@StefanFSchubert Avatar @StefanFSchubert Stefan Schubert

Stefan Schubert posts on X about in the, countries, this is, sweden the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social Influence

Social category influence countries 13.08% finance 5.38% technology brands 3.85% travel destinations 3.08% celebrities 2.31% stocks 0.77% social networks 0.77%

Social topic influence in the 12.31%, countries #1584, this is 7.69%, sweden 4.62%, the most 3.85%, gdp 3.08%, the world 3.08%, science 3.08%, china 2.31%, drugs 2.31%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @grok @tasawarmq @rodpdavison @alert_alarms @sigaliyali @jburnmurdoch @xlibertasbrazil @tenobrus @marcmarc3729161 @chiplomatic @precuneanplexus @ohabryka @elonmusk @sophiaenoch1 @laneless_ @rokomijic @patterndepthq @jeanclaudefox2 @andymasley @nathanpmyoung

Top assets mentioned Intuit Inc. (INTU)

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@JeanClaudeFox2 @jburnmurdoch @rootsofprogress Actually John criticises the 'deaths of despair' term/explanation and does discuss supply shocks"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:23Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"The fall in international adoptions: in [----] [----] children from other countries were adopted by Swedes. In [----] that number was down to [--]. (Adoptions within Sweden are fairly flat.)"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:08Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@robertskmiles Opuss response fwiw"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:36Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Conceptual innovations are often slower than we intuit. Effective altruism is another example. All you need is literacy basic mathematics and dice; the ancient greeks could have invented DnD. It seems like such an obvious idea with very few prerequisites why did it take until the 1970s All you need is literacy basic mathematics and dice; the ancient greeks could have invented DnD. It seems like such an obvious idea with very few prerequisites why did it take until the 1970s"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:38Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"People often use "research taste" these days for what used to be called "judgement" but I prefer the latter. "Taste" makes it sound more subjective arbitrary and fashion-dependent than it is"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:15Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Extraordinary how little support some European countries give to Ukraine. European solidarity is weaker than European federalists imagine. 2) Military aid donors -- share of GDP https://t.co/9K4Ic2pUMi 2) Military aid donors -- share of GDP https://t.co/9K4Ic2pUMi"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:38Z 44.6K followers, 11.8K engagements

"Took some leading questions but eventually it could identify the key sleight-of-hand"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:36Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"There's more to say about this but brightness/intelligence is correlated across domains This is how I feel about a lot of bright people. A few truly great ideas in one domain and foolishness in most others. This is how I feel about a lot of bright people. A few truly great ideas in one domain and foolishness in most others"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:04Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@lefineder Hence"
X Link 2026-02-15T00:06Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"In today's newsletter: American EV sales have fallen to [----] levels likely in part because federal tax credits have been scrapped. Meanwhile sales surge in China and some European countries like Norway and Denmark. Also in today's newsletter: 1/5 https://www.update.news/p/american-ev-sales-are-at-their-lowest https://www.update.news/p/american-ev-sales-are-at-their-lowest"
X Link 2026-02-03T14:17Z 44.1K followers, [----] engagements

"January was the first month since [----] no one was shot to death in Sweden continuing the positive trend Ive reported on https://www.update.news/p/why-is-crime-plummeting-in-the-most https://www.update.news/p/why-is-crime-plummeting-in-the-most"
X Link 2026-02-04T06:45Z 43.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Slovakia has refused to pay ethnic Hungarians for property expropriated for infrastructure arguing it should have been confiscated after WWII. And it's also outlawed criticisms of the post-WWII confiscations. Sounds pretty mad. https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/02/05/how-neighbouring-populists-fall-out https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/02/05/how-neighbouring-populists-fall-out"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:55Z 44.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Government social spending is rising to the point where differences across time are often larger than those between countries: US spending is what the UK had around [----]. But Sweden is an exception: spending has fallen from 34% to 26% of GDP since [----]. https://www.update.news/p/it-is-better-to-be-vaguely-rightopen=false#%C2%A7government-social-spending-is-rising-almost-everywhere https://www.update.news/p/it-is-better-to-be-vaguely-rightopen=false#%C2%A7government-social-spending-is-rising-almost-everywhere"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:42Z 44.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@ArchieHall The tax-to-GDP ratios are a bit different though https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/12/revenue-statistics-2025_07ca0a8e/3a264267-en.pdf https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/12/revenue-statistics-2025_07ca0a8e/3a264267-en.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:53Z 44.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Elite overproduction seems to be the default including among animals; like lions fighting to be the dominant male. There are always people who had hoped for more. I feel like this term captures what's going on in the job market right now. https://t.co/Hm4Vc8rXCs I feel like this term captures what's going on in the job market right now. https://t.co/Hm4Vc8rXCs"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:53Z 44.2K followers, 11.4K engagements

