EconAnon

Econ-twit person. Labour economist. Anon for professional reasons. Strong opinions about R. Likes when line goes up. Belgian in UK.

[EconAnon @Econonymous321]

@TeaGeeGeePea @paulnovosad The last 1/3 of the book is the story of Keynes' ideas after his death. It runs up to the 90s IIRC.

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@ElokoMode @rhovanielle "what if Germans were the good guys"

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@alexanderrX_ For one thing the job is not CTO of HMRC...

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@nonregemesse They say Mos-cow 🐮. A fundamentally unserious people.

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@BernoulliDefect Function of increased population/density and more cars. But also cars are just huge now.

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@alex_prompter lmao

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@_Sosthene_ @RoseandCr0ss You do realise you lost the Seven Years War (being depicted in Barry Lyndon)?

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@Michaelknife1 @BovrilG @stendhalist Could be a of illustrious PPE pedigree bestriding the lands of Wordceldom and Shaperotatia like the colossus.

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@lymanstoneky Maybe he should invest in some functional light bulbs.

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@ipatrol6010 @ProfSteveKeen https://t.co/EVXV27o1uF

It is awarded by the Swedish Academy of Science, but is administered by the Nobel Foundation, hence why their website contains and lists laureates alongside laureates from other fields.

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@arindube Does the mature economy vs catch-up growth economy not complicate that comparison somewhat? Also significant EU-level direct transfers through grants.

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@AaronBastani Warsaw? Prague? Berlin? Ljubljana?

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@NationalReilly @angloaleks Cecil Rhodes.

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@ItsTaz1989 Cecil Rhodes is by far and away the prime candidate.

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@Alonso_GD @Columba521 by "trust" you mean its enforced by observers from the parties competing being able to observe the count?

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@AlbaMurray22 @scotfax @staylorish @grok I used to work in DG ECFIN for the Commission and everything you are saying is egregiously incorrect.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

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@HCH_Hill Think it confuses the critique that Britain has never been one for flying flags in personal property (unlike Americans) versus public buildings.

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@VeniVidi_Victor @_Credible_Hulk @cremieuxrecueil You can just check things you know.