Jason Potts
@profjasonpotts
animal trainer
AI Can’t Replace Free Markets by @Marian_L_Tupy and @PeterBoettke wsj.com/opinion/algori…
New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵
🧵Now available! My paper with Ashruta Acharya and Alek Psrurek on the most generous engagement with the most influential "model" of degrowth. TLDR: It doesnt hold empirically. It predicts the opposite.
'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)
Ding ding ding - a new prototype of what coordinated, translocal governance at scale can look like just dropped 🖤 Read the executive summary of last weeks workshop here: open.substack.com/pub/blockchain…
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.
Very cool talk
Is $ETH the world’s most important asset? We are joined by @ethereumJoseph the Ethereum Co-Founder & @SharpLinkGaming Chairman to discuss. $ETH & $BTC are the base assets of the new supercycle. Tune into the conversation here: ⏱ TIME POINTS ⏱ 00:00 - Intro…
Earth looking beautiful in new video from the ISS 🌎💙 🎥 @astro_slawosz | ESA
Huaqiangbei, Shenzen, China is where „the boundaries between suppliers and customers dissolve into collaborative innovation“. @taweili of Shenzen Open Innovation at #OUI2025
BREAKING: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JUST POSTED A 3 MINUTE EXPLANATION OF #BITCOIN ON SOCIAL MEDIA ABSOLUTELY EPIC 🔥
In the first episode of Bluechip Dialogues, sponsored by @bluechip_org, @tylercowen talks with me about the promise of stablecoins, why some frothy financial innovation is a part of a good system, and where @paulkrugman errs in his stablecoin views. Also at @spotify and @YouTube…
This book is a 100 page biography of the human species A few lessons of history: 1. In the end superior ability has its way. 2. History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. 3.…
Andrej Karpathy's (@karpathy) keynote yesterday at AI Startup School in San Francisco.
Peter Thiel: "If you add more people to the mix and you're not allowed to build more houses because of zoning laws, then prices go up a lot, and it's this incredible wealth transfer from the young and the lower middle class to the upper middle class and the landlords."
This is still the greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time.
NEW: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged: Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.
🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI? Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls