See the Twitter thread here for a social-media-style summary: x.com/zdgroff/stat...

📈Job market paper📉 Excited to finally share my JMP! I study whether and why policy choices are stubbornly persistent. Example: Oregon has an income tax, but not Washington—seemingly because of nearly century-old choices. Is this typical? Read the paper: www.zachfreitasgroff.com/FreitasGroff...

Saw this on the list for the terrific Economics of LGBTQ+ Individuals Virtual Seminar Series: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

Neat. Evidence that legal same-sex marriage decreased enrollment in priestly studies (because fewer gay men avoid coming out): digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Bonkers. (See updated chart in comment thread.)

ASalecstapp.bsky.socialOct 20, 2023 1:39pm

Drivers used to just mow down kids, look at these numbers

Here is my post for those interested: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MDNcML...

AGI Catastrophe and Takeover: Some Reference Class-Based Priors — EA Forum

This is a linkpost for https://docs.google.com/document/d/11YKTKRumtlheK_9Dv9ECKwwoTeSG3RNcs6qUSajzqDw/edit?usp=sharing …

Excited to share that I won a second prize in Open Philanthropy's 2023 AI Worldviews contest! www.openphilanthropy.org/research/ann...

Anyone have an NBER invite code?

I'm glad to see this argument in @nytimes . The implications of this are complex, but the likelihood of the population plummeting seems way under-discussed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Is there a word for a Nash equilibrium that is not subgame perfect (e.g., to distinguish it from a subgame perfect one)? What about something that's not perfect Bayesian? I don't think I've seen "subgame imperfect."