Jack Rametta

Computational Social Scientist. Trained @UCDavis. Causal+ML, Congress, game theory, policy, institutions, jazz, classical. Pic=Jaco, the GDOAT.

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

@RichardHanania I'm happy to see this, but it's ~272 profs out of a few thousand.

[Oliver Traldi @olivertraldi]

A few months ago Agnes Callard and Robin Hanson invited me to their podcast Minds Almost Meeting to talk about philosophy, esoteric writing, whether there's such a thing as justice, and other topics. It's now online.

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

See: https://t.co/jzTvf7xYFy

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

This is why we can't have nice things!

[Luke Wachob @LukeWachob]

Can you imagine the disaster if we had a national popular vote for President? Waiting weeks or months after Election Day for California to announce results. There would be 15 January 6’s.

[Niclas Berggren @Nonicoc]

NEW PUBLICATION: "An interest-group theory of AI-tool governance in science", published in Public Choice. In this paper, I analyze one possible rationale for academics wanting to regulate and constrain the use of AI tools in scientific work: their own interest. Some researchers are less able than others to benefit from the new tools and therefore want to make it difficult for their competitors in academia to use them. https://t.co/kdamO3ZHf6

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

@PhilipWallach Just once, I'd like to vote in a competitive house election before I die. If it takes the complete and total destruction of single member districts, or PR, or MMD, or RCV, or whatever other acronym(s) the electoral studies ppl want to throw at it I'm for it.

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

@max_spero_ @JohnHolbein1 The model can classify slop, but perhaps not sarcasm...

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

@laderafrutal So it would seem, I haven't seen anything else that would explain the delta. I was surprised by the margin as well.

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

@dwarkesh_sp @ahall_research is the correct answer

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

@joefrancis505 Lazy suggestion, what about Canada?

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

For those unfamiliar, this is a follow up on the 2021 ajps: https://t.co/GrD5HjWjtV

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

Good stuff.

[Jack Santucci @jacksantucci]

The Dynamics of Anti-Establishment Politics | Political Behavior | Springer Nature Link https://t.co/BLWymj9U8f

[Tom Church @TomVChurch]

Today's Advisory Opinions episode on the $1.776 trillion settlement fund between Trump and the DOJ is worth the listen.

I've rarely heard @whignewtons and @DavidAFrench more worked up. Starts at 6:41.

https://t.co/AFHzepuKJL

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

If you use fake citations in your paper, you will get one year arrival ban.

If you use fake data in your paper, you will get tenure at Harvard Business School.

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

@d08890 I guess more broadly the question is what are the highest leverage points to audit to prevent slop and/or fraud, and I suspect other margins are higher value

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

@d08890 I broadly agree, but the focus on these specific quality signals is questionable. I'm not super interested in hullicinated citations if, for example, there's no public replication material and we're just supposed to take for granted to tables/figs in the paper are legit.

[Akib Khan @akib_kn]

Indeed. No evidence of precipitous declines in package and repo creation (relative to R, even).

Thread on this, using CC, here: https://t.co/VGivoaEm21

[Jack Rametta @JtRametta]

@joelgriffith "Toyota stopped selling the Corolla in the United States in 2026." Is this true? I see lots of new, 2026 model year Corollas for sale online.