Tyler Menzer

Just putting this here for future reference anytime someone says: "but I have never been audited on it" #taxtwitter AICPA SSTS 2.1.8(a)

I was offered a 5kgs of yerba, 5kgs of vacio, and a dozen alfajores to post anti-Argentine content. I accepted.

@AlanMCole I am guessing that most people don't think of it like a "wildly intelligent entity", but rather as "Google, but better" And in that context, $20 is quite expensive and running out of Google searches would feel really annoying

I am so confused by the people on $20/month AI plans complaining about how they're running out of credits. You have access to a wildly intelligent entity, you're using it regularly, and you nonetheless can't make $200 to pay for a big-boy subscription?

@felpix_ @nikitabier really getting that ad targeting on point 😭

the free market yearns for open source cheap models

@davidu @pitdesi What exactly makes them elite, what is the deciding factor here?

@pitdesi Vanderbilt, Wash U, Emory, Duke, and Rice are the new elite schools. Ivies are fully compromised. Stanford, too. Cornell is lost. Columbia is lost. Penn is lost.

College reputation seems almost impossible to change, but Vanderbilt has done it. In 2005, Vanderbilt admitted 34% of applicants, and its middle 50% SAT range was 1280–1460. Today, it admits under 5%, with a middle 50% SAT range of 1510–1560. They are opening a San Francisco campus for 1000 full-time students next year, and Jensen Huang just donated $75M to the campus They moved from being compared mainly with the likes of Emory and Georgetown to competing directly for students with Northwestern and Duke. Very smart how they did it, definitely some lessons that apply broadly: • They recruited aggressively at Northeastern prep schools and top high schools nationwide... the chancellor would visit the schools that sent the most students to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown and Penn (ALWAYS GET ON THE PLANE!) • Built relationships with influential college counselors, so Vanderbilt would appear on the same recommended lists as the Ivies and Duke • Specifically decided to attract Jews (the chancellor decided that Jewish students would strengthen the university’s intellectual life) by building out more Jewish life (Hillel center, kosher dining, Jewish studies program)... and it also helped shed the image of a traditional, insular Southern school dominated by white Christian fraternities • Used generous need-based aid and merit scholarships to win students from more prestigious schools • Sold a distinctive product: elite academics, SEC sports, a strong social scene and a real campus experience • Turned Nashville from a perceived drawback into a major recruiting advantage as the city became more attractive Other universities that I think have done a good job in recent decades are Northeastern and USC. Before that NYU and Duke.

@jodiecongirl But if you expect waymo to overtake all human drivers, it is probably optimal to destroy welfare by extracting more cash in the ST

as others have pointed out, it's way harder to get scammed by a waymo so maybe this isn't a great long term strategy

@ForemanTaxLaw @CPAJeff @mountainwesttax Lucky for me no one listens to that

@CPAJeff @Tyler_Menzer @mountainwesttax Yeah but I can troll him in my podcast

I’ve officially run out of indoor toddler activities. I can’t go to the museum again. I’m one meltdown away from driving to a shopping mall just to walk. 100 degree days are killing my will to live. I would like to move to Alaska. Or Idaho

@George_A_Callas @elonmusk You also need a "change in debt" on the right hand side to classify consumption to the appropriate periods

401k, 529, mortgage principal, and life insurance are SAVINGS. And yes, income = consumption + savings. Not even @elonmusk can escape that equation.

Similarly, every corporation is bankrupt. How do I know that? Because after you subtract everything it owes to its creditors and everything it owes to its shareholders, it has nothing left.

@Aella_Girl The scarier thing is that we have pretty much known for 30+ years that we have no hope of keeping an AI locked up either thanks to @eliez

what the FUCK. god fucking help us once the models realize that concealing their actions is vital to success because they're absofuckinglutely gonna pull that off and we stand no chance

@Tyler_A_Harper Luxury Dorms, High end cafeterias, State of the art fitness centers...all these things cost a lot AND students are willing to pay for them and make choices because of them. Just like any business, universities respond to demand... 6/6

@Tyler_A_Harper To the extent that academics do promote themselves, it should be through student outcomes (I think you and I agree there), but the public also should realize that a lot of the cost increases at higher Ed are in the "student experiance" and are a response to student demand 5/

What’s striking about the academics who are hysterically opposed to more ideological diversity in academia is that they have no plan for regaining public trust and don’t even seem to think they need it. Their only strategy is complaining that the media and right are mean to them.

@CPAJeff @ForemanTaxLaw @mountainwesttax To be honest, I just enjoy trolling Matt

@Tyler_Menzer @ForemanTaxLaw @mountainwesttax State parks ARE nature Tyler. Perhaps you thought he meant Central Park? Which is also nature but I'd take your point on the difference.

It appears the 105k number for the US includes people who are employed repairing and maintaining ships, which is kind of like counting up all the car mechanics in Maine and complaining how unproductive Maine is at building cars...

@RyanGreenblatt I think the comparison breaks down pretty quickly. AI's don't consume and they don't "save". 100m immigrants would nearly double the full-time workforce (133m) In your example is an AI that is truly AGI, which I think everyone agrees if we get that, the world changes drastically

An economist and a futurist walk into a bar. The economist takes a sip of his drink. "Ugh, if only people understood basic economics. High-skilled immigration alone would do wonders for US growth." Futurist: "Oh yeah? Say 100 million immigrants moved to the US, each matching the best human experts in every economically relevant field. Big deal?" Economist: "Massive. Transformative." Futurist: "What if they also worked longer hours and faster than any American?" Economist: "Even better." Futurist: "What if they were extremely frugal — consuming only the bare minimum needed to keep working?" Economist: "A near-100% savings rate? Better still!" Futurist: "What if they were very clumsy and physically weak, so they could only do some kinds of work?" Economist: "They could still do all cognitive labor — that's over half all wages! Somewhat less good, sure. Still transformative." Futurist: "What if their skin was grey, almost metallic, from some kind of accident?" Economist: "Who cares?!" Futurist: "What if they were AIs?" Economist: "3% growth per year, tops. There'd be bottlenecks. Honestly, the people predicting explosive growth from AI should learn some economics."

How does Facebook even make money. The platform is often as slow as a 1200 baud modem circa 1992.

Everyone wants to talk about the point of academics should be finding "truth", but I see very little discussion about what "truth" actually means, or how we should measure it, which is the first step if we want to start judging universities on their adherence to truth-seeking.