Evan Gorstein

I like basketball, I'm in school for statistics

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

America's elite private universities are the best schools and research centers in the world. But they are bad employers, poor citizens, and terrible neighbors.

[Evan Gorstein @evangorstein]

@fchollet Are u using a formal definition of complexity here?

[Evan Gorstein @evangorstein]

👀

[Ajeya Cotra @ajeya_cotra]

But the STEM grads still cost less than o3 for better performance

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Ludwig von Mises to Ayn Rand: “You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you.”

[Evan Gorstein @evangorstein]

I think we care, or at least I care, about our art having human intentionality behind it. Probably there are counter examples, but it seems like is an essential feature of art

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

For some goods (eg. music), we care a lot that there's a human behind them. For others (eg. clothing) we don't.

These intuitions don't have much basis—it's just habit.

Soon, humans making recorded music will just be another weird thing old people get nostalgic about.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

The Worst Tweets bracket is down to the Egregious Eight!

Vote below!

[Aditi Khandelwal @Aditi184]

😡 Absolutely disappointed with @overleaf. My account was deleted without my knowledge, and they’ve done nothing to help me recover it or transfer to my secondary email. Years of work, including all my CVs, SOPs, papers, etc., gone! This is unacceptable. #Overleaf

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Do a PhD and free yourself of such concerns

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

when I asked people how old they were when they started masturbating, female teens gave earlier ages than male teens, but adult women gave later ages than adult men.
What's happening? Memory warping or is there a real change going on?
(n=~640k)

[Evan Gorstein @evangorstein]

So true bestie

[Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir]

Even though there are physical differences between men and #women in their appearance – one is taller and has a deeper voice – they both possess infinite potential in terms of their intellectual and spiritual capabilities and aren’t different from each other in this.

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

when I go camping for two nights instead of one

[Brian Lui @brianluidog]

@economeager Just had a fascinating lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something felt off though. He just hasn't been the same since he woke up one morning from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into an enormous insect.

[Evan Gorstein @evangorstein]

@Bglamb2 @colin_fraser @PosterInternet @littmath Here's the pic for two colors. The EV of proportion of reds in your sample is closer to 0.5 than the true proportion of reds. My conjecture: for n colors, the EV of the proportion of a given color in your sample is closer to 1/n than the true proportion

[Evan Gorstein @evangorstein]

@colin_fraser @PosterInternet @littmath Mmm I guess one interpretation in this context: If you stop the experiment precisely when you've obtained an example from each category, then your estimate of the composition will be biased towards believing the categories are more balanced than they in fact are

[Evan Gorstein @evangorstein]

@vpellegri20 Can I dm u for the pick up address? Or first venmo?

[Evan Gorstein @evangorstein]

@ryancbriggs https://t.co/SzOCv2p1Nn

[Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs]

What is your favourite example of replicable, socially useful social science research from the past 10 years or so? I'm writing something pessimistic but I'd like it to not give a falsely nihilistic impression of the state of things.

[miss missouri @izzitrin]

today i am 23, the same age as gödel when he proved that first order logic is complete. should’ve been at the club!!

[Evan Gorstein @evangorstein]

Counter point: humans should not be viewed as machines

[alz @alz_zyd_]

A lot of advice given to entry-level workers is "do what you say you're going to do, in the time you said it would take you to do it"

To illustrate why, from your manager's perspective, this is so important:

The manager is running a bunch of different cores (direct reports) in parallel. The manager basically hands tasks to each core, and tries to anticipate what will be done, and how long it'll take for it to be done

Reliable cores never drop tasks, and finish tasks on time. Using a reliable core, the manager can assign the task, forget about it, and worry about it when the results come back, which will be on the expected time frame

Unreliable cores either never output, or output late. After assigning the task, the manager has to separately remember that the task was assigned; check whether it's late; and contingency-plan around it failing

Essentially, a reliable core takes up much less of the manager's brain time: nothing has to be marked or remembered, because the core does its job and the core's output return serves as sufficient memory. For the unreliable cores, a large % of manager brainpower is spend trying to manage and plan around the core's unreliability, delays, and various failure modes

As a result, the manager either micromanages unreliable cores, or gives up and only assigns tasks for which delays or failure are not very costly anyways, which by definition are basically tasks that are on the borderline of worth doing in the first place

From a worker's perspective, then, simply being a reliable core - always outputting stuff that's promised, and doing it on time - is a big plus from your manager's perspective