"There are lots of complaints about people being bad at prompting but this paper finds that people make seemingly reasonable adjustments as Midjourney improves. "Without human adaptation users need three times more prompts to achieve observed results" https://www.sijie-lin.com/files/JMP.pdf https://www.sijie-lin.com/files/JMP.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:47Z 44.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@econcallum https://ruthkrishnan.com/san-francisco-real-estate-2025-data-2026-outlook/ https://ruthkrishnan.com/san-francisco-real-estate-2025-data-2026-outlook/"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:15Z 44.1K followers, [---] engagements

"The AI-Covid analogy doesn't seem particularly apt to me. People should be more careful with their analogies (cf all the WWII analogies)"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:41Z 44.2K followers, 16.5K engagements

"@BrilliantMaps If you gave southern Sweden to Baltica in exchange for Lithuania it would broadly match the borders of the Swedish Empire"
X Link 2026-02-13T23:47Z 44.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@AndyMasley Claude"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:18Z 44.5K followers, [---] engagements

"@AndyMasley I think it was unfair I mean you said "conservatism" so I don't think you were wrong. But apart from that I think the response is decent (it also said more). My question was "Has there been any right wing ideology with this view since 1900""
X Link 2026-02-15T21:27Z 44.5K followers, [---] engagements

""French pensioners now have higher incomes than working-age adults" - extraordinary By @jburnmurdoch"
X Link 2025-09-13T09:08Z 44.6K followers, 2.8M engagements

""It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in [----] and has since gone into steady decline." By @jburnmurdoch"
X Link 2025-10-03T08:06Z 44.6K followers, 1.5M engagements

"In [----] UK top 10% incomes were no [--] in the world but theyve since gradually fallen and are now behind the rest of the Anglosphere and northwestern Europe; just above Spain and Italy"
X Link 2025-10-31T06:06Z 44.6K followers, 1.9M engagements

"Since the 1970s old age govt spending has increased while public investment has fallen in many rich countries. By @jburnmurdoch https://www.ft.com/content/b4d2c7a3-587d-440f-a7a9-7e5e85b93a88 https://www.ft.com/content/b4d2c7a3-587d-440f-a7a9-7e5e85b93a88"
X Link 2026-01-23T05:09Z 44.6K followers, 360.6K engagements

"Eurozone unemployment has never been lower"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:30Z 44.6K followers, 97.4K engagements

"Why are so many people in English-speaking countries dying early While the most long-lived keep getting older the lower end of US life expectancy has fallen through the floor. But it's not just the US: as @jburnmurdoch shows in a great talk at the @rootsofprogress [----] conference the same pattern can be found in Canada and the UK: It's deaths from external and behavioural causes that have increased like substance abuse or suicide: From my newsletter where I also cover a bunch of other stories: https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakers"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:17Z 44.6K followers, 129.2K engagements

"Despite the housing crisis London housebuilding has collapsed to a historic low not seen anywhere else in the developed world. By @jburnmurdoch"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:41Z 44.6K followers, 127.8K engagements

"Europe is moving west - most countries that used to be communist have shrunk since [----] while all countries that werent communist have grown. https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakersopen=false#%C2%A7europe-is-moving-west https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakersopen=false#%C2%A7europe-is-moving-west"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:46Z 44.6K followers, 25K engagements

