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Sendhil Mullainathan

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Sendhil Mullainathan @sendhil.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Really excited about this paper. Part of our continued efforts to make sense of what ML models are and aren’t doing.
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 10/04/2025
Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n
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Jann Spiess @jannspiess.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Last chance to apply to this year's Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute, our AI/ML summer school for graduate students, co-organized with @sendhil.bsky.social @asheshrambachan.bsky.social @aleximas.bsky.social @lindseyraymond.bsky.social: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen... #econsky
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Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute 2025 (MLESI25)
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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
First was #SSAC day 2 w/sessions on basketball analytics (@deepakmalhotra.bsky.social, S Bird, E Wasch, M Zarren, D Morey), NFL front office (L Horton, @scottpioli51.bsky.social, K Demoff, @espnbillc.bsky.social), & AI (@sendhil.bsky.social, @pablo.show, Morey) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG1A... (2/5)
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SSAC25: Main Stage: Day 2
YouTube video by 42 Analytics
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
An incredible opportunity for the right person: The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels For me, this has been the best possible job ever. More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...
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sfiscience
SFI seeks applications for full-time, 12-month resident faculty positions at all academic levels.
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Andreas Fuster @fuster.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For those who didn't make it to #ASSA2025: strongly recommend @sendhil.bsky.social's AEA distinguished lecture, available at www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... (starting at minute 16)!
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American Economic Association: AEA Excellence Awards and Distinguished Lecture
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Some of my thoughts on OpenAI's o3 and the ARC-AGI benchmark aiguide.substack.com/p/did-openai...
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Did OpenAI Just Solve Abstract Reasoning?
OpenAI’s o3 model aces the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus" — but what does it mean?
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Raffaella Sadun @raffasadun.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Very interesting interview with @sendhil.bsky.social on AI. Fresh perspective on several topics, including value of AI in education. youtu.be/z_svj3NP968
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How AI can truly change the world – Sendhil Mullainathan & David Yanagizawa-Drott
YouTube video by Economics. For Society.
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Economics. For Society. @ubscenter.uzh.ch · 13/12/2024
What happens when @sendhil.bsky.social and David Yanagizawa-Drott come together to discuss AI? In this inaugural episode of 'Thought Supply' the conversation moves beyond the buzzwords to explore the profound economic implications. Premiering Dec 13 8pm CET youtu.be/z_svj3NP968 #EconomicsForSociety
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive,” by Kaur, Mullainathan (@sendhil.bsky.social), Oh, and Schilbach (@fschilbach.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?*
Abstract. Workers who are worried about their personal finances may find it hard to focus at work. If so, reducing financial concerns could by itself incre
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Keyon Vafa @keyonv.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Our paper proposes new metrics for world model recovery based on the Myhill-Nerode theorem from language theory: Co-authors: Justin Chen, Ashesh Rambachan, Jon Kleinberg, Sendhil Mullainathan (@sendhil.bsky.social)
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Learning Collider @learningcollider.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🔖 Looking forward to digging into the latest working paper from Jens Ludwig, @sendhil.bsky.social and Ashesh Rambachan on the use of LLMs in economics research. #econsky #scisky #phdsky arxiv.org/abs/2412.070...
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Large Language Models: An Applied Econometric Framework
Large language models (LLMs) are being used in economics research to form predictions, label text, simulate human responses, generate hypotheses, and even produce data for times and places where such ...
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Suproteem Sarkar @suproteem.cc · 20/11/2024
Economic valuations fluctuate in ways empirical research cannot fully explain What information are we missing? Economic theories emphasize the role of hard-to-quantify beliefs and perceptions My job market paper develops algorithms + measurement to quantify perceptions of firms
Abstract of paper
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
go.bsky.app/47ivadi
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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
To researchers doing LLM evaluation: prompting is *not a substitute* for direct probability measurements. Check out the camera-ready version of our work, to appear at EMNLP 2023! (w/ @rplevy.bsky.social) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2305.13264 Original thread: twitter.com/_jennhu/stat...
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