz https://t.co/IqGje6YDYF 2021-03-24 06:58:47 @elonmusk @bindureddy Books are great 2021-03-24 05:21:17 I'm looking forward to the @StanfordHAI Spring Conference this Thursday. Intelligence Augmentation: AI Empowering People to Solve Global Challenges Details here: https://t.co/Wm3UOSLViD https://t.co/UmLNKKRLFc 2021-03-24 05:00:33 @joshgans The bundling papers that I did with Yannis Bakos were due to a loss of result. I read Bob Metcalfe say that micropayments were more efficient so I set out to prove that formally. Instead, the math told me that bundling iid goods was more efficient. And a better paper was born! 2021-03-24 04:25:07 "Our legacy must be: how can we help facilitate human flourishing, advancement and happiness for the most people possible" - @FutureJurvetson https://t.co/7jCxnmLdky https://t.co/NR7ZCr2G4u 2021-03-23 20:15:12 @jgkoomey Is this part of @amazon's long-term plan to simplify their product line to just 118 SKUs and let their customers mix and match to make whatever they want? 2021-03-23 20:13:43 For sale on Amazon now: Gallium Metal 100 Grams, 99.99% Pure HT: @jgkoomey https://t.co/ABLVUBsnvc 2021-03-23 19:54:07 RT @DigEconLab: Are robots still coming for our jobs? Which jobs are least likely to be automated? @erikbryn answers these and other questi… 2021-03-23 18:43:53 RT @Prof_Yildirim: Future MBA classrooms will look a lot like this https://t.co/iafgxiGXcY 2021-03-23 18:10:27 The people who said “to help the economy, first beat the virus” were right. https://t.co/kCR8rkBUK0 2021-03-23 17:35:26 If you'd like to learn more about the digital economy, follow the Stanford Digital Economy Lab: @DigEconLab https://t.co/8tLR3WAIwS https://t.co/a7yjEYLJe0 2021-03-23 16:39:17 RT @JanWrampelmeyer: Digital platforms can help reduce moral hazard. @Uber drivers take shorter routes and save time on airport trips compa… 2021-03-23 01:08:12 @JedKolko Applying the precautionary principle, I’m going to have a donut just in case 2021-03-23 00:25:31 RT @davidasinclair: What up EU? https://t.co/dou6h96FAI 2021-03-23 00:24:02 @BoredElonMusk Except one. Greatest botanist on Mars is already taken https://t.co/LreZTXgIDf 2021-03-22 23:52:19 My new @nberpubs paper "Digital Resilience: How Work-From-Home Feasibility Affects Firm Performance" with Jianqia Bai, @jwangjin_3, @sebbie88 and Chi Wan. Data from 200 million job postings reveals that firms with higher WFH feasibility did better #COVID https://t.co/JZ7IEaBLgD https://t.co/tPRJxyrnkN 2021-03-22 23:38:17 RT @SuriTavneet: The REStat is sponsoring 5 early career researchers to attend the 2021 and 2022 @nberpubs #SummerInstitute (2021 will sadl… 2021-03-22 21:58:47 RT @amcafee: This is amazing, but also woefully incomplete as it is not accompanied by “Highway to Hell.” And don’t talk to me about copyri… 2021-03-22 19:05:33 RT @DigEconLab: Join us today 3/22 (12p PT/3p ET) for our Seminar Series with @EricaGroshen, who will share research and insights about usi… 2021-03-22 17:50:33 Space race, 21st century edition https://t.co/Dl4h6e5QWP 2021-03-22 16:28:05 Today at 12noon PT. https://t.co/BTmpGAD0c1 2021-03-22 15:29:22 @mgraalum @greenpilledlib @ne0liberal @alon_levy According to @Richard_Florida, the Bos-Wash Northeast Corridor produces about $4 Trillion in output. That still #1, by far, in the world. https://t.co/qcrcl21ZmH 2021-03-22 06:48:20 @wminshew Tax them for their externalities too. 2021-03-22 06:27:11 @ne0liberal @alon_levy Just do BOS-NYC-PHI-DC but do it well. 50 million people and the world's largest megalopolis in terms of economic output. https://t.co/Afniq8EUmF 2021-03-22 03:17:43 @JAFontenello Why? Shouldn’t customers get the signal to burn less fuel and cause less pollution? 2021-03-21 23:43:25 @pmddomingos 2021-03-21 21:44:09 RT @elonmusk: @cleantechnica I am accumulating resources to help make life multiplanetary & 2021-03-21 21:38:58 @johnjhorton Frankfurter 2021-03-21 21:36:03 RT @AndrewYNg: To everyone speaking privately or publicly to #StopAsianHate, I want to say: Thank you. 2021-03-21 21:30:48 @pmddomingos We certainly should seek the best ways to address the risks. But a pet peeve of mine is the mistaken claim that if we are more uncertain about the risks then we should pay less attention to them. I’m not saying you were claiming that but many people seem to. 2021-03-21 21:17:40 @pmddomingos I think I get it now. Your argument for not worrying much seems to hinge mainly on your high confidence in the models of large scale climate change geoengineering in case of looming catastrophe, not in your lack of confidence in climate change models generally. 2021-03-21 21:03:57 @pmddomingos OK so your argument is almost the opposite of how I interpreted your original tweet. You think that there’s little uncertainty about the risks of GHG because we understand the models of climate and Geoengineering very well and can cap the risk. Am I understanding you correctly? 2021-03-21 20:55:07 @pmddomingos There’s a separate question of what is the best way to address the risks. But I think it’s clear that a mean-preserving spread in the risk leads to a higher chance of catastrophe (as well as a higher chance of no risk at all) 2021-03-21 20:50:20 @pmddomingos More uncertainty about the effects of GHGs and the various feedback mechanisms means that there’s *more* of a chance that GHG‘s are a catastrophic risk. 2021-03-21 20:40:17 @pmddomingos What do you think of this analysis? https://t.co/t2WnydU8yb For given average level of climate change, if the effects of GHG are less certain, that means more risk of catastrophe (since costs grow disproportionately with more warming) 2021-03-21 19:00:51 I like all 10 of these tips https://t.co/lkZZLZVXql 2021-03-21 18:33:36 @pmddomingos I.E. when you say you see more uncertainty than people typically assume, are you calling for more aggressive action on climate? Because many people might interpret your tweet as suggesting the opposite. 2021-03-21 18:29:48 @DanCiuriak Agreed! 2021-03-21 18:29:11 @pmddomingos That's a surprising perspective. An argument against geoengineering is that it has the potential for a panoply of unpredictable side-effects, while keeping GHG levels near current ones is less likely to create tail risks. But do you agree that uncertainty is NOT our friend? 2021-03-21 01:14:57 RT @Cmdr_Hadfield: Iceland, yesterday. A peek into the inferno of our Earth. (video Chris Burkard https://t.co/Ba8Eh0SJbX) https://t.co/Q… 2021-03-20 23:14:07 The economy is bouncing back. https://t.co/cU6Br0FFc7 2021-03-20 22:36:09 RT @abhishekn: (Rare personal tweet) Just finished 10 glorious miles for #RunTheWorld — thanks @janagallus for encouraging me to dust off t… 2021-03-20 22:35:50 RT @avi_collis: Ran a half-marathon today with @manuelacollis followed by tacos @veracruztacos. Thank you to @janagallus for organizing th… 2021-03-20 22:21:02 RT @chrmanning: Augmenting human capabilities is how we bring home the promise of AI helping people. It’s the topic of @StanfordHAI’s Sprin… 2021-03-20 22:15:08 RT @bindureddy: What are your favorite works of art about AI? Books, movies, fictional characters all count... Here's mine: - Asimov's fo… 2021-03-20 22:14:01 RT @literaryeric: What is the best book you have ever read, and why should I read it next? 2021-03-20 21:50:06 RT @fchollet: Deep learning excels at unlocking the creation of impressive early demos of new applications using very little development re… 2021-03-20 21:34:16 @itsbostoncream Ceiling 15-2, with final game vs Tom in LA Floor 9-8 If there are a lot of injuries 2021-03-20 19:40:58 @moultano @MaxCRoser @avi_collis @eggers_felix @KevinElZorro Great question. And one we might be able to (try to) measure 2021-03-20 19:33:46 @MaxCRoser Here's some work on this I've done with @avi_collis @eggers_felix @KevinElZorro and Erwin Diewert. We call it GDP-B. More to come! https://t.co/gLvEYblHO0 https://t.co/aiDoBdhDTc https://t.co/c00n7FGL37 2021-03-20 18:13:32 RT @felixsalmon: A ship tunnel is going to be built in Norway! https://t.co/aN3p2kqXEq 2021-03-19 21:51:34 RT @OnlyInBOS: Peak Gronk on the Patriots was unfair... https://t.co/EF1cRmpaok 2021-03-19 18:13:54 @askMsQ @VritiSaraf @DigEconLab @dvodicka @BrittanyKrystle @gregkulowiec @erpelding @Burtonsuper2018 @JerryAlmendarez @TheTechRabbi @thomascmurray @ejhudson @mjcraw @sabakarimm @joinClubhouse @AdamMGrant Sounds great! 2021-03-19 17:02:50 RT @jdanplant: @erikbryn @FutureJurvetson Would be nice to see this one follow suit. https://t.co/XkbpTJXoi1 2021-03-19 17:01:48 @greglinden @Susan_Athey To be clear I’m not a co-author on this article. That is Susan Athey and colleagues writing. 2021-03-19 16:37:21 RT @alex8chan: Universities can reduce transaction costs for the market for data substantially if academics coordinate on some “universal”… 2021-03-19 16:27:55 We estimate below that installed capacity for 3 billion annual vaccine courses has a global benefit of $17.4 trillion, over $5800 per course...This dwarfs prices of $6 to $40 per course seen in deals with vaccine producers. - @Susan_Athey and colleagues https://t.co/0Zz5483Ofg https://t.co/hZ6mYgHyYW 2021-03-19 15:58:53 Global gasoline demand peaked in 2019. Here come the electric vehicles! HT: @FutureJurvetson https://t.co/0OY00ZC9AX https://t.co/bOI9uoYXcH 2021-03-18 20:19:48 RT @NFAPResearch: An understanding of economics and employment data – 1 million posted vacancies and a 2.3% unemployment rate in computer o… 2021-03-18 17:56:10 I'm so proud to be part of the amazing at the @StanfordHAI and @DigEconLab. The new annual report highlights some of the work we've been doing. https://t.co/W8EBzzyzIj 2021-03-18 16:23:36 Mark your calendars! You won’t want to miss any of these amazing speakers at the @DigEconLab lunch seminar. https://t.co/1tLylEdLAW 2021-03-18 05:18:38 RT @Paula_Piccard: Quote of the Day: "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." - Dwight D. Eisenhower 2021-03-18 05:17:51 Imagine if this technology could applied to... https://t.co/JR47F9kS4t 2021-03-18 05:12:46 @itsbostoncream He's not in "desperation mode". He taking advantage of the lower salary cap to go shopping when most other teams can't. This is the year to load up. https://t.co/9NLQyfMPR7 2021-03-18 05:05:37 @BoredElonMusk You might call them fossil stations for fueling 2021-03-18 02:44:25 If the precautionary principle were applied to the precautionary principle, would it ban the precautionary principle? https://t.co/UYxW3o2WU4 2021-03-17 21:19:38 Dr Seuss Lives! https://t.co/uemvJifILA 2021-03-17 20:50:20 RT @daveholtz: This is a good list that someone else has compiled: https://t.co/z83woQSrWo I’ll match up to $300 in donations by others, j… 2021-03-17 20:33:40 Providing health coverage for children *saves* taxpayer money and millions of life-years. Here's the research from @agoodmanbacon "Medicaid has saved the government more than its original cost and saved more than 10 million quality adjusted life-years" https://t.co/ghsdWDIeSb 2021-03-17 20:25:15 Wise advice from my friend @SahilBloom about how to interpret other people's actions and motives. https://t.co/tbeYbtN8ee 2021-03-17 20:02:06 RT @mattbeane: We have decades of research showing that we build most of our valuable skill working alongside an expert. Yet most the tech… 2021-03-17 20:01:43 RT @juliagalef: This was retweeted by the comm. director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). Not reassuring to see pandemic risk described as an "ima… 2021-03-17 19:54:02 @NurAhmedB @joshgans It's definitely troubling 2021-03-17 18:37:33 RT @indexingai: The 2021 AI Index Report - a thread: this year we significantly expanded the amount of data available in the report and wor… 2021-03-17 18:30:52 @annastansbury @MITSloan @MIT_IWER Congrats! 2021-03-17 17:05:16 RT @DigEconLab: Calling all senior execs and decision makers: Sign up for the exec ed course "The Value of Data and AI" to understand the n… 2021-03-17 03:24:55 RT @wwwojtekk: 20 minutes left, 170 votes behind. Let's call big guns to win this epic fight of economists vs streamers. How can a neoliber… 2021-03-17 01:21:34 Cool technologies are important but the real work, and real payoff, comes from figuring out the new ways to organize production that leverages them. 2021-03-17 00:48:22 https://t.co/EpZzDSmmEQ 2021-03-17 00:47:57 Here comes the J curve! https://t.co/hVHWQkOYTU 2021-03-17 00:18:01 Many important lessons can be learned from watching this video over and over and over https://t.co/W1PiAmh2e9 2021-03-16 21:26:38 RT @indexingai: Join our Steering Cmte Co-Chair @jackclarkSF on Wed, Mar 31 (10 am PT) for a discussion on findings of the 2021 AI Index Re… 2021-03-16 21:26:03 Moving in the right direction but “Chair” is so 2020. Technoking is 2021 https://t.co/INrtxW0f2g 2021-03-16 21:23:30 RT @DigEconLab: Join us Monday 3/22 for our next Seminar Series: Economist @EricaGroshen talks about tapping into nonstandard data to impro… 2021-03-16 21:19:51 RT @PTetlock: “Gradual Change blindness” is a deep psychological effect with extensive societal implications. We are often blind to the cu… 2021-03-16 19:34:15 It's interesting to see how much faster the rebound is going this time compared to the financial crisis of 2008. Not only was the nature of the downturn very different but so was the policy response. https://t.co/nEGe2NKuEY 2021-03-16 19:30:36 RT @nberpubs: Evidence on the link between education and innovation, with a focus on expanding access to basic skills, improving the qualit… 2021-03-16 02:21:30 This is smart. The benefits of getting vaccines out faster are far far more then the extra $17 being spent. https://t.co/xW1w66xaH8 2021-03-16 02:18:19 RT @arindube: As an avowed social democrat and labor economist, I hereby throw my support being @wwwojtekk If we're gonna have neoliberal… 2021-03-16 01:38:07 @wwwojtekk @nealemahoney @GottliebEcon Here's the classic paper by Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny. "Our evidence shows that countries with a higher proportion of engineering college majors grow faster https://t.co/VC2MtpPKsC 2021-03-16 01:23:12 @dsleon45 @ColtsJs @CameronNewton You're a class act 2021-03-16 01:16:25 @genebsperling @POTUS Congrats! That's great news for America. 