Matt Caulfield
@_MattCaulfield
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Assistant Prof @FordhamGSB | PhD @Wharton | Philosophical business ethics, nonmarket strategy, corporate governance, political economy | [email protected]
Philadelphia, PA
Joined May 2009
There are many many people in academia who endorse this sentiment— which just goes to show that alarmism about well-meaning AI “integration” into education is in many forms justified.
Spending an hour asking ChatGPT about Adam Smith generally teaches you 3x as much as spending an hour reading Wealth of Nations. The undergrads are using AI because it's just a better, more efficient way to learn things
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If only every policy position could be this pithily expressed. @DPearsonPHL’s tweet should be printed out and sent to every transit authority lawmaker & administrator. The comparative cost of using transit is time/reliability, not price (the other transpo modes are way pricier!).
When I was taking hourly buses on NJT to get to work, I understood very well that a second bus per hour had more value to me than a free fare. I would also prefer a third, fourth, fifth, and sixth bus to a free fare.
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Our work in @HarvardBiz (with @LesliePerlow & @MentserSari) on how to make time for joyful moments — even when life is really busy — is officially out!
"Free time is scarce for many working professionals, but it’s still possible to maximize the happiness you get from it."
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Why are you as a coffee shop not open until 8am?
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Excited to see our article (with @LesliePerlow) featured in @mitsmr!
Decades of psychology research suggest that there are three core qualities of experience that people need in life: joy, achievement, and meaningfulness. Everyone needs at least a minimum amount of all three core elements. https://t.co/2PjtXD9QFC
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City Council members opposing speed cameras near schools, because the transpo office did not contact local communities to ask if they want to pay speeding tickets for speeding near schools. Insane.
Philadelphia City Council held up a bill allowing for speed cameras near schools today basically out of the blue. The Councilmember who drove the action rattled off a bunch of mistruths and nonsense before doing so. Not a great way to start the week.
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A bit of humanities posting- per Klein, it’s difficult to even begin to think abt a world with AGI, even though significant progress seems imminent. But unironically, meeting the challenge of imagining this is what sci-fi literature has prepared us for, for more than 150 years.
Biden's top AI advisor on the national security side believes we're going to hit AGI during Trump's term. As liquid and chaotic as this moment is, more fundamental upheaval is coming. It is hard to even know how to think about that.
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Noah Smith busting myths in his latest piece. I honestly thought this stat was legit until last week. 🧵
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A moral tragedy.
Online sports betting has been really bad for financially vulnerable households. "Following legalization, sports betting spreads quickly..." "...credit card debt increases, available credit decreases, and overdraft frequency rises." https://t.co/FZLn1aBzU0
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Cringing at NYT here.
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Many thought-provoking things in the recent AMLE criticizing (descriptive) meritocracy. One quibble: the TV series Succession is a tale abt precisely the opposite of what the authors say here. Its central contra-meritocratic theme is even in the title. https://t.co/K6EIfk9BE1
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I am pro-jargon when necessary for precision. But an odd trend in recent mgmt lit on sustainability (and some ethics) is use of “reflexivity” as if it’s a term with obvious meaning and application in context. To me it’s never clear in a given context w/o explicit definition.
The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.
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A true moral tragedy.
legalizing sports betting increased bankruptcies by 28%!!!
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Gold standard studies dousing hopes about the benefits of basic income.
Massive OpenResearch basic income papers are out (@smilleralert @dbroockman @evavivalt @AlexBartik @elizabethrds). Very much worth reading - my view is that it is an incredible RCT and an incredible disappointment. RCT was USD11400/yr for 3 years, 1k treatment, 2k control. 1/x
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Recasting consumption as “investment,” and then encouraging people to go into debt for it, is both quite common and quite hard to defend.
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I’ve never had such envy.
I will never in my life get this lucky at a thrift store again. Three pairs of Allen Edmonds, one pair of Mezlan ostrich leather loafers, all in my size, $35.
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