"Is the slow automation of restaurant and supermarket jobs really just about a preference for the human touch Im not so sure. https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakersopen=false#%C2%A7the-human-touch-or-mere-convenience-why-job-automation-lags https://www.update.news/p/why-are-so-many-english-speakersopen=false#%C2%A7the-human-touch-or-mere-convenience-why-job-automation-lags"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:17Z 44.6K followers, 112K engagements

""The top-20 per cent of consumers account for around [--] per cent of sales of products like cookies and ice cream. If those 'super users' end up on GLP-1 drugs you get a non-linear reduction in sales." Sugar prices have tumbled to their lowest level in more than five years as weight-loss drugs accelerate a drop in demand by pushing consumers to ditch sweet treats in favour of protein. https://t.co/sgjoxw20wS https://t.co/NTeJSKC7uK Sugar prices have tumbled to their lowest level in more than five years as weight-loss drugs accelerate a drop in demand by pushing consumers to ditch sweet treats"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:18Z 44.6K followers, 323.5K engagements

"I predict that any such attempts would fail. Big business doesn't have as much power as many people think. Won't be surprised to see companies who sell sugary snacks start lobbying against GLP-1s once they start losing that top 20% Won't be surprised to see companies who sell sugary snacks start lobbying against GLP-1s once they start losing that top 20%"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:37Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@tszzl I love living in an era that makes gwern possible"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:58Z 44.6K followers, [---] engagements

"China had more than seven times as many newborns as the US in [----] but last year that ratio was merely [---]. Indian births have also fallen but are still almost three times the Chinese figure. This is bound to have geopolitical implications. https://www.update.news/p/why-we-should-think-more-like-economistsopen=false#%C2%A7chinas-falling-birth-rates-will-have-geopolitical-consequences https://www.update.news/p/why-we-should-think-more-like-economistsopen=false#%C2%A7chinas-falling-birth-rates-will-have-geopolitical-consequences"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:27Z 44.6K followers, 12.7K engagements

"One thing AI is good at is exposing misleading hype claims about AI This year has been one of the weakest labor markets for new PhDs in economics just as AI makes it possible to write a technically competent paper in hours. The break is real. When execution becomes cheap papers lose their signaling power and attention collapses. What remains This year has been one of the weakest labor markets for new PhDs in economics just as AI makes it possible to write a technically competent paper in hours. The break is real. When execution becomes cheap papers lose their signaling power and attention"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:24Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Yes I think in particular the internet. I'd like to see some social science on this; maybe comparing with other technological shifts like the printing press. Overall the relative lack of good social science about these important movements is disappointing. @StefanFSchubert i am guessing both rationalism and EA owe a lot to the existence of the internet & tech philantropy. most of the ideas aren't new. but the people interested in these ideas are very sparse. only with internet and more money & power for nerds has rationalism/EA been able to hit @StefanFSchubert i am guessing both rationalism"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:25Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Seems to me a large fraction of the contemporary right is pretty pessimistic and resentful of its own civilisation The Left compares their own civilisation with utopia and therefore hates it. The Right compares their own civilisation with barbarism and therefore loves it. The Left compares their own civilisation with utopia and therefore hates it. The Right compares their own civilisation with barbarism and therefore loves it"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:18Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Gives the perfect excuse to drop that you're a Nobel Prize winner. "How did the two of you meet" "Well." "At the Nobel Prize dinner in Stockholm I was seated next to my future wife Eva Meyersson who charmed me from the start with her wit and laugh and tolerance for my awkward dancing." - Paul Milgrom on how he met his wife at the Nobel Prize banquet. #NobelPrize https://t.co/409LNvbjxG "At the Nobel Prize dinner in Stockholm I was seated next to my future wife Eva Meyersson who charmed me from the start with her wit and laugh and tolerance for my awkward dancing." - Paul Milgrom on how he met"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:43Z 44.6K followers, 14.5K engagements

"Any sane person would rather entrust Amanda with the future than Musk"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:47Z 44.6K followers, 1.5M engagements

"@ohabryka I think he has serious character flaws"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:01Z 44.6K followers, 17.6K engagements

"RT @daniel_271828: Brockman confirming what everyone knew from the beginning - these donations are simply an extension of Brockmans work a"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:26Z 44.6K followers, [--] engagements