2021-03-16 00:42:10 @Jason_OTC When will you have updated cap numbers, especially for the @Patriots ? https://t.co/m0zKAEuwgG 2021-03-15 19:44:33 @johnjhorton R1 is the first person the editor thought of. They have nothing to prove R2 is bitter that they don’t have the reputation they deserve. R3 is up and coming and happy to be in the game at all https://t.co/QArZcdeQYB 2021-03-15 18:07:20 @Easymoney_81 Welcome to Patriot Nation! 2021-03-15 13:02:07 RT @erikbryn: Even (especially?) in a world of digital information, capital is more mobile than know-how, so differences in standards of li… 2021-03-15 13:01:06 RT @scottlincicome: "A Year In Tweets" https://t.co/9G70PDGIww https://t.co/0FFroaQ4Y3 2021-03-15 11:50:24 @mattyglesias If you move a dollar of consumption from this year to next year, have you saved it? How about from morning to evening? How about an hour of daylight? 2021-03-15 06:50:23 @rstjac1032 @amcafee Abramovitz 2021-03-15 00:06:41 RT @Satyen_Baindur: @indexingai tracks the progress of #A technology in Image classification, language understanding, speech to text etc. O… 2021-03-15 00:06:20 RT @jackclarkSF: Had a fun time discussing AI& 2021-03-14 23:43:19 @MaMoMVPY Did you hear about the vaccine? 2021-03-14 22:26:49 RT @kevinroose: For this week's newsletter, I talked with @jackclarkSF about the AI Index, auto-generated Taylor Swift albums, and the surv… 2021-03-14 22:25:22 @davidpreener 45534690830264252230825 33446850352619311881 71010003137838752886 58753320838142061717 76691473035982534904 28755468731159562863 88235378759375195778 18577805321712268066 130019278766111959092164201989 2021-03-14 22:24:23 @davidpreener 19070217986094370277 05392171762931767523 84674818467669405132 00056812714526356082 77857713427577896091 73637178721468440901 22495343014654958537 10507922796892589235 42019956112129021960 86403441815981362977 47713099605187072113 49999998372978049951 05973173281609631859 5024459 2021-03-14 22:23:05 @davidpreener 32664821339360726 02491412737245870066 06315588174881520920 96282925409171536436 78925903600113305305 48820466521384146951 94151160943305727036 57595919530921861173 81932611793105118548 07446237996274956735 18857527248912279381 83011949129833673362 44065664308602139494 6395224737 2021-03-14 22:21:46 @davidpreener 53589793238462643383279 50288419716939937510 58209749445923078164 06286208998628034825 3421170679 8214808651 32823066470938446095 50582231725359408128 48111745028410270193 85211055596446229489 54930381964428810975 66593344612847564823 37867831652712019091 45648566923460348610454 2021-03-14 21:11:57 3.14 2021-03-14 19:24:22 While your tweet has elements that are both humorous and novel, the parts that are humorous are not novel and the parts that are novel are not humorous. 2021-03-14 19:17:56 "While your rejection letter has great merit, I get numerous rejection letters and after careful review, I regret I cannot accept yours. I encourage you to send it to another author." https://t.co/HTiKZy1bq7 2021-03-14 19:11:43 Even (especially?) in a world of digital information, capital is more mobile than know-how, so differences in standards of living depend more on productivity than capital endowments. https://t.co/8sQqjQYof6 2021-03-14 19:06:56 @profhoff @DigEconLab I agree that there's a long way to go, but in talking to researchers, I'm hearing more attention to the societal implications and efforts to make AI collaborative. But maybe I'm in a bubble. 2021-03-14 18:58:54 Here's my ICLR Keynote from 2018 where I urge AI researchers to invent ways to augment humans and make them more valuable, rather than seeking to replace them. I get the sense that this message is now beginning to get out. What do you think? #AI #sharedprosperity @DigEconLab https://t.co/cClUOrnqeN 2021-03-14 15:54:24 RT @FutureJurvetson: Another starry Starlink launch this morning, adding a new pearl necklace overhead. Every launch adds > 2021-03-14 02:43:17 @alex8chan You are a true romantic! 2021-03-14 00:43:12 @olcan That seems plausible. In the same study, we found a similar effect for taxes. 2021-03-14 00:18:40 Who's going to do this first? The US, The EU, China or an international alliance? 2021-03-14 00:16:35 It's not just Oprah. Keeping the total price the same, but calling less of it "shipping costs" significantly increases the likelihood of consumer purchasing a good. The research https://t.co/fI5qEaDlOd https://t.co/NGx28KVTsV 2021-03-14 00:04:12 RT @joshgans: At $30, it is hot hot hot! https://t.co/bce9wsce2p 2021-03-13 23:58:55 We need to do this immediately. It’s not just the right thing to do from an ethical standpoint, it’s also the wise thing to do in a world of ever-mutating new virus strains https://t.co/WtzasM7YSP 2021-03-13 22:29:30 @chameze Yes, its a problem given the current proof of work protocols. A good reason to worry abou them. I hope that issue can be solved -- e.g. folks creating proof of stake protocols. 2021-03-13 21:06:56 @psettel !!! 2021-03-13 20:57:28 RT @Clublink_to: Are NFT|s overpriced? Do #NFT prices make any sense at this point? Join @erikbryn, @adamdavidson, @israelswilson, and @jo… 2021-03-13 20:47:31 @goueeik @CapnSasquatch They are freely shared. keep can freely buy and NFTs or not. It doesn’t affect access to the research at all. 2021-03-13 20:46:43 @jdanplant All good questions! 2021-03-13 20:12:18 @kjw_chiu @mllichti @joshgans True, possession is 9/10ths of the law, as the saying goes. But to be literal, ownership is a legal construct that our society created. Many people live in homes and gaze at art on the wall that someone else owns. Most wealth ownership is documented via bits, not atoms. 2021-03-13 19:47:59 @Peter_1_1 That’s the beauty. It’s not behind a paywall everybody can read it. They do. But if somebody wants to own the NFT for my signed copy, for whatever reason, they can do that too. 2021-03-13 19:45:15 I'm discussing “Do these NFT prices make any sense?” with @adamdavidson, @israelswilson, and @joshgans. Today, Mar 13 at 1:00 PM PST on @joinclubhouse. Join us! https://t.co/vmJeii4RpX 2021-03-13 18:43:41 Prediction: Soon it will be common for authors including scientists to list their original papers as #NFTs for sale. In fact, I just listed my classic paper 'The Productivity Paradox of Information Technology '. Yes, you can bid on it here: https://t.co/wDTscJ2htY 2021-03-13 03:29:08 @IntangibleEcon @Cent Useful? Well, you can be the judge. Life? It should last pretty indefinitely. 2021-03-13 03:23:37 This tweet is for sale on: https://t.co/By288rDz1u @cent 2021-03-12 20:56:07 RT @ModeledBehavior: Folks I ask you: is there anything more neoliberal than getting corporate endorsements? 2021-03-12 17:51:11 RT @adamdavidson: I'm discussing “Do these NFT prices make any sense?” with @erikbryn, @israelswilson, and @joshgans. Tomorrow, Mar 13 at 4… 2021-03-12 03:50:30 Same https://t.co/eaaDw1AH4A 2021-03-12 03:45:52 Having a great @joinClubhouse right now about AI now with @kevinroose, Rob Reich and others 2021-03-12 02:26:28 RT @POTUS: All adult Americans will be eligible to get the vaccine no later than May 1. 2021-03-11 21:55:55 RT @StanfordHAI: “2020 was a year when AI accelerated its move from the lab to commercial and industrial applications.” @erikbryn on the st… 2021-03-11 19:32:55 RT @DigEconLab: Be a part of the @StanfordHAI Spring Conference on 3/25. Experts from healthcare, education, art, and other sectors are com… 2021-03-11 18:16:14 Picasso's first painting is now worth millions even if its not particularly amazing and anyone can easy buy an indistinguishable copy. Could an NFT of this tweet -- this one you're reading right now -- someday be worth millions, too? Asking for an heir. https://t.co/Mwnety4SGT 2021-03-11 17:53:42 Get vaccinated the first chance you have. #Vaccination #COVID19 https://t.co/y2XbaPlqwZ 2021-03-11 17:02:39 @adamdavidson @joshgans Yes! 2021-03-11 17:01:45 @joshgans @adamdavidson Hey, don't ruin the suspense. That's what creates value! 2021-03-11 16:58:47 @adamdavidson @joshgans Let's do it. Email me and we'll find a time that works. 2021-03-11 16:57:56 @SteveHiltonx But if you think letting the disease run rampant, even for young people (if that were possible to do), would have helped the economy, you're terribly wrong. As it was, hospitals hit capacity. The only thing worse than our leaky lockdowns would be not flattening the curve at all. 2021-03-11 16:54:05 @joshgans Sure. This this weekend -- I have real work to do today and tomorrow (which is why I'm tweeting). 2021-03-11 16:53:24 @joshgans Sure. When the law of one price is violated. But by definition an NFT is not fungible so you can't apply that principle. You may have different tastes, for sure, but if other people want to spend their money on certified original art, that's what rocks their boat. 2021-03-11 16:50:32 @SteveHiltonx Yes, in many ways we implemented a terrible strategy by having leaky, rolling lockdowns. We could have had 1/10 the death and 1/10 the GDP loss if we'd followed the "hammer and dance" strategy of a hard lockdown for 6-8 weeks as I and many others advocated over 1 year ago 2021-03-11 16:46:50 @joshgans I'm certain that museums will buy such things and I don't think it's stupid. 2021-03-11 16:43:35 @itsbostoncream Not sure it’s cheaper or easier but it certainly would be nice 2021-03-11 16:40:50 @SteveHiltonx I'm astonished that you're still pushing the idea that we could have had a better economy if we'd tolerated even more death and disease. The data say the opposite: To help the economy, you must beat the virus. People don't shop or dine out if it requires risking their lives. https://t.co/OQiHeng1D9 2021-03-11 16:28:58 @joshgans You can hang digital art in a living room as well. Apparently, a lot of people are willing to pay a premium for having the certified “original” of an item as oppposed to an indistinguishable copy 2021-03-11 16:16:10 @joshgans Does people paying a fortune for an original Picasso also mean that “something is wrong” 2021-03-11 07:11:09 @jamescham .@amcafee and I wrote a bit about this in Machine/Platform/Crowd. We argue that real world contracts are incomplete so the scope for pure smart contracts is more limited than their biggest proponents suggest. The corporation won’t disappear anytime soon. https://t.co/cWiekCoWUO 2021-03-11 06:52:46 RT @Benioff: “The economy needs a bailout, but so does nature. What we measure, we value, and what we value, we manage. Momentum on valuing… 2021-03-11 05:42:19 Seems like a material difference https://t.co/OHiEYlWb1Q 2021-03-11 05:36:24 @eastdakota @tatianawebb !!!! 2021-03-11 02:58:50 "One of the great moral stains on the United States is ...staggering levels of child poverty. If measures in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan are made permanent, child poverty could fall by half. - @NickKristof https://t.co/Uwdx8VUxzi https://t.co/dRlxIu5Llp 2021-03-11 02:04:37 @jondr44 But you weren’t 2021-03-11 02:01:12 RT @EvanKirstel: Remote work should be here to stay: Telecommuting has saved the average American 8.6 days of time stuck in traffic this pa… 2021-03-11 01:48:26 And sadly, it didn't have to be. https://t.co/kUnkgRm2sa 2021-03-11 01:41:15 RT @Chad_Cotti: Man ahead of his time https://t.co/bub0V8giBo 2021-03-10 22:47:57 RT @SalehaMohsin: American Airlines CEO told 13K employees to tear up'' notices of possible furlough that they received last month. Onc… 2021-03-10 19:32:26 RT @RexChapman: Neil deGrasse Tyson with a poignant 30-seconds on states removing mandatory mask mandates...https://t.co/9VSGXm9kCX 2021-03-10 19:21:33 @SuriTavneet @KhoaVuUmn Close your eyes for 60 seconds and you'll find that you've always had it within you. 2021-03-10 17:39:24 @chr1sa Brazil 2021-03-10 04:36:32 RT @sapinker: Contrary to popular opinion, you can’t be too smart https://t.co/2bmy41jFEW 2021-03-10 04:00:52 Join me in voting for @wwwojtekk If he wins the crown, then my Elo rating increases. https://t.co/zuMcUREmGM 2021-03-10 03:57:19 @wwwojtekk Its also the graph of whether these economists think existing prices always capture everything relevant. 2021-03-10 03:55:29 @wwwojtekk Yep. And yep. (as there often is) 2021-03-10 03:54:38 @wwwojtekk By the way, who says I'm bitter that you trounced me in the neoliberal shill competition? I'm not bitter! Not even a little bitter. Hardly at all bitter. I couldn't care less. Really. 2021-03-10 03:52:33 @wwwojtekk True, but like a computer, garbage in, garbage out. So, when the market price does *not* capture everything that matters, then you get incorrect results. https://t.co/HQVU9ghIVi 2021-03-10 03:48:45 @alxmiddleton @BillGates @andrewrsorkin Because using more of any resource, particular one that increases climate change, is a bad idea if there's another way to do it more efficiently. 2021-03-10 03:46:58 @RKreuzbauer @econnaturalist The idea is to see whether a dollar buys more or less "stuff" than before. If you'd rather have one HDTV than two regular TVs, then even if the HDTV cost twice as much, it's not a sign of inflation. Ditto for heart surgery at a 2020 hospital vs. heart surgery at 1990 hospital. 2021-03-10 03:43:31 “Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind.” - @BillGates speaking to @andrewrsorkin #btc #bitcoin #climatechange https://t.co/K6XjYT97vg https://t.co/7x0gwGvZSZ 2021-03-10 00:54:00 The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice - MLK https://t.co/C8pFMKbVB9 2021-03-10 00:45:06 @Jason_OTC So draft picks are slightly less valuable than in the past. 2021-03-10 00:43:44 Economists are unanimous about the need fo a tax on GHGs. HT: @R_Thaler "Sound policy would involve increasing significantly the currently near-zero price of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases." https://t.co/Wc2tcahFqj https://t.co/vPdxmo7kW0 2021-03-10 00:17:08 If the interstate highway system and the Apollo moon landing were fueled by America's competition with the Soviet Union, what infrastructure or "moon shots" will be inspired by competition with China? https://t.co/OzTBNGa3Yz 2021-03-10 00:09:14 @elonmusk @ashleevance Why not start with autonomous cargo aircraft? 