Joy Buchanan

economist, mom, idealist, @SamfordU, opinions are my own

[Michael Kofoed @mikekofoed]

Y'all eating gold plated burritos or what?

[Zachary Bartsch @zachary_bartsch]

Are you a student? Suggest this to your teacher for extra credit. Need service hours? Put your admin in contact with me! One can easily complete a 1k correct labels per hour. Complete your service hours while wearing pjs from the comfort of your home - Not too bad!

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

10/n What objective will a model pursue when the instructions leave a tradeoff unresolved, and does that objective match the principal’s? SSRN link: https://t.co/IhN6T8pHYp #AI #Economics

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

Language models increasingly make decisions that allocate real resources. When the human principal has not specified every tradeoff, what preferences govern the choice?
Our new paper, with @joshuarfoster, investigates. #EconTwitter 🧵1/n

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

9/n This work builds on papers about preferences and agents, including work by @alexolegimas @BenSManning @johnjhorton @khkellis and many others.

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

https://t.co/fRoEXUptJT Still only addresses full time mathematicians, which is a path most young mathletes will not end up on.

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

Are there any articles on how the recent breakthroughs in math proofs by AI would affect scholastic math teams (middle school or high school)?

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

Having someone else take the kids to the museum on the day that it rains... is infrastructure.

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

Work starts at 11am today.

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

@huseynovecon Wouldn’t know I was #blessed and at the #beach without all these helpful wooden signs around the room.

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

@huseynovecon All these places look the same from the kitchen table. (FWIW this is the Atlantic)

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

https://t.co/yGdMED5hWW
"Which is to say: no man is an island. You can do mathematics on your own, but ... very few people can sustain ... long-term on the basis of intrinsic motivation alone."
Wondering how that impacts the signaling value of high school math team trophies. (Asking for our kids.)

[Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy]

@TheAnnaGat Sure about that?