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@economeager
Aspiring wastrel, applied econometrician. Life, stats and poverty. Also writes http://rottenandgood.substack.com about art, death and emotions 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇦🇺
i know this is a bit odd but i find there is something romantic about seeing "[Figure 1 about here]"
My dad is a builder. He's insanely talented. He has no luck in dating apps. I asked my friend how much it would cost to find my dad love today. The friend's name? Albert Einstein
If you're great at engineering and interested in working with me to build an AI product to make researchers more productive, DM me.
"The truth is, we are very afraid not of sex, but of exposure. Only when we are unafraid can we begin to let desire flourish. Only when we return to ourselves can we really know what we want." Holy shit, this is incredible work.
this, by @mcmansionhell , is an excellent read! lux-magazine.com/article/privac…
my hot craft take is that non-professionals can all aspire to do ~professional level work if they accept that they’ll do it much much slower than professionals. never listen to anyone who tells you that as an amateur you have to suck
haven't checked in on Adrian for a while and he's still hitting
Eve Babitz had the incredible gift of being able to say stuff like "of course the rubes around us were wondering [x]" just as you, the hick loser reader, are wondering [x]. Slow Days, Fast Company still goes!
Wow ok unfollowing now. Loved his refusal of servitude in heaven, did not know he was responsible for the fall of man
Happy Sunday here is the essay! The only way I can summarise it -- which I can't -- is to say that I had to learn the word "onomastic" in order to write it. open.substack.com/pub/rottenandg…
Ok so this is going to be a VERY nerdy thread, but this is an important foundational point on mechanism design that I still haven't seen anyone articulate after years of expressing it privately to people, and I don't have the time to write a paper on, so let me throw it out there
Tariffs on EU goods just announced: 30% across the board, probably higher in some sectors. Being nice, giving up the digital tax, did not achieve anything for Europe. Intelligent retaliation is of the essence, even if it leads to dangerous economic and geopolitical waters in…
Incredible YIMBY propaganda in Edgewater (Photo: bsky.app/profile/jennyh…)
It's so weird that the graph for fertility v. female education and the graph for fertility v. male education look basically the same but you have probably only seen one on here.
If you multiply what you'd pay someone on Fiverr to knock on your door at 6am every morning by how many people probably set alarms on their phone, you realize that we will have no sane way to measure the impact of the iOS Clock app on GDP.
also on that other website, and active too!
wouldbnt you like to use a website where there isnt a nazi ai on it? you could, for the low low price of "toughing it out for a bit"
this is not good thinking. the reason all those very same people did not even once pay anyone on fiver to do that is because they do not value it to that amount.
If you multiply what you'd pay someone on Fiverr to redraw a photo in the style of Studio Ghibli (o3 guesses $30-60) by how many people probably Ghiblified with 4o, and how many times they did it, you realize that we will have no sane way to measure the impact of AI on GDP.