2021-03-09 20:03:14 RT @jeffphowe: Just a heads up, Trent Brown took less money to play for Bill Belichick. https://t.co/bZ5fFLHNpO 2021-03-09 20:03:08 @jeffphowe Smart players want to play for great coaches 2021-03-09 19:58:27 RT @OECD: A global economic recovery is in sight, but a faster and more effective #COVID19Vaccination rollout across the world is critical.… 2021-03-09 19:57:56 I just got my first vaccine dose today at Levi Stadium. It was a super efficient process with lots of very helpful friendly people. #vaccines #COVID19Vaccination https://t.co/9BzzDiEooF 2021-03-09 17:05:59 @tommycollison I found a trick to make it easier. Write a detailed outline and then voice dictate as if you’re talking to a friend. 2021-03-09 16:58:08 RT @DigEconLab: Did you miss yesterday’s Seminar Series with MIT’s Sanjay Sarma and Bill Bonvillian? Watch “Workforce Education: A New Road… 2021-03-09 16:53:22 RT @kevinroose: My book is out today! Here's the how it started/how it's going. (thanks @karaswisher!) https://t.co/B1morKM21J 2021-03-09 16:03:50 RT @SlaughterAM: Thank you -- I go to both Kate and Hilary's work often. https://t.co/ppScM7s8Au 2021-03-09 15:58:47 Massive move by @Patriots brings back 6' 8" 380lbs Trent Brown https://t.co/VNWUhJiOyG https://t.co/MqcNcriqW3 2021-03-09 06:27:08 RT @jeremyphoward: Because ISO standards are so important, you're not allowed to read them. Ummm 2021-03-09 05:51:57 RT @indexingai: 2021 AI Index is cited in the latest @turinginst Report on the gender gaps in AI and data science. "...The diversity issu… 2021-03-09 05:51:36 RT @DigEconLab: "In the brain, curiosity is the equivalent of hunger, and dopamine is the equivalent of saliva." - Sanjay Sarma talks throu… 2021-03-09 05:42:25 @CaliComm007 @ScottAdamsSays Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday blocked an attempt by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) to pass three election security-related bills via "unanimous consent" https://t.co/k919mLl2iB 2021-03-09 05:41:14 @CaliComm007 @ScottAdamsSays Before the election, Republicans killed a proposed law, the #SAFEAct, which would have required robust manual audits for all federal races & https://t.co/gfC2xIlQA8 2021-03-09 02:18:42 RT @robseamans: Melinda Gates calls on Congress to pass paid family medical leave to bolster economic recovery https://t.co/RiK9UGAebf 2021-03-08 23:06:09 I just ordered @kevinroose's new book and I'm looking forward to reading it https://t.co/NAinYXHIHz 2021-03-08 23:00:25 RT @kevinroose: The answer to "what will people do with the cognitive surplus freed up when Trump leaves office?" seems to be "emotionally… 2021-03-08 22:12:18 RT @russellwald: Come work with @StanfordHAI! We're seeking a highly self-motivated individual that is an excellent project manager, backgr… 2021-03-08 20:30:38 RT @juliagalef: 1/ Hey guys, I’m excited to announce my first book is coming out April 13! It’s about something I call “scout mindset” - t… 2021-03-08 19:15:31 Happy International Women's Day! https://t.co/B62amfKr1j https://t.co/CapaEmJbZZ 2021-03-08 19:03:37 @RKreuzbauer @econnaturalist By and large the official quality adjustments for televisions are pretty good. But yes we are probably overestimating inflation and underestimating the rise in the quality of living across the board 2021-03-08 18:59:06 A basic management principle: whenever possible, try to match up cash flows. That means long-term investments that increase productive capacity should be paid for with long-term borrowing. https://t.co/GpGPLkX9zc 2021-03-08 18:55:36 @juliagalef Congrats! That’s great news. 2021-03-08 18:54:39 RT @StanfordHAI: Today at 12 pm PT, Professor Sanjay Sarma and Lecturer Bill Bonvillian join @erikbryn to discuss their latest book, Workfo… 2021-03-08 18:54:24 @econnaturalist Interesting chart but there are serious measurement errors with many of the rising red lines. For instance hospital and medical services are vastly improved in terms of quality of life-years saved. However, there are not good quality-adjusted price indices for them. 2021-03-08 18:17:59 @erasmuse 2021-03-08 17:41:53 @Benioff Congrats! 2021-03-08 16:45:56 Wonderful to see @LReynoldsMITIPC in this new role at the @WhiteHouse https://t.co/xWhhhIGmds 2021-03-08 04:20:58 @CaliComm007 @ScottAdamsSays Of course we should make the system more secure. There have been multiple bills to do that. They were voted down by the GOP. The simplest way to make things transparent and secure is with machine-readable hand-marked paper ballots. Election security experts agree. 2021-03-08 01:14:50 As it should https://t.co/kGPStzI8Ti 2021-03-08 01:07:38 RT @albertwenger: In which I explain the appeal of #NFTs via a thought experiment involving the Mona Lisa 2021-03-08 00:54:13 @ScottAdamsSays The system is pretty transparent but if you want to make it more transparent Blockchain goes the wrong direction. Any serious cryptographer will tell you that. A better solution that’s widely adopted is machine-readable hand-marked paper ballots. Built-in auditable paper trail. 2021-03-08 00:39:06 @ScottAdamsSays The problem has nothing to do with blockchain. The problem has to do with people who falsely claimed the election was rigged. Unscrupulous people will say things like that regardless of the technology and you know it. 2021-03-08 00:03:37 A terrific analogy https://t.co/6FMaJ2la17 2021-03-07 23:21:27 RT @DrTomFrieden: A mask mandate isn't about restricting anyone's freedom. A mask mandate is about preventing people from inadvertently spr… 2021-03-07 22:55:34 RT @crampell: This tool is fun to play with. I looked up # of minutes of discussion per day on various economic vs. culture war keywords on… 2021-03-07 22:45:03 @elonmusk This time around Tesla will come out on top 2021-03-07 20:43:34 RT @MacroPru: @erikbryn @aslavitt46 #MaskUp #Vaccinate #Ventilate (open windows and use HEPA filters!) #MVV2stopCovid19! https://t.co/Ystp… 2021-03-07 20:41:14 @aslavitt46 Don't slow down now! #MaskUp #vaccinate 2021-03-07 20:00:31 RT @nberpubs: On average, a $1000 increase in per-pupil public school spending increases test scores by 0.044 SD, high-school graduation by… 2021-03-07 19:59:00 RT @DTWillingham: Every genius’s secret was persistence. 2021-03-07 19:44:34 Register at the link below and your calendars for our next Digital Economy Lunch Seminar https://t.co/GfzBBbanFh 2021-03-07 18:48:12 RT @ericschmidt: China is 10x ahead of us in the 5G space. We’ve ceded semiconductor leadership to East Asia. This is a national emergency.… 2021-03-07 16:33:12 RT @crampell: gotta admire the dedication here. the scheme pretty sounds time-consuming though -- wonder what the equivalent hourly wage co… 2021-03-07 16:29:29 RT @EricTopol: The United States, pandemic outlier 4% of the world population 20% of the deaths 30% of vaccine doses administered 2021-03-07 16:25:48 Dennis Ritchie certainly should be better known outside of computer science circles. His influence on the world far surpassed his fame or wealth. https://t.co/ArQ8bTp6px 2021-03-07 02:34:40 So far https://t.co/soVB4zSFTH 2021-03-07 02:14:11 @itsbostoncream - 15th best passer - top running QB in short yardage (where it really matters) -near the top in leadership Plus not to be ignored: leaves enough cap space and draft picks for an infusion of talent in the rest of the roster. 2021-03-07 01:42:58 This is great news. We can beat Covid by the end of May if a new strain doesn't get traction. https://t.co/Kvxfqd0HxY 2021-03-07 01:38:43 @itsbostoncream Cam will be great with a decent set of receivers and tight ends, a full off-season to learn the full offense, and no Covid in the middle to knock him off stride. Plus I just love his joyous attitude and leadership 2021-03-07 01:31:34 @dydxit Once 80% of the population is vaccinated, Covid case should drop to close to zero, including the new mutant strain(s) that could restart the pandemic. That seems likely by summer. Since wearing masks is almost costless, I will wear them until then out of concern for others. 2021-03-07 01:23:23 Expand your sense of the possible - John Perry Barlow, 1947–2018 https://t.co/yZoXeMYbNm 2021-03-06 22:21:39 RT @armst_ed: This 2021 #AI Index may be the most comprehensive assessment of #AI use & 2021-03-06 22:10:43 @Noahpinion Moar data! https://t.co/aiDoBdhDTc 2021-03-06 22:01:21 RT @justinhendrix: Incredible story: ∙ Man joins Facebook group recommended by algorithm ∙ Is invited into encrypted chat ∙ Learns of p… 2021-03-06 20:05:36 Ideas are like fire 2021-03-06 19:39:38 Please wear a mask and practice social distancing. If not for your own health, do it for the sake of the innocent people at risk. This is not over. https://t.co/1JlsyRICuQ 2021-03-06 19:38:03 Or you can have a digital copy of the tweet for ... $0.00 #NFTs #Crypto https://t.co/CPjRPsw8ZN 2021-03-06 19:30:52 @s_delhommer @NateSilver538 One of the few provisions with broad bipartisan support 2021-03-06 19:20:34 @FutureJurvetson @keydet89 @sm3ttz @TripoliRocketry @thrustcurve Melting camera 2021-03-06 19:07:05 It's fitting that the average student values on-campus social activities about twice as much as in-person instruction. https://t.co/04qc94mBA0 2021-03-06 19:03:04 RT @erikbryn: Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis by Meng Liu, Erik Brynjolfsson and Jason Dowlatabadi Th… 2021-03-06 19:02:50 @FutureJurvetson @keydet89 @sm3ttz Thrust is the foundation of civilization 2021-03-06 18:58:57 Filibuster reform: A can be prevented from coming to the floor unless Senators representing 51% of the US population supports it. 2021-03-06 18:53:20 @Noahpinion Or an infinite number of bills by simple majority if there's no filibuster 2021-03-06 18:47:46 @August_Julii @mattyglesias The Democrats had 60 votes in the Senate in 2009 60. 2021-03-06 18:45:50 @mattyglesias Democrats learned something from 2009 2021-03-06 18:41:34 The 2009 Democrats made a big mistake trying to bring the GOP on board with rescuing the economy. That cost America trillions of dollars of permanently lost GDP and millions of people unemployed for an unnecessarily long time. https://t.co/pPnm9l8t6m 2021-03-06 18:38:32 @RichardDawkins https://t.co/ZvuQbtdYwS 2021-03-06 18:31:12 RT @ATabarrok: The AstraZeneca vaccine looks excellent in real world trials. Single dose is as good as Pfizer. https://t.co/HdLk3EHEbf http… 2021-03-06 18:28:00 RT @dernabod: https://t.co/6TSMxXIXPO 2021-03-06 18:13:55 It's remarkable how strong the pro-Covid, pro-pandemic movement is in the US. https://t.co/Uo9O8l2lE4 2021-03-06 17:59:14 @GarettJones You're example doesn't refute the point made by @timjacobwise but rather makes a different point (originalist arguments are not always and everywhere wrong). Do you have evidence that the argument FOR the decision did NOT use originalist logic? 2021-03-06 04:05:50 Coincidently exactly 1 billion bullets were fired in the battle of Gallipoli https://t.co/d3pDv0m5C4 2021-03-06 01:40:06 A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital shows how a machine learning framework combined with genomics can help predict drug candidates for Alzheimer’s. #AI via @tweetycami https://t.co/cDi5BnVWGV https://t.co/zwYmwNqcyt 2021-03-06 01:36:21 RT @RexChapman: This Rocky Mountain big horn sheep takes out a drone...https://t.co/2pgtORl12P 2021-03-06 00:54:36 People can have a legitimate argument as to whether the right number is 30 years or 50 years or some other number. But it’s clear that the further into the future the copyright extends, the less incentive is created by each additional year. 2021-03-06 00:21:31 RT @BarackObama: .@BillGates' new book is an exceptionally clear and accessible primer on climate change. He's unblinking in the difficulty… 2021-03-06 00:21:01 @ernietedeschi @WhiteHouseCEA @CeciliaERouse @hboushey46 @econjared46 @marthagimbel That is wonderful news. Congrats! 2021-03-06 00:18:53 Copyrights have 2 effects: 1. create incentives for the creation of “useful arts“ 2. cause deadweight loss by making consumers pay a price above marginal cost. After 30 years, the incentive benefits are small but the deadweight cost is large. Ergo copyrights should then end. https://t.co/DxwfUXbOnB 2021-03-06 00:12:28 RT @WhiteHouseCEA: The jobs report shows an acceleration in job growth in February and an upward revision to January’s job growth. The econ… 2021-03-05 23:21:43 @tegmark So sorry for your loss, Max 2021-03-05 21:56:19 RT @DigEconLab: Join us Monday (12p PT) when MIT’s Sanjay Sarma and Bill Bonvillian talk with @erikbryn about rebuilding America’s working… 2021-03-05 20:22:57 https://t.co/Kj4d2OqUDX 2021-03-05 20:22:50 Our organizations and institutions aren't keeping up with changes in technology, example #2945 https://t.co/Aof1BGqxdV 2021-03-05 20:17:45 RT @ne0liberal: Industry Region (Round of 64) --- Bloomberg Opinion Columnist @karlbykarlsmith (3) vs. Co-chair of Arnold Ventures @JohnArn… 2021-03-05 20:15:55 RT @ne0liberal: Industry Region (Round of 64) --- Upwork Chief Economist @ModeledBehavior (2) vs. Criminal justice writer @Kinger_DC (15) 2021-03-05 20:15:44 RT @ne0liberal: Industry Region (Round of 64) --- Behavioral economist @jodiecongirl (8) vs. Bulwark Writer-At-Large @Timodc (9) 2021-03-04 23:19:44 (But don’t tell the robots) 2021-03-04 23:19:20 HT: @danielrock 2021-03-04 23:17:15 Along with the flashlights and canned goods, be sure to have a couple of these. Just run case. https://t.co/9QPRPu60BE 2021-03-04 20:02:13 @MIT_CSAIL @StackOverflow Forcing clear thinking not vague ideas 2021-03-04 20:01:35 @MIT_CSAIL @StackOverflow Delivering your instructions, not your wishes 2021-03-04 19:26:21 Can AutoML do it for me? https://t.co/BA9z1ZId0k 2021-03-04 19:03:50 @TaylorPearsonMe Nice try, Taylor. 