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I wish this were true, but sadly, prominent national media outlets keep irresponsibly platforming him so he can keep pretending that he has a “model” of 13 variables predicting 11 outcomes, rather than a large bottle of snake oil.

Spending money on elections to...prove you can't buy elections? So, if this were to pan out, the lesson wouldn't be that money doesn't translate into votes, but rather that in equilibrium both sides raise lots of money so your money doesn't unilaterally "buy" the election? cc

A hugely important commitment to the openness of Meta's AI ecosystem by Mark: "Open Source AI Is the Path Forward " Llama 3.1 is free, open, and on par with the best proprietary systems. To maximize performance, safety, customizability, and efficiency, AI platforms must be open,

With great respect to OpenAI, arguments that GPT-4 and even GPT-3 were unsafe to open source aren't believable. It appears that open source models — let alone deliberately "uncensored" models — have not caused identifiable harm. Closed source drastically limits innovation from

What happened at Union Station was vile, offensive, wrong. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Exalting them and burning Union Station’s American flag is disgraceful. Defacing public property is illegal. Hateful, antisemitic messages and threats against Jews have no place here.

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I find "pro-natalist" discourse to often be weird and alienating, but to me going in the other direction and treating having children as just a kind of eccentric consumption decision (comparable to an exotic pet or something) is a mistake. slowboring.com/p/the-economic…

🚨🚨🚨 In its highly redacted response to TikTok’s lawsuit, the DOJ confirms what many have feared and warned about for years: TikTok has *already* serviced censorship demands from the Chinese Communist Party. Can we stop with the allegations about TikTok being a “hypothetical

How about "As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, children of experts say"?

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Academia is not just bloated or out of touch, it is committing outright scientific fraud—fake data, doctored images, and all—and normalizing it by not naming and punishing culprits. Science is in danger. Read the new article by Ben Landau-Taylor here: palladiummag.com/2024/08/02/the…

This dude has absolutely no idea WTF he's talking about. The total net worth of my former PhD students alone would make any silvery Wall Street dude turn green with envy.

I’m deeply concerned about California’s SB-1047, Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act. While well intended, this bill will not solve what it is meant to and will deeply harm #AI academia, little tech and the open-source community.

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How have elite universities done so much damage to their credibility? The chancellor of Vanderbilt gets it. whathappensnextin6minutes.com/p/expelling-st…

Academic boycotts are intrinsically a violation of academic freedom. If supported by university administration, the problem is compounded. The AAUP course change is a mistake.

The political economy group at the Stanford GSB is hiring this year: gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty-r… We recruit on both the poli sci and econ markets, and encourage folks with training in either discipline to apply.