Ben Bushong

Can't wait to see who joins the cast!

Fifteen percent*. You want global economic stability and certainty? It’s fifteen percent.*

*Plus or minus five percent. Ish. We think.

I am genuinely surprised by the delta between adoption / applications. The hype machine nonsense of "you can replace all COBOL engineers now" (see, e.g., IBM stock yesterday) seems... misplaced. Just make one thing unambiguously better, please, AI overlords!

I love this take. 🔥

The averages could be straight out of a paper on non-belief in the law of large numbers. (See e.g. Benjamin, Rabin, Raymond JEEA)

Great question; I appreciate how you've translated this into something concrete rather than, say, p(doom).

2%; 85%, 10%, 2%, something smaller than 1% but I am lazy

A tweet from @AnthropicAI: We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.

Anthropic got its intellectual property stolen?

Oh, gosh.... sorry to hear. That's.... awful?

I noticed... the faculty list is 🔥 Congrats again.

Congratulations---excited to see what comes of this new school. Exciting opportunity.

call for experimental economics conference 15-19 June 2026 for PhD students in economics

NEW Summer School in Theory-based Experimental Economics + follow-on conference @Caltech 15-19 June 2026
Please spread the word.

"I seem unreliable, but I'm actually very reliable. You just have to trust the process." Alysa Liu, U.S. Olympic figure skater

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32 ALT: a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

This take is

This complaint was too long for my cooked attention span. Bluesky AI Whale, can you summarize?

Acoustics on point.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

It's almost as if the administration is bad at the law...

Imma argue the harder line: seahorses ain't real. Like, have you ever even spoken to one? That shit is AI.

Through it all, Fox News gonna Fox News.

My goodness the correct headline is coming from [checks notes] TMZ of all places?!

Media... get your act together.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

We cannot trust our own government.

Prof. Litman's viewing is accurate. I do not encourage watching the video, but it clearly captures one agent firing at least four shots into a defenseless man on the ground.

Maybe your readers were engaged in the time-honored tradition (often modeled by Justice Kavanaugh) of not understanding the definitions of common English words!

It's okay, Europe. Just sell the Treasuries. I know this will be bad for millions of people. But appeasing the crazy person is bad for billions.

Do. Not. Negotiate. With. The. Madman.

sad trombone

Oh good. A year of maximum anxiety.

Of course no obligation, but I would love to hear some expanded thoughts on this domain. Any camp more sizable? Where’s the energy?

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....good luck with that, dawgg.