Nick Tenev
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Economist (labor, finance, networks). Views here are my own.
https://tenevn.github.io
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Echo chambers trade usefulness for credibility. It’s reasonable to place more trust in those who agree with you, but they don’t let you know when you’re wrong.
about 1 year ago
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New version of our paper on echo chambers is posted, and it has a couple new results. The first is about inequality of beliefs (1/n)
arxiv.org/abs/2010.01249
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Optimal Echo Chambers
When learning from others, people tend to focus their attention on those with similar views. This is often attributed to flawed reasoning, and thought to slow learning and polarize beliefs. However, w...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01249
5 months ago
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To be fair, one reason for the disconnect in appreciation for LLMs is that coding has always been unreasonably pedantic in a way that is probably hard to appreciate until you've wrestled with it
7 months ago
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10 months ago
PLEASE RT :) Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics Deadline Jan 30 (soon!) Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford
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Some real interesting papers in this session “Neurofinance, Cognition” today, pushing on the idea that seeming departures from rational behavior wrt risk are actually just evidence of cognitive constraints, like limits on memory or attention
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American Economic Association
https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2025/program/1871?q=eNqrVipOLS7OzM8LqSxIVbKqhnGVrJQMlWp1lJITS1LT84sqgXwlHaXE4uL8ZAizJLUoF8JKSQTJGuoag0Qzc4GmKAX4AtllmanlIBOLCgqAQqYGIOMKEtNTIUYDXDD_tiOO
10 months ago
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One week left to submit your research on AI/ML use in banking and finance to the OCC’s symposium next June! Submit here by Dec. 15:
www.occ.gov/news-issuanc...
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OCC Solicits Research on Artificial Intelligence in Banking and Finance
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is soliciting academic research papers on the use of artificial intelligence in banking and finance for submission by December 15, 2024.
https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2024/nr-occ-2024-115.html
11 months ago
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These examples of when AI screws up easy questions because of their similarity to well known trick questions reminds me of the classic test-taking technique: they’d never ask this question if the answer were A instead of B
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12 months ago
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Always relieving to learn a behavioral anomaly was just two cognitive constraints in a trench coat all along
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12 months ago
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Echo chambers trade usefulness for credibility. It’s reasonable to place more trust in those who agree with you, but they don’t let you know when you’re wrong.
about 1 year ago
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Referee reports on papers are famously negative, but one I’m looking at now includes the phrase “In the future (if any)…” which surely deserves some kind of prize for pessimism
over 1 year ago
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Tiny bit of practical math: if you have more than one type of wine glass you want to store in a line, it saves space to alternate
over 1 year ago
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I liked reading the recent pieces on free will (apparently still a debate!), but they seem to imply that free will is necessary to make choices, or respond to incentives.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Fate of Free Will | James Gleick
Nobody was holding a gun to your head when you started reading this. You made a choice. Surely it felt that way, at least. A sense of agency—of control
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/18/the-fate-of-free-will-free-agents-kevin-mitchell/
almost 2 years ago
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