have you ever seen an experimental musician admit their experiment was a failure? of course not. Their methods are epistemologically unsound

What drives admin burden at Australian universities and what can be done about it? I've written a piece for the Campus Morning Mail looking into these questions: campusmorningmail.com.au/news/what-unis…

@kbguzzo @researchwhisper This is also reflected in the fact that institutions these days treat grants/external funding as an output. Which really doesn't make any sense really even if using an economic logic I guess.

New Zealand list of sick burns

—Interviewer: Do you have any special skill that can benefit our company? Me: x.com/Solocuriosos_1…

Word of the day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has all the self-confidence of ignorance.

But, like, if you are gonna go in on people for being ever so evil while they literally transfer their resources to the world's poor in a way that saves lives and you... like... write about how it would be good if things were better for the world's poor... then shut the fuck up.

why did the chicken sat on her eggs because she doesn't have a chair

Whenever you see someone call economics the "dismal science", make sure to explain that it refers to how economists opposed slavery.

I’m coming over, you better not be spoon feeding the caged moon my unruly ass:

One of the best Wikipedia photos, "Powerful owl on a suburban TV aerial, Chatswood West, New South Wales". Put this in the Louvre en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerful_…

Humans are bad at detecting liars, we are right about lies 53% of the time (guessing would be 50%). Machine learning seems to do better, 60%-80% accurate. But, in this case, combining human judgement & machines actually backfires, since people incorrectly overrule the computer!

Almost all of Turing's work was amazing, but we should definitely forget about the Turing Test, this was a mistake

Something I told 13 yo: Controversy is artificial interestingness.

3 PPE postdocs at Brown apply.interfolio.com/114213

This job is so much easier now that only the faculty are held to ethical standards.

Misperceptions and low quality information result in polarization when agents learn from shared news---Now forthcoming @QJEharvard!! Huge thanks to co-authors Simone and Danil Dmitriev (on the market this year!) drive.google.com/file/d/122BwGL…

As I was grading my final exam for my upper-level undergraduate Economics of Education course, I decided to check how ChatGPT would do on the exam. Answer: ChatGPT scored a 77%, which was just slightly below the class average.

Google Calendar, but it shows the cost of the meeting