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@alz_zyd_ Most with sufficient skill who want to expend that much effort on career advancement can get higher reward by engaging in other activities.
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Beyond economics, this is possible in essentially every academic theory field. In fact, most faculty have heard of one or two students who've done this through sheer force of will. It's not rare because there are real barriers to doing it. It's rare because of skill issues
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If you are outside academic econ circles and you want to get into a PhD program, the path is straightforward: just write and publish a theory paper somewhere like Games and Economic Behavior. With reasonable probability, if you have a GEB or comparable R&R, someone will take you
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@mcuban In 1865, a barrel of oil cost $6.59. In 1910, it cost $0.61. A $1 per barrel tax would have looked reasonable in 1865.
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Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban@mcuban·
We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level. Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens. It will accomplish 4 things (at least ) 1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization Which will 2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption Which will 3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x Which will 4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally. Thoughts ?
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@captgouda24 With tool-calling they’re amazing at it
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@ModeledBehavior This illustrates why our education system needs more flexibility. Teaching everyone cursive is wasteful. Teaching a few percent of students who show aptitude and interest is useful.
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Adam Ozimek@ModeledBehavior·
A state cursive mandate??? Backwards. Ban it if anything
Governor Josh Shapiro@GovernorShapiro

When it comes to letting our kids be kids, let’s get back to the basics — and that starts in our schools. That’s why I signed a bipartisan bill that will ensure cursive handwriting — a fundamental skill — is taught in all Pennsylvania public schools. It’s also why I’ve called on the state legislature to pass legislation requiring schools to implement a bell-to-bell ban on cell phones so that our kids can spend more time interacting face-to-face, instead of on their phones. We have to look out for our kids’ future — let’s get it done.

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@Lormif1 @StefanFSchubert Or medical bills or… If the story is true, a man died. We have social services and ought to use them.
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Lormif@Lormif1·
@diptinto @StefanFSchubert It means he could afford it but spent it on other things like cigs and choosing not to pay it, for a landlord who was already very generous with him
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Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert·
There's the deathbed fallacy: thinking that people have irrefutable insights on the deathbed. Similarly, there's the suicide fallacy: thinking that people who commit suicide are necessarily morally right, and that those they were in conflict with were necessarily wrong.
rosey🌹@thechosenberg

Landlords will not see heaven

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Lormif@Lormif1·
@diptinto @StefanFSchubert No evidence he could not afford it and just chose not to, low end social security for a full time worker with full credits can afford that because it’s inflation adjusted
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@Lormif1 @StefanFSchubert “also” They wanted him out for other reasons and had no reason to doubt that he would pay rent. What do you expect a 73 year old who hasn’t moved in decades and can’t afford rent to do?
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@mattyglesias It flows from the internet argument application of Younger’s 4th Commandment on cross-ex: Never ask a question that you do not know the answer to.
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@mattyglesias This follows from: 1. Focusing on the worst aspect of a thing regardless of whether it was critical to the outcome or the relative social effect 2. The complexity of building a large company makes it probable that some bad thing happened and hard to know that it did not
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@Lormif1 @StefanFSchubert “He had been behind on rent multiple times” differs from “He has not paid rent in two months”
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@dilanesper Should the 14 year old be liable for child support?
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@JeremiahDJohns Exactly! There’s no reason to think our current tax level is optimal. If we want to raise it, it should be for the purpose of increasing revenue. Telling the people we want to pay more that they are also thieves or exploiters doesn’t increase revenue and might decrease it.
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·
To the broader point, the left seems obsessed with determining who 'deserves' to have what level of wealth. It's one thing to say "we need higher taxes so that everyone at the bottom has enough". Lots of people might agree. It's another to say "You should be stripped of wealth because I personally find you undeserving".
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·
It is beyond stupid to pretend like the housing crisis is the fault of AirBnb. At the absolute most they are a tiny, tiny contributor. The root cause of the housing crisis is generations of politicians who made it impossible to build housing. That's it. That's the whole thing.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC

Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.

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@JeremiahDJohns Yes! NYC banned stays of less than 30 days. The vast majority of Airbnb listings were taken down. Is NYC more affordable in any meaningful sense than in 2023?
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@eastdakota @Hesamation Not your job to do this but would be helpful if you have thoughts on what skills will be valuable that are learnable by those laid off. It both helps people and gives politicians an action plan beyond throwing sand in the gears.
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Matthew Prince 🌥@eastdakota·
@Hesamation We’ll still be hiring at a rapid pace. This isn’t about cutting headcount. It’s about shifting what roles we need. More people building and selling product. Less providing back office functions to support them.
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@ZoharAtkins Why must a single academic be good at both? Why not allow different mixes of rigor and generality to develop and encourage collaboration?
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Zohar Atkins@ZoharAtkins·
I think about this a lot. The most important job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with learning. What Whitehead calls “romance.” But at some point you have to learn precision. And the demands of precision often conflict with the stirrings of romance. If you stay in the game you might emerge with the capacity for generalization, but often academics just stay in precision. They’ve lost the romance and they don’t know how to generalize. Academia hasn’t figured out how to teach precision without compromising romance and generalization.
Matthew Schmitz@matthewschmitz

“If you love reading, skip grad school.” Eric Jager, an English professor at UCLA, explains why he tells students not to pursue graduate degrees. compactmag.com/article/if-you…

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@jstein_star The lesson from Caro is that it’s worth struggling for greatness. In Working, he discusses how much self-doubt he felt along the way.
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@harryh @bryan_caplan Selling 50% starting at $100k and continuing for every 10x increase results in a stake worth ~$150MM and ~$195MM in pre-tax realized gains. Not driving up the price when buying 125k bitcoin for $1k may have been harder.
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Harry Heymann 🥑@harryh·
@bryan_caplan Investing the $1k would have been the easy part. The hard part would have been not selling when it was worth $10k, $100k, $1M, $10M, etc.
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Bryan Caplan@bryan_caplan·
If I put $1000 into Bitcoin when kooky teens started telling me about it, I would have $10B now. That's why, whenever anyone asks me about Bitcoin, I tell them I'm not fit to comment.
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@deanwball William Alsup erasure
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@MTabarrok Shoes and nutrition
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