Would be a funny little twist of historical irony if white collar workers tried to unionize before AI becomes good enough to fully automate all of their work

Counterpoint from Krugman: “ More important, however, I suddenly realized the remarkable extent to which the methodology of economics creates blind spots. We just don't see what we can't formalize.” web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ho…

nah this is actually the correct response when someone brings you on their podcast to interview you, then monologues for many minutes about his own thinly-veiled opinions framed as "context," before finally reading you a literal poem and asking for your thoughts

Perhaps a little too on the nose with the display name, no?

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goodalexander I call this status vertigo, again if you play exponential games, expect networks to be that too and that means your friend doesn’t just have a bigger house in Napa, but he has bigger houses in East Hampton, Miami, Dubai, London, and Mustique too…

the best part about making a weighty and life-altering decision is realizing that, outside a small circle of people, nobody cares

Banger

64 vs. 33. A lifetime of hard work vs. a silver spoon. The results speak for themselves. The weight of the job is too heavy for “Mamscrawny.” The only thing he can lift is your taxes.

My latest paper today as born of a continual argument I was having with my economist colleagues. How early should you leave to travel to the airport? A thread nber.org/papers/w34169

Is AI already impacting the job market? A new paper from me, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Ruyu Chen at Stanford Digital Economy Lab digs into data from ADP. We find some of the ***first large-scale evidence of employment declines for entry-level workers in AI-exposed jobs.*** A thread on our paper:

Intern said he’s “post-economic” and I asked what he meant and he said he dropped his econ major

The key to life is outsmarting your vices

If I had a dollar every time someone who used to work on the causal effect of Fox News on America pivot to AI, I’d have two dollars, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it’s happened twice.

Partial ID econometrician presenting at an applied micro seminar

lawcels vs supply curve rotators

All politics is identity politics x.com/atrembath/stat…

"Economics of transformative AI” summer course wrapped up just over a week ago. Here are the slide-decks from the course: docs.google.com/document/d/1hS… Most of the slides are from the (inimitable) Philip Trammell, some from me, and some from our great guest lecturers (1/2)

My thoughts on doing an econ PhD: People work decades to achieve the freedom to set your own hours, work only on your passion, not report to anyone, all while living in a beautiful city with your friends in walking distance. I got that freedom at age 22. Can't complain!