Joe Wilske

Economics PhD candidate having a great time all the time

[Joe Wilske @joewilske]

“Computers are fine, but multiple in one building???”

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Monterey Park has become the first city in the US to permanently ban data centers, per Los Angeles Times.

[Analytic Valley Girl Chris @ChrisExpTheNews]

I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce

[Joe Wilske @joewilske]

@JacobP_Dowell Adam Smith is enough

[Joe Wilske @joewilske]

Counterpoint: the division of labor.

[iamyesyouareno @iamyesyouareno]

What a nightmare.

[Joe Wilske @joewilske]

@DrSyedHaider We really just have to stop subsidizing it.

[Tomás (Now in SF) Bjartur @BjarturTomas]

Every member of my family has a PhD in economics. We have a quaint, gift-giving tradition where we all sit in a circle around the Christmas tree. We each take out a crisp 100 dollar bill and gift it to the person sitting to our right.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

One of the most exciting matchups every single week

Justin Herbert vs the offensive line tasked with protecting him

[Joe Wilske @joewilske]

@fleiAnalytics Weird that this is downward-sloping

[Ben Podgursky @bpodgursky]

My dad is an economist. On the highway he will never change lanes no matter how much faster the other lane is moving, insisting that the drivers in front of him have already exploited any possible speed arbitrage opportunities.

[Joe Wilske @joewilske]

Why even bother with an econ phd if NOT ONE hinge match is going to ask me about tariffs

[Lamar Jackson @Lj_era8]

Doug Flutie Highlights😮‍💨⛽️

#Gocrazy

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

Congestion pricing coverage is peak economics

Every person is like, "I didn't used to bear the external costs of my behavior. But now that I do, I am adjusting along an infinite variety of least-cost adaptive margins that no central planner could have foreseen or designed"

[Daniel Popper @danielrpopper]

Every week, Derwin James is going to test how much your RBs love football.

[Joe Wilske @joewilske]

Screaming “COME ON” at Rstudio like I’m watching a football game.

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

When your customers spend their own money, pursuing an innovation that improves quality but is more expensive requires expecting that customers will value the improved quality above the extra cost. (Adding AC to a car for example.) but if customers are spending other people’s money as most do in health care in the US, that is no longer the calculation. It’s a different game and the people with the most info are not as likely to pay attention. A disaster. That’s why there is good health care in the US but at an absurdly high cost that sometimes isn’t worth it. Market forces—the feedback loops of profit and loss and competition aren’t allowed to operate.

[Joe Wilske @joewilske]

@JacobP_Dowell

[Atakan Tekparmak @AtakanTekparmak]

Minecraft villager says their universe is not a computer simulation because to simulate it would require a redstone computer the size of the Minecraft universe

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

I spent the last three days trying to prove something goes to infinity only to show this morning it is bounded above by 4

[Joe Wilske @joewilske]

@fluxtheorist I also like “lives in”. E.g. “this guy lives in 3-space”

[😡fermion, PhD @angryfermion]

it's not machine learning unless it's from the machine region of france

otherwise it's just sparkling linear algebra