Sociologist working on quantitative expertise in healthcare, economics, and genetics @nyuniversity
Joined October 2010
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I wrote for @TIME about quantifying life, the history of health economics, and the partisan divide in relying on expertise to inform policy time.com/6900046/democrats-e…
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Big news! The @HPE_Project is thrilled to invite applications for two residential fellowships at the @RemarqueNYU for AY 27-28, in our Histories and Futures of Global Governance Initiative. Info and call for applications here: hpeproject.org/hfgg-cfa
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The thing is. And this was a major 🔑 for me several years ago, in thinking about the podcast, is that communists are obsessed with capitalism. Some of them are so obsessed that they might even secretly love it. Whereas capitalists rarely spend any time thinking about it.
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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “The more you automate, the less you see: Hidden pitfalls of autonomous AI scientists.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/zJL650ZY80m
For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/WQXV50ZY80n.
ALT Two-panel figure with bar graphs for Agent Laboratory and The AI Scientist v2 analyzing benchmark selection bias and SOTA reference impact.
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More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard report claimed to recognize AI leaders who were, in fact, totally fictional. wired.com/story/men-cant-sto…
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One of the studies often used to claim increasing left-wing bias in sociology doesn't really show that at all. My latest on Scatterplot: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/1…
“The purpose of mathematics, as a research discipline, is not “prove theorems”. It’s not not proving theorems, but I would say that its purpose is more like “develop [our] understanding of mathematics”.”
Some people are confused why mathematicians say OAI's drop was the "death" of a field, or figure that it's death insomuch as a bunch of university professors lost their overpaid hobby of proving theorems. That's a misunderstanding: the damage's real.
Blog: blog.ohaithe.re/post/8299720…
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1/ Mind blowing story about Trump accounts by @RichardRubinDC & @ashleaebeling. Under Treasury's new rules, a company can donate stock to a child's Trump account; parents can’t pick the stocks, reject donated shares, or sell for 5 years. Some possible implications...
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Even more so than in most industries, tech people seem to assume the universality of the niche problems they experience, which is why so many of them struggle to have a second good idea after the one that made them rich.
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my book is out now 🫶
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good point from @matteo_wong on the hacks and even little things like calling the companies “labs” theatlantic.com/technology/2…
I've got a new paper out in the Journal of Organizational Sociology, "Polygenic Prediction: How Contested Genetic Technologies Organize Fields of Expertise." Coauthored with Aaron Panofsky. degruyterbrill.com/document/…
We apply this framework to make sense of the production and use of polygenic indices, which occurs in a field featuring tensions between both scientific autonomy vs. heteronomy and technological conservatism vs. provocation.
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🌞🌞🌞Scoop - Trump admin weighing 12 data center proposals for 17,600 acres of public land across six states
Far more than previously known
By @mara_hop & @jadelozada_
washingtonsun.com/climate-en…
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new unredacted filings in the publishers (including my employer) vs OpenAI and Microsoft lawsuit
Microsoft's Director of applied science calls LLM training "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions"
asked MSFT and OAI for comment, nothing yet. NYT declines comment.
