Co-director @davidautor.bsky.social explains the difference between automation technologies and collaboration technologies — and why there is huge untapped potential for AI to be used as a collaboration tool.
Expert's Dilemma: the more specialized you become, the less open you are to creative solutions from other fields. But the more you explore other fields, the more you risk losing credibility in your home field.
(Night Science recap, Day 3)
90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.
I saw your post on X 😬and bought it today, but I am most often here. Will look forward to hearing more about the book.
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”
— George Box
"Since written language only emerged about 5,000 years ago, our brains haven’t had time to evolve dedicated reading circuits. Instead, we’ve repurposed the neural networks that once kept our ancestors alive in the wild. Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene calls this the neuronal recycling hypothesis."
Dear followers, please see the thread below on the 2026 International AI Safety Report, which was released last week and which I advised.
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I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.
Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:
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Paul Ehrlich's basic message--that humanity has been on an unsustainable path--has proven disturbingly prescient given the latest evidence.
We can thank for that the very people & institutions who are now smearing him on his passing.
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Yes, I amended and said forced migration because of violence and antisemitism — fair point. The Forward article. Would you really want to be Jewish under the Revolutionary Guard?? Probably didn’t have resources to leave …
Missed the point — earlier commenter implied that Jews just felt like leaving Iran — a community that had been there for 2,700 years. I am reading parts of the Mahabharata in a Sanskrit class — two opposing families and a war … these early histories have violence but also a moral lesson.
Not nuanced— roots are in Muslim brotherhood in 1940s. Toleration is not a construct — counterweight to PLO. Destructive policy. No voting since 2006 — not benevolent and no political opposition allowed. Only thing they built was a military infrastructure. Support Palestinians but not Hamas. IMO.
I am sorry that you think that saying each must respect the humanity of one another is a bs take. There are two actors there and thus two sides.
Intellectual dishonesty — cherry picking. A tit-for-tat adds nothing. I can list similar atrocities from the other side. The only option for Palestinians and Israelis is to move forward and respect each other’s humanity and rights.
No support for Trump or Netanyahu. We’re stuck with him and they’re stuck with Netanyahu. How did this start? Have you really never looked at Hamas’ public executions of its own people — Iranian proxies. They offer nothing to the Palestinian people. History of failed leadership on both sides.
I would look a bit deeper — antisemitism and violence against the Jewish population were the main reasons they left — call it forced migration. No land was offered. The Jewish population had lived in Iran/Persia for 2,700 years.
You do know that Jews were expelled from Arab countries. About 45-50% of the population in Israel is from those countries.
Schadenfreude — which one is you? 🙃🌵
Check out yogicstudies.com — amazing professor (Antonia Ruppel) Sanskrit and many other classes. It is also very affordable. They also have Hindi.
This above is true, but I think my overall memory skills and retention may have been better when I studied French, German, and Spanish in high school. I am now learning Sanskrit; I dream of French. 😳
Science Has a Major Fraud Problem
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Reclaiming Democracy From the Market by Michael J. Sandel, et al @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/gIaaN1Z
I just dumped my ChatGPT subscription and moved to Anthropic.
Abstract Academic freedom is an unusual and complex set of norms and practices. It arises out of the combination of the corporate self-governance of medieval universities and the spirit of disciplinary scientific inquiry in modern research universities. It combines a principle of antiorthodoxy as to conclusions with the robust associational self-governance of scholarly communities whose members evaluate one another as participants in that shared enterprise. It has never been easily or wholly embraced by wider societies; today it is under wholesale attack. This article combines conceptual, normative, and historical analyses of academic freedom as a general norm with attention to conflicts over it in the mid-to-late 2010s and early 2020s. Some genuinely hard cases and questions tested the meaning of academic freedom and university values well before the current crisis.
Now posted ahead of print:
"Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science.
(Uncorrected proofs, so a few minor edits different from the version that will be published in June.)
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Which brings me to my research! What we show in this paper is that AI’s ability to produce expert-looking content at zero cost *raises* the demand for experts who can help you tell apart real from fake. 7/
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We love these two books when reading about old economists from Callum Williams and Todd G. Bucholz. Both incredibly readable. We also really liked @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social's JS Mill video - check it out...he dresses up!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8etK... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
Very happy to share our paper “Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies,” published in the Annual Review of Economics!
Full paper here: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Short 🧵on main take-aways below.
w/ E. Cantoni and J. Schafer
#EconSky #PoliSciSky @annualreviews.bsky.social (1/n).
