Mike Solyom

Langley City Councilor. Econ faculty at Douglas College. @SFU and @UofT grad. Husband and father of two.

[Mike Solyom @ForLangley]

@woke8yearold Remind me to use this in class next semester.

[John D. Cook @JohnDCook]

"Armed with generative AI, a B student can produce A work while turning into a C student." -- Nicholas Carr

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

I face more ideological resistance from students today than I did 10 years ago.

Here's what I mean.

Yesterday, I had a group of 14-year-olds argue with me about capitalization.

Many of them rarely use capital letters correctly in their writing, and they genuinely believe capitalization is unnecessary, or even "dumb."

When I told them that I take points off for ignoring capitalization, they insisted it was unfair.

Ten years ago, I almost never had conversations like this.

Students might have forgotten the rules. They might have been careless. But they rarely argued that the rules themselves didn't matter.

[Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs]

They will read if you read. Sadly the trick to parenting is almost always making yourself a better person first.

[Mike Solyom @ForLangley]

@anotherglassbox My 10 year old loves their burgers. I think had them once 25 years ago and was impressed.

[Mike Solyom @ForLangley]

@PhilSmith26 Thank you for this, fascinating.

[Philip Smith 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @PhilSmith26]

@ForLangley Yes, here's the corresponding US chart. Their real GDP growth was above the pre-COVID trend due to their COVID-related policies and subsequently to AI investment. Their population was below the previous trend due to high COVID death rates and Trump's anti-immigrant policies.

[Josh Hendrickson @RebelEconProf]

This is a silly take. AI is a useful tool. I encourage my students to use it when it’s a complement to their learning, but I discourage them from using it when it’s a substitute for learning. The reasoning is simple. (1/2)

[Fantasy Parliament @FtsyParliament]

Insane cheeseburger arbitrage opportunities available at Barcelona airport rn

[Philip Smith 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @PhilSmith26]

The decline in Canada's GDP per capita explained. #cdnecon

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

Dear followers, please see this new paper on the labor market and macroeconomic effects of low birth rates. Although almost all analysts and policymakers are very worried about the prospect of stagnant and aging populations, the evidence from cross-country and within the United States points to the opposite: lower birth rates predict faster growth of GDP per worker and wages. The reason: labor scarcity encourages more technology adoption.

[D. Stephen Voss @DStephenVoss]

“The idea that AI creates shortcuts ... could be very beneficial in the professional context where you want to maximize efficiency. But they are very, very damaging in the educational context, when the whole point is to do things the hard way—because that's how you learn.”

[Mike Solyom @ForLangley]

@mikekofoed @paulnovosad @alexolegimas How do you get around complaints wrt accommodations?

[David Decosimo @DavidDecosimo]

University of Chicago Law School had decided to ban *not just AI* but laptops from the first year law classroom. This is the way!

[Sulla @spqr_sulla]

New breakfast question just dropped

[Mike Solyom @ForLangley]

@eddie_roche @crit_lerma It’s not great, but does anyone else do a better one?

[Mike Solyom @ForLangley]

@elander777 @maya_sen Based entirely on what? Do you think the top students would be worse at using AI? It doesn’t exactly have a steep learning curve.

[Maya Sen @maya_sen]

Students 52 & 54 are the "best" at using AI

Would AI defenders be willing to hire those students for entry-level positions?

I suspect some employers would but the vast majority would not

[Mike Solyom @ForLangley]

@mikemaletic @DKThomp The average kids are getting better responses by copying and pasting LLM output without even reading it. You’re saying this is good news?