Andrew C. Johnston

🚨 Surprising finding in our new paper: 🚨 AI exposure *increases* employment where AI and human labor are complements—but lowers employment where they are substitutes. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Fascinating paper "...We find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20-29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths." drive.google.com/file/d/1aEfIlS…

@BarbellFi You'll be happy you have more kids when you are older. And your kids will be happy they have more people deeply connected to them. Kids are a kind of freedom.

My wife & I are 36 years old Have a 1 year old son at home Don’t want more kids Our annual expenses are $60k We have $1.5 million liquid And a paid off $800k house But I still feel so far from freedom Something is wrong in the world today Or is something wrong with me? 🤔

@JaneFeathersto1 He keeps referring to their "history" of free speech, rather than their ongoing practice.

Starmer does not lie. You know fuck all about the UK. Sort your own appalling government out and leave us alone. Trump has covered up the murder of an innocent woman by ICE .. he’s all over the Epstein files .. he’s a lying criminal with dementia

This is going to stick with me forever

@michaelharriot Can you please provide some examples of the errors in the Compact piece? I haven’t seen any such guffawing.

I can’t decide if the fact that so many mediocre white men are touting this article while people who can do math with decimal points can’t get through it without guffawing until their stomachs hurt at the author’s stupendous ineptitude is good or bad Imma go with bad.

@HarmeetKDhillon Where can people submit complaints?

Step up!

@andrealucasEEOC @USEEOC Where can people submit complaints?

As Chair @USEEOC, let me be clear—this is a story chock full of unlawful discrimination. There’s no DEI exception to the bar on race and sex discrimination. We need courageous employees / applicants to speak up to help attack and remedy this misconduct.

Do you think giving folks a basic income would reduce crime? Think again. "We estimate precise zero effects [of basic income] on criminal perpetration."

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

"Williams and Ceci sent fake job applications to more than 800 faculty members in engineering, economics, biology, and psychology... As shown in the graph below, faculty expressed a strong preference for the female candidates - a 2:1 preference overall." [Link below.]

NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen. The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8. They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and middle school math skills in addition to the one covering gaps from high school. 🧵

Also surprising: AI's employment effects appear as early as 2021—when workplace AI tools first emerged. By 2021, hundreds of workplace AI tools were already generating 4.5 billion words/day for coding, editing, and customer service.

🚨 Surprising finding in our new paper: 🚨 AI exposure *increases* employment where AI and human labor are complements—but lowers employment where they are substitutes. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@EYakoby It’s satire

Is this satire?

@brian_blase What was the price trend in the few year before ACA was passed? In other words, was 2014 a break in the trend or a continuation of it.

We added 2013 to this figure. It shows the average premium for this 50-year-old enrollee prior to Obamacare. Obamacare caused a 47% premium increase for her in 2014, with escalating premiums (picked up by the federal taxpayer) since.

When tempted to hide facts for political reasons, please at least consider who will pay the cost of public ignorance.

@NoahProoval Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

You do realize that 250 years ago the child mortality rate was 50%, right? And the vast majority of people lived short, disease ridden lives, right? It was largely the government spreading the wealth around that ended that. It's fine if you want to go back to that but be honest.

@Noahpinion Check out the dates. The survey was fielded the day after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

Perhaps Republicans are realizing they elected an idiot who will hurt the economy with tariffs, surrender to China on the world stage, abolish their freedom of speech, engage in unprecedented corruption, and take away their cancer treatments

@matt_vanswol Can you say more about what specific aspects? I think the key is to realize that the core of Christianity is well supported (the existence of God, the historicity of the resurrection) and a lot of what challenges people (transubstantiation, the virgin birth, etc.) are not core.

@ItIsHoeMath Humans have consciousness and can thus deliberate and thus have agency to override instinct and emotion. That’s the thing that separates us from the animal world. They have no meta consciousness and thus have no agency.

Culture is genetic because behavior is genetic. This beaver never saw a dam in its life. No beavers or anything else ever taught it to build a dam. It wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Many beavers together build a big dam. That is beaver culture. Humans are not different. Nothing is different. This is what life is. This is how life works. Your body is your mind. A caterpillar wants to build a chrysalis. A bee wants to build a hive. A lion wants to build a pride. You are not special. You are not above your nature. you are INSIDE of it. The thoughts that we think are genetic thoughts. The crimes we commit are genetic crimes. The art we create is genetic art. Just like this beaver, you can give the animal different sticks and it will build a different dam, but it will always build a dam. And you can give humans different "education," but the human will always use it to do what its genes tell it to do. This is the first big answer that you need. This is the biggest piece of the puzzle. This is how to understand people 90% of the way. You just... notice what they do, and get out of the way, and watch them do it. And if they need sticks, you give them sticks. And if you don't like what they do, you have to get away from them. You cannot train dam-building into them or out of them any more than you can with a beaver. A beaver wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Whatever you see people build, that's what they wanted to build from the sticks they got in the river they were in. Stop pretending you can change it.