James King @[email protected]

Founder of @sciencepractice and co-founder of @ctrl_group.

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

I think I asked whether they got *anything* right

[Ole Peters @ole_b_peters]

At EE2025 @jamesking asked what Kahneman and Tversky got right.
Using two-sentence stories is one thing.

So here's a two-sentence EE story.
We asked quantitatively trained economists to complete a gambling task. When we gave them time to think about it, they did worse.

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@albrgr The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@nonergodicMark @ole_b_peters https://t.co/jdQCcY5uSA

[Ole Peters @ole_b_peters]

Message from Emilie Soysal and @jamesking about the next ergodicity-economics seminar, presented by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, on a classic paper he co-authored with @marc_mezard in 2000.

Come and join us, sign-up link in the message below.

https://t.co/YlpfZdFZnc

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@EmanuelDerman I don’t see where your certainty that Linda is a bank-teller comes from. I think the question leaves open the possibility that Linda is neither a bank-teller nor a feminist. The question is only asking which assertion is more likely, not saying that one or other must be true.

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@salonium @davebinnig Related: How to Survive a Plague by David France is a book (and documentary) about the activists and scientists who worked to find an effective treatment for HIV/AIDS. The author lived through the events in the book, reporting on them as a journalist at the time. Amazing book.

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@salonium I remember this BBC drama being good: the story of scaling up the production of penicillin. Not currently available on iPlayer right now, though https://t.co/oQuDJuDZqZ

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@philipcball Thank you!

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@ole_b_peters Interesting question here regarding a thermodynamics / economics analogy:

[Ben Reinhardt @Ben_Reinhardt]

Dumb economics question:

Is there any sense of economic "waste heat?"

At a micro level, everybody knows businesses can be more or less efficient at turning money into more money.

But at the macro level, it seems like GDP is just GDP regardless of how it's spent?

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@philipcball Do any other examples of this kind of thing spring to mind? Very interested in this from an evolution-of-cooperation perspective.

[Prof. Lee Cronin @leecronin]

I’ve long hypothesized that ‘life is the universe developing a memory’. This is the basis of Assembly Theory (AT) and Philip Ball has written an article about AT published here in Quanta. https://t.co/Ve5u7dns7k

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@nonergodicMark @Benjaminskjold Haha! I was documenting our process, probably.

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@Benjaminskjold Oh no! Does it still count?

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

Great work from @sciencepractice on behalf of @wellcometrust! Read more in this thread…

[Wellcome @wellcometrust]

Data on underrepresentation is well-evidenced in STEM.

We want to help fix that ⤵️🧵[1/5]

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@philgyford Ooh!

[Phil Gyford @philgyford]

Here's my latest project: https://t.co/Qd62Wqc9S5 , a collection of hundreds of blogs.

I was tired of hearing "no body blogs any more" and wanted to show that there are so. many. blogs!

I have loads more blogs and features to add yet, and I hope you find something interesting.

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@genmon Have you read Marianna Mazzucato? I think her ideas in the Mission Economy and Entrepreneurial State books are heavily influencing Labour’s industrial/innovation policy.

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@_neilhacker I thought exactly the same thing!

[James King @[email protected] @jamesking]

@ole_b_peters @LdnMathLab I love that book!

[Basil @basil]

I'm very excited to have joined @AdeptAILabs! We're building a universal collaborator – it's like an overlay that sits on top of all the software you use. You can hand off tasks to it by just... asking. Below is an early preview of some things it can do!