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Peter Lorentzen

@peterlorentzen

Economist/political scientist studying information, institutions, incentives, China. Director of MS International and Development Econ @USF_Economics @usfca.

San Francisco, California เข้าร่วม Nisan 2009
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Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺
Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺@joakial_·
For the first time in Norwegian history, a bus will carry passengers in regular traffic without any human behind the wheel. The first pilot without a safety driver was tested Friday, and if all goes as planned, anyone can ride driverless buses starting in May.
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These are things I would want to know if there is a blackbox part of the analysis, such as that might give varying or unreliable results dependent on the software and version. Why ask this if the output is a lit review or a summary of results that can be evaluated in its own right?
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Emma Zang 臧熙璐
Emma Zang 臧熙璐@DrEmmaZang·
As moderator for the AI & Publishing panel at Yale, I’m planning to press @AdamBerinsky on the new AJPS AI policy: ajps.org/2026/04/10/upd…. We’re entering a moment where journals aren’t just evaluating research. They’re implicitly defining what counts as “acceptable” use of AI. So here’s a real question: What should editors actually be policing vs. leaving to authors and reviewers? If you had 30 seconds with journal editors, what would you ask?
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YIMBYLAND@YIMBYLAND·
If Waymo gets its way, tens of thousands of people will be spared from automotive-related deaths. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, pedestrians, pets, and drivers are all safer. This isn’t inevitable — The pro-auto-fatality lobby is doing everything possible to stop it.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

NEW: If Waymo gets its way, 2 million workers will be out of work. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, wages go down. Some drivers now have to work 12 hours day, 7 days a week just to get by. This isn't inevitable — but Big Tech is spending millions to make you think it is.

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Peter Lorentzen@peterlorentzen·
@CjgbVictoria @robinsaikia @clara_jace @xkcd I love knowing lots of random stuff and I most enjoy being around people who share that love. It’s just the pretentions about which specific random stuff gets to count as basic knowledge I disagree with. It usually happens to be the stuff the speaker knows about.
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ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd
ΧΡΙΣΤΌΦΟΡΟΣ bɝːd@CjgbVictoria·
@peterlorentzen @robinsaikia @clara_jace @xkcd Fair point, though I did say *educated* person. But then there's admittedly fictitious example of Sherlock Holmes not knowing that the earth goes around the sun—saying, basically, "I may have heard it some time or other, but possible use could that information be to me?"
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Clara E. Piano
Clara E. Piano@clara_jace·
I try not to complain in public. I really, really try. But if you are reviewing my paper and grumble that it begins with a "long quote in Latin" -- and THIS is the quote -- then I really am starting to get concerned about the narrowness of our profession. Or, better put by Hayek, “But nobody can be a great economist who is only an economist – and I am even tempted to add that the economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positive danger.”
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Peter Lorentzen@peterlorentzen·
@brianmlucey @Ladlestein @clara_jace There is a difference between being anti-intellectual and thinking the particular random facts you have picked up outside your professional specialty are the most important ones. That is a very narrow-minded view of what breadth of knowledge should be.
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Peter Lorentzen@peterlorentzen·
@the_mclarke @clara_jace I am all in favor of knowing more than the bare minimum needed to contribute to a narrow field, however, I bet more than 8 out of 10 PhD’s who aren’t from one of those countries would not be able to complete that task successfully.
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Peter Lorentzen@peterlorentzen·
@robinsaikia @CjgbVictoria @clara_jace So terribly ignorant! Like hearing someone speak Mandarin and thinking it's Cantonese! Or not knowing by sight the difference between Japanese, Arabic, Korean, and Sanskrit. All of which I'm sure you all can do.
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Peter Lorentzen@peterlorentzen·
@Ladlestein @clara_jace What does it signify if an economist can't tell Latin from Italian? That's like getting snobby about someone not knowing Chongqing from Tientsin, or not knowing offhand what country Lilongwe is the capital of. These are all useful facts but no one can know everything.
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Nyarlarrythotep@Ladlestein·
@peterlorentzen @clara_jace Wouldn’t the point be that this is modern Italian, not the Latin language of antiquity, and not being able to distinguish correctly between the two is a signifier of something
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Peter Lorentzen@peterlorentzen·
@robinsaikia @clara_jace Instead of Latin, I spent my time learning Chinese, calculus, statistics, economics. I don’t regret that. There are so many amazing things to learn in the world, and we can’t each master them all.
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Robin Saikia (Drink & Think Venice)
Robin Saikia (Drink & Think Venice)@robinsaikia·
@peterlorentzen @clara_jace I'm with Clara on this. Most, if not all, "educated" people should have serviceable Latin and at least a couple of European languages, including Italian. It isn't as though Manzoni is a huge test. Reviewers tend to reveal their own limitations, rather than those of the target.
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Peter Lorentzen@peterlorentzen·
I am sympathetic to the grumpy reviewer. I have no idea what any of those words mean. If I started my paper with a paragraph-long quote in Chinese, would you be equally sanguine? If it is a meaningful paragraph then you could translate it to English? This isn’t 200 years ago when every educated person could speak Latin and a couple of other European languages.
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Peter Lorentzen@peterlorentzen·
This is so sad to see. My son and many others have benefited incredibly from using AAC including things like this letter board. It does not involve rapidly tapping in the general vicinity of letters while someone rapidly constructs sophisticated grammatical sentences on your behalf.
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Jesse Singal
Jesse Singal@jessesingal·
3/ It's possible -- maybe the most likely outcome -- Mary doesn't *know* she wrote the novel, that she thinks she's really facilitating her son's words. But watch the Today segment, which includes shots of their routine in practice, and tell me w/a straight face you think so.
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Jesse Singal@jessesingal·
1/ NYT, The Guardian, and The Today Show have all helped spread what appears to be a *classic* and disturbing case of facilitated communication nonsense centered on the 'novelist' Woody Brown. It's pretty wild and we talk about it on the latest BARPod. Link to follow.
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