Karthik Tadepalli
@karthiktadepall
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i want the rest of the world to get to the moon. PhD @berkeleyecon
Berkeley, CA
Joined June 2017
be the adverse selection you don't want to see in the world.
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RT @majamediaco: having a crush is genuinely generative for the soul. wanting something, someone, is healthy for the brain. the act of reac….
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1) It takes *way* longer than anticipated to actually build/deploy custom AI agents for large enterprises. AI makes the engineering fast. But sales, product, system integration, and implementation are *incredibly* slow. Customers don't know what they want, getting stakeholders.
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When I was 19, ad auctions were genuinely my passion. I could be passionate about anything back then.
when i was 17 i knew my passion in life was ad tech.
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While seeing like a state is back in the discourse™, go read Lou Keep's essay on it
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RT @GiveWell: We're hiring a Program Officer to build our new Livelihoods grantmaking portfolio, focusing on increasing income and consumpt….
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Even BART is demanding to see your standard errors
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Diffusion frictions are much discussed, but worth emphasizing prices too. big labs have insane market power. If they can save you an $80k salary, why wouldn't they charge you shy of $80k rather than the pennies you get it for now? What happens to automation incentives then?.
This is wrong. I talk to folks at the big AI labs all the time. Biggest errors they make, economically: 1) how long it takes to shift the structure of institutions and what this means for diffusion, 2) AI is acomplement for some tasks, not just a substitute, 3) prices adjust. 1/3.
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Something I explained to 13 yo: There is no intrinsically fair price for any commodity, just the market price. Most people have no problem understanding that. Until the commodity is labor. Then suddenly it becomes hard to understand.
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scientists are incentivized by credit among their peers, not money. this is good! but what if every researcher sees their "peers" as researchers in the US? that's when you get a graph that looks like this. a frightening amount of scientific misallocation.
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Source:.
🚨🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨🚨. 🧵 Excited to share our latest working paper where we build a large new dataset to measure geographic bias in top management research. (with Randol Yao, @MITSloanPhD and ex pre-doc) . Full paper:
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if this holds in other disciplines it might be the scariest graph i've seen
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I was one of these people and I accept my mistake. The video is awesome and funny as fuck.
"don't talk about shrimp" they said. "it's weird" they said. "EA won't get good publicity if you talk about shrimp because it's weird" they said.
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I retweeted this paper before and was very strongly influenced by it so I have to retweet the fact that it has been withdrawn under what seem like extraordinary circumstances/data fabrication.
Woof. Very sad to see. The MIT econ department has recommended that this paper be withdrawn.
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RT @sguyenet: Asterisk magazine just published a series of expert forecasts on the number of deaths that will be caused by US government cu….
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Ribbonfarm was actually so special. Most of its ideas haven't survived the future, but it had some big hits and it convinced me of the value of trying.
the fact that nobody linked the Deep Laziness essay in replies is a sign that ingroup (and reading) is all but dead
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