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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
This is a deeply uninformed comment. I don’t even know where to start. Nearly every sentence is wrong. You can absolutely get hauled in front of a judge for fraud and abuse in the use of NIH grants. You can be required to pay all of th
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Put this on my tombstone after the robots kill me or whatever, but I think all “AI safety” concerns are a wild overreaction totally out of proportion to the actual capabilities of these models. I just haven’t seen anything in the past year
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Amazing that it’s impossible to tell whether you are a real crypto booster or joking at their expense.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
It’s unlikely that he can actually do this. - he doesn’t have anything like a majority in the Argentine congress (in either house). I don’t know Argentine law and would welcome comments from someone who actually does but it would surprise
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
They run an expensive service! Ballpark their (hypothetical) “AWS costs” at the scale and latency at which they operate. Someone has to pay for it. If not the users, then the advertisers. If the advertisers, Meta is going to be accountab
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
So, I view this case as likely unsettled under current US antitrust law. The underlying behavior seems really objectionable and should be illegal. The question is whether it is actually illegal under the law. If a bunch of firms use
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
You can either (1.) build more housing or (2.) not solve the problem. I hope Colorado (and the rest of the country) eventually makes the right choice.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
> I still don't understand how the National Association of Retailers enforce the 5-6% total commission. Plaintiffs submitted some recordings in either this or a related case of an agent who said she wouldn’t even bother to show a ho
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
>>How do Khan's efforts relate to patent law? Not at all. 0% related. >> Does she see her office having influence on that, at least tangentially, to anything happening at USPTO? If she does she really shouldn’t.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
>> almost by definition will be filled with people who are on balance biased towards more extreme enforcement of antitrust. Absolutely not. I want to get antitrust enforcement right not to just “do more of it”
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
>> Serious question: what is the "antitrust community"? Members: - lawyers who work in the agencies on antitrust - lawyers who work in competition practices of major law firms - lawyers who work as competition counsel in-hou
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
I’m an antitrust economist. OPs take is correct. It is the opposite of “insanely misinformed.” She has lost her big cases! She is ineffective. That’s the metric which matters. This whole idea of “we’re going to send a message” or “we’r
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Testable predictions are part of the game. Helpful explanations are another. (Philosophy of science has moved on since Popper!) MMT is bullshit. Total and complete bullshit. That’s a bigger topic than I have time or space for. You can’t
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
It’s not that you can’t do any modeling at all - that’s definitely not the point I was trying to convey. It’s hard and you have to simplify. That simplicity has a benefit (tractability) and a cost (there is inevitably less realism). If yo
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
I don’t know if you’re going to hear “I don’t know” in a lot of macro seminars - everyone there knows the same material as everyone else and what the limits are. But I think any macro scholar would tell you quite honestly where they think t
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
I am not a macroeconomist but I’ll defend them. Macro is hard. It’s really, really, really hard. It’s _really easy_ to write down a moderately realistic macro model which you have absolutely no hope of ever solving numerically (an “extreme
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
This is literally and exactly a cartel! The realtors deserve to lose. Sincerely, An antitrust economist.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
> In Social Sciences, on the other hand, causal inference is being completely willfully ignored. Why? Causal inference is an obstacle to making a preconceived conclusions based on pure correlations: something correlates with something, t
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
“After trying to trap British subsurface vessels” in that headline is substantially misleading. “After becoming caught in a trap set to catch etc…” is a more accurate description, IMO.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
I have absolutely zero sense of what this actually is. All kinds of economists estimate models on very large data using computers. Does that count or not? What good is it specifically to “know habermas as well as feature selection” ? Wh
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
An exception to the general rule: “if a newspaper headline ends in a question mark the answer is no” Here the answer is yes. Dan Ariely is a complete fraud and so is Francesca Gino. There are so many credible accusations of fraud against
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
On the other hand, you can’t run a heavily trafficked website without any revenue. It’s very unlikely more than a tiny fraction of their users will pay any amount to use Reddit. They need advertising. In that situation, Reddit has to be p
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
>> It really goes to show what is possible when there is a centrally planned economy vs having the labor tied up serving decentralized market forces without any clear directive. Truly this is one of the most outlandish statements I ha
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
As a physicist, I think you probably don’t have enough experience with economics research. (Which is fine! It’s not your field!) Quantification of uncertainty is bread and butter for us! Criticize the field fo relying on null hypothesi
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
To be less dramatic and more realistic than this headline: there is a small set of economics papers which make use of an inaccurate estimate of populations way in the distant past. Seriously the fraction of papers in which you see these d
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
I have no idea of the scale of this problem in math. Maybe you do. The average scientific field has hundreds of journals. In Econ there are five to ten which matter. It’s too time consuming to read more than a small fraction of the work
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
IMO there is a pretty simple partial explanation: no one reads anyone else’s research. When you’re a grad student you have to read a few methods and applications papers. When you’re a professor you have to stay on top of what matters in yo
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
As a bit of a joke (not to discount your very unpleasant experience) but most departments do not make their most productive and important members department chair! It’s more of a “someone has to do it and it’s your turn” situation. I’m say
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
This material is quite challenging enough without measure theory. :) Moreover it doesn’t really help you. Most of the material on concentration inequalities, which are fundamental in this setting, doesn’t make any significant use of measu
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Not true. Look at the market for meat. There are lots of farmers, a small number (really three or four) processors (who appear to carve up the national market into non overlapping regions) and then a large number of retail customers. To m

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