Timothy B. Lee
binarybits.bsky.social
Timothy B. Lee
@binarybits.bsky.social
Reporting on AI and the future of the economy. Computer science masters degree from Princeton.

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I'm a fan of this @binarybits.bsky.social piece that points out the incredibly simple and dumb error made by shadowstats. There's definitely some wiggle room for how you calculate inflation but you can't be significantly biased in the long term without it being obvious.
No, the real inflation rate isn’t 15 percent
Jordan Peterson and Jack Dorsey are touting a bogus theory about the inflation rate.
www.fullstackeconomics.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Do you think that is influencing Netanyahu’s behavior today?
July 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Have you tried o3?
July 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
On the flip side, progressive cities like Washington DC have put in a ton of traffic calming measures over the last 10 or 20 years.
June 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
There weren’t cars in the 1980s?
June 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
There are a ton of people on the internet who don’t understand the difference between describing something and defending it. They think that if you write something about Trump and don’t explicitly add “and that’s bad” every few sentences you are a Trump apologist. These people are morons.
May 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Gotta save those crucial law enforcement jobs.
May 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I don’t know if any studies about this.
May 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
April 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Where does he say he is surprised?
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Yes.
April 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I hate it.
March 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
When fertility is below replacement there are fewer opportunities for young people and it worsens the finances of programs like social security and Medicare.
March 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
People are betting that FSD and maybe Optimus will give Tesla a far more valuable business than a conventional car company. If that proves wrong (and it probably will imo) the price will crash.
March 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
That tilda is important! I don’t believe “fully automating” is a coherent concept. There are only degrees of automation.
March 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I feel like this has been happening for several years now? A lot of ai training data is generated by LLMs now.
March 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM