Kyle Siler
@kylesiler.bsky.social
Academician. Friend of puppies.
Pinned
Kyle Siler
@kylesiler.bsky.social
· Jul 7
Information Frequency, Value, and Difficulty as Sources of Social Inequality: Competitive Imbalances on Jeopardy! - Kyle Siler, 2025
Informational content and topics strategically curated by institutions underpin reward structures in knowledge economies. Using a historical database of 298,879...
journals.sagepub.com
📑New article in @spquarterly.bsky.social! The article uses the trivia game show #Jeopardy as a case study to show how certain properties of information (frequency, value, difficulty) underpin evaluative inequalities.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/RYWCM...
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/RYWCM...
Reposted by Kyle Siler
Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.
Lawrence Lessig is more credulous as a podcast host than Joe Rogan.
Former Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino has turned to podcasting to tell her story since losing tenure and leaving Harvard after being accused of manipulating data.
Evan H.C. Epstein and Graham W. Lee report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Evan H.C. Epstein and Graham W. Lee report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘In Defense of Francesca Gino’: HLS Professor Lawrence Lessig Uses Podcast to Tell Former HBS Professor’s Side in Tenure Denial Story | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino, together with Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig, have turned to podcasting to tell her story since her tenure was revoked last…
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Lawrence Lessig is more credulous as a podcast host than Joe Rogan.
Reposted by Kyle Siler
It’s sort of clarifying to see him describe this dynamic so directly www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It’s sort of clarifying to see him describe this dynamic so directly www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Reposted by Kyle Siler
“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
Reposted by Kyle Siler
Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?
I hope the TAMU faculty spam the holy hell out of the president's email.
Texas A&M University adopts a policy requiring professors to get approval from the school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
Texas A&M University professors now need approval for some race and gender topics
Texas A&M University has adopted a new policy requiring professors to first get approval to discuss some race and gender topics.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I hope the TAMU faculty spam the holy hell out of the president's email.
Reposted by Kyle Siler
They got rid of Nixon for far less than this
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
They got rid of Nixon for far less than this
Reposted by Kyle Siler
Reposted by Kyle Siler
My child asked for “airplane spoon” during dinner and I had to explain that we simply don’t have enough air traffic controllers. Shutdowns have consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My child asked for “airplane spoon” during dinner and I had to explain that we simply don’t have enough air traffic controllers. Shutdowns have consequences.
Reposted by Kyle Siler
This kind of announcement may help explain why so many people are using LLMs to flood preprints servers with papers about AI
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This kind of announcement may help explain why so many people are using LLMs to flood preprints servers with papers about AI
Joke's on Trump: Those agriculture and farming programs are literally on Cornell's campus.
Kidding aside, it's sad to see another venerable institution capitulate to Trump.
Kidding aside, it's sad to see another venerable institution capitulate to Trump.
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Joke's on Trump: Those agriculture and farming programs are literally on Cornell's campus.
Kidding aside, it's sad to see another venerable institution capitulate to Trump.
Kidding aside, it's sad to see another venerable institution capitulate to Trump.
Reposted by Kyle Siler
The best thing anyone can do — and this is why the Ontario Reagan ad was so useful — is illustrate to people who chiefly vote for Republicans that the Republican Party no longer shares their values, values that were held by Republicans for a very long time!
October 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The best thing anyone can do — and this is why the Ontario Reagan ad was so useful — is illustrate to people who chiefly vote for Republicans that the Republican Party no longer shares their values, values that were held by Republicans for a very long time!
Reposted by Kyle Siler
I didn't think a Shams Bomb could ever shock me as much as the Luka Dončić trade. I stand corrected.
Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups has been arrested by the FBI for alleged illegal gambling, sources tell ESPN.
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I didn't think a Shams Bomb could ever shock me as much as the Luka Dončić trade. I stand corrected.
Reposted by Kyle Siler
I'm most worried about Arizona (financial problems, less-selective) and Texas (public/red state) caving.
October 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I'm most worried about Arizona (financial problems, less-selective) and Texas (public/red state) caving.
I once submitted an R&R that did this to my prospects for acceptance. #peerreview
(Weird that Porter has been a politician for such a long time, and still made such spectacular comms mistakes as a front-runner.)
(Weird that Porter has been a politician for such a long time, and still made such spectacular comms mistakes as a front-runner.)
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I once submitted an R&R that did this to my prospects for acceptance. #peerreview
(Weird that Porter has been a politician for such a long time, and still made such spectacular comms mistakes as a front-runner.)
(Weird that Porter has been a politician for such a long time, and still made such spectacular comms mistakes as a front-runner.)
Looking forward to Liberty U becoming the next Johns Hopkins. 🙄
Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
September 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Looking forward to Liberty U becoming the next Johns Hopkins. 🙄
Francesca Gino - and academic fraud - as white-collar crime:
"HBS determined that the file was last saved on Sept. 23, 2023, but had been intentionally backdated to appear as if it was last modified on July 17, 2010."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"HBS determined that the file was last saved on Sept. 23, 2023, but had been intentionally backdated to appear as if it was last modified on July 17, 2010."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Sues Ex-HBS Professor Gino for Defamation, Accusing Her of Falsifying Evidence | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard sued behavioral scientist Francesca Gino for defamation in August, alleging the former Harvard Business School professor sent the school a falsified dataset to prove she did not commit data fr...
www.thecrimson.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Francesca Gino - and academic fraud - as white-collar crime:
"HBS determined that the file was last saved on Sept. 23, 2023, but had been intentionally backdated to appear as if it was last modified on July 17, 2010."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
"HBS determined that the file was last saved on Sept. 23, 2023, but had been intentionally backdated to appear as if it was last modified on July 17, 2010."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Reposted by Kyle Siler
Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.
September 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.
Reposted by Kyle Siler
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
Reposted by Kyle Siler
This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
Being a Vegas bookie must be fun, because you get to cheer against all of the insufferable teams the general public loves (Notre Dame football, Duke basketball, New York Yankees, etc).
September 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Being a Vegas bookie must be fun, because you get to cheer against all of the insufferable teams the general public loves (Notre Dame football, Duke basketball, New York Yankees, etc).
Reposted by Kyle Siler
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
September 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...