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.The Wieners Circle challenged Ben Johnson to take his shirt off after a win. Ben Johnson obliged. Now, Chicago gets free hot dogs on Tuesday 🤝

Here is why I’m worried about AI-driven labor disruption and why I think economists should fight for a seat at the policy table. TL;DR: AI is general purpose tech, disruption can happen at diff scale than before. Step back, let ‘er rip and analyze later may be disastrous. 1/n

This is a preview of things to come. The legitimate risk of labor disruption will be used as pretense by special interests to expropriate Americans through protectionist regulation. Every uptick in the unemployment rate will be attributed to AI, with calls ensuing for something

Hahah who remembers smart pipe? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I can't tell if it's a joke or not, but no matter what it's very funny 🤣

When baseball players go golfing 😂

3 years after ChatGPT's been out and this is still the best post I've read about how it works (from Stephen Wolfram) : writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-i…

tfw you're working on something but then realize you can ask AI models about raccoon psychology

This is huge.

AI & Robotics are a complement *and* a substitute for labor. There isn't a fixed set of jobs. Scarce factors get rents - since AI/robots won't be scarce, the rents won't go to them. This way of understanding AI + Labor (via Bernie Sanders in the Guardian) common but totally wrong

CC Russ Roberts

politicians should use a technology before they write laws about it

Hawley isn't alone. The number of folks with strongly held negative opinions about AI, including things like Waymo, despite never having used it, is wild. And that's before we even worry about complete misinformation on things like water use, energy use, etc.

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Did people hate relational databases like they hate LLMs?

When we said “straight into my veins” we didn’t mean like this

The everything bagel is real?!

Other researchers: stop trying to make everything a vector representation! Just because you can doesn't mean you should! Me: 😏

The Miracle League of Arizona is a baseball league for kids with special needs. My dude blasted a walk-off dinger, this is what makes the game so great ❤️