Former professor, current founder, future Batman.
Chicago
Joined August 2010
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The 2011 novelty song "Everyone's a DJ" (youtube.com/watch?v=OtNChapr…) was a minor hit for mocking how everyone was now trying to be a DJ.
I think the 2026 version would be "Everyone's a capital allocator" ft.com/content/41bf5c6a-9735…
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As (former) UChicago faculty who still lives in hyde park, of course many of my friends are economists. So I couldn't resist ribbing them about the low quality of today's prize infographics from the nobel committee press release nobelprize.org/prizes/econom…
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But then I thought "Maybe the other ones are just as bad" but no the optogentics one nobelprize.org/prizes/medici… is like, a paper figure?
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It's sort of worth being back on Twitter just for the @pfau takes teapawt.net/pfau/status/2109297825…
Everyone who says "why don't the AI companies work on things that are actually good for humanity?" - well, this is the sort of thing we *were* working on before ChatGPT came out and everyone dropped everything to compete with that instead.
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Eric Jonas retweeted
These people have shrivelled souls. They should not be allowed to utter the word "science". They are killing us. They are turning art into a video game.
I get @awscloud not letting random new accounts mine all the bitcoins, I really do. But when setting up new accounts I wish there was some way to prove "I know what I'm doing so please don't make me go through 100 support requests just to use 20 32-core instances". /1
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I don't think many of my colleagues in adjacent (non-CS) fields recognize the threat that the "corporate control of computing and information" represents to academic freedom and the academy. If campus IT had their way we would all be using chromebooks and never have a root pw. /1
Academia is supposed to be a place where people innovate, challenge assumptions, push boundaries, and are free to "think different". It's hard to do that when the CIO sees literally every website you visit and file you open. For every single member of the university community. /4
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There are severe academic freedom issues here with the surveillance of everything graduate students and professors do on their computers. This is an incredible violation of computational academic freedom. At @UChicago many faculty are pushing back on this as much as we can /1
I ran for (and won) a seat on the Council of the Faculty Senate specifically to push for these computational academic freedom issues and an end to academic spyware. But it's hard! You have to fight with CIOs who claim that surveillance is necessary for security. /2
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Eric Jonas retweeted
@stochastician pumped up the #5thgrade enthusiasm about all things outer space. Thx Dr Jonas! @SkypeScientist @SouthSide_JCS
