What could possibly go wrong
@marciano
Econ prof at Northwestern. Tech enthusiast. TeX devotee. Pythonista. Weekend runner. Born and raised in Milan ๐ฎ๐น, living in Chicago ๐บ๐ฒ. Husband and dad. https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/msi661 (pardon the handcrafted 90s-style HTML)
What could possibly go wrong
Hard to believe "Anthropic" and "principled" would belong in the same sentence, and yet here we are
Except it's not Little Pharma, it's Little "Pharma"
Two books side by side: "What they teach you at Harvard Business School" and "What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School"
Reminds me of this evergreen
This not to discount the relevance of psychology and sociology, to be clear! Just making the point that economics also has a lot to say on the subject.
There are plenty of papers in economics (published in refereed journals) dealing with behavioral aspects of risk-taking, as well as market experiments. E.g. Look up Charlie Plott at Caltech, who literally wrote the book on "Market institutions and price discovery" www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/mar...
There is a huge literature on insider trading in economics, not to mention market design (paging @alroth.bsky.social). But, just because a popular website has "market" in its name doesn't mean that serious economists were directly involved in its design.
This is what I fear the most every time I write a decision letter ๐
...not to mention "Reasoning about Knowledge"
So sad to learn about Joe Halpern's passing. What Tobias describes resonates fully with me.
Andrej Karpathy is at It again
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Best news to start the day
#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero.
While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country.
I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below).
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Another post I will use soon in my GE course
What could possibly go wrong
Goldman Sachs to tap Anthropic AI model to automate accounting, compliance share.google/SqYnQZ9EV5Jc...
Absolutely - I hope this will be suitably amplified, though I am not so sure it will.
Shocking, I say!
Great resource! Thank you for putting this together. Bookmarked
I just learned about D. John Roberts' passing. One of the giants.
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well played
I'm teaching uncertainty in GE soon and I'm going to steal this thread
Please help keep Peet's open. A long shot, but worth trying!
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I understand there is a lot going on in the world these days, but I would have expected the uprising in #iran to get more coverage/reactions on Bluesky
Every once in a while, football can actually be riveting, even for Italians
LLMs as lossy compressione
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Oh boy
I had missed this news. Really sad to learn about John's passing.
Frank Gehry, the most celebrated architect of his time, dies at 96
So basically there is (essentially) no compensation for the option value, at least if workers are paid the minimum wage for hours actually on the job. I wonder if things are different in other countries (e.g. EU).