No-context theorist tweet
Many students of quantum physics are confused by the possibility of changing the state of a system by merely observing it.
Such students have never before tried to take a photo/video of their happily playing children.
Elliot Lipnowski retweeted
Since JMCs are about to post their PDFs, here’s a friendly reminder to use technical terms precisely:
I have seen the phrase "I structurally estimate the model" in too many job-market papers this month.
JMCs, please read @PhilHaile: "Models, Measurement, and the Language of Empirical Economics" sites.google.com/view/philha…
At least graduate from confusion and abuse 201 to 202...
Highly recommended prompt: "Explain this paper in language that a game theory nerd would find easy to parse, without a bunch of opining on [THING CURRENTLY ANNOYING ME ABOUT THE PAPER]."
Does anybody else have a hard "we don't admit our own predocs to our PhD program" rule? Though any hard rule will create some ex-post errors, I think this is a good policy to commit to ex-ante for multiple reasons.
Do any of you also find these AI slop long twitter threads with a dramatic personal story super addictive to read? I know they’re just vapors, but I keep wanting to click on the next tweet.
Elliot Lipnowski retweeted
I got 99 problems, but I'm waiting until the right time to release them all at once.























