@arindube Points made more eloquently (and with data) by Nic better than me
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Chris Blattman
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Chris Blattman
@cblatts
Economist & political scientist @UChicago @HarrisPolicy studying conflict & organized crime. My book is Why We Fight: https://t.co/pwWjDnYzvo
Chicago, IL Katılım Eylül 2009
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It was the wrong medical advice for a nearly terminal disease by middling doctors. I’m not trying to defend the advice or the doctors. I’m saying that it’s important to recognize that there was a cancer of autocracy, personalism, resource dependency, bad price shocks, and wrong ideology that was the root of the problem. So blaming the doctors is fair but simplistic
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What if I told you - hear me out - that over the past 50 years we unnecessarily reduced growth across developing and developed worlds with structural adjustment and austerity?
John Cochrane@JohnHCochrane
Far more poverty has been alleviated by growth than by any RCT type aid or poverty alleviation program. Like orders of magnitude. Compare China to sub-Saharan Africa.
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If you're an American born between October 13, 1983 and April 30, 2002, then for more than half of your life the President was a guy born in the summer of 1946.
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@arindube You would like the book a lot. It's probably one of the great works of political science in the late 20th century.
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Also, IMF did macro stabilization, whereas it was the World Bank that was mostly in charge of structural adjustment. Macro stabilization was mostly followed, if only because countries couldn't afford to bleed money like that. It was structural adjustment that was wholesale reversed/ignored in short run .
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@arindube The funny thing is that 20 years later, most low- and middle-income countries were structurally adjusted and following most of the macroeconomic advice of that original period. In any way, we are all structurally adjusted now.
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A lot of the structural adjustment and macroeconomic stabilization was naively made and poorly suited. To see it as the cause of effects rather than a set of middling decisions in the midst of a larger and deeper cause and crisis is, to me, one of the bigger mistakes told about history in developing countries.
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Going to write a tweet that might be mercilessly dunked on later: I think concerns about job loss+AI are wildly overblown & the economy will be great for workers + consumers generally, including new workers, *especially* in a world where AI capabilities keep improving.
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I think about @cblatts getting up to speed on claude code in 4 weeks. Also, AI helps you learn AI.
Dean W. Ball@deanwball
I basically think most people under age ~40 will adapt fine to the quicker pace of change. History moved much faster in earlier eras of human life, and most millennials in particular lived through stagnation. "Much faster than stagnation" is not "too fast."
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A UChicago student group is currently handing out onions at the Northwestern Arch to protest to the Onion Futures Act of 1958
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There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.
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@harridanechoes It just works, and I have no idea why. I am basically just getting councils of agents to debate one another until they find solutions, and I don't really understand what happens under the hood.
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@cblatts does the council deep research automation require real-time authentication interventions by you? I tried mightily to implement this in an autonomous way so it happens overnight on a schedule but it always got stuck on permissions and auth. Ended up needing a Linux VM environment
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Okay, it's been 3 months since I took the plunge into Claude Code and 2 months since I created Claude Blattman to help other non-coding, non-technical, forever-behind people like myself learn how to use these tools. This is a
Here's what I've developed and created since then. 🧵
Chris Blattman@cblatts
4w ago I was a Claude Code skeptic. I'm not a coder. None of the use cases were relevant. I managed teams & projects, drowning in email & overdue reminders. So I tried creating tools that would help me and... holy crap. Now I'm sharing the tools I built: claudeblattman.com
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@cl_hubble @pedrohcgs Yes, which is the same as eight hours of a research assistant here at Chicago, so worth it for me. For those who don't have those kinds of budgets, of course, you can get pretty far on the $20/month plan and using Sonnet.
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Chris Blattman@cblatts
Okay, it's been 3 months since I took the plunge into Claude Code and 2 months since I created Claude Blattman to help other non-coding, non-technical, forever-behind people like myself learn how to use these tools. This is a Here's what I've developed and created since then. 🧵
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