David Shor
@davidshor
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Head of Data Science at Blue Rose Research, based in NYC, originally from Miami. I try to elect Democrats. Views are my own. he/him🌹
New York, NY
Joined November 2007
Very excited to announce that we’re hiring for an AI-focused software engineering roles (both general SWE and ML-infra) at Blue Rose! This is a great chance to work with giant novel datasets and cutting edge ML/AI to help defeat Trump in 2026!
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If you propose instead a bunch of wonky, technocratic supply-side reforms people are going to think that’s dumb. But the results might be way better! AMLO’s synthesis — regulatory concessions to business in exchange for guaranteed price caps.
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As the cost of living get worse, voters want to hear bigger, more radical solutions that sound like they could actually solve the problem. If the Democratic Party isn’t willing to propose big solutions, we will lose.
There is a hunger from the public for radicalism on costs - even policies like wide-ranging price and rent controls poll well nationally right now. That doesn't mean Democrats should embrace unworkable policies, but they have to meet the moment and embrace boldness on costs
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This from @davidshor made me LOL. "having wealthy people or economists be mad at you is a feature, not a bug" .... anyway, it's a very interesting conversation I recommend it.
Really excited I got to talk to @BharatRamamurti about what the polling says about AI, people’s intuitions of fairness in a hypothetical post scarcity world, and most controversially price controls Check it out!
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Very interesting reveal from one of the more careful policy polling operations: "a lot of economists out there would get mad if you told them 60% of voters would support a national rent freeze or a 90 day freeze on prices"
There is a hunger from the public for radicalism on costs - even policies like wide-ranging price and rent controls poll well nationally right now. That doesn't mean Democrats should embrace unworkable policies, but they have to meet the moment and embrace boldness on costs
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@DamonLinker Yes, and the danger will always be there if people feel that the system is betraying them. This was the most extraordinary answer in the 2024 election (from @davidshor)
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The electorate's intuitions around fairness and economic redistribution in a post-AGI world are quite left-wing - if democracy is preserved the electorate will not defer to Nvidia stock holders and tolerate being part of the "permenant underclass"
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There is a hunger from the public for radicalism on costs - even policies like wide-ranging price and rent controls poll well nationally right now. That doesn't mean Democrats should embrace unworkable policies, but they have to meet the moment and embrace boldness on costs
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The #1 reason voters say that costs are too high is because they believe that politicians on both sides don't understand what life is like for regular people and more interested in catering to their own party's bases and special interests than doing what it takes to cut costs
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Cost of living is the #1 issue for every subgroup of voters imaginable - young people, people of color, women - *except* for the ~ 1% of the population that has donated to a Democratic campaign in the last year
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Between 1979–2019, top pay (90th pct.) rose 53%, middle rose 23%, bottom (10th pct.) rose 17%. (Hourly productivity climbed 73%.) Since 2019, gains at the bottom reversed 1/3 of this rise in pay inequality. But much more needs to be done! 🧵on my book: The Wage Standard.
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Really excited I got to talk to @BharatRamamurti about what the polling says about AI, people’s intuitions of fairness in a hypothetical post scarcity world, and most controversially price controls Check it out!
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Time to retire the "low hire-low fire" description of the labor market. It's "low hire." That's a problem even without layoffs spiking.
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Imagine a world in which AI replaces most human labor. Who should own the AI systems? 44% of Americans say every citizen should own an equal share. A thread on exclusive new polling from @davidshor and his team at Blue Rose Research, shared with The Bully Pulpit. 1/
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These H200 chips *will* be used to hack Americans personal information and blackmail American voters and businesses on a large scale. Trump is selling your personal security to the highest bidder and Republicans not on the take should stand up to him! https://t.co/CTCIVVkx3v
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A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
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It’s interesting that there’s no real gradient here, antisemitism just pops hard among “extremely conservative” young people.
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We are on track to reduce our compute advantage over China from 33 to 1 to 1.2 to one because @nvidia and Jensen Huang put millions of dollars in Trump’s pocket in order to enrich themselves at the rest of our expense
The US has reportedly decided to approve exports of NVIDIA’s H200 chip to China. This gives Chinese AI labs chips that outperform anything China can make until ~2028. How big a deal this is depends on how many we export. Thread with key charts from our new report...
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Obama closing OFA after the 2008 is widely seen as a catastrophic decision that caused lasting harm to the party. The reality is that published academic research (and private tests in 2012) suggest that Obama’s 2008 field persuasion program likely cost the campaign votes
Obsession w/ OFA is part of the incorrect belief that, bc Obama won in '08 that everything OFA did was effective @ swaying votes. Fortunately, we have (published) research showing the opposite. In WI, canvass, mail, & phone calls did nothing or hurt (esp. w/ infrequent voters)
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So after all these hours talking about AI, in these last five minutes I am going to talk about: Horses. Engines, steam engines, were invented in 1700. And what followed was 200 years of steady improvement, with engines getting 20% better a decade. For the first 120 years of
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People have started putting less emphasis on non-money sources of value, which I think is naturally going to lead more people to be unhappy with the amount of money they make. https://t.co/6KrhFDFFAB
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@UnbeknownstDude @heatherpedia @LinkofSunshine Actually collected some data on this! Here's % of people who say Pequod's is their favorite pizza spot by zipcode!
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