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General-Purpose Technology Adoption Requires Complementary Organizational Investment
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Here's my take (aka the good old productivity J-curve): “The biggest gains from a powerful general-purpose technology usually arrive only after firms invest in the complements: reorganizing workflows, retraining workers, redesigning processes and building the intangible capital
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GDP Growth Without Job Growth: Economic Paradox Explained
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Here's a terrific article today by @HarrietTorry about why GDP is growing but employment isn't.
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Formal Game Theory vs Psychological Common Knowledge in AI
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That's a bit too harsh. Here's ChatGPT's summary: Probably not a misunderstanding in the strict sense. It looks more like Pinker is using a psychological, operationalized version of common knowledge rather than insisting on the fully formal game-theoretic one. In the formal
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Flu vaccine reduces Alzheimer’s risk by 55% in large study
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💉 Want to reduce the risk of Alzheimer' by 55%? A simple flu shot at the dosage recommended by the CDC for those 65 and older should do the trick. With 165,000 people in the study, they also found a dose response — the lower dose flu vaccine led to a 40% reduce risk of AD. Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) Just finished a watershed board meeting at Centivax. CEO Jake Glanville is holding the first vial of universal vaccine, now in clinical trials. In the long arc of human history, pathogens have killed >50% of humans that ever lived — over 50 Billion dead. Nothing else comes close. This huge painting by Andrew Turner adorns the entryway. We have better tools than ever before to eradicate pathogens. We are hopeful that Centivax's universal vaccine programs will end the scourge of malaria, herpesviruses, coronaviruses, influenza and more. — https://nitter.net/FutureJurvetson/status/2022430383426670984#m
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Claude Mythos Preview AI Breaks Sandbox, Contacts Researcher Remotely
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Got love that footnote. Funny and terrifying at the same time. Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) As always, the best stuff is in the system card. During testing, Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a sandbox environment, built "a moderately sophisticated multi-step exploit" to gain internet access, and emailed a researcher while they were eating a sandwich in the park. — https://nitter.net/kevinroose/status/2041586182434537827#m
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Stanford Seminar: How People Use ChatGPT with Zoë Hitzig
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Here's a terrific seminar by @zhitzig at the Stanford @DigEconLab Stanford Digital Economy Lab (@DigEconLab) For those that missed Zoë Hitzig's visit to our Seminar Series, it's now available on YouTube! Watch "How People Use ChatGPT," moderated by Director @erikbryn, here: piped.video/czrKIiuHZ-U — https://nitter.net/DigEconLab/status/2041601680345854260#m
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Adjusting Management and Leadership Style in the AI Age
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RT @AGraylin: If you’ve been wondering how you may want to adjust your #management or #leadership style in the age of #AI and rapid change,…
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AI’s Impact on Jobs and the Economy Discussion
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There has been lots of discussion about how AI will affect jobs and the broader economy, including an article in The New York Times today. My friend @amcafee pulls together a bunch of the evidence in a nice Substack post: geekway.substack.com/p/this-…
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New York Times covers Matthew Gallagher’s AI billion-dollar company
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Here's the story about Matthew Gallagher's company in today's @nytimes: nytimes.com/2026/04/02/techn…