2021-03-04 17:41:22 AI is moving from a research phase to much more of an industrial practice. #AI @indexingai @DigEconLab #AIIndex2021 https://t.co/PtXRPu9diz https://t.co/Us5P7Zo7hO 2021-03-04 16:05:35 @johnjhorton The probability that a critic will speak up is not uniform. Easy, obtuse suggestions are more likely to be made than sharp insights that require actual effort. 2021-03-04 15:23:19 @johnjhorton The probability that a corner breaks is not uniform. Thin pointy corners are more likely to break than broad obtuse corners. 2021-03-04 04:45:57 "Like many economists I don't understand why its price [of Bitcoin] isn't zero." -- Oliver Hart, Nobel Laureate #BTC https://t.co/tTMarS9CNG https://t.co/L26vR12UAw 2021-03-04 02:54:16 I'm very much enjoying a thoughtful conversation about the Future of AI on Clubhouse right now with @sama Ilya Sutskever and others #AI 2021-03-03 22:22:52 Join us for next Monday's Digital Economy Seminar when @MIT's Sanjay Sarma and Bill Bonvillian speak on Workforce Education: A New Roadmap which lays out a blueprint on how to rebuild America's working-class. Free and open to the public! @DigEconLab https://t.co/wokiIrg8fG https://t.co/u37lMSOQKU 2021-03-03 20:02:44 In 2020, the biggest increases in AI Investment were in health care and pharma, where four times as many people increased their investments as decreased them #AIIndex2021 @indexingai @DigEconLab #COVID19 https://t.co/SlnRfKIwqK https://t.co/eeHWaSIdVi 2021-03-03 19:18:31 Here's a must-read summary of the nine key findings from the 2021 AI Index report. #AIIndex2021 #AI #MachineLearning https://t.co/lca4dw6mlF 2021-03-03 18:57:25 https://t.co/NejezS9Z8i 2021-03-03 18:55:17 Progress! https://t.co/sIEk88HYws 2021-03-03 18:49:59 A majority of North American AI Ph.D.s — 65% — now go into industry, up from 44% in 2010, a sign of the growing role that large companies are playing both in AI research and implementation. #AIIndex2021 @indexingai @DigEconLab #AI https://t.co/Kvm7SMs1EN https://t.co/0SgXyRusEj 2021-03-03 18:38:09 @SteveRattner But more rapid phase out => 2021-03-03 17:53:35 The United States is a massive magnet for talent from around the world. The vast majority of AI PhDs (over 80%) stay in the US to work. #AIIndex2021 https://t.co/sByGbN7Jls 2021-03-03 17:51:33 Congress is beginning to pay attention to AI. https://t.co/h9Xdhre7Xb 2021-03-03 17:02:09 RT @NurAhmedB: Firms continue to be a major player in AI. The ImageNet 2012 triggered this shift towards more firm-level publications (this… 2021-03-03 16:59:11 @indexingai Here's the striking data: See https://t.co/ols5XY3cRD for more details https://t.co/x9Anixgi09 2021-03-03 16:58:10 The 2021 AI Index Report has just been released! We analyze global trends in technical performance, economics, R& Check it out: https://t.co/ols5XY3cRD @indexingai @StanfordHAI @DigEconLab #AI #MachineLearning #AIIndex2021 https://t.co/IyI9m6jp0H 2021-03-03 16:53:42 Money is pouring in to AI-assisted drug discovery: investments in companies and projects in this area increased to $13.8 billion, more than 4.5 times that invested in 2019 see @indexingai for details https://t.co/8p8QePkL2H 2021-03-03 07:10:47 @fho888 Yes. 2021-03-03 06:49:50 The danger of letting down our guard is not simply that more people will die from Covid, but that new mutant strains will emerge. As the CDC director put it: "With variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained" https://t.co/vm8WoNuPv5 2021-03-03 06:28:12 Mobile phones: A new dimension for price discrimination? #EconTwitter https://t.co/Ep734FIshj 2021-03-03 01:40:49 Congrats, @CeciliaERouse ! https://t.co/4RZxy6GbTJ 2021-03-03 01:04:53 @BretWeinstein Why would one need a creator to have arguments? Are you arguing that the sequences of atoms we label "an argument" are only possible via a creator (and/or non-determinism) while other sequences could result deterministically? 2021-03-02 23:29:53 Coming out tomorrow! #AIIndex2021 https://t.co/qmwTW6J09l 2021-03-02 22:27:11 Delighted to see this https://t.co/JapJt4mV6R 2021-03-02 22:16:48 RT @ArmstrongDrew: This Biden administration says there will be enough vaccine for all U.S. adults by **the end of May.** This is in line… 2021-03-02 22:13:54 Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins 2021-03-02 20:15:52 In short, deficit spending on investments (infrastructure, research, education, cleaner environment) makes our descendants richer, not poorer. 2021-03-02 20:14:35 When we dump greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, we borrow a lot more than treasury bonds from our children and grandchildren. https://t.co/e3wtnLevQl 2021-03-02 19:40:53 @CJCharchuk @BretWeinstein Why do you assume the play was scripted in a non-deterministic universe? 2021-03-02 19:22:38 @BretWeinstein Have you ever seen a fully-scripted play which contained arguments? Why wouldn't a deterministic universe contain arguments? 2021-03-02 18:49:22 More people have mobile phones than toilets. https://t.co/q0qUQ53U8L https://t.co/fJ3itBPcAM 2021-03-02 16:29:30 Bigger than Bitcoin? NFTs use blockchain technology to authenticate the provenance of unique digital goods like art. E.g., Top Shot trades NFTs for video highlights and claims over $250 million in sales just 5 months after launch. #NFT #BTC @DigEconLab https://t.co/r2Rd25N5BF https://t.co/3JzvNWxG9p 2021-03-02 01:40:06 RT @ericschmidt: Two years and many thousands of hours later: the final National Commission on Artificial Intelligence report is here: Plea… 2021-03-02 00:02:42 RT @elerianm: .@TheEconomist on what the pandemic tells us about efforts to accelerate innovation, including 3 principles to underpin susta… 2021-03-01 23:28:18 @S_Stantcheva I'm pretty sure its true 2021-03-01 19:46:50 @David_desJ @RoderickBeck I wonder if people are somewhat more likely to hang around with people of similar height (as they do with people of similar income)? 2021-03-01 19:42:39 @S_Stantcheva Next project: Most individuals believe that others have written research closer to them than they really have. 2021-03-01 19:11:44 Most individuals believe that others are closer to them in income than they really are https://t.co/842N0gPKyw https://t.co/vxUi1yYyBL 2021-03-01 19:08:55 "A 1% increase in spending on teacher salaries increases house prices by 2%, suggesting that house buyers value the increase in either the number of teachers hired... or teachers' average salary, which might improve teacher quality. https://t.co/KbupHtGjyY https://t.co/0kQ7IROGfb 2021-03-01 18:50:57 @JamesClear @BarackObama @MichelleObama Yet! 2021-03-01 18:50:25 RT @FacebooksTop10: The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from: 1. Franklin Graham 2. Fox News 3.… 2021-03-01 18:18:16 RT @petemuntean: BREAKING: The first @UPS truck carrying the Johnson & 2021-03-01 18:15:12 RT @ryanstruyk: March 1, 2020: 89 cases 2 deaths March 1, 2021: 28,614,504 cases 513,393 deaths 2021-03-01 18:12:03 RT @ramez: More than stranded assets. Stranded liabilities. https://t.co/BKQAHUG4jL 2021-03-01 16:35:10 @ianbremmer But interestingly the 2009 Stimulus, was not nearly as popular. 2021-02-28 20:33:21 RT @ATabarrok: Should you wear your seatbelt today or wait for your next car with airbags? https://t.co/IKmf4lj0ec 2021-02-28 20:06:46 We need to re-invent the regulatory process to keep up with the re-invention of drug design https://t.co/eKRJznoLpj 2021-02-28 20:05:52 RT @jmhorp: @langwiser @erikbryn The stat I posted is really just about how big ships are today. But by any measure, global trade is much l… 2021-02-28 18:59:41 RT @jmhorp: One container ship today carries more freight than the entire English merchant fleet 400 years ago, with a fraction of the crew… 2021-02-28 18:52:12 “Once you recognize that there are universal regulators of aging… and once you recognize that these regulators can be changed with a molecule such as NMN…, it all becomes clear Aging is going to be remarkably easy to tackle.” @davidasinclair via @FutureJurvetson https://t.co/PpdyxiK0LJ 2021-02-28 17:26:26 @balajis @FutureJurvetson @LauraDeming @vijaypande @davidasinclair I’m reading that book now! It is terrific. I forward to reading that part of it. 2021-02-28 17:25:19 Yes even mRNA vaccines for cancer: https://t.co/qjdws58l8R 2021-02-28 17:23:49 @Silentm11232073 @glukianoff Yes 2021-02-28 17:15:55 @balajis @FutureJurvetson @LauraDeming @vijaypande The most noticeable change is in hair repigmentation, and that's what's discussed in the JAMA Dermatology paper. Are there broader effects on the body that have been documented? 2021-02-28 17:13:32 This is just another in a whole wave of mRNA breakthroughs. It's time to implement "Operation Warp Speed" for a whole set of diseases. #Science https://t.co/9CMkxCe5NQ 2021-02-28 17:11:19 RT @jamescham: There is some deeper meaning in the fact that the physical version of the NYT Magazine “future of work” issue was delayed by… 2021-02-28 05:16:00 @JeffEisenach @MengLiu_WUSTL @JasonFKD Definitely 2021-02-26 23:43:46 @JeffEisenach @MengLiu_WUSTL @JasonFKD Regrettably, this is just for NYC, where we could get the matching taxi data. 2021-02-26 23:24:34 Extra kudos to Meng Liu @MengLiu_WUSTL who did the lion's share of the work on this project. She's amazing! https://t.co/mtkYIfiXoH 2021-02-26 23:15:04 Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis by Meng Liu, Erik Brynjolfsson and Jason Dowlatabadi The version in @INFORMS Management Science. https://t.co/p9ulUXTJ8H @nberpubs version https://t.co/1bdH8tOW5e @SSRN version: https://t.co/OFmfiKIIJC 2021-02-26 23:07:53 Interestingly, when drivers switch from one platform to the other, so does their behavior. That suggest their choices are a function of the platform (e.g. ability to monitor routes, rating systems, rapid feedback, etc) rather than selection of drivers. 2021-02-26 23:06:02 Are the taxi drivers trying to save time? No, the longer routing choices by taxi drivers in general leads to longer travel time. That said, we also find that Uber drivers’ are more likely to take relatively longer routes on airport trips in times of surge pricing. 2021-02-26 23:02:46 @MengLiu_WUSTL @JasonFKD We examine 95,357 pairs of matched trips from identical starting and end points and find that: (1) taxi drivers route longer in distance than matched Uber drivers on metered airport routes by an average of 8%. Passengers from out-of-town on experience even longer routing. 2021-02-26 22:56:49 Do taxi drivers take the long way to the city from the airport? Do Uber drivers do better? Yes and Yes. See the evidence in our just-published paper "Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis" with @MengLiu_WUSTL and @JasonFKD https://t.co/p9ulUXTJ8H 2021-02-26 22:35:02 RT @ne0liberal: Announcing the 2021 Neoliberal Shill Bracket. The games will commence on Monday at 10 AM EST. Each round will last 36 hour… 2021-02-26 22:34:50 RT @ne0liberal: Academia Region (Round of 64) --- Columbia Economics Professor @wwwojtekk (6) vs. Stanford Digital Economy Lab Director @er… 2021-02-26 19:20:04 RT @janagallus: How our 'footsteps' have spread in just 2 weeks. If you know people in Africa, Asia, or South America, please help us furt… 2021-02-26 07:21:14 RT @konstructivizm: A full rotation of the planet Mars (Hubble Captures By NASA) https://t.co/uFHffcM6rN 2021-02-26 07:20:14 RT @CSProfKGD: Geoffrey Hinton, How to represent part-whole hierarchies in a neural network, arXiv, 2021 https://t.co/sX7hOSKS64 https://t… 2021-02-26 07:17:52 Terrific lineup that @sinanaral, @amcafee and my friends at the @mit_ide have put together https://t.co/T3AhJ57mRy 2021-02-25 22:51:52 RT @zeynep: One year ago, today. https://t.co/XYrB2any7m 2021-02-25 22:08:35 RT @ProfJAParker: Tomorrow, one day NBER macroeconomics conference organized by @M_De_Nardi and me will be livestreamed: https://t.co/CmMAk… 2021-02-25 18:26:35 RT @fho888: It's a great time for some joy! “I don’t think I’ve ever had an experience in my career that has felt so promising and so fulf… 2021-02-25 17:04:59 Here is interesting example of how AI systems using reinforcement learning can devise and carry out unexpected behaviors that their designers didn't' think of: in this case, a faster way to travel from Puerto Rico to Peru. What's will they think of next? HT: @CapnSasquatch #AI https://t.co/qlsgqBvSl4 2021-02-25 16:11:23 RT @AdamSerwer: This is good, vaccines are good, get the vaccine when you can https://t.co/SXDMfv3pID https://t.co/PYsVHwQc1A 2021-02-24 17:57:16 @mioana @arpitrage @annastansbury Agreed. See also this "Digital Capital" paper with @danielrock and @tambe where we find larger market values (Tobin's q) for firms with workers who have more IT and AI skills. https://t.co/aj28lYXxoT 2021-02-24 17:55:13 @mioana @KordingLab Yes, firms do seem to have a lot of monopsony power over more educated workers, including those with AI skills. Here's some evidence in our "Digital Capital" paper with @danielrock and @tambe. Another one is on the way more specifically on this question. https://t.co/aj28lYXxoT 2021-02-24 17:20:12 @chamath Why are you encouraging bitcoin use, given the disproportionate damage BTC mining does to the environment? 2021-02-24 07:35:58 @jeremyphoward @fastdotai Congratulations on the move. I wish you and Rachel the best in your new home though I’m sad that it will be harder for me to see you in person. 2021-02-24 05:45:52 RT @AndrewYNg: @insanedreamer @erikbryn @ESYudkowsky @chrmanning @FutureJurvetson @tegmark If GPT-3 reads The Matrix script and writes a se… 2021-02-24 02:41:12 @alex_peys Are you sure she wasn’t bitten by a zombie dog? 2021-02-23 20:00:16 Sorry, the photo I just shared purporting to be of the Mars skyline showing Jupiter, Venus and Earth is apparently a fake. Damn, I hate when I get fooled like that -- I need to be even more vigilant. 