marcelo alé

Enjoying modernity while it lasts.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@walter_h_g_ Tal vez porque Argentina = Zimbawe + soja :)

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@pretentiouswhat This problem applies to most, if not all people most of the time, Lippmann's "stereotypes", toy, even imaginary models, not even maps of a World far exceeding any understanding. People assume u know as little as they do, on the conviction that there isn't anything more to know.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@rauchg "Coders" managed to oversell themselves in the last 15-20 years, as if they were capable of writing Doom or, well, Next.js 😉. True, hard skills lie elsewhere, as AI is already exposing.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@FT Mainstream Economics is such that no event could possibly ever tarnish any reputation, most of its "predictions" being completely unfalsifiable. Your performance will thus be good by mere convention. The best kind of job: only generous upside, no skin in the game. Like Finance.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@LibertadUnico Argentinos a Ginebra, 2 niñas de 4. En la escuela francófona, luego de 1 año hablan francés perfectamente, sin acento. En la casa, sólo castellano. Otros amigos: inglés primero, mandarín después. Qué dicha! Si hay un problema, es lo poco que se gana con un idioma tan parecido.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@nntaleb @medievalist1 Nor Gabrieli's "Arab Historians of the Crusades".

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@michaelxpettis Qui bono? These are obvious, long-standing facts, whose deleterious, even dangerous impact on Western economies and societies has become undeniable. Yet, nothing moves. This conformity deserves an explanation.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

The US system has regressed to theological times, interpreting arcane inscriptions cast in stone, as if written by gods. This instead what is right and useful in 2026. "Country of Lawyers," @danwwang would rightly say: Commas, Common Sense and Justice https://t.co/NnNVETTBU9

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@BrankoMilan To the extreme that even those European countries follow dietary recommendations based on a population that, well, visually doesn't look French or Italian, to put it mildly. As long as we confuse peer-review with scientific method, and the peers live here, answers will be biased

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@GaryMarcus Massive confirmation bias is being fed into the world by a civilization not trained at all on skepticism. E.g., ask for references, but please, this time take the time to read them. Worse still, the source might be ok but the conclusion wrong due to total lack of world knowledge

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@levie Draw the chart starting before Covid.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@ihteshamali Taken at face value, the lesson here is that people (or AI) should stop writing books and papers, but one-pagers with a few bullet points. By the same token, we could zip everything written by its exact NotebookLM-generated equivalent.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@michaelxpettis Maybe some countries in Europe, or sectors within those countries are favoured by the current system.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@TheAtlantic @rosehorowitch Time and attention were part of climbing the social ladder. This is regressing to a modern definition of being proletarian.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@fedesturze @UIAok El esfuerzo vale, pero no discutir un tema así c/ tweets y metáforas. Ricardo ok, pero Hirschman tb, no es igual un país sojero a uno high-tech. La productividad se explica menos x impuestos que x el caos, regulación, ignorancia de procesos, cultura... Para esto, un think-tank.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@michaelxpettis Ricardo was perfectly clear, and yet the confusion persists. If comparative advantage holds true positively or normatively, is a different matter. This is like those economists who mix supply and demand on markets with their aggregate versions. An "F" for all of them.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@fchollet @echetus It’s got nukes aplenty.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

25 years ago, Dutch researchers tested how fast fire can spread through a flammable ceiling in a café or bar setting.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@rauchg Long forgotten, even more deeply buried by vibe coding. Hope they rise and walk again.

[marcelo alé @_marceloale_]

@edfrenkel Euler solved the Basel problem by factorizing sin(x)/x as an infinite degree polynomial whose roots are multiples of pi. A high-school level non-deductive idea. PhD learn and repeat tons of these results so that one day their brains will come up with such jumps. Science is harsh.