Maxwell Tabarrok

@MTabarrok

Blog at: maximum-progress.com Economics PhD student at Harvard

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Maxwell Tabarrok
@MTabarrok
Sep 18
The best philosophy article of 2025 tries to teach economists a lesson How do we like it when other researchers prognosticate on our field? But ultimately, the argument collapses to one of the most basic pitfalls in economics: The Diamond-Water Paradox
The Best Philosophy Article of 2025 is Bad Economics
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Maxwell Tabarrok
@MTabarrok
Oct 25
switching from medium screen to big screen + little screen in here must go so hard
Men Aura
@MenAuraHQ
Oct 24
Everything in its place, perfect zone created
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Maxwell Tabarrok
@MTabarrok
Oct 22
Standing by this prediction despite all of the recent news Normie internet users are going to be fine
Maxwell Tabarrok
@MTabarrok
Apr 9
I am confident that cybersecurity will remain stable despite Mythos and future developments Cyber has been stable through many OOM increases in computing capability, the internet, etc Theories that predict big upsets soon would have incorrectly predicted big upsets in the past
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Maxwell Tabarrok
@MTabarrok
Sep 23
Generalization out of distribution is a central crux of the AI risk debate. But there's a double bind If training on narrow tasks generalizes to broad capability, AIs will be powerful But then also training on narrow alignment generalizes to broad alignment cf. @OwainEvans_UK
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Maxwell Tabarrok
@MTabarrok
Sep 21
Does anyone have a good explanation of how Jev is trained? What kind of training data can produce a general classifier?
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