James Kinghorn

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James Kinghorn

James Kinghorn

@geeskat

Environmental economist from South Africa. Interested in society, ecology, energy, civilization, sustainability, etc!

Between Cape Town and Paris Katılım Eylül 2011
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Gerardo L. Munck
Gerardo L. Munck@GerardoMunck·
Measuring Democracy I support measuring democracy. It's good to study reality with data. But I believe that indices like those of V-Dem, Freedom House, and the EIU deserve to be used more carefully than is usually the case. Here’s a summary of my criticisms of these indices👇
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James Kinghorn
James Kinghorn@geeskat·
While AI can increase efficiency, this increase can come with a trade-off in confidence with which I can report outputs. I cannot stand on a number generated by AI in the way I could stand on one that I have painstakingly generated myself. I'll be using these tools with caution.
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James Kinghorn@geeskat·
The research process, for me, remains unchanged. We are not yet at a point where I can reliably and fully outsource my work to AI. Automation of tasks must be piecemeal and carefully validated at each stage.
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James Kinghorn@geeskat·
How is AI changing the way we work? I have had a lurking fear that to remain competitive in my field (applied research in environmental economics) I would need to reduce my role to one of talking to LLMs. Here is what I can report, after a few days of using Copilot Premium.
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James Kinghorn@geeskat·
@nberpubs @PaulGP Macro folks are waiting for the formation of new countries. Some say 300 is the magic number.
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NBER@nberpubs·
A study of around 44,000 papers finds that the credibility revolution has spread unevenly beyond applied micro, driven mainly by difference-in-differences, with finance and macro lagging by roughly 15 years, from @paulgp nber.org/papers/w35051
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