2021-02-23 19:56:20 @virginiahamner Ouch. :( Just deleted it 2021-02-23 17:28:00 Will human learning keep up with machine learning? https://t.co/aPbxeGOJmY 2021-02-23 16:41:19 RT @Dalyahya: 'Focus on the value created, not just the prices paid.’ Effective management of the digital economy depends on our ability t… 2021-02-23 06:14:37 RT @MachinePix: SqUID warehouse logistics robot by Bionic Hive. https://t.co/1QzhBO4S5V 2021-02-22 23:19:12 A few of these AI-generated thought experiments are amazingly good (others are silly or trivial, but that's ok). It's remarkable what AI systems like GPT3 can do now. HT: @ESYudkowsky cc: @chrmanning @AndrewYNg @FutureJurvetson @tegmark #AI https://t.co/K2WJgJtFzI 2021-02-22 20:44:55 @itsbostoncream Too slow. 2021: NE vs. TB in SB LVI 2021-02-22 20:41:39 I wish we'd all listened to you from the start @tomaspueyo So much needless death, disease and economic ruin https://t.co/w5gGmiY8wE 2021-02-22 20:39:28 RT @askMsQ: Can the next ten years be the best ten years? To bring @erikbryn vision to life “Think Again” by @AdamMGrant is the perfect c… 2021-02-22 05:19:15 RT @_Addverb: Ingenuity - A true engineering marvel with the pioneering aspiration of flying the first powered, controlled and sustained fl… 2021-02-22 03:22:01 RT @TamithaSkov: A direct hit! The #solarstorm our #Sun launched is confirmed to be Earth-directed! NASA prediction models show impact earl… 2021-02-21 23:41:38 @wlmsears Eyeballing, with that many data points, its will definitely be highly significant. My bigger concern would be attributing causality. All sorts of other differences that might be correlated, e.g. education levels, industry mix, geography, urbanization, weather, etc 2021-02-21 16:57:41 RT @tylercowen: "This is exactly the kind of issue Twitter is ill-suited to considering." https://t.co/oCP0gq0f6t 2021-02-21 16:52:16 @weedmanisu I don’t think the US Covid response was good at all and have said that many times 2021-02-21 05:13:52 RT @DrEricDing: Sobering NYT cover tomorrow—almost 500,000 confirmed deaths from #COVID19 in the US. Excess mortality in the US is even h… 2021-02-21 04:41:43 Is anyone still holding up Sweden's approach to Covid as a good model? https://t.co/L0wVoNGByk 2021-02-21 04:38:57 The same pattern between political leanings and additional Covid infections holds at the county level, and even if you use political leanings from 2016 to address concerns about reverse causality. https://t.co/c1crlHIwHo 2021-02-21 04:37:25 This remarkable work by @youyanggu shows a striking correlation between a state's political leanings and the growth in Covid infections after September 2021. https://t.co/sxNiWKFw2S 2021-02-20 19:53:36 RT @doug_rand: So the Biden bill would greatly expand America's ability to attract global talent for the long run. What about the 1 milli… 2021-02-20 19:53:28 RT @doug_rand: There are other new pathways for global talent, too: *No green card cap at all for US STEM PhDs (16k/yr) *Pilot of green… 2021-02-20 19:48:16 RT @doug_rand: President Biden's immigration bill includes not only a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, smart border policie… 2021-02-20 05:48:21 RT @tylercowen: Marty was a great economist, and it would be better to study his work than to cite a HuffPost article about it. 2021-02-19 23:56:48 RT @ArmstrongDrew: Pfizer says it will double vaccine supply from 5M doses/week to 10M in the next few weeks, @rileyraygriffin reports. T… 2021-02-19 23:55:06 @juliagalef @AmesCG The ultimate bar exam 2021-02-19 17:42:53 RT @elakdawalla: Also, if you want to relive yesterday's landing, here is the livestream I hosted, queued to the moment I started interpret… 2021-02-19 16:37:42 RT @work_matters: Once again, @AdamMGrant says it well. He is a man who explains thing well and true, but refrains from mansplaining in rea… 2021-02-19 15:47:50 RT @DLeonhardt: The evidence so far suggests that a full vaccine dose: 1. effectively eliminates the risk of Covid death 2. nearly elimina… 2021-02-19 15:40:55 RT @DLeonhardt: This table from @ashishkjha tells the story: https://t.co/TbuX6sTrut (8/x) 2021-02-19 00:44:04 One small step for a robot. One giant leap for robotkind. https://t.co/qYBkAL3fyz 2021-02-19 00:41:21 Where is benevolent AI? https://t.co/D2C06Q6pgn 2021-02-18 23:29:11 https://t.co/dQ1M4dcOyY 2021-02-18 22:56:17 RT @imbernomics: Reminder that it's a really good idea to have an emergency stock of bottled water in your house at all times. 2021-02-18 22:30:36 It's wonderful and amazing to see some of the things we can do when we work together. Congrats to @NASAPersevere and all the people who made it possible. https://t.co/3lYdO0WO0f 2021-02-18 17:32:45 @tcbusd @UptownDCRich @BosSports4u Tom is the GOAT, but obviously football is a team sport. 2021-02-18 17:30:21 @UptownDCRich @BosSports4u Tom Brady 2020 Completion rate: 65.7% Cam Newton 2020 Completion rate: 65.8% Look it up. 2021-02-18 17:26:15 RT @tedlieu: Over a quarter century ago in 1994, I clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The number of circuit judges has remained… 2021-02-18 17:05:02 @nikhilaha Glad you liked it! 2021-02-18 05:16:59 Whoah! https://t.co/v2WRETyOEB 2021-02-18 01:42:08 @MacroPru Not yet 2021-02-18 01:38:39 @defrag @pkedrosky Smart man! 2021-02-18 00:33:45 RT @JesseJenkins: Facts: Yes, gas & 2021-02-18 00:32:32 @fho888 Probably a big plus for lifeguard job interviews. 2021-02-18 00:21:55 RT @ctraywick: It's confirmed: The blackouts in Texas are primarily because of frozen instruments at gas, coal and nuclear plants -- as wel… 2021-02-17 23:48:04 @ProfDBernstein Would you support Palestinians having their own state? 2021-02-17 23:45:24 @ProfDBernstein Do you support a two state approach? 2021-02-17 23:43:37 @elonmusk @ERCOT_ISO @EUCOT_ISO? 2021-02-17 23:42:30 @mattyglesias @JedKolko @DKThomp People rarely travel to see people they've never met before. Meeting more people are far away --> 2021-02-17 23:39:00 The R was for Reliability. https://t.co/j3YQyJG9U2 2021-02-17 23:37:16 If you thought people put a lot of bookshelves in their zoom background before... https://t.co/lv0YFgYSGx 2021-02-17 21:15:29 RT @albertwenger: A bit late to this, but major milestone achieved by @shapeways -- congratulations! https://t.co/ymb1PjeiO6 2021-02-17 18:19:10 RT @Randy1116: Insight from ⁦@erikbryn⁩, quoted in Evil Geniuses. https://t.co/VxiwfwZ9ne https://t.co/dEGvxxeapV 2021-02-17 07:20:17 Some people argue the money supply works like that https://t.co/EwSQIBd0bf 2021-02-16 21:05:33 @SahilBloom Same! 2021-02-16 20:46:19 I first learned about the Decision matrix in Steven Covey's terrific book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. This summary by @SahilBloom is both interesting and informative, as usual. https://t.co/EhSZgFOuhX 2021-02-16 20:40:44 RT @janagallus: Running community includes @J_R_Schroeder @Pedroreybiel @BergmanOlivia @MagratheanTimes @shlomobenartzi @SoumayaKeynes @eri… 2021-02-16 19:46:52 @karlbykarlsmith @Noahpinion Are you suggesting analogy here? 2021-02-16 01:21:31 The idea that more information and connections can, perhaps paradoxically, lead to more polarization (or balkanization) is something @InfoEcon and I explored in our earlier paper: https://t.co/QFAHIZW7hY 2021-02-16 00:57:17 This new NBER paper helps explain polarization: "Each period agents... can share [news] with friends. Some friends (possibly few) share selectively... We show that beliefs can diverge in this environment leading to polarization." https://t.co/3XwM6ueDoi 2021-02-15 23:01:34 RT @Ed_Van_Wesep: Why GameStop? We have a theory. https://t.co/ZGUt89bp0O https://t.co/YEORmhN8tb 2021-02-15 22:45:24 RT @FutureJurvetson: Steve Jobs’ pride and prophesies — 10 years on "The biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the inte… 2021-02-15 22:04:28 "Great art stretches the taste -- Steve Jobs (via @WalterIsaacson via @FutureJurvetson ) https://t.co/QjSHfm4qxq 2021-02-15 18:21:42 RT @DigEconLab: How do non-profits evaluate and measure social impact? Join @Susan_Athey, @DigEconLab affiliated faculty and @StanfordGSB p… 2021-02-15 17:05:56 RT @MichaelRStrain: State and local gov't employment is down 1.3 million jobs since the start of the pandemic. There are 650,000 fewer educ… 2021-02-15 17:01:44 RT @kylegriffin1: BIDEN: "Starting today and running through May 15, 2021, we are opening HealthCare. gov for all Americans to have the opp… 2021-02-15 16:27:38 @askMsQ @mariagalanis @wonder_chatters @deelanier @k_shelton @cultofpedagogy Thanks, @askMsQ. You asked great questions and made it a great conversation. 2021-02-15 05:37:53 RT @BillGates: To avoid a climate disaster, we need to eliminate emissions from the ways we create electricity, grow food, make things, mov… 2021-02-15 03:49:26 RT @sapinker: Going by the numbers, we should be paying far more attention to car crashes, a massive preventable tragedy, and yet another a… 2021-02-15 03:36:42 RT @deaneckles: What are good discussions (and measures!) of state capacity as involving information & 2021-02-15 03:35:14 @juliagalef @drvolts @interfluidity FWIW, I don't think the moniker "rationalist community" is bad or misleading. Most people understand that groups' names are often as much aspirational as descriptive. In the case of the rationalist community, my (imperfect) impression is that it's some of each. 2021-02-15 03:29:52 "exposure to any given foreign ancestry leads to more altruistic behavior toward that group" https://t.co/GnKyemh5xy 2021-02-15 02:47:34 @blair_fix So nuclear plants tend to take less labor than similar-sized coal plants? That's interesting. 2021-02-15 02:32:23 Gerrymandering to prevent equal treatment of voters is unethical. It can become much worse as data analytics make it easier to predict voting behavior. We shouldn't tolerate gerrymandering. https://t.co/zyXkzXAGDh 2021-02-14 22:08:11 I like this idea, but I am increasingly thinking we need to include a stint in other parts of the United States. https://t.co/jX86CVDCNU 2021-02-14 19:32:15 @ElSrdelTaco Very cool! 2021-02-14 19:16:44 This is an amazing website. It is such fun to listen to radio stations around the world. It’s also interesting, and a bit sad, to see the big chunks of the world where the radio stations appear to be blocked. https://t.co/RXmpXtYxuX 2021-02-13 23:59:15 I wonder what will be the average weekly payment required to get someone to stop tweeting? https://t.co/949fREFlfJ 2021-02-13 20:01:37 Where is Bitcoin being mined? Overwhelmingly in China. #btc via https://t.co/YGVYGv3CeY https://t.co/1UYr5qFgWg 2021-02-13 19:48:16 @Jason_OTC Will 2021 rookie contracts fall due to the lower total salary cap? If not, does this affect the relative attractiveness of draft picks vs. free agents? 2021-02-13 05:19:48 Now it’s 48. And dropping https://t.co/ITkO0LpRBf 2021-02-12 23:34:45 RT @mrfrank5790: Modeling the new hoodie from @DigEconLab !! https://t.co/KevYg9pvBY 2021-02-12 18:26:03 RT @ne0liberal: We are only weeks away from the 2021 Neoliberal Shil Bracket. Please submit your nominations for this year's bracket in the… 2021-02-12 17:14:50 RT @MarkWarner: CEOs repeat the adage, "our best asset is our people." To put this into practice in the 21st century, we must realign our i… 2021-02-12 00:24:06 RT @itsafronomics: Very last presentation is given by @zanmuny of @MITSloan @erikbryn lab! Her question is "Under what conditions does broa… 2021-02-11 15:18:13 Research by @lkatz42 and Cynthia Miller analyzing a randomized study of the earned income tax credit (yes, an EITC RCT) found that the program increased incomes for low wage workers, while also increasing the number of people employed and filing taxes. https://t.co/lLv0cdDRhs 2021-02-11 14:53:02 @Liv_Boeree It’s true that it’s not great, but why do you have to tell everyone? Are you…taking pleasure in our misfortune? 2021-02-10 17:48:09 Are robots being used to humanize work? @sarahoconnor_ makes the case that they are not. https://t.co/mOoxuOGQlE 2021-02-10 17:43:51 It was such fun having this conversation with @askMsQ She's filled with energy, insight and enthusiasm. https://t.co/AEVaE6NMwl 2021-02-10 17:43:08 @BrittanyKrystle @askMsQ @DigEconLab @dvodicka @gregkulowiec @erpelding @Burtonsuper2018 @JerryAlmendarez @TheTechRabbi @thomascmurray @ejhudson @mjcraw Let us know how you like it 2021-02-10 17:16:51 Let's roll! https://t.co/T9NhEKSZ4r 2021-02-10 17:03:11 Here's a very well-done explainer of network effects, including 2-sided networks by @SahilBloom If you want to read more, @amcafee and I go into more detail on the economics of networks and platforms in our book "Machine | Platform | Crowd" https://t.co/hQ8XDzUnMf https://t.co/liWvvYOwrt 2021-02-10 02:42:50 RT @sdonnan: Who are the ten most surprisingly essential people you follow on Twitter? Been culling who I follow lately to try and remove… 2021-02-10 01:23:00 https://t.co/7pUMxYXD8W 2021-02-10 01:17:42 At least one of these guys was using a filter. https://t.co/m2stpe1FWz 2021-02-09 05:51:19 As for next year... well, mathematicians may have to redefine "prime". 2021-02-09 05:48:58 Is Tom Brady in his prime at 43? These two factors, and only these two factors, explain why he is. https://t.co/i9uhRYDJUE 2021-02-09 05:44:21 The power of expectations creates self-fulfilling prophecies for Chinese kids. Where else is this happening? https://t.co/V1VnflGbnf 2021-02-09 02:03:06 @sama @jaltma How about via ultra high quality VR? 2021-02-09 00:07:30 RT @ATabarrok: @lawrencehwhite1 @jmhorp Vaccines give you a super power! The power of immunity! https://t.co/XYHnCZqwuf 2021-02-08 23:53:23 RT @DigEconLab: Most of the digital capital in the US comes from a small set of “superstar” firms. and that digital capital can predict fir… 2021-02-08 19:29:31 RT @binarybits: This is interesting. A lot of new companies have been started in the last six months. https://t.co/b1WMyfdKop https://t.co/… 2021-02-08 19:19:17 RT @Patriots: Congratulations to the greatest of all time. 2021-02-08 18:30:00 Join us at 12noon PT! https://t.co/0jZSqjvGZ9 2021-02-08 17:41:03 RT @peterwsinger: Pfizer expects to cut COVID-19 vaccine production time by close to 50% as production ramps up, efficiencies increase, and… 2021-02-08 16:37:01 Past performance is no guarantee of… Oh never mind https://t.co/UZFhzxpduk 2021-02-08 16:13:30 Sometimes taking the paths less traveled can make all the difference. https://t.co/wfaOjKMxAa 2021-02-08 13:37:17 .