David Conway

Oxford student. Econ RA-ing for @Jon_Hartley_.

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@auyonomous The fact that the 'effects' show up so soon after chatgpt is released makes me quite sceptical

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@AgustinLebron3 @JesusFerna7026 has a nice paper that develops this point.
https://t.co/oG7EhDEXO6

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@sc_cath @albertobisin @AaronBastani

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@JesusFerna7026 Will you be delivering any other talks while at Oxford?

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@TheStalwart @AlanMCole get this man on odd lots!!

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@rotenmorgen @ProfEmilyOster usually the way I get around thus is by using amazon's 'look inside' feature, but alas it's not available for this book -- yet

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@ben_golub @quxiaoyin @pangram damn, didn't know you could do that. awesome

[Jack Meyer 🏛️ @Jackbmeyer]

The problem with Industrial Revolution analogies is that most people have a very limited understanding of the Industrial Revolution(s)

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@PJTheEconomist "general equilibrium"

[Celeste (ICML!) @celestepoasts]

consider the following:

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@CharlesFLehman yes, yes, but let's not forget that historically -- even incredibly useful technologies -- take time to be integrated into the economy. The lag from innovation to economic integration is almost always fairly protracted

[Martha Gimbel @marthagimbel]

It is not simply the case that a technology is invented and it’s fully adopted the next day

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@johnloeber i've had similar experiences in my own experimentation with it. but when i hear openai and anthropic people say that internally nearly everything is done with ai coding, it makes me wonder whether it's me that's the problem, not claude or chatgpt

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@notanastronomer @Jackbmeyer really, why?

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@hsu_steve lol, remind me of the academic background of the authors who wrote this paper?? They weren't "professional economists", were they?

--Very cool paper though.

[John Cochrane @JohnHCochrane]

@JesusFerna7026 Producing new (usually narrow) knowledge, and having the wisdom to apply economics in real time--usually very basic economics -- are very different skills. Some have both, not many. Research rewards risk taking and innovation. Policy rewards avoiding disaster.

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@stevehou what if your enemies have a high WTP when making bribes and your friends have a low reservation price; seems like it'd be a pretty ruinous meeting of supply and demand to bring about ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[David Conway @davidrconway]

@paulnovosad which is interesting, because then AI (in this context) doesn’t really lower the barrier to entry such that *novices* can enter the domain, as much as it enables domain experts to significantly increase output given an identical constraint

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[David Conway @davidrconway]

interesting, and point taken.

still though, one thing I think that's often missing from 'look-how-impressive-a-thing-AI-can-now-do' discourse is that people often neglect that in order to ask AI to do said thing — and interpret its quality and amend its shortcomings — one often needs a lot of background knowledge about said thing

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