Even though we are still 18 months from the super intelligence that can do everything, my sister's family let ChatGPT choose my Hanukkah gift and this is the result.

Not sure.

But I have always enjoyed Steve Earle's take.

Both because Townes is amazing and because it is consistent with the key empirical regularity: whatever answer someone gives, they know person they have to defend it against the alternative of Bob Dylan.

I have a new paper on governance of online platforms. The topic is a bit of a departure for me. Comments more than welcome.

voices.uchicago.edu/ethanbdm/fil...

Anthony and I wrote Nikki Haley a perfectly intellectually respectable way out of that question.

Will her failure to read Thinking Clearly with Data cause her to lose the presidency?

From the acknowledgments to my first book.

I'll let you guess which of these guys I modeled myself on...

How can anyone say they don't miss twitter after reading this exchange of @joshchafetz.bsky.social's?

I might be overly sensitive, but to me, this 1 star Amazon review feels like a bit of an overreaction to this harmless mention of vaccines in our explanation of potential outcomes and causality.

You only need room for like 1 gold bar...

One can't help but wonder, "better than what?"

I'm pleased that my and Mehdi Shadmehr's paper, "Social Norms and Social Change" is now in print at the QJPS.

https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/QJPS-21153