⁦@LHSummers⁩ on how to build the fiscal package better: “a substantial part of the program should be directed at promoting sustainable and inclusive economic growth for the remainder of the decade and beyond, not simply supporting incomes’ https://t.co/35ZvFcW6O5 2021-02-08 03:47:12 So, of all the Super Bowls, which one is Brady‘s favorite? The next one. 2021-02-08 03:31:43 Who’s going to win more Super Bowls in the rest of their career, Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes? 2021-02-08 03:25:02 Goat celebrition https://t.co/zsfMilelE8 2021-02-08 03:18:17 @danielrock Gronk coming out of retirement to score not one but 2(!) TDs — hard to beat that. 2021-02-08 03:05:25 We are in the most interesting simulation of all possible simulations 2021-02-08 03:03:37 RT @dhillon_p: @erikbryn I think now he should be called GOAT of all GOATS. This is like Michael Jordan going to Washington Wizards and win… 2021-02-08 03:03:04 @EconTalker Yep 2021-02-08 03:02:46 2021-02-08 03:00:51 https://t.co/UyyRaxt1h7 2021-02-08 02:40:46 @ne0liberal Now more than ever 2021-02-08 02:34:27 @chrislhayes Neither is their D line 2021-02-08 02:22:21 RT @AstorAaron: Rob Gronkowski's great-grandfather was Ignatius Gronkowski, a cyclist who competed for the US Olympic team in 1924. http… 2021-02-08 02:17:21 @RealAlexBarth Who doesn’t? 2021-02-08 02:10:13 @jdcmedlock Opinions differ 2021-02-08 02:06:49 Was that Gilmore with the INT? 2021-02-08 01:17:00 Brady, Gronk and Brown beating KC 21-6. Tampa Bay Patriots are crushing it. https://t.co/ba7FQB0ONy 2021-02-07 21:14:15 Here's a great talk by @zaydenam along with @SebastianThrun via @TheEconomist discussing how AI doesn't mean the end of jobs, but rather the transformation of Work. Humans + Machines @cresta #AI https://t.co/NqdJx3doXt 2021-02-07 19:00:16 I'm sorry to learn that George Shultz has passed away at the age of 100. He presided at a conference at Stanford last year where I presented a paper and I was impressed by his continuing wit and thoughtfulness. https://t.co/iXKi2vpyLs 2021-02-07 17:04:37 This is a key insight: rarely can 100% of the tasks of a job be done by a machine. But its not uncommon for 10-50% to be automatable or augmentable, including some of the most important tasks. That means redesign is needed Machine + Human > #AI https://t.co/OJULmZhlBU 2021-02-06 22:35:37 Jobs tend to look simpler from 20,000 feet away and more subtly complex up close. Do any of my twitter followers work in a job that they think will be easily automated? Let me know in the replies. https://t.co/Y2KMadbSDU 2021-02-06 22:33:08 Wow! https://t.co/Ozbseweh3l 2021-02-06 22:32:47 @mrfrank5790 You are a master of this. especially with graphics. 2021-02-06 18:25:04 RT @BuddyCA64525731: @cloudy_cl @mtow_ Here were some comments from @erikbryn last fall that I found very interesting -- many are clearly h… 2021-02-06 18:23:39 This is a great technique and very effective. I use it myself. I tweak step two: Instead of explain as if to a five-year-old, I try to explain to an intelligent person from outside the field who has no prior grounding in the jargon, standard assumptions or concepts. https://t.co/DxDLMifwXJ 2021-02-06 02:17:23 @porszag @jasonfurman @Austan_Goolsbee @TonyFratto @nominalthoughts @LHSummers The financial markets don't seem to expect much overheating https://t.co/IEuVFvEK9Y 2021-02-06 02:07:44 @porszag @Austan_Goolsbee @jasonfurman @TonyFratto @nominalthoughts @LHSummers Doesn't the Fed have lots of room to raise interest rates if they think inflation is rising too quickly? 2021-02-05 19:56:49 RT @TMobile: This ad will not air on Sunday. Why was it banned? #TheGOATin5G https://t.co/Vh9eBvVmXU 2021-02-05 19:34:23 @iSocialFanz @askMsQ Thanks, Brian. It was fun! 2021-02-05 18:02:59 Mark your calendars for our first Digital Seminar of 2021: Monday. 12noon PT. with @mattbeane #robots #AI https://t.co/fHufzoRK0Z https://t.co/0jZSqjvGZ9 2021-02-05 17:57:30 @amcafee @mattyglesias The invisible hand FTW 2021-02-05 17:57:01 @mattyglesias Absolutely. But for FWIW, that energy led him to build a culture that was obsessed with creating value for customers. 2021-02-05 17:45:16 RT @iSocialFanz: Power of #Clubhouse being able to have a powerful discussion on the digital future and creating meaningful conversations w… 2021-02-05 17:38:06 @mattyglesias Increased product variety of online bookstores enhanced consumer welfare by $731 million to $1.03 billion in the year 2000, which is between 7 and 10 times as large as the consumer welfare gain from increased competition and lower prices in this market. https://t.co/BNLuidxfK8 2021-02-05 17:33:57 @IMartinezConesa So glad you enjoyed the discussion! 2021-02-05 17:33:03 RT @avi_collis: See paper by @erikbryn, Jeffrey Hu and Mike Smith from 2003 measuring the consumer surplus from the long tail of books on A… 2021-02-05 17:26:49 RT @SBenzell: Trade deficitsare driven by government deficitsnot tariffs Learn your accounting identities people! https://t.co/EXhYvmAe… 2021-02-05 16:57:59 RT @stevelevine: @JamesTFrith @politicalham Frith says: If you go by history, batteries may be $30-$40 per kWh by 2040. That would be a rev… 2021-02-05 16:56:49 @harshit_edu @lexfridman So glad you liked it! @lexfridman is a great interviewer. 2021-02-05 16:08:41 RT @ashishkjha: Feeling pessimistic about COVID & Don't! I'm not. Here's why We'll likely have about 400M doses of Moderna/Pfizer… 2021-02-05 15:34:58 https://t.co/YjkpTfJGGr https://t.co/XE7F3a2dJG 2021-02-05 15:29:09 @TheStalwart https://t.co/YjkpTfJGGr 2021-02-05 14:45:52 @felixsalmon The recovery has not been radical. It's the reverse of radical. 2021-02-05 14:42:33 Join me March 31st at the WSJ Pro AI Executive Forum for my talk on Accelerating Digital Business. Here are the details: https://t.co/ufBk3YMBQo Link to register > #WSJPROAI #AI https://t.co/UQ55sK1Tah 2021-02-05 02:24:37 RT @zorinaq: I dusted off my COVID-19 model (that predicted the Florida July wave) & After today's data update from t… 2021-02-05 02:07:09 @FutureJurvetson @VenturesVc @Nasdaq @CambrianBio @C_Angermayer Congrats! 2021-02-05 02:06:43 RT @DigEconLab: Don't miss HAI's spring conference - Topic: #AI Empowering People to Solve Challenges. Free, Live, Virtual Event March 25.… 2021-02-05 02:03:36 RT @SadieCollective: Zanele Munyikwa is a Ph.D. Candidate in Information Technologies at MIT Sloan School of Management. @zanmuny @MITSloan… 2021-02-05 02:03:12 Two of my favorite people, @sinanaral and @todatmit are having a fireside chat about social media and Sinan's book "The Hype Machine". You can sign up at the link below. https://t.co/F1ZphBPzLX 2021-02-05 00:13:48 Gut instincts: more than a metaphor https://t.co/2QXDAU9dwk 2021-02-04 01:38:15 Even after a full year of brutally hard lessons, some people still haven't learned @Austan_Goolsbee's No. 1 rule of virus economics: If you want to help the economy, you have to stop the virus. https://t.co/n4UN37OqNm 2021-02-03 19:45:49 RT @bindureddy: All kidding aside, this popular meme illustrates the single biggest problem with supervised machine learning Sometimes the… 2021-02-02 22:10:36 RT @business: BREAKING: Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO of Amazon and transition to the role of executive chairman. Andy Jassy will succee… 2021-02-01 08:13:00 I'll be giving the opening keynote at the OECD International Conference on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills in a few hours (2:30pm Central European time/8:30am ET/5:30am PT). Here's the link for the livestream: https://t.co/Gmxwh4sAv1 https://t.co/UpXCwjW5GL 2021-01-30 19:07:18 RT @wef: Live now: Resetting the Business of Data and AI (Option 2): https://t.co/hQpM38CRao #DavosAgenda @pranjalsharma @PaolaPisano_Min @… 2021-01-30 19:06:35 @jmanooch @amcafee @kidrulit Wow, that's very kind. 2021-01-30 19:05:58 Congrats on this well-deserved honor, @zanmuny! @SadieCollective https://t.co/dOA3AcMxAJ 2021-01-30 19:03:27 @JonLoflin @lexfridman Yep. And 1 or 2 other things. 2021-01-30 19:03:04 @iamrondavison @lexfridman Thanks! 2021-01-30 19:02:48 @tweetycami @lexfridman That's so kind of you, Cami! I'd be delighted to do another podcast with @lexfridman someday. He's a great interviewer. 2021-01-30 19:02:07 @andreasproesch @lexfridman That's one of the things we're seeking to measure. 2021-01-30 19:01:24 @priyankar_sinha @lexfridman It's a bit complicated and explained in more detail here: https://t.co/gLvEYblHO0 But the short answer is that advertising revenues have little relationship, in theory or practice, to benefits. 2021-01-30 03:28:03 Is GDP the right way to measure the benefits of the digital economy? I discuss why it isn't and how a new metric, GDP-B is needed in this clip of my conversation with @lexfridman https://t.co/Ky8OGI4NFQ 2021-01-27 22:00:46 RT @DigEconLab: The upcoming WEF Conference is dedicated to helping leaders choose innovative and bold solutions to stem the pandemic and d… 2021-01-27 19:45:26 LOL https://t.co/AD1y5k6u64 2021-01-27 19:40:43 Wonderful news! More of this, please. https://t.co/uWwUiJeYX0 2021-01-27 19:09:53 RT @jasonfurman: I bought Gamestop a while ago. I did it to stick it to the hedge funds & 2021-01-27 00:26:22 RT @jeremyphoward: The result. https://t.co/bx65CtkTva 2021-01-27 00:25:47 RT @jeremyphoward: How it started https://t.co/bj5MsjJnV3 2021-01-27 00:24:23 RT @dessadarling: And now I am dead. https://t.co/wp9mu8u9rh 2021-01-26 22:08:24 RT @AlecStapp: It's a public policy failure that Pfizer's stock is lower today than it was a year ago. The public benefits from successful… 2021-01-26 21:54:19 RT @MarsAscendant: Vice President Harris, our first woman VP swearing in Secretary Janet Yellen, our first woman Treasury Secretary. https:… 2021-01-26 18:40:42 @wolfejosh Great stuff. Is there a link? I'd like to cite it (and read more). 2021-01-26 18:36:59 @patrick_s_smart @thefirstred @io_floriano As it turns out, this was not recorded or streamed to the public. 2021-01-26 18:36:40 @ushasundaram As it turns out, this was not recorded. 2021-01-26 00:52:10 @JanetYellen Real Interest rates on US gov't debt are negative out to 30 years. https://t.co/wAPTIfFKKD 2021-01-26 00:40:19 Congrats @JanetYellen on your new role! How will you handle the budget? With real interest rates negative, will you adopt the GOP playbook of increasing deficits, or cut them as past Democratic administrations have? https://t.co/HoMcX5U5YV 2021-01-25 03:22:13 I love this fascinating thread about Morris Chang, who founded TMSC at the tender age of 52, transforming the semiconductor industry. https://t.co/fWAVpj261G 2021-01-25 03:11:45 RT @Edelman11: #GOAT https://t.co/0RO4JoiaP4 2021-01-25 02:05:32 @JonLoflin @lexfridman Not every individual part of the tax code needs to be progressive to make it progressive overall. For instance, toll revenues can be used to eliminate labor taxes on people with low incomes, to provide services (healthcare, etc) or even give direct payments. 2021-01-25 01:43:44 .@lexfridman asks me how to fix the tax system and I attempt to answer in 4 minutes and 9 seconds: https://t.co/1eHe2JDzly 2021-01-23 21:29:04 RT @nberpubs: Monetary easing endogenously raises aggregate TFP by improving allocative efficiency and generates a positive supply shock, f… 2021-01-23 21:11:28 @ushasundaram I'm not sure. I'm checking 2021-01-23 21:11:05 @ericlchaney sure! 2021-01-23 20:49:50 #Coronavirus #COVID https://t.co/d82CKuSuef 2021-01-23 20:47:27 We need to speed up the pace vaccinations worldwide and take more aggressive measures to contain Covid. The longer tolerate the pandemic, the more opportunities for additional mutations. Right now, there are millions of infected people each incubating trillions of viruses. https://t.co/OX27BSmqxi 2021-01-23 20:38:51 RT @CameronNewton: RIP Mr. Henry Aaron • we cherish your legacy forever #1LØVE https://t.co/SWpsGVH7ye 2021-01-23 20:38:37 @io_floriano I hope so. I'll see if I can find a link. 2021-01-23 20:35:20 I'm looking forward to Keynoting at next week's G20 Finance Symposium on Digital Transformation: https://t.co/7244ROGdTX 2021-01-23 18:53:56 "As their ranks swell, and as they take on more tasks in more places, robots are, in their own way, taking over." -- @mims #Robots #AI @DigEconLab @StanfordHAI HT: @mattbeane @MarkMuro1 https://t.co/QqIue6LUDe 2021-01-22 18:54:18 We can eradicate diseases, including Covid. Don't let anyone tell you we just need to live with it. But we need to move fast and hard before it mutates again. https://t.co/AuxKVMEf5c 2021-01-20 19:35:55 What do current interest rates and inflation tell us about US gov't debt levels? Here are some comments by @LHSummers, Jerome Powell and me, via @Nate_DiCamillo @CoinDesk #BTC #bitcoin #deficit #stimulus https://t.co/LFpvC17Zsw 2021-01-20 17:45:02 RT @nowthisnews: ‘There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to see it. There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to be it… 2021-01-20 04:34:35 #Complements #EconTwitter https://t.co/WHOBvesl6s 2021-01-19 02:37:59 Have you watched MLK's "I have a dream" speech? It's well worth watching and re-watching. Worth sharing and worth taking to heart. https://t.co/EenQVhEbxb 2021-01-18 17:19:01 "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires... the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” - Martin Luther King 2021-01-16 23:57:30 RT @Reuters: Goldman Sachs nudges U.S. growth forecast higher on Biden stimulus plan https://t.co/gu2shb9xU4 https://t.co/SnKaBizCbu 2021-01-16 23:56:10 RT @FrankWilczek: I can't let this pass without a retweet. t/y @nobelprize, @laurasprechmann https://t.co/ZN9nl6OKKb 2021-01-16 02:49:05 Look out @StephenCurry30! https://t.co/s9Vbf6GnHk 2021-01-15 23:00:13 An All-Star team is about to take the field! https://t.co/NWkI5OmRj4 2021-01-15 22:12:14 @elonmusk @Wikipedia https://t.co/rkk93cmVjp 2021-01-15 22:11:36 RT @DigEconLab: HAI Director Prof @drfeifei tells @FastCompany: "AI’s applications are vast, but technology will represent only part of any… 2021-01-15 20:36:38 @21milkman They get credits for a certain number of cars as a jump-start incentive, and after that, they phase out. Tesla already made its quota. 