New post! Looking at three recent papers on the productivity impacts of government funded research, both in the US and OECD. Across different methods, all find positive impacts.

@ForestMaven Also, I very much agree that we have more options than “more money.” I have a high level view of some of the options here, hope to write more on specifics this year.

@sheikh__ridwan To clarify for me: are you referring to footnote 2?

@NikoMcCarty @Convergent_FROs This is great!

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@dwarkesh_sp This argues that the failure of this research paradigm (which is actually a lot older than LLMs) is because a lot of connections have drawn on humans embodied experience to an unappreciated extent.

RT @stuartbuck1: What NIH purports to do here is illegal. In annual appropriations bills for the past several years, Congress has specifica…

RT @DKThomp: This is a huge deal. “Indirect costs”, as they’re called, from NIH still pay for direct science — eg, funding science labs,…

RT @ATabarrok: Here is how indirects work. A portion of a scientist’s NIH grant goes to the university—not as a slush fund, but mostly to s…

RT @PracheeAC: Interesting back of the envelope calc on the return on investment for federally funded non-defense R&D based on some relevan…

@PracheeAC Totally agree

RT @JacobTref: NIH, NSF, and other public research are a small part of the federal budget (1%ish), and generate a dollar of GDP for cents o…

@hamandcheese @elidourado I saw (thanks!). I mostly meant it by way of explanation for why I had this thing ready to go. 😉

@hamandcheese @elidourado (By coincidence, this was almost ready to publish when I saw your tweet @hamandcheese!)

Link: Podcast version:

RT @albrgr: Across reporting and opinion pages, the NYTimes coverage on the impact of the tragic dismantling of USAID has been impressive I…

RT @littmath: Preliminary budget request includes up to 66% budget cut to NSF apparently. Seems bad. (h/t @pfau)

RT @nominalthoughts: This doesn't seem great imo

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