I won’t go back because Elon illegally destroyed USAID, killing all those kids

To be sure there’s real debate about whether GenAI is worth the cost (in the academic lit see Humlum and Vestergaard 2025), but it’s quite sad that more people don’t have the same doubts regarding cattle “farming.”

I have worries about CV-augmented surveillance but this is not one of them. This is awesome!

yeah we’re gonna have to think bigger than “wealth tax” when it comes to Elon. My proposal: he spends the rest of his life in a prison cell and his personal fortune is seized by the government and used to fund an expanded USAID

In the long run, America is very fortunate that Trump is old

Wow. The AEA has issued a life time ban against Larry Summers. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve consequences for their actions

Currently in the middle of Good Change by @stanleysbill.bsky.social @benstanley.eu . One thing that strikes me is that PiS, like United Russia, has actual populist redistributive policies (higher min wage, transfers for parents) in addition to social conservatism.

A rational response to the slowing of progress in computing

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Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve consequences for their actions

Larry Summers is a terrific economist. No terrific economist is more important to the advance of Economics than is open science. No professor is more important to a university than is a commitment to open science and open access. /6

He suddenly ripped away food and medicine from millions of poor people. Millions will die from this in the next 5 years.

He ripped away food from starving children for this

I hope Summers is not on the Harvard econ hiring committee

Jesse Silbert’s job market paper studies how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, through automating writing, disrupt labor markets that rely on writing as a costly signal of match quality. jesse-silbert.github.io/website/silb...

In 2028 I'm a single-issue voter. Voting for whoever can most credibly commit to get Trump, Musk, and Rubio in prison for life

Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve life in prison.

Those who illegally destroyed USAID, and their supporters, deserve to lose elections.

Economics journals man: "First version received May 2016; Editorial decision November 2022"

AI-augmented R&D

A few steps away: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Ad...

By comparison, for every month since 1999, Putin's popularity has been >50%: www.levada.ru/indikatory/

Even grokipedia.com admits Musk and Trump are killers: "the cuts could result in 14 million additional deaths over subsequent years, primarily from resurgent HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria due to discontinued PEPFAR and other initiatives..." grokipedia.com/page/United_...

Those who illegally destroyed USAID deserve the consequences of their actions

Today is as good a day as any in the past 100 years to go vegan

Enjoying the MIT FutureTech conference on AI automation in science and labor @mitsloan.bsky.social @csail.mit.edu

He ripped away food from starving children for this.

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Excited and honored to have received a Humane Studies Fellowship from @theihs.org to support my research on cloud and AI adoption, firm productivity, and labor market impacts. Hope to share public updates on these projects soon!

Your dad just ripped away food from thousands of starving kids and burned it

Now is as good a time as any (in the last 125 years) to go vegan

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

I at least want life sentences. At best the full confiscation of the Musk and Trump assets, to be repaid to the loved ones of all those killed according to the value the US government places on a human life, which seems to be around USD 10 million.

I disagree. It's because of what Elon did to USAID, which will likely cause the vast majority of deaths from Trump 2

And the more personalist it becomes the more likely this will be (Geddes et al 2018)

Everyone should read this devastating report: Trump’s sabotage of USAID stranded lifesaving medicines — fueling chaos and leaving children to die. His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.

As LLM videos improve, I wonder if 1) people will trust random stuff on the internet less and turn to sources with good reputations, 2) only believe AI videos that fit their priors, leading to greater echo chambers At some point I need to sit down a sketch a model of this.

Local man who destroyed USAID knows what anti-Christian means. How cute!

I think a great EA project would be to more strongly tie Trump/MAGA to the destruction of USAID in Americans' minds. It's great that the admin is so unpopular, but I'd guess it's mostly due to non-aid causes. To dissuade future aid cuts, making this issue more salient seems very high-impact.

So the official FDA position is: “Tylenol is ok, but only for those who know what a DAG is”

Those who cut foreign aid should experience consequences: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-to-reduce...

We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.

The killers who destroyed USAID should experience the consequences of their actions

SB 79 HAS PASSED!

What happened to GPI? "GPI closed at the end of July 2025, but many threads of the institute's research will continue to be explored by a community of interested researchers."

my current theory is that any movement that does not very explicitly, ON THE TIN, refuse an authoritarian interpretation of their project is authoritarian by default. nazi bar, gresham's law, whatever. authoritarianism is the invasive species of ideologies

The best way to understand fishing 🎣 and hunting is to imagine someone was doing them to puppies in your local park.

The California Democratic Party just voted to support our legislation to allow more housing near train & subway stations & rapid bus stops. SB 79 means more housing, stronger transit, less traffic congestion & lower carbon emissions. Thank you Democrats! @cademocrats.bsky.social