2021-01-15 19:38:27 "The Ford and Volkswagen models are eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credit that will lower the final cost to well under $40,000....The tax credit no longer applies to purchases of Teslas." https://t.co/v274Jvb7sj 2021-01-15 06:11:24 “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” #ThePowerOfEvidence https://t.co/RZNiGebICQ 2021-01-15 06:09:57 @lkatz42 @arindube @Noahpinion @jdcmedlock “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” 2021-01-13 16:16:12 RT @Edourdoo: The term cyberbalkanization was first coined in Van Alstyne and Brynjolfsson's early article (1996) to describe the informati… 2021-01-13 01:59:13 RT @jhuber: We are far from the pace we need to be on for vaccine rollout. It's being considered a medical process instead of a scale war.… 2021-01-13 01:40:34 Congrats on the launch of the new US National AI Initiative today. #AI https://t.co/4G4YbW12gW https://t.co/GO9r3jH6FB 2021-01-12 22:54:02 RT @InfoEcon: US insurrection shows that content labeling is too feeble a response to people who propagate lies. Short of outright ban, a b… 2021-01-12 20:10:30 RT @DigEconLab: Stanford Digital Fellows @InfoEcon @g2parker @georgionomix are studying the M&amp 2021-01-12 01:37:52 RT @Trevor_Persaud: Got a glimpse of the future on my walk today. 5G UW on 1 sidewalk square in Marina Del Rey - super exciting even for 1… 2021-01-12 01:11:28 All these Tom Brady stats are just wild https://t.co/EnxkumXyNq 2021-01-12 00:56:26 Respect https://t.co/kfGPDU9ng5 2021-01-11 22:28:43 If you're interested in the digital economy, this is a terrific conference to attend. There's an early bird discount for registrations until January 15. @DigEconLab https://t.co/dYWgGZnLV8 2021-01-11 18:13:46 It's very hard to understand why anyone would refuse to wear a mask in this situation. https://t.co/WAuC0hJnXU 2021-01-11 16:15:56 We are producing and distributing vaccines far far too slowly. https://t.co/rQrLtCYL03 2021-01-10 23:33:30 That's disappointing. I wonder how many folks in the Capitol had the first of two vaccine shots, and how protective that will turn out to be. https://t.co/zdmOu0EK8e 2021-01-10 19:42:18 When combined with my 1996 cyberbalkans (aka filter bubble) paper with @InfoEcon showing how the internet makes it easier for affinity groups to reinforce internal beliefs, this work by @CassSunstein helps explain the growing polarization of politics. https://t.co/6fgNtSOPQa https://t.co/soiP4C9h1V 2021-01-10 19:02:11 RT @BillKristol: 2. "During the 1968 demonstrations, Russian soldiers fired bullets into the crowds, and some of those bullets scarred the… 2021-01-10 17:03:07 RT @igorbobic: Just now realizing how much of a close call it was in the Senate. Literally seconds. https://t.co/8JwiZvSngy https://t.co/8P… 2021-01-10 16:55:07 RT @Schwarzenegger: My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol. https://t.c… 2021-01-10 16:48:56 Some good news. And even better: it’s only the beginning of more news like this. https://t.co/nooFvTmFOc 2021-01-10 00:11:31 Here’s some careful research from @jgkoomey and colleagues. Exactly as @amcafee has been saying, technology is letting us live lighter on the planet. #morefromless @DigEconLab https://t.co/DJc0knLI3g 2021-01-09 20:24:34 How Should We Measure the Digital Economy? @avi_collis and I have some suggestions: @DigEconLab #GDP #DigitalEconomy https://t.co/dm2oSspD85 https://t.co/7lAqx9Firc 2021-01-09 19:51:32 RT @pauloyer: A remembrance of Eddie Lazear that I co-wrote with Kathryn Shaw... https://t.co/4iW4l4ySAD 2021-01-09 01:57:57 @itsbostoncream Tom seems to be doing OK on the family front 2021-01-07 20:18:16 RT @mattyglesias: I know impeachment 13 days before Inauguration feels crazy but: a) There is literally no other check on pardon power b… 2021-01-07 04:48:34 RT @NickKristof: My new column, just posted online, is blunt: "Trump Incites Terrorists" https://t.co/zMEZxuIJwm 2021-01-07 00:19:49 @BillKristol say their names 2021-01-06 06:05:00 If you think this proposal would be expensive, consider how expensive it is not to do it https://t.co/0ZcovKdKaw 2021-01-05 22:14:58 RT @albertwenger: @erikbryn Wrote today about the problem of half measures https://t.co/PU8nxGr5oN 2021-01-05 22:13:46 @AndyHarless Minerva 2021-01-05 21:55:44 We need to spend whatever it takes to speed up vaccine production and delivery. https://t.co/9SbRo8k0pB 2021-01-05 21:39:08 Times are changing: 90% were since 2013 and 5 of the 20 just in the past year. https://t.co/3CD8KvwF0s 2021-01-05 21:22:16 @ducnguyennnn I hope you're right. And note that @amcafee was the coauthor, too. Let us know how you like it! 2021-01-05 20:17:24 RT @jmhorp: Perhaps it was always unrealistic for the US to match the pandemic response of Korea, Japan, or Taiwan But perhaps we could ha… 2021-01-05 20:15:00 Please feel free to join our session on "Working from Home" at the AEA meetings. There will be four new research papers presented and discussed. We start at 12:45pm PT/3:45pm ET. https://t.co/unSderxski #ASSA2021 2021-01-05 19:18:01 The Singularity is Near https://t.co/3iNqieo07h 2021-01-05 19:04:39 RT @abgutman: Welp. Republican majority of the Pennsylvania State Senate just removed @JohnFetterman from the chamber. President Pro Temp… 2021-01-05 17:06:45 Join our session on Superstar Firms at the AEA Meetings. Startingat 9:15am PT/12:15pm ET @DigEconLab @SBenzell @jeffwang1840 @jwangjin_3 https://t.co/nXJHz1FRhU #ASSA2021 2021-01-05 11:25:33 “If this is how we do a massive vaccination later, we are golden. We can do this.” https://t.co/ctokBZtIpN 2021-01-05 01:43:27 @F_Vaggi @Noahpinion They didn’t use those words — that’s my economist’s hat. But for instance one friend started his history PhD in his late 40s because he thought it would be more interesting than the investment banking work he had previously been doing. He’s much happier now, though poorer. 2021-01-04 23:14:30 @benrollert @Noahpinion @tdietterich But we can invest more in knowledge creation overall. I suspect that still has a high ROI (and as bonus, dampens inequality) though certainly in some areas more than others. 2021-01-04 19:55:26 @Noahpinion As long as we're all honest about that, it's not a problem. It becomes a problem if they are promised, or feel entitled to, jobs that don't exist. 2021-01-04 19:54:33 @Noahpinion From a narrow productivity point of view, I agree with this: "The U.S. probably doesn't need more humanities doctorates, but the opposite is true for STEM graduates. We just need to create the jobs to justify them." But many humanities PhDs I know do it as a form of consumption. 2021-01-04 18:14:21 @nberpubs The coauthors on this paper were Nikolas Zolas, Zachary Kroff, Erik Brynjolfsson, Kristina McElheran, David N. Beede, Cathy Buffington, Nathan Goldschlag, Lucia Foster &amp It was great working with the US Census Bureau to design the survey and collect the data. 2021-01-04 18:11:54 @nberpubs While few firms are at the technology frontier, they tend to be large so technology exposure of the average worker is significantly higher. 2021-01-04 18:10:49 @nberpubs Adoption patterns are consistent with a hierarchy of increasing technological sophistication, in which most firms that adopt AI or other advanced business technologies also use the other, more widely diffused technologies 2021-01-04 18:10:30 @nberpubs We find that digitization is quite widespread, as is some use of cloud computing. In contrast, advanced technology adoption is rare and generally skewed towards larger and older firms. 2021-01-04 18:09:34 Our new @nberpubs paper is out: "Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey". We report on the adoption of AI, cloud computing, robotics and the digitization of business information at 850,000 firms. https://t.co/adtGkApjfF 2021-01-04 04:20:53 RT @Malcolm_Ocean: 1/ "You Might Have Earned It, But Don’t Forget That Your Wealth Came from Society" Subtitle: To be human is to earn the… 2021-01-04 04:16:23 @Malcolm_Ocean @Austen Modern society makes it possible for us to easily coordinate the labor of lots of people and leverage things they create to build more wealth. That underscores how effortlessly connected we are. The “I created wealth all alone” story is a better description of the 1880s frontier. 2021-01-03 22:11:55 RT @EricTopol: Going vertical. The UK foretells the US trajectory. https://t.co/rWbmtIlOQG 2021-01-03 20:12:34 @itsbostoncream Throw for a TD 2021-01-03 18:30:25 @itsbostoncream Only 50 yards rushing so far and 4/4 passing. 2021-01-03 06:16:13 RT @alex_peys: So maybe I’m behind on this but like, why can’t vaccine production go way faster if we just put $1 trillion into it? 2021-01-03 06:01:32 @Austen I think the story of “I did it all by myself” is a not a great way to describe what’s going on. 2021-01-03 05:59:56 @Austen That distinction is worth making because it reminds me how much I owe to others. If I can’t pay it back, I try to pay it forward. 2021-01-03 05:58:10 @Austen *At low or even zero cost 2021-01-03 05:57:19 @Austen Because I see the opposite: it’s amazing how much we benefit from the ingenuity, generosity, and hard work of others and how easy it is to access them today at low or even zero. What a contrast to the past. How grateful I am for that. 2021-01-03 05:52:19 @Austen When you say “entirely on their own” do you mean on an isolated desert island without tapping into any of the technology, infrastructure, education or access to other resources of society at all? 2021-01-03 02:09:05 Yugoslavia had a smallpox outbreak in March, 1972 and vaccinated almost the entire population by mid-May, 1972. https://t.co/edeZ4kX3kO 2021-01-02 22:06:02 @kdrum It tells that it can be done and we're not doing it. That's a step more convincing than the ubiquitous "we should be doing X" where no one has ever done X. 2021-01-02 21:59:12 @kdrum When making the point that we could and should be doing a lot better, it helps to have at least one actual example that proves that that is possible. 2021-01-02 20:19:38 @metageeks That's a really useful analysis! 2021-01-02 18:02:00 RT @nberpubs: A small set of “superstar” firms account for most digital capital in the US, and that digital capital predicts firm-level pro… 2021-01-02 05:52:14 @JordiPBoyd @RyanS92910986 @truraider81 @engh533 @renfrowhunter A good coach teaches his players to keep their eyes up when tackling, and pulls aside players who lead with the crown of their helmet for extra tackling instruction. 2021-01-02 03:15:17 RT @ryancbriggs: Linear regression to an economist https://t.co/MSsSCBlFMp 2021-01-02 02:08:03 @syk0saje @jondr44 Some people who write theory papers in economics 2021-01-02 00:08:09 @itsbostoncream Smart move. The drop in the salary cap is going to free up a lot of talent, while making old contracts seem expensive 2021-01-01 23:39:29 @jondr44 I agree. It’s such an annoying custom – suitable for machine code but not human language 2021-01-01 23:14:08 RT @patrickc: Scott Aaronson on vaccines: https://t.co/1yodVm8aQY 2021-01-01 22:14:25 It's January 1 so @rodneyabrooks is again reporting on the predictions he made for self-driving cars, robotics, space exploration and AI back on January 1, 2018. I admire his precision and accountability even more than his impressive accuracy. https://t.co/Iq9dFa6PNx 2021-01-01 21:38:05 RT @VirusesImmunity: My first tweet of 2021 is going to be about 1 dose vs. 2 dose vaccine. I have tweeted in the past of the immunological… 2021-01-01 20:22:41 @gnuman1979 https://t.co/Psh3X4l9xl 2021-01-01 20:16:04 RT @s8mb: Good question @allisonpearson! What did they do in China and Wuhan that has allowed them to get back to normal? https://t.co/oLOt… 2021-01-01 02:12:02 @GregorKoomey Not always, but usually. That's why we do it. I hope you have a Happy New Year, Gregor! 2021-01-01 01:19:31 Happy New Year! Let's all work to make sure 2021 is better in every way than 2020. 