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Many families have vindictive relatives. My relatives just happen to control a small authoritarian government. 🇸🇬 🧵
Shengwu Li
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Shengwu Li
@ShengwuLi
Joined November 2016
- While a PhD student at Stanford, I had to attend an interview to check whether I could teach in English. This was because my BA was from a foreign university; the University of Oxford.Today I get to pay $300 to take a 3-hour English test in order to be eligible to stay in the country where I am employed to teach English language courses at an English language institution, a prerequisite for which was the PhD I earned at an English language university.
- Daron Acemoglu already has a social media account for economics posting. It’s called Econometrica.
- Breaking: My father, the youngest son of Lee Kuan Yew, has received refugee protections under the 1951 Geneva Convention. This grant of asylum follows a long campaign of persecution from the Singapore government.
- I am shocked, shocked to hear that the “infinite monkey theorem” smuggles in the assumption that there are infinitely many monkeys.
- Tenured. Now that it's no longer tempting fate, let me say this: Be kind to yourself. It's easy on the tenure track to work to the point of negative marginal return. Focused work is hard. If you can work on a proof for four real hours in a day, that is a good day.
Look, I’m no economist but aren’t questions like “how do we incentivize companies to produce enough rapid tests to meet demand?” the sort of thing y’all are supposed to be helping with?- It took me 30 seconds to fact-check this claim in the Chomsky op-ed.
- It has been 5 years since I left home, because of a political prosecution by the Singapore government. Friends often ask me if it's safe to return.
- In the past, I've had students call my problem sets "emotionally trying". (These are for 2nd-year PhD game theory.) This year I'm going to explain myself and set clearer expectations.
- It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker…
- Well, this went rapidly from “way outside economists’ expertise” to nuclear game theory plus macroeconomic forecasting. Stand back political scientists, this is officially our lane.
- This time, the Nobel committee skipped the computer scientist and gave the prize directly to the machine.The best Nobel prize ever! Congratulations to @DAcemogluMIT, @baselinescene, and my Harris colleague Jim Robinson!
