Joshua Gans
@joshgans
Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Chief Economist of Creative Destruction Lab http://bio.site/joshuagans
Simple question. If you are losing $40m a year, why decide to lose another $40m before stopping?
Oof. This is brutal. Remember folks, @rotmanschool you have the opportunity to take out Creative Destruction Lab course that matches you with real companies bringing together both teaching pedagogy and real world applications right into your degree. poetsandquants.com/2025/07/23/wer…
Regardless of your feeling, I don’t understand how *literally everyone* wouldn’t want this starvation in Gaza to end. It’s reprehensible.
TFW you are asking ChatGPT Agent for help streamlining a proof and it starts researching deals on AirPods.
We are hiring at Rotman Strategy in the Fall. Apply here. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…
This is good. He is smart as heck.
Josh Johnson Joins ‘Daily Show’ Host Rotation (Exclusive) hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/dai…
Modeling computers and AI as cognitive tools provides a lens to interpret evidence on inequality, workflows, and teams, from @professor_ajay, @joshgans, and @avicgoldfarb nber.org/papers/w34034
Elections Canada: your job is to not let shenanigans like this happen. This breaks your mandate in spirit, even if you lack specific rules here. Stop abdicating your responsibility. It’s not new, this has been going on for years, and is not a partisan issue either. Clearly…
BREAKING: The Longest Ballot Committee has already registered OVER 50 of their "candidates" in Pierre Poilievre's by-election and are preparing to add hundreds of more fake candidates in the upcoming week to sabotage Pierre's chances. How on earth is this even allowed?
Creative Destruction Lab is excited to announce the launch of CDL-London, the newest addition to CDL’s global network of innovation excellence! 🇬🇧 In partnership with @imperialcollege and @RioTinto, CDL-London will join CDL Minerals. Learn more: creativedestructionlab.com/blog/cdl-londo…
The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. With @joshgans and @professor_ajay. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers and AI amplify human intelligence. We model such cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. nber.org/papers/w34034
It has been a couple of weeks but here’s a new paper … nber.org/papers/w34034?…
Amen to that. Such a brilliant observation.
I am starting to think sycophancy is going to be a bigger problem than pure hallucination as LLMs improve. Models that won’t tell you directly when you are wrong (and justify your correctness) are ultimately more dangerous to decision-making than models that are sometimes wrong.
There's Cinema Sins and then there's Cinema Sins of Superman 4. Appauling. youtube.com/watch?v=T85Yk4…
Oh it’s impossible to set a schedule for this heat pump you say? @SwitchBot
AIs need parents, by @joshgans open.substack.com/pub/joshuagans…
Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model? What would that even mean? Our new ICML paper formalizes these questions One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