Postdoc @Columbia_Biz studying how politics affect companies (and vice versa).
New York, USA
Joined December 2018
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Missed opportunity to have the first Spanish speaking launch in Mexico and call it Güeymo
¡Hola, Region of Madrid! 🇪🇸 We’re thrilled to announce that we’re coming to Spain, beginning with Madrid. This will be our first region in Spain and second in the European Union. We plan to launch fully autonomous ride-hailing in Madrid in 2027.
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¡Hola, Comunidad de Madrid! 🇪🇸 Nos emociona anunciar que llegamos a España, empezando por Madrid. Esta será nuestra primera región en España y la segunda en la Unión Europea. Planeamos lanzar nuestro servicio de ride-hailing totalmente autónomo en la Comunidad en 2027.
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Utah gave Claude Code to 34 developers across 10 state agencies. 80% had a working environment within 30 minutes, 71% reported saving 20+ hours by the end of the four-week pilot.
We're expanding our partnership with @USGSA. Under a new OneGov agreement, we are bringing Claude to federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments at 40% off.
anthropic.com/news/expanding…
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And we can do a better job of admitting when we're wrong.
Here's a good example from Andrew Gelman of how to do it. End/
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After almost 10 years of work corporateownershipdata.com now makes available all publicly available ownership records of 7,156 publicly traded firms, not just the S&P 500, including dual-class shares.
My “the structural integrity of the buildings is sound” email has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my email
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Everything at the end will look like a Nature/PNAS paper: a quick 6-pager for humans, and a humongous 150-page supplement with all possible experiments and analyses (mainly for the machines to read and review). Together with an automatic verification/reproducibility package that ensures that whatever the paper says is verifiable.
And at the end everything will seem like before, but underneath everything will have changed.
Melania Nobel Peace Prize?
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
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what if there was a type of bourgeoisie that wasn't the big owners of factories. what if there was a type of bourgeoisie under them, a smaller, little bourgeoisie. i wonder what that would be called
Airbnb hosts are melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,” like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”
Read the full story: buff.ly/GHU32S5
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This is not bad news for humans in the journal review process: used right, LLMs can provide editors and reviewers with more information, and allow more reasoned judgment with less drudgery. Might also help the dire straits many journals are in wrt recruiting reviewers
New paper: "AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices" See: GaryKing.org/peerless. with Steven Worthington. Comments welcome!
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We should rethink the role of human judgment in the review process. Human expert should have a role, but it's no longer about writing 1,500-word essays to summarize findings, check proofs, and so on.
On top of that, any journal that forbids AI usage in the review process should reconsider their position.
New paper: "AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices" See: GaryKing.org/peerless. with Steven Worthington. Comments welcome!
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Fairly conclusive results.
Opus 4.8 (!) for the reviews, judged by humans and GPT-5.5.
New paper: "AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices" See: GaryKing.org/peerless. with Steven Worthington. Comments welcome!
Max Kagan retweeted
New paper: "AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices" See: GaryKing.org/peerless. with Steven Worthington. Comments welcome!
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So if you want to understand capitalism, you need to be talking to small business owners, portfolio managers, and Marxists. Nobody else can really talk about it with any substance.
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Now published at @apsrjournal. Check out "The Symbolic Politics of Housing" doi.org/10.1017/S00030554261…
New results!
In "The Symbolic Politics of Housing," @dbroockman @j_kalla & I showed that public opinion about housing policies correlates w/ affect towards the groups that the policies make salient (via framing or criteria in the policy itself).
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Recent prescriptions and policies would have us judge research by non-evidentiary standards, e.g. presumed political impact and scholar identity. In a new essay, Tom Clark and I argue empirical claims should instead be evaluated based on evidentiary strength. We outline a framework for judging evidence, and show its usefulness by revisiting high-profile scholarly disagreements spanning policing, political violence, election administration, and terrorism, before critiquing non-evidentiary approaches. We also argue social science needs a culture that is hospitable to critique—rather than one which condemns critics as “bullies”—if quality standards are to be upheld.
dropbox.com/scl/fi/fsgpflron…
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good people...all ~3.5 GB of the ActBlue Schedule A itemized file have arrived safely onto my computers
We have incredible things coming very soon, keep your eyes peeled!
