Sergei Egiev

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[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

@slovo_za_slovo It's not physical. It's existential.

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

God bless cold winds in London.

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

The most convincing take on AI/Film&TV nexus.

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

I actually think AI is a great tool in a lot of ways. It will 100% be used in just about every business. That said, it doesn't scare me for the film industry. I compare AI films and verticals to reality TV slop. When reality TV came out it was 10x cheaper than scripted and a no brainer for a lot of companies.

A lot of people will watch AI and bad verticals because a lot of people watch bad stuff. But it wont replace the good stuff. No one who watches Widow's Bay is going to start watching this garbage instead. If anything I'd be afraid if I was a reality TV producer or made my money doing UGC Tik-Toks.

If anything, I'm seeing a major rise in hand made, practical filmmaking (among other arts having a huge analogue push) as a response to this. Physical book sales are the highest they've been since 2019. It's very inspiring.

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

In the British system a person can be appointed to different ministries every other month and still be expected to be as proficient in each case as if it was their area of expertise.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is choosing between Ed Miliband, Wes Streeting and Shabana Mahmood to become his Chancellor

[@thetimes]

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

@ArchSkat —> низкими ставками
—> низкими ценами

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

“AI free device” branding becomes a thing

[patrick. @imPatrickT]

the iPhone is what made me fall in love with photography.

seeing Apple double down today on gen-AI imagery and AI photo reframing sucks, but the real nightmare is potentially turning the most popular camera in the world into a slop machine.

make real things.

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

@wwwojtekk I forget whose work I came across it in (probably Latour's), but the idea was curious: that nothing can come after postmodernism, because the very notion of a succession of eras is itself modernist.

[Piotr Żoch @pzoch5]

RIP John Blanche. Blanchitsu will never die.

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Don’t get me wrong, I get it. I genuinely see the benefit and know this will likely become the norm. That said, this is comedically Black Mirror. I am the old man on the porch screaming at the sky.

Every one of these tools make us less human, less of a society, less communal. People I work with have started to use AI for everything and I can tell you interacting with them SUCKS. It’s all so dystopian and slop filled. It’s all so boring.

Want your life to feel less like life? Welcome to Ollie!

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

@slovo_za_slovo пиши сокращай даром, и пусть никто не уйдет обиженным

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

There is this strange idea that “techno-optimism” means “liking the maximum amount of all technology all the time,” as though being a “fan of music” meant “preferring all music genres played at maximum volume all the time.” Love of a thing means more discerning taste, not less.

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

That was the only path to empirical macro.

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Must have been a rough tenure track.

[Gita Gopinath @GitaGopinath]

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

[Simon Scheidegger @comp_simon]

Thrilled to share a project I've been refining: a complete, open-source repository on "Deep Learning for Solving and Estimating Dynamic Models in Economics and Finance."
I've cleaned up the materials from my PhD classes and summer schools into one coherent resource. 🧵 1/6

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

@gguillaumeblanc

[Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026]

Since I have posted so much on Marx vs. Weber, modernity, and development over the last few weeks, I have posted an updated slide deck of my lectures on Karl Marx and the Marxian Tradition (together with @ferarteaga) here:

https://t.co/TOGm7jXMKG

This is a long deck: 437 slides in the last compilation! (It also takes a few seconds to upload.) If I were to teach it carefully, with plenty of class discussion, I would require a whole semester. Even then, some topics (e.g., the Frankfurt School) receive only a cursory treatment because I focus more on economics and political economy, broadly construed. I hope to extend the discussion of those someday.

However, I cover topics rarely seen in these courses, such as Hans-Georg Backhaus and the Neue Marx-Lektüre, because most of the work is not translated into English and must be read in the original German.

I don’t have an equivalent slide deck on Max Weber, as I haven’t lectured on him. Hopefully, one day I will.

Comments and feedback are very welcome.

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

@FlorinBilbiie This would be Dr. T.J. Eckleburg's billboard if it were made today.

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

@BrankoMilan Under artificial, state-calculated, out of equilibrium prices.

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

The solution to the theatrical problem is very simple. Extend the time before it goes to streaming. Make it 180 days. 6 months. If you don't watch it in theaters you won't get to see it for a long time. Studios have devalued their product by letting the consumer know there's no urgency. They're going to see it for "free" later. They've cheapened the business into a buffet and violated basic supply and demand.

[Sergei Egiev @SEgiev]

In a hardcore planned economy (Stalin) both are incredibly hard as both are at least partially based on made up numbers.

[space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪 @actsmaniac]

underrated explanation why market economies work better than planned economies. It's very easy to calculate how expensive it is to buy something. It's very difficult to calculate how much it costs to make something.