Pradyumna
@PradyuPrasad
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Abundance mindset enjoyer Follow for tweets about: economic growth, AI progress, PL theory, my side projects and more!
Singapore / Bengaluru
Joined May 2021
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gonna ask this as an intro econ question to 1st years on why this is wrong. such a good question.
you can just venmo your friends back and forth forever and it gets counted in GDP. I’ve generated $23.2 million in economic activity with my friends. we only have $7.08 between us in all our bank accounts
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guy who spends 16 hours a day on twitter: tiktok is brainrot trash.
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Indian tech is going through one of its funniest timelines right now. A LinkedIn AI bot referred to the CEO of Ola (Indian Uber) as "they" in the third person. He thought it was because the LinkedIn bot was woke. Now they're migrating off azure because of it.
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(GDP only counts the value of final goods and services produced, so the GDP accountants wouldn't even look at this).
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> will develop superintelligence.> create thousands of jobs. ????.
Announcing The Stargate Project. The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure.
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i know my twitter is extremely anti UK these days. But.- unlike the US they had a stable transition of power.- their main parties were able to remove unpopular leaders who lost them elections.- election done in 1 day with 0 drama. much better political system than the US.
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Never gets old
We’re doubling the First Home Owner Grant to $30,000 until 30 June 2025.
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POV: the horrors of neoliberalism
We have now had 40 years of neoliberalism, which claims, above all else, to deliver freedom of choice. Yet the great majority of the world’s people have almost no choice over the work they do and the lives they lead.🧵.
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Last 3 years have had.- GPT 4.- mRNA vaccines.- room temperature superconductor. How's your great stagnation and American decline thesis going?.
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deaths from Chernobyl: ~300 to 500.deaths from producing electricity from brown coal in Germany in 2021: ~3240. the costs of not having nuclear is measured in dead bodies caused by mining accidents and air pollution.
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so if openai is gonna make something that makes like a trillion dollars a year in 3 years. why is everyone leaving.
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1. Google gives you poor answers to questions .2. Reddit gives you good ones.3. Reddit can't search.4. However Google gives you good answers from reddit!.
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has anyone estimated the lost economic growth due to brain drain from scientific research to finance?.
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In Physics we don't read the original works of Newton. In biology we don't read the original works of Darwin or Mendel (in intro classes). And yet in philosophy they make us read works thousands of years old as if there has been no progress since.
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This is one of the most midwit opinions that floats. If the US had not nuclear bombed Japan, a land invasion would have been necessary to win the war. And that would have meant far more casualties. The nukes killed about 226,000 people. An invasion would mean millions more!.
Oppenheimer is a movie about the preparation for the deadliest terrorist attacks in history.
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He's a 10 but he compares revenue and GDP.
The aggregate revenue of businesses built on Stripe is now around 1% of global GDP.
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I got dunked on pretty bad for asking a honest question on a topic I don't know anything about (Irish history). A lot of accounts with lots of followers quote tweeted me and their followers piled on. It's terrible how rude people can be on those they consider their outgroup.
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almost every single paper I've seen about intergenerational elite persistence says that it exists even through revolutions/communism etc. Says a lot of weird things about the world.
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Economists please explain this and why it hadn't happened before.
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american politics is so interesting because it has poor institutional design, the largest economy in the world and free speech.
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all tech people i know can explain why naziism was bad, but very few humanities people i know can do fizzbuzz so this isn't even close.
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STEM people do not need more humanities classes.
Which of your STEM education related opinions would get you in this position?
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this sounds reasonable ("GDP fake hahahahah") until you realise that people generally don't pay others to eat shit.
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I remember listening to this Tyler Cowen talk where he answered why we aren't all living in a no work ppst scarcity. And his answer was that we are! Just for teenagers and retired people only. That's a big win. I expect to see less and less work done over time.
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Ppl making 400k base really get excited by a $300 payout on this site.
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Every guy thinks he'd make an amazing military strategist.
