Robert D. Atkinson

Founder & Senior FeIlow, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (@ITIFdc), top-ranked tech policy think tank. Proud Hamiltonian & Schumpeterian

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@ewarren Good. I would not either. But they are CS folks not economists

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@RoKhanna I do. Rather than all the talk about AI why doesn’t Congress finally put in place a much better worker dislocation and adjustment system as ITIF laid out almost a decade ago.

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@KevinTFrazier @ezraklein We are building it to boost productivity- eg incomes- and boost innovation

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@tonyannett After tax income is the more appropriate measure

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@SpirosMargaris Automation leads to higher incomes for everyone

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@ProSyn @DAcemogluMIT Too bad that Darron succumbs to lump of labor fallacy

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@MFordFuture The article is nonsense

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@DrTechlash @theallinpod Can’t get eyeballs if you say normal correct things.

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@leemakiyama @AndrewYang Yang doesn’t mean humanity. He means never have a worker lose their job. Higher living standards mean a more flourishing humanity and that comes from technological productivity

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Does getting predictions right 2 years before they happen prescience? Probably not. But in "Defending Digital: Tech Fears and Scapegoats, @dmoschella and i did.

https://t.co/s922vOJ0pC

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@IAmJohnAles I look at how many followers people who post nonsense like this have and often it’s pretty big. Wow. Stupid post (with no evidence) and I assume your followers go “damn good point”

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@pmarca In most parts of the country it rains

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@AndrewYang @MFordFuture Here’s my suggestion. As u go about your lives observe for 1 week workers and count the number that will be very difficult to automate. Very high. For me in past day: washing machine repair; nurse; carpenter and police

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@DorotheaBaur No but feel free. I know it’s hard to hear things that disagree with one’s views

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@pmarca The reality is that the far left lives for and on breakouts. They will ALWAYS find more. The organizations make money. The activists find purpose in their lives

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@MazzucatoM Good = higher median incomes.

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@petereharrell Could we then retroactively take back the Federal tech we licensed to what became ASML. Had to be one of the dumbest decisions by the USG ever

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@adamkovac Not to mention that the C4 concentration ratio for the economy is largely unchanged in the last 20 years. Ooops