
Kevin A. Bryan
@Afinetheorem
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Assoc. Prof. of Strategic Management, University of Toronto Rotman School | Chief Economist, Creative Destruction Lab Toronto | Co-Founder, AllDayTA
Toronto, ON, Canada
Joined February 2015
The irony is that fans of the history of economic thought will know that parts of the econ faculty at U Cambridge have thought mainstream economics was the "Aeroflot of Ideas" since back when Robinson was writing pro Cultural Revolution books. So perhaps this is a compliment!.
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Cool data from @_brianpotter on second homes. 1960: countryside near big city. 2025: big growth is in rural places w/ massive seasonality. Cheap but really good six months of the year: N Wisconsin, Gulf Coast, Tuscon, Alaska. I *strongly* suspect federal land out West binds here
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Does anyone actually believe the marginal product of "people who know how to design a computer-aided task to improve productivity" is falling? Almost the opposite! Organizations that are smart should be hiring *a lot* more computer scientists. Caveat: not "coders".
I am getting tired from influencers with little to no tech industry experience to write stupid stuff like this for likes. As @simonw said:. “Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry thanks to the invention of the table saw.”.
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It is wild how much tech journalism comes from a place of extreme hostility toward the technology. It often reads like RFK writing articles about new pharmaceutical breakthroughs. No wonder the Silicon Valley set completely ignores this!
nytimes.com
With executive orders and an “A.I. Action Plan” to promote American dominance of the technology, President Trump declared that the United States needed to win the A.I. race.
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RT @cblatts: Tragic. Qualitative, comparative, theoretically informed (or theory generating) work in economic history is foundational. e.g.….
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RT @mattyglesias: “Lawyers vs economics” is honestly a better summary of a lot of the factional divide than anything about ~populism~ we ke….
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See also @deanwball, who I believe was involved with the govt report, here:
hyperdimensional.co
A little less conversation, a little more action
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RT @calebwatney: Good overview from @stuartbuck1 on the chaos in science funding right now.
asteriskmag.com
A comprehensive but nowhere near exhaustive overview of how the Trump Administration is impacting American science.
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Mostly reasonable, and @anton_d_leicht (link below) has a nice summary for what "winning" means here (tldr: countries other than China/US should aim to make complements/components for AI stack). But: words "university", "immigration", "human capital" don't appear. That's nuts.
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