2021-01-01 01:10:06 RT @alex8chan: Top 10 books of the decade (2010s), according to @alex8chan, nerd at @StanfordHP @Stanford: (1) The Second Machine Age by @… 2021-01-01 00:54:21 The more contagious variant of the coronavirus creates an exponentially greater risk. We need to radically speed up vaccine distribution. Every day of delay increases the danger. https://t.co/h1qRdEOHPn 2020-12-31 22:40:51 RT @hiskov: Reflecting on 2020 https://t.co/aPsUBeYOMi via @wordpressdotcom 2020-12-31 22:37:30 RT @BeschlossDC: Always remember which American leaders defended our democracy when it was being dangerously challenged — and which ones ac… 2020-12-31 21:09:07 RT @mccaffreyr3: TRUMP PENTAGON putting US national security in great peril. Transition meetings turned off since 18 Dec. Political appoint… 2020-12-31 21:05:58 @amcafee Yeah. Who need that? 2020-12-31 20:49:50 2020 can't end fast enough https://t.co/OEaahOQbM9 2020-12-31 20:28:50 Using the Turing Test to assess claims about general intelligence is like using a magic show to assess claims about anti-gravity technology https://t.co/fq97akQzZw 2020-12-31 17:56:10 @itsbostoncream 70% salary cap problems 30% opt outs and injuries 30% under performance by WR and TE. Negative 30% Cam: The situation would’ve been worse with most other quarterbacks 2020-12-31 17:43:14 Many good choices e.g. @amcafee @Susan_Athey @drfeifei @InfoEcon @ModeledBehavior @sinanaral @DigEconLab @SBenzell @avi_collis @patrickc @benedictevans @joshgans @danielrock @k_mcelheran @mattbeane @indexingai @reidhoffman @MichaelRStrain @JimPethokoukis @johnjhorton @SarahHBana https://t.co/WgSwqOvK2N 2020-12-31 17:11:33 Supercovid will make it much harder to stop the pandemic. What's worse, it could mutate to superduper Covid. That's not a good branch of evolution for us to explore. #ShotsIntoArmsNOW https://t.co/hBnwesu4dY 2020-12-31 17:02:46 This was true in May, 2020. It's true now. We need to dramatically accelerate the vaccine rollout before more mutant strains of Covid evolve and spread. The risks are staggering. https://t.co/JAo2mlSapu 2020-12-31 16:38:01 @Birdyword This was briefly popular about 10 years ago. @tylercowen published The Great Stagnation and that inspired @amcafee and I to publish Race Against the Machine in this format: https://t.co/UJlUzc743C I’m not sure why there aren’t more books like that. 2020-12-31 16:30:54 @isabelzawtun https://t.co/94vqiFXw5V 2020-12-31 16:30:03 @isabelzawtun This has all the hallmarks of a fake post engineered to go viral. I’d be wary of spreading these kinds of implausible examples. Even when some weirdo somewhere is really found doing something dumb, nutpicking serves more to inflame divisions than prove any broad principles. 2020-12-31 16:25:39 @morganisawizard https://t.co/94vqiFXw5V 2020-12-31 16:23:49 @morganisawizard This has all the hallmarks of a fake post engineered to go viral. I’d be wary of spreading these kinds of implausible examples. Even when some weirdo somewhere is really found doing something dumb, nutpicking serves more to inflame divisions than prove any broad principles 2020-12-31 11:22:55 RT @cd_hooks: Just talked to a pharmacist in the panhandle who’s currently watching 30 doses of the vaccine go bad because they can’t find… 2020-12-30 22:41:52 Underinvesting in children's education is incredibly expensive. https://t.co/oAuYZqHEAf 2020-12-30 22:37:28 Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes have heart damage linked to COVID-19 https://t.co/Wwo2TPBXqv 2020-12-30 18:59:53 In two days, hindsight really will be 2020 2020-12-30 17:39:30 Can someone explain why Congress doesn’t allocate an extra $100 billion (or whatever it takes) to the states right now so the vaccine gets to everyone a few months earlier? It cannot be optimal to mostly work on a normal schedule in a national emergency. https://t.co/nO366S8XtA 2020-12-30 17:32:24 RT @randizuckerberg: The resilience that tech afforded to society during 2020 give cause for optimism about our future. -@erikbryn 2020-12-30 17:16:04 @oshoturiya @AEAjournals @DigEconLab @danielrock @ChadSyverson I think that's Chad's twitter account. Do you know of another one? 2020-12-30 17:03:23 It's great to finally see our paper "The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies" finally out in the AEJ:Macro today. @AEAjournals @DigEconLab @danielrock @ChadSyverson https://t.co/EpZzDSmmEQ https://t.co/A5sCbEG6PL 2020-12-30 15:34:56 RT @ATabarrok: The British have approved the AZ vaccine and are moving to First Doses First. This is the policy I have recommended. I worry… 2020-12-30 15:25:58 I'm looking forward to my conversation with @randizuckerberg and @amcafee about the future of work. Join us today at about 9:15am PT/12:15pm ET on Sirius XM Business Radio. #SiriusXM132 @DigEconLab https://t.co/KQBaPb2GBq 2020-12-30 05:36:29 RT @JanelleCShane: Yes. Humans keep confusing prestige with difficulty. We don’t have robot housekeepers yet, and it’s not for lack of tryi… 2020-12-29 22:18:10 @BrockleyCentral @elonmusk @Reza_Zadeh Good question. And that’s why it’s a difficult project. 2020-12-29 21:46:33 @elonmusk @Reza_Zadeh Value alignment is the way to go 2020-12-29 21:38:01 @FutureJurvetson Or Jocko Homo "Are we not men? We are Devo" https://t.co/FfVc8XrvIL 2020-12-29 21:29:52 @JamesSurowiecki I suspect Stefon Diggs had something to do with it. 2020-12-29 21:28:49 This is unacceptable. The unnecessarily slow roll out of the vaccine is costing Americans trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. https://t.co/DCFq8PSBD5 2020-12-29 21:12:38 Right. It's the job of the buyer to bargain for that, while still making it worthwhile for the seller. https://t.co/hcVWVu7U0o 2020-12-29 21:10:26 In the future, robots will do all the choreographed dancing that our economy needs. #AI #Robotics #singularity https://t.co/PbHbB2EVIn 2020-12-29 19:07:41 @DocGrawitch It seems to be gated. Do you have an ungated link? 2020-12-29 17:12:05 RT @craigkcollins: @erikbryn NYC vaccinated 6m+ residents for smallpox in 1 mo. in 1947 after a businessman traveling from Mexico City coll… 2020-12-29 17:07:48 @ErikSherman I'm struggling to understand what those limitations are. Do you know of a good summary of them? 2020-12-29 17:06:25 @DougKyed I love Jacobi, but this is sad 2020-12-29 17:00:54 Or even faster, since there are potential economies of scale and scope. https://t.co/lwjRhGZAfp 2020-12-29 16:58:02 RT @MaxCRoser: Some say that a big country cannot vaccinate a similar share of the population as quickly as a small country. Why would that… 2020-12-29 16:51:24 In short: A lot of Americans will die unnecessarily because of poor planning. https://t.co/b8rn2q5Dit 2020-12-29 05:07:22 @McJesse In four days, we'll be saying 2020-won 2020-12-29 03:59:39 RT @calebwatney: Amazing that we still haven't learned this lesson yet. A pandemic is not the time for pinching pennies, vaccine distribu… 2020-12-29 03:45:41 RT @reidhoffman: I am matching $2 for $1 donations to @2ndHarvest, a food bank serving an average of 500,000 people in Silicon Valley every… 2020-12-29 01:36:30 Aggressive measures to completely eliminate a disease like Covid-19 from a country has proven feasible. Elimination can be more cost-effective than mere suppression or mitigation. see BMJ 2020 https://t.co/Dw1aJGMSN1 https://t.co/gWUlTP49gA 2020-12-28 21:59:01 @andreamatranga Why not the "DC Comics" and sign free agent Cam Newton/Superman as their QB? The uniforms and movie rights would be blockbusters. https://t.co/D14RoA8Nkn 2020-12-28 19:52:37 RT @EdmundPhelps: A lengthy review of my book Dynamism, coauthored with Raicho Bojilov, Hian Teck Hoon and Gylfi Zoega, as well as of Mass… 2020-12-28 17:54:24 Another overnight success decades in the making: Katalin Karikó worked on the science of mRNA vaccines for years. She was demoted by U. Penn but persevered. Now at BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, her work is saving us. Remember her name. https://t.co/lRLGZDzmEq https://t.co/0WL0nMksgT 2020-12-28 16:32:27 @mattyglesias Why is that? 2020-12-28 16:23:29 Important thread by @tomaspueyo who correctly called for "Hammer and Dance" in March which would have stopped the pandemic. Key update: Because of the new, more contagious virus mutation, the herd immunity threshold has increased to about 75-80% instead of 60%. https://t.co/MNRvOpYhXX 2020-12-28 16:03:49 @itsbostoncream Do you think the other 10 players on the field have anything at all to do with the offense? 2020-12-28 15:44:00 Our new @nberpubs paper: "Digital Capital and Superstar Firms" with @sonnytambe, Lorin Hitt and @danielrock: We measure IT-related intangibles aka "Digital Capital" and find they're concentrated in superstar firms &amp @DigEconLab https://t.co/aj28lZf8Nt https://t.co/soktJMzMsi 2020-12-28 12:50:20 RT @nberpubs: Even small amounts of regular lead exposure can reduce student test scores, an effect that is more pronounced in lower-income… 2020-12-28 02:18:16 @itsbostoncream Bucs of course 2020-12-27 02:54:36 @jbensnyder @eshap Thanks! 2020-12-26 22:00:52 @ketchman @bopinion @Noahpinion @Austan_Goolsbee @ChadSyverson Looks like a consensus to me. See question B. https://t.co/zV9L514o1F 2020-12-26 21:25:48 RT @DigEconLab: 3 million patents, 200 million online job postings, and 300,000 conference calls were analyzed to determine the spread of n… 2020-12-26 21:19:43 @eshap What's the source for this? 2020-12-26 20:33:00 And the article didn’t even say that all economists felt this way, just that there were a couple that did back in the spring. 2020-12-26 19:26:11 TD4 for TB12 https://t.co/ePCz3ruS9A 2020-12-26 19:15:01 @sdonnan "than it would have been had we not botched our response to the pandemic..." 2020-12-26 19:10:15 The GOAT never gets old https://t.co/3lVCA5Oa3E 2020-12-26 19:04:51 I'm not sure why @bopinion reposted this outdated article from May. The consensus among economists has long been that the reduction in economic activity was due to Covid, not the lockdowns. See e.g. https://t.co/7jfSNcJNan cc: @Noahpinion @Austan_Goolsbee @ChadSyverson https://t.co/Fk34hRDz0T 2020-12-25 23:50:41 RT @JFrankelEcon: Richard Cooper, who passed away last night at 86, was always young for his age. I have lost a good friend. Young economis… 2020-12-25 23:49:09 Some things are going amazingly well. https://t.co/EX1faPFsjz 2020-12-25 17:10:52 RT @ben_golub: How about doing this for all flights always 2020-12-25 16:52:03 RT @dilipsoman: Brilliant intelligent agent! @avicgoldfarb @CaitLamberton @erikbryn @A_Aspuru_Guzik @NinaMazar HT @neeran https://t.co/JfZ… 2020-12-25 07:05:03 @David_desJ Yes 2020-12-25 04:15:00 @David_desJ The less predictable demand for each item is, and the lower the marginal cost, the more attractive the massive bundling model becomes. The intuition is that the law of large numbers makes it easier to predict demand as the number of items grows. 2020-12-25 04:12:12 The massive bundling business model is far more profitable for digital goods than for non-digital goods. Bundles of digital goods don’t have to worry about the waste of sending high marginal cost products to people who don’t value them. 2020-12-25 03:19:17 I predict that someone will soon aggregate massive numbers of substacks into a single bundle. The price will be low and the number of subscribers will be very high. Content creators will be rewarded proportionate to value. Here’s the economic argument: https://t.co/iJiNUdQRYB https://t.co/RJn4YelsjN 2020-12-24 20:06:00 @WSJ @amcafee @2MAbook https://t.co/22k28oJ5Ll 2020-12-24 20:03:14 What a nice Christmas gift! The @WSJ included The Second Machine Age on the "CIOs Favorite Reads of 2020" @amcafee @2MAbook #BuiltToLast #AI #BookReview 2020-12-24 02:56:35 RT @celtics: JAYSON TATUM https://t.co/tssjdSZf2P 2020-12-24 02:48:47 @jasonfurman So sorry to learn this. He was one of my favorite professors when I was a student. A very kind and thoughtful man. 2020-12-24 01:46:15 @PramodDikshith @amcafee So glad you like the book. It means a lot to us to get feedback like that 2020-12-23 16:27:42 RT @Max_Fisher: One of the Blackwater contractors continued shooting civilians in the crowd even as his colleagues shouted over and over fo… 2020-12-23 16:26:45 RT @carlzimmer: There are almost twice as many people in the United States hospitalized with covid-19 than at any other time during the pan… 2020-12-22 06:34:50 RT @LHSummers: Really appalling that the business meals deduction has been installed for two years, likely setting the stage for more, in r… 2020-12-22 03:56:46 RT @wwwojtekk: Total: $910b Vaccine procurement: $20b Tell me again, why we haven't spent $200b to build production lines for 10 vaccines… 2020-12-22 00:40:59 I love these stories https://t.co/oZOdBZNZ71 2020-12-21 19:25:19 RT @amcafee: If the Beatles mean anything to you, and especially if it's cold, grey, and dark where you are, I suggest that you watch this… 2020-12-21 18:33:01 @mattyglesias Most of these analyses miss that the *relative* shift vs 2016 depends on the 2016 baseline. In 2016, Trump ran a hard anti-immigrant campaign (Mexico is sending rapists In comparison, 2020 was less aggressively anti-immigrant. 2020-12-21 18:25:54 That funding for improving broadband infrastructure can't come fast enough. https://t.co/eKgV01QcHY 2020-12-21 17:54:53 RT @robseamans: My latest article for @Forbes celebrates the inclusion of funds for broadband in the recent stimulus package. https://t.co… 2020-12-20 22:40:03 @ryanthomasallen @planetmoney @GonzalezSarahA Crazy. How was this not 100% predictable, and addressed, 6 months ago? 2020-12-20 20:54:33 Shameful. Congress can fix this today if they want to. https://t.co/yMBVFjaVKr 2020-12-20 20:32:43 The cost of delay in wiping out coronavirus is staggering: https://t.co/WCAedMkySW 2020-12-20 20:29:20 The spirited Twitter debate about which sequence to give the vaccine is is much less important than the need to dramatically speed up vaccine distribution to *everyone* What’s the bottleneck? It can’t be money. 2020-12-20 20:03:03 RT @ModeledBehavior: TFW you “turned a corner” https://t.co/pIKMpURkye 2020-12-20 20:02:34 It was true in April. And it’s true now https://t.co/T005oQjUrE 2020-12-20 19:47:46 @jbarro That’s pedantic semantics. People are saying, in shorthand, that we should put more weight on scientific methods and evidence. And they are right. 2020-12-20 18:32:39 RT @ddayen: If you want to talk about a red line in COVID talks it should have always been this. Authorize every dollar necessary to change… 2020-12-20 18:01:17 "The cyber attack still unfolding in the US may turn out to be the most serious nation-state espionage campaign in history." -- Robert Hannigan https://t.co/kOXmT5pdSW 2020-12-19 22:10:09 How long before someone starts selling a new cryptocurrency tied to this? https://t.co/I36OabX7SI 2020-12-19 17:40:35 @RNBWCV So the Colts have won more AFC East titles than Bills since 1996, though they haven't been in the division for almost 20 years. 2020-12-19 03:05:05 RT @charles_gaba: CASES: The Dakotas are still soaring far above every other state, though they seem to be slowing down a bit. ND is about… 2020-12-19 02:51:32 2020 was a bad year in many ways. Here's a chart of excess deaths from all causes. #COVID19 HT: @jmhorp https://t.co/k34bSTSKRV 2001-01-01 01:01:01