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Question: are there any papers on AI that explicitly model that some people’s (many people’s?) productivity might be further *lowered* by it being immersive and distracting the same way phones are but perhaps even more so?
SCIENTISTS DEVELOP BRAIN IMPLANT CAPABLE OF DECODING INNER SPEECH
Scientists in California have developed what they say is the first brain implant capable of decoding and vocalising inner speech — words imagined in the head by people whose paralysis prevents them even attempting…
New Publication. 🏙️📈 Thrilled to share that our paper, “𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙐𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩?”, has been published in the 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬!!! 🚀 🚀 🚀 (with Hanchen Jiang and Xi Yang). Thread.
Not really. It’s just that Columbus lucked into being both the state capital and getting the state flagship. No secret sauce there. These arguments that this is fine and natural gloss over the reality that what taxpayer money created, taxpayer money might be interested in…
Not really. It’s just that Columbus lucked into being both the state capital and getting the state flagship. No secret sauce there. These arguments that this is fine and natural gloss over the reality that what taxpayer money created, taxpayer money might be interested in…
Relatedly, we talk a lot about outmigration from the rust belt to the sunbelt, but one thing we see a lot — especially somewhere like Ohio — is one metro acting like a person vacuum for the rest of the state
Relatedly, we talk a lot about outmigration from the rust belt to the sunbelt, but one thing we see a lot — especially somewhere like Ohio — is one metro acting like a person vacuum for the rest of the state
Interesting that in three of the most important matching markets: housing, labor, and marriage, the dominant feature is lock-in.
Life is good for people with existing matches, and pretty bad for the unmatched
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