Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 Recently saw Amartya Sen speak at Amherst College. He said, "I don't know what neoliberalism means. All I know is that when one person calls another neoliberal the first person doesn't like the second."

A good time to share that I will be joining NovaSBE as an Assistant Professor in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship area. I’m excited to work with amazing colleagues in a breathtaking environment :)

Not me navigating my new life in Portugal with “ik heb een pergunta alsjeblieft” 🤡

I'm happy to announce that I am joining the economics department of NovaSBE for a 4-year post-doc position. Here is a picture of me and Sai on our first day! Looking forward to this new chapter :)

So lucky and happy to be starting at NovaSBE together with Rita Dias Pereira! :)

The paper “Collaborating” with AI: Taking a System View to Explore the Future of Work” by @alffayard, Beth A. Bechky (@ucdavismba), and Callen Anthony (NYU Stern) was published in Organization Science. Find it here: bit.ly/3SvCbSO #NovaSBE #Research

Anxiety manifests in the most unexpected ways. Tell me why I’ve been carrying around anxious feelings about having to throw the first pitch at a baseball game FOR YEARS

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As a scientist, every decision you make should follow from your philosophy of science. If and why you would collect data. How you analyze it. How you write a paper. If you can not justify your actions, you are just imitating others, which might be fine, but it might not be fine.

Walking the tightrope of being an AI optimist but a leadership pessimist

CRITICAL new findings on genAI impact in entrepreneurship. Abstract says it all: business that were already doing well get a 20% boost. Businesses that were struggling saw a 10% *decrement*. That's right. It hurt them. And we know a bit about why. More research needed.

This holiday season I am training all my algorithms to deliver me poetry ✨

If anyone is looking for the most thoughtful present, my Mum bought me a year in books for Christmas and it’s amazing ❤️📚 (even better, some were second hand from people who mean a lot to me)

Today’s act of bravery will be showing my face at the local post office where the overworked staff have to deal with my sub-par Portuguese

To wrap up 2023 I got a banging haircut and landed myself in the ER (different incidents). 2024 is really bout to be a mixed bag

I went all 2023 without having a drop of alcohol, and masochist that I am, I also quit caffeine. Of course, this isn't the first time I quit. I quit alcohol for 4 years rather abruptly--tacchino freddo--when I was in Italy. Some reflections on being free from a substance:

It’s #worldcancerday today and almost 5 years since I was told I had advanced stage inoperable cancer that they thought world not be cured. I was 36 years old. Last night I went out with a lovely friend and laughed, ate good food and acknowledged my good fortune to be alive.

And after what seems like forever, my first first-author publication is finally online for the world to read. rdcu.be/dzABQ

From what we know about meta-prompting, it seems as though the model has self-corrected over several iterations to maximize user preferences. Does this mean as users we need to be mindful of how we provide feedback so as not to promote extreme behaviors? openai.com/index/sycophan…