Zach Mazlish
@zmazlish.bsky.social
Econ PhD student @ Oxford Econ.
I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me.
Writing: jzmazlish.substack.com
Website: jzacharymazlish.com
I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me.
Writing: jzmazlish.substack.com
Website: jzacharymazlish.com
Nice short post from Dan showing why using only an aggregate production function can lead to misleading conclusions about the potential growth effects of AI. Recommended!
I'm concerned by some work around the growth effects of AI using aggregate production functions - I put together some thoughts here: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DMxsAG...
Comment on Barentt (2025): Growth effects of AI could hit a bottleneck even if local elasticities are high — EA Forum
Introduction
This post is a response to a recent article by Matthew Barett on the Epoch AI website, posted as part of the Gradient Updates newsletter…
forum.effectivealtruism.org
March 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Nice short post from Dan showing why using only an aggregate production function can lead to misleading conclusions about the potential growth effects of AI. Recommended!
Hard to overstate how revelatory this paper was for me — one takeaway I had from it was "small fixed costs can really deter people from optimizing."
Which made me think about a few other recent papers where fixed optimization costs are a key ingredient:
Which made me think about a few other recent papers where fixed optimization costs are a key ingredient:
Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk.
They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings.
Lead article in the latest AER issue:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
December 9, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Hard to overstate how revelatory this paper was for me — one takeaway I had from it was "small fixed costs can really deter people from optimizing."
Which made me think about a few other recent papers where fixed optimization costs are a key ingredient:
Which made me think about a few other recent papers where fixed optimization costs are a key ingredient: