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@ The Pacific: Good questions. My point isn’t that journals can’t adopt that stance, only that I won’t referee for…
It would be a shame if bad philosophy of mind got us all killed. AI can absolutely have desires and…
Does AI really pose an existential risk? Answer: Yes. Reason: There is a pattern of people leaving these companies (foregoing…
This is a load of cobblers. Philosophers need to read more Searle & watch less 2001. Computers, however fancy, are…
I wonder how feasible and time-intensive it would be to make it a standard policy check for undisclosed AI usage.…
One provocative read (if you can get past the sensationalistic headline) is econ blogger Noah Smith’s substack post from last…
Yes. This topic is hard to talk about because it ticks all the boxes for what one might rave about…
…and it's in The New York Times. Kudos to the AEA for investigating this and publicizing it. But why haven't more economists been taken down by sexual harassment? Have I missed it?
Economics is a weird discipline. The first acknowledgement of gender disparity (but not harassment) was in the early 1970s! There were some initiatives. Things got a bit better and then stalled – for decades. See (self-promotion alert): https://sustainabilitycommunity.nature.com/users/171053-rodrigo-zeidan/posts/44921-female-representation-in-economics-from-data-to-action. I would assume that harassment in the discipline is neither better nor worse than in other places. There has been some high profile cases: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/business/economy/roland-fryer-harvard.html but nothing that would systematically tackle the issue.
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