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Matt Clancy

@mattsclancy
Abundance and Growth Fund Program Director at @coeff_giving. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com. See mattsclancy.com for more.
Des Moines, IA
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    Matt Clancy
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    May 11
    The Abundance and Growth Fund goal is to raise broadly shared economic growth. We support work ranging from research to fieldbuilding to practice, with an initial focus on innovation, energy, clinical trials, housing, and state capacity. More here!
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    Matt Clancy
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    Sep 2
    I have some thoughts on why economists and technologists can't agree here: asteriskmag.substack.com/p/why-cant-tec…
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    Kevin A. Bryan
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    Sep 2
    I love this bet. Not a gambling man myself, but just to be clear, 99.9% of economists would take the no-fast-growth side if forced. 15% annual growth by 2033 would require implausible diffusion speed. Think about Waymo diffusion given their tech, and apply broadly...
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    Matt Clancy
    @mattsclancy
    Aug 26
    Part of a thread about how UK college students are changing their majors in the era of generative AI.
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    Bouke Klein Teeselink
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    Aug 26
    Replying to @BKleinTeeselink
    Meanwhile, our analysis also shows that the labour market prospects for juniors have deteriorated for graduates from these programs. Students are thus moving toward subjects in which entry-level jobs are declining.
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    Matt Clancy
    @mattsclancy
    Aug 20
    Is AI going to lead to a century of progress over ten years? I have a new piece in Asterisk’s newsletter about why all the arguing in the world often fails to lead to agreement on questions like this. 1/8
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    Matt Clancy
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    Aug 18
    I didn’t know this! The next tweet in the thread notes this is driven by religiosity and when you control for that the correlation disappears.
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    Anna Stansbury
    @annastansbury
    Aug 18
    GDP per capita is super strongly correlated with life satisfaction across countries - but *negatively* correlated with meaning/purpose The AI-makes-us-all-rich future: lots of hedonic satisfaction, little eudaimonia? from @BetseyStevenson
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