Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
econ prof @dartmouth, founder http://devdatalab.org. r2: "a morass of disjointed streams of consciousness" 🤷
📣 New working paper on residential segregation in India. We’ve been working for 5 years on this. 8 facts about residential segregation in India, from new administrative data. The situation is not great 🧵 1/N
This thread makes an important point. This platform's elimination of age hierarchies has destabilized American society.
The most essential stabilizing feature of a society is a status hierarchy that young people—especially young men—can reliably climb by following a clear and pro-social set of rules. 1/
This is the central problem with higher education in the age of AI. We can't require students to do take-home writing assignments (e.g. term papers) any more, because most will cheat and have ChatGPT or Claude or Grok do the writing. But we can't teach critical thinking,…
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
nobody talks about how the internet killed regional culture. everyone under 30 has the same personality now. your grandparents' generation had accents, local customs, regional humor. you have tiktok trends and twitter discourse.
If you're great at engineering and interested in working with me to build an AI product to make researchers more productive, DM me.
It’s striking that some past jobs seemingly had few demands - eg Tolkien could write LotR. I’d guess management has grown more efficient, contributing to growth. But otoh it may have made those jobs more strenuous, meaning growth numbers overestimate life quality improvements.
When you don’t know that a “sound bite” is both audio and video. Happy three years to me finally making it to Reddit.
"Science" is now the third highest supported institution in the US, after small business and the military. Higher ed is fifth.