I am not sure whether he simply uses AI here to advance this broader argument, but regardless of Tyler's intentions I suspect that some will take this statement at face value.

Whether these contributions can and should be used to feed private LLMs is for the public regulator to decide, but unless OpenAI starts paying my salary I don't see why they should get to evaluate my output.

💯I think it's not very controversial that people should get credit for producing data infrastructure, doing science communication etc., the thorny part is (and always has been) how to value and evaluate these contributions.

Here is what I posted last week on Twitter, repeated here: A thread about what is wrong with the influence of Elon Musk and other tech billionaires. Another thread about content moderation will follow later this week.

Elon Musk’s attacks on Kamala Harris become more unhinged, with help from AI | CNN Business

Elon Musk’s disdain for the Democratic Party was never subtle, but in recent weeks his commentary on the upcoming US presidential election and his attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris have int...

I like to think of my grants as my children (thread)

(Cross-post from The Bad Place) I suppose we're doing this again. This is incorrect: the Roman army relied heavily on non-citizens throughout nearly the whole of Roman history, including periods of its greatest success in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, when Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean.1/

When Sam Altman expresses views about the future of education and the role of AI in it - as he did this week in his very silly "Age of Intelligence" post - I think it's important to realize he is absolutely full of shit 1/

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Very happy to see this www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... out in print at AEJ: Applied

Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location

(October 2024) - We provide first evidence that variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely held perception in t...

Econometrics was the greatest branding exercise in the history of the social sciences.