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british devs be like. class(value):. def __innit__(self):.
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biology is weird. if you ask why 2 or 3 times you'll realize that nobody knows anything.
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my theory of genius in the internet age: a lot of young kids are very smart, but their time is taken away by school and other unproductive obligations. if you're a kid who can do 12th grade math at age 12, the best thing possible for you is that you self learn it on youtube.
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indian parents be like: . "I must study engineering and medicine that my sons may have liberty to study engineering and medicine. My sons ought to study engineering and medicine in order to give their children a right to study engineering and medicine".
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both things can be true.1. the man in charge of twitter is not very good at his job.2. the man in charge of spacex is very good at his job.3. he was much better in the past before he got affected by conservative uncle syndrome.
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Investing is so easy. At best it can go up an infinite amount. At worst it can go to zero. Infinity > zero, so you can't lose money on average.
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Ronald Coase said he had gotten tired of antitrust because when the prices went up the judges said it was monopoly, when the prices went down they said it was predatory pricing, and when they stayed the same they said it was tacit collusion.
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NO THEY PREFERRED GPT TO REDDIT WHICH IS NOT A HIGH BAR BECAUSE ANYONE CAN CALL THEMSELVES A DOCTOR ON REDDIT.
A new breakout study compared ChatGPT vs. physician responses to patient questions. The results were insane. Here's how AI is about to revolutionize health care:.
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Ridiculous how lenient Hitler's sentence was .- tried to take over the organs of state.- Threatened to shoot 3000 ppl with a machine gun.- Kidnapped leaders of Bavarian government, police and army .- whole thing led to 19 deaths.- max sentence was life.- Het got 5 years.
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don't ask .1. a man his salary.2. a woman her age.3. GPT-3 why racism is justified.
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one of my hobbies is to mess with an important cell and watch the whole thing burn
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Personally I think this is REALLY funny. I seem to have broken some humanities people taboo.
Normally I might post that this tweet shows someone who has been sadly deprived of an education in the humanities, but I think what it really shows is that some people don’t actually deserve an education in the humanities
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they elites don't want you to know this but a well done group chat can change your life.
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biggest delusion is i can become this guy (in software) if i try hard enough.
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the absolute worst term used in the media is "paycheck to paycheck" because the term looks it means "can't pay their essential bills if something bad happens" but it actually is defined as "after all discretionary spending and saving for retirement and paying bills do you have $".
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can someone explain to me what work investment banking analysts do for 100 hours a week?.
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People like Geoffrey Hinton don't know anything about AI and are scaremongering. He should go implement a neural network instead of talking about fake made up harms.
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Respectfully can someone explain how anyone can get through 4 years of a CS degree without knowing how to do fizzbuzz? . How do you pass an intro algos class or even an intro CS class. Forget complex ones like design and analysis of algos.
@ClosedFormJest Many new grads can’t even solve fizzbuzz….
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Average salary for a highly educated female working in Pakistan's richest state's urban area: 67k PKR/Month. Assuming a 40h workweek and 4 weeks that's 418 PKR/hr. He's paying her 1126 PKR/hr. A deal she is willing to accept. We should be cheering this deal!.
Last night my 12 year old was struggling with Algebra, so I immediately posted a job for a tutor on Upwork. Literally 10 minutes later we were Zooming with a PhD professor in Pakistan for $4/hour. She whipped him into shape & will help him 5 hours/week now. Impatience can be
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I think that kids should have early access to computers but not phones. Computers are more likely to lead to learning than phones are. Phones are likely to lead to them being eaten by the psychofauna of modern life we call short video apps.
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The thing about India that it has all of the social controls in personal life (eg whom to marry), but none in public life (eg littering). Taken the worst of all worlds.
When my mother first moved to Japan, she tried to jaywalk while pushing a stroller on an empty residential street. She was immediately stopped by an old, well dressed Japanese man who solemnly told her in perfect English "the downfall of society begins with the individual".
