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Cody Cook (PhD student, Stanford) and Paul Oyer (Economics Professor, Stanford) have a forthcoming paper that the gender pay gap for Uber drivers. It has long been known that while Uber drivers are paid “gender blind”, male drivers as a group consistently make more per hour of driving. …

Just putting this all in one place so I can link to it rather than re-sending each time I am asked. (last updated Aug 31/2020) In no particular order: Blogs: Marginal Revolution Kevin Drum (Mother Jones) Daring Fireball EconLog SMBC Collaborative Fund askblog AVC Paul Graham Essays Roots of Progress SlateStarCodex Newsletters: Stratechery The Diff A Media Operator WSJ Bloomberg NYTs WaPo Economist

A friend with GPT-3 access plugged in a recent Marketing BS essay and then asked GPT-3 to continue the post in the same writing style and provide an example to support my argument. The result is pretty incredible. Italics was the sample provided. Everything after “One example:” is GPT-3: Last…

I’m not ready to write a full essay on this, but a friend asked the question, so I thought I would share my “off the top of my head” response somewhere other than private email. The situation: Apple is going to block the ability of Facebook to track the “full…

I fed GPT-3 (OpenAI’s very impressive text prediction software tool) summaries of existing MCU films and had it describe the plots of the upcoming films. We won’t know for sure how accurate this super-powered AI is until the films come out. But I am optimistic it has read between the…

I am using AI Dungeon to create a simulation where you pretend to be a CMO working with a consultant to name a new product. I first wrote about it here. Exercise #2 was about water bottles. I thought the second attempt had too much description amd not enough dialog…

I used AI Dungeon to create a simulation where you pretend to be a CMO working with a consultant to name a new product. I first wrote about it here. Since then I have been refining the AI to improve it’s performance. Here is one of the attempts where we…

OpenAI has recently opened up beta for GTP-3, and as everyone who is testing it is saying, it is “shockingly good”. Unfortunately, most of us non-tech celebrities do not have access to the API. We are left looking at screenshots of people who are using it for everything imaginable. …