Carl Benedikt Frey Thats line with most micro estimates showing productivity compression on a given task. But higher educated people might adopt AI more and better see e.g. the Otis study or @alexolegimasoverview open.substack.com/pub/aleximas/p…

In the absence of AI access, higher-education participants outperform lower-education participants by 0.548 standard deviations; with AI access, this gap falls to 0.139 standard deviations, from Guillermo Cruces, Diego Fernández Meijide, Sebastian Galiani, Ramiro Gálvez, and María Lombardi

Alex Imas That's how I've been thinking about it; conditional on adoption it narrows gaps, but adoption is selected in ways that expand gaps

I wish academics wouldn't write 1,000 papers. Even if it's possible, what's the point? The best use-case for Claude Code is writing the same number of papers, but *much better.* All those robustness tests, extra data collection, etc, that would take weeks? ...

Alex Imas On your second point, agreed that uniform access ≠ equilibrium adoption. But two distinct forces matter: (1) who adopts first, and (2) who benefits more conditional on adoption. We estimate (2). If the conditional productivity gains are systematically larger for

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Hoy estaba en el gimnasio cuando el caos estalló. Mi instinto fue trazar una ruta segura para evadir los dos Oxxos de camino a mi casa. Mientras guardaba mis cosas, una niña de aproximadamente 16 años me abordó con una voz preocupada : “¿Por dónde vives?”. Al darle mi dirección,

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Los humanos dañan absolutamente todo, matan la ultima esperanza 💔

Amigos el Narc0 no solo está en el porro que se que se fuma el vecino; está en los bares, restaurantes, industria maderera, en las inmobiliarias, en las farmacias, en empresas que limpian sus recursos, están en la música, en la piratería, los tianguis, están en el campo y en la