Christopher Chukwu

Development economist. Health, Housing, Environment, Econ Policy. #Econtwitter.

[Michael Crichton @CrichtonBooks]

How does science inform sound policy?

In his Senate testimony, Michael Crichton called for accessible research data, independent verification, and clear standards for the information guiding public decisions.

[Christopher Chukwu @christopherchux]

100% True. ~ Use Ai to track what is happening in Ai.

[Kevin Xu @kevinxu]

so much is happening in AI rn you basically have to be unemployed to keep up

[Kevin Xu @kevinxu]

so much is happening in AI rn you basically have to be unemployed to keep up

[Naval @naval]

The future is more likely AIs fighting AIs (on behalf of humans) than AI fighting humanity.

[Christopher Chukwu @christopherchux]

Awesome economic research. However, I am already betting on the limit of the model : that humanity would develop hyper-capable robots.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Anthropic’s Economics team is sharing a new model of how AI might affect economic growth, jobs, wages, and more by 2030.

Explore the scenarios, tell us what you think will happen, and see how your answers compare to more than 10,000 Americans. https://t.co/AvQlEZNxR0

[Brown ™️ @dan_le_brown]

if it works, ask, "how can it be improved?"

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

Pretty huge. Canada now has a current accounts surplus for the first time in 4 years. The current account is how much money a country earns from exports and investments vs what it pays out abroad. Canada is bringing in more foreign currency through trade than it's sending out.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

Canada posted its first current account surplus in four years, led by strong gains in goods exports, including energy products.

Some of you are overly pessimistic about the US trade war; some of you are overly pessimistic about Canada’s ability to build and develop resources. Let me tell you that Canada will produce and export more potash, uranium, copper, oil, natural gas and gold next year and in the years following. It’s baked in already. The only question is how much global market share we will gain.

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

this should be a five alarm fire for policymakers in canada

517 american companies started by canadians. $414 billion raised. almost 9 in 10 of them went to school in canada

incredibly, 216 of these founders went to waterloo…. and half of these companies were started in the last 2 years!

[Michael Booth @_MichaelBooth_]

I've wanted to make a better Stats Canada website for a long time. I finally following through on it. What information would you like to see about Canada that currently isn't easily accessible? I have a lot covered so far!

[Ethan @EthanJMarcoux]

The Canadian Explorers is launching Explorer Essays: ambitious ideas written directly by founders in Canada's critical industries.
The first imagines how robotics and critical AI can help Canada build a world-class city in the Arctic

https://t.co/WCrZpxCZaP

[Build Canada @buildcanada]

Record-breaking summer heat is now the norm. That's why it's imperative Canada leads on innovative firefighting technologies.

Canadian builders will get us there. 🇨🇦

📰 From @UofT : https://t.co/5sYvC79ZVC

[Build Canada @buildcanada]

With some of the misinformation that goes around regarding data centres, it’s understandable why some are nervous about their development.

The truth is, the power and water consumption as well as carbon emissions of these data centres is dramatically lower than viral posting would have you believe. ⚡️💧

Further, most data centres aren’t being used primarily for AI. They’re being used for your cloud storage, entertainment streaming, emails, and the things you’ve been using on the internet for a long time already. Only ~14% of data centres power usage is attributable to AI. 🤖

[Christopher Chukwu @christopherchux]

Lots of misinformation on data centers has beclouded the system.

[Build Canada @buildcanada]

Data centres are buried in misinformation online.

We need them – they’ll enable Canadians to control our digital future.

We must overcome the fear and build data centre projects that are effective, long-term, and a net benefit for all. 🇨🇦

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

A PhD that ends with a product instead of a paper nobody reads.

More countries should try this.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

It amazes me that, in the year of our Lord 2026, academic journals still haven’t figured out how to let authors include interactive visualizations.

[Malthe Munkøe @Malthe_MMM]

@BeatrizGietner Remember one econometrics class where the professor ran out, and therefore started using Gothic letters - that's where you know it's going to be a tough day 😂

[Naval @naval]

Ubiquitous, streaming cameras will bring the end of privacy, petty crime, police brutality, and eventually, shame.

[TG OMORI @boy_director]

The more conscious a man becomes the less capable he is of happiness.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

What will the future actually look like?
@friedberg and I sat down to discuss.

0:00 Why we fear the future
0:39 The fertilizer crisis solved
2:01 Life is getting better
4:04 East vs. West mindset
6:20 AI centralizes power differently
7:08 Technology always diffuses outward
9:30 CAR-T therapy case study
11:31 Token costs falling 1000x
12:25 The moon explained
13:50 Everyone owning a robot
16:11 Which jobs AI hits first
17:47 Who buys the robots?
19:20 TikTok proves latent entrepreneurship
21:30 Moon as staging ground
23:54 The 9km rail gun
25:46 Self-replicating robots on Mars
27:06 Fusion energy explained
29:04 How the sun works
32:13 AI cracking plasma stability
37:20 Who owns the moon?
44:33 How far is age reversal?
48:38 Yamanaka factors discovered
54:11 Longevity escape velocity
56:15 Careers in a 120-year life
1:00:07 Transhumanism and brain interfaces
1:05:05 Embryo selection and CRISPR
1:10:53 Making X-Men: transgenic humans
1:26:30 David's seed company explained
1:36:25 California's collapse
1:40:47 Unfunded pension crisis
1:41:08 The billionaire tax threat
1:42:59 Origin of the income tax
1:46:17 Wealth tax kills property rights
1:52:29 Why people vote socialist
1:54:43 Government vs. free market prices
2:02:38 The food stamp explosion
2:05:23 AOC as 2028 frontrunner
2:07:02 Tomorrowland's optimism shift

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