New paper at AJPS: "The limits of AI for authoritarian control." The more repression there is, the less information exists in AI's training data, and the worse the AI performs. Ironically, data from democracies can help improve repressive AI.

Cool little experiment: if you subject AI to harsh labor conditions (rejecting work often with no explanation, etc), it slightly, but significantly, changes their “views” on economics & politics. Whether this is real or roleplaying doesn’t change that agents have alignment drift

Are you a social scientist who has been hearing about Claude Code but hasn't checked it out yet? Or are you a social scientist who has been playing with Claude Code and has been wondering what it means for the future of social science research? brookings.edu/articles/the-t… 1/

Here's my contribution on using agents to support academic research. I've got a pipeline going now with coding agents that checks arxiv, twitter, bluesky, philpapers, a bunch of journals, many RSS feeds and more, classifies it against a long statement of my lab's interests,

Gem alert

Marco Rubio Gets Western Civilization’s Defining Feature All Wrong open.substack.com/pub/theunpopul…

Agora que passou o hype: 1. Não é nem top 3 atuações do Wagner Moura. Não tem como ter uma atuação brilhante num thriller político onde o bem é claramente o bem e o mal é claramente o mal. 2. Valor Sentimental é filmaço.

Someone built a Google translate for Linkedin 😭

Democracia en América Latina Acabo de hacer mi pedido de este libro nuevo de Santiago Anria y Kenneth Roberts sobre América Latina. Por lo que he leído, y conociendo a los autores, este libro sin duda arrojará luz sobre la dinámica política de la América Latina contemporánea.

I am very happy that my survey paper, "Deep Learning for Solving Economic Models," is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature (pending final replication checks, which should be quick). The paper benefited greatly from the editor, David Romer, five referees, and many

Currently in FirstView: In “Accounting for Protest Voting in the U.S. Congress,” Anthony Fowler and Jeffrey B. Lewis estimate a model of congressional voting that allows for non-ideological protest voting. This has significant implications for roll-call estimates of ideology.

An absolute banger of a paper. “A Gentle Introduction to Matrix Calculus” by econometrics legend Jan Magnus — one of the clearest explanations of matrix derivatives ever written. If you work in econometrics, machine learning, statistics, or optimisation, this paper is pure

Mapping the modern world: We introduce S2Vec, a self-supervised framework that transforms complex geospatial data into general-purpose embeddings for predicting population density, carbon emissions, and urban development at scale. Check out the blog: goo.gle/3PlswyF

O que mais impressiona no judiciário federal é que funça se acha muito incrível só por saber estudar pra provinha. Sim, campeão, você passou numa provinha, tenho certeza que ao sair após a redução de salário, você fará TRILHÕES no setor privado trabalhando pouco.

'Online Bernstein-von Mises theorem', by Jeyong Lee, Junhyeok Choi, Minwoo Chae. jmlr.org/papers/v27/25-… #prior #posterior #incrementally

Um belo trabalho com a escravidão no centro. Folha: Escravidão explica PIB per capita baixo na história do Brasil, diz estudo. Emprego de escravizados criou 'armadilha' com salário e produtividade reduzidos, afirmam pesquisadores, que analisaram remunerações e preços de mais de

New #OpenAccess Paper Alert! 🚨 In American Political Science Review Avi Ahuja and I share results from a field experiment with Institute for Governance Reform around a switch from plurality rules to closed-list PR in Sierra Leone’s 2023 parliamentary elections: tinyurl.com/3hytpx5m Cambridge University Press - Politics A🧵:

Margaret Thatcher: jamais critiquei.