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Lee Hsien Loong with a very good example of why "creating jobs" is a bad target for economic policy
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tell me something that feels dirt-level obvious to you, but seems not well understood by others.
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very few if any westerners who love LKY would tolerate the means he used to achieve the ends he did.
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Aged like milk RIP.
i think SBF is better than Elon on net positive impact to humanity.
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Reading crazy rich asians is enlightening because the social dynamics of the very rich are fascinating. After you get rich enough everything is about social signalling.
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this is SO COOL OH MY GOD. the buildings look so good
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so wait bernanke WROTE the paper which said that oil shock + tight monetary policy = recession, and then when an oil shock hit in 2008 he tightened monetary policy??.
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if you ever want to get radicalised, see how much effort it takes for your friends from middle/low income countries to get a tourist visa in the rich world.
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every day i wake up and i'm like i need to learn maths, i need to learn algorithms and i need to learn growth economics and i need to learn about longevity and i need to learn political institutions and i need to learn . you get the idea.
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many of you should save up like 10k usd, go live in india for a year and do the project you haven't been able to.
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Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt is drawing up new package to help first time buyers in the Autumn Statement. Hunt is expected to extend the 95% mortgage guarantee for another year . Treasury is also looking at a new ISA product to help people save up a deposit .
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very cool of people to declare a "right to healthcare" as if the existence of the right itself conjures taxation systems that pay for it, doctors and nurses who can treat patients and an efficient health system to coordinate the above.
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turns out taylor swift wasn't as savvy as we all thought huh
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Anyone who calls data the "new oil" is sentenced to a year of cleaning the worst datasets.
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Some reason reasons here.1. Singapore forces residents to save ~37% of their income for CPF which substitutes for pension spending. Ditto for healthcare where a combination of competition bw public hospitals and forced savings keeps health spending low.
Singapore seems unique among wealthy industrialized countries in having a low share of government spending as a share of the GDP.
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The amount of explicit unapologetic racism against Indians on this site is one of the worst parts of X.
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Cannot put it down, I've lost hours of work for this book. Exceptional so far
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Defending maoism should be as socially unacceptable as defending the holocaust.
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Sometimes I stop to think that among all the insane things George Bush did he started PEPFAR which has saved over 25 million lives.
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me: oh he wrote a haskell book, must be a nice account to follow. one second through the profile:
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Ronald Coase said he had gotten tired of antitrust because when the prices went up the judges said it was monopoly, when the prices went down they said it was predatory pricing, and when they stayed the same they said it was tacit collusion.
Giant grocery store chains force high food prices onto American families while rewarding executives & investors with lavish bonuses and stock buybacks. I'm demanding they answer for putting corporate profits over consumers and workers during the pandemic.
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a (life long?) project of mine is probably to get to an undergrad level in multiple subjects. economics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history (and more?).
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super shady of twitter to make this the default. change it in your DM settings now!
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the nice part is that you can make fun of people for being british and french but when they hit back at me for being indian its suddenly racist.
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the smart answer is that they're leaving so that they can go to another company that also is going to make a trillion dollars a year in 3 years. (or that they don't think it will).
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when you get fired from Meta they send you to the object level.
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Brazil and Argentina announced that they're going to launch a common currency. Here are 5 ways in which it is going to displace the USD 🧵.
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has there ever been a technology like AI where we have invented it but don't know how it works to much detail?.
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i am CS pilled . one semester of CS education has made me realise the beauty of computers . these are so cool wtf why didn't i start earlier.
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personally would not consider promoting a guy who hired hitmen.
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Every 2 months some NRI (Non Resident Indian) posts this and every time the Indians on this site point out how easy it is in India. And the Americans point out how this is only possible in a country with massive inequality and only possible for the rich in India.
Raising a child in the US seems hellish compared to India. US—Wake up early, cook, drive kid to work, both parents work, do groceries, chores, cleaning. Lonely. India—Maid cleans, driver drops you, groceries in 15mins, cook cooks, parents babysit. Community. (requires $$). 1/4.
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