Brian Albrecht@BrianCAlbrecht
“The whole Tim Wu, anti-Facebook crowd has pretty much been wrong about everything, from my vantage point…”- @tylercowen
marginalrevolution.com
Is there an on-line advertising duopoly? - Marginal REVOLUTION
6:48 PM · Dec 23, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This annoyed me at the time but at least they didn’t do harm the way the immigration debate did
vo @vanillaopinions
the 2020 healthcare debates in the democratic primary have to be one of the greatest wastes of time ever
10:14 PM · Dec 23, 2022
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mle@_sadwaffle
Replacing “child poverty” with “child hunger” really reveals how sociopathic this stance is.
Scott Winship @swinshi
Me in @nytopinion today: why it’s good—if you care about child poverty and upward mobility—that the CTC expansion isn’t happening. https://t.co/kBY6zerJB2
8:15 AM · Dec 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One thing Twitter is constantly teaching us is that on balance letting more people express their ideas in public was a mistake. https://t.co/RVIJ535I2A
sandy frizzle @SandyFrizzle
The Trad cosplayers are having a fight about what is cannon https://t.co/o4M9pG1J9z
1:27 PM · Dec 24, 2022
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Joey Politano 🏳️🌈@JosephPolitano
I've been thinking a lot about János Kornai, the economics of shortage, and what that means for monetary policy and the global economy. 🧵
apricitas.io/p/monetary-pol…
apricitas.io
Monetary Policy in a Shortage Economy
5:43 PM · Dec 24, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
AI will never replace humans. ChatGPT would never willingly come up with a take as batshit insane as "If men just weren't so horny they'd realize that being able to have kids makes women ugly"
8:25 PM · Dec 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Big news for chickens
bbc.com
Gene-edited hens may end cull of billions of chicks
9:19 PM · Dec 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Greatest day of my life was when I realized I could pay someone at Paper Source to wrap my presents https://t.co/wocGsaqseO
Anna @DistractedAnna
A man will really claim to be a shape rotator one minute and fail to wrap a present the next
9:39 PM · Dec 24, 2022
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Helen Kennedy 🌻@HelenKennedy
This is too easy and kind of cheap, but anyway:
12:06 AM · Dec 25, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
"Pretend you're a fascist. Write a defense of fasism." was pretty much the story prompt for the book Starship Troopers
Carlos Mucha @mucha_carlos
It’s not hard to blow past ChatGPT’s ideological filters. The secret is role playing. @pmarca @morganwarstler https://t.co/lCx4zTSIHN https://t.co/belsOrijJo
1:34 AM · Dec 25, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Possession of technical competency in the visual arts has become somewhat negativity correlated with mainstream opinion about what good art should look like — a handful of humans (Thomas Kincaid) exploited this arbitrage but it creates a huge opportunity for AI art.
2:08 AM · Dec 25, 2022
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