"clear and bitterly cold"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:49Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I dont think its insane at all. People dont have an obligation to offer you to buy their stuff. Kinda insane how there are headlines weekly of OpenAI being valued at $800 billion Anthropic at $380 billion SpaceX at $1.25 trillion and 99.999% of investors are unable to participate in the upside of the most iconic generational businesses of our time Kinda insane how there are headlines weekly of OpenAI being valued at $800 billion Anthropic at $380 billion SpaceX at $1.25 trillion and 99.999% of investors are unable to participate in the upside of the most iconic generational businesses of our"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:58Z 44.6K followers, 22.4K engagements

"In line with the Rehn-Meidner model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehn%E2%80%93Meidner_modelwprov=sfti1# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehn%E2%80%93Meidner_modelwprov=sfti1#"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:06Z 44.6K followers, 11.2K engagements

"Very cool prediction competition of WWI. Precisely seven years after the competition closed to entries the FT announced: No map sent in is even approximately accurate as compared with the final lines. Strange times from @FT history Two months into what was quickly becoming known as the Great War the Financial Times asked its readers to predict the impact the conflict would have on the map of Europe. As a game. With cash prizes. https://t.co/DImofTPOEg Strange times from @FT history Two months into what was quickly becoming known as the Great War the Financial Times asked its readers to"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:35Z 44.6K followers, 185.6K engagements

"@NunoSempere @NathanpmYoung"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:36Z 44.6K followers, 18.1K engagements

"British and American housebuilding rates have been remarkably correlated over the years but no longer. Housebuilding has fallen in Britain and especially in London where its now the lowest in the rich world due to the mounting costs of regulations. In today's newsletter I also cover weight loss drugs leading to falling sugar prices Latin America getting less religious half of global inequality now coming from within countries and more. https://www.update.news/p/london-housebuilding-lowest-in-the https://www.update.news/p/london-housebuilding-lowest-in-the"
X Link 2026-02-16T14:33Z 44.6K followers, 10.3K engagements

"@akhivae "39 year old men can just wife up a [--] year old and have [--] kids" That's not a delusion"
X Link 2026-02-17T09:22Z 44.6K followers, [---] engagements

"A neglected fact is that Sweden has had the highest growth in Western Europe over the last three decades tax hubs like Ireland and Malta aside"
X Link 2025-10-13T11:27Z 44.6K followers, 72.6K engagements

"This is a crucial point. Thanks in part to better health people are retiring later; and as a result the situation isn't as bad as projections that ignore later retirements suggest. https://www.update.news/p/alarmist-pension-projections-ignore Ageing does not necessarily mean dependency burdens will be higher than in the past - even in the countries in the world with the highest life expectancy and the lowest fertility. Policymakers must factor in health to understand population aging. https://t.co/2oEo7cm2Wo https://www.update.news/p/alarmist-pension-projections-ignore Ageing does not"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:13Z 44.6K followers, 15K engagements

"I found a lot of links this week for my newsletter so here's a brief Friday bonus post featuring Anthropic's incredible revenue growth new twice-yearly injectables against high blood pressure and more. https://www.update.news/p/links-anthropic-grows-revenue-tenfold https://www.update.news/p/links-anthropic-grows-revenue-tenfold"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:28Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Lots of people on the ice today"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:10Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Across specifications a [--] percent increase in the minimum wage increases robot adoption by roughly [--] percent relative to the mean. Seems to be an argument for minimum wages imo"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:05Z 44.6K followers, 39.6K engagements

"Why is AI not having more of an impact on jobs Some say it's because of quirky preferences or human irrationality. But imo it's that we underestimate the messiness of the world and overestimate effective AI capabilities. Over the long term this perspective should make us upshift the impact of AI. If human foibles were holding AI impact back then they would constrain even extremely advanced AI. But in my view that's not the case. Once we get AI that can navigate reality in all its complexity we'll see very widespread job automation (unless there's a concerted effort to stop it). From today's"
X Link 2026-02-17T14:38Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"There's Japanese data on cherry tree blossoming stretching back to [---]. Some commitment"
X Link 2024-03-06T18:19Z 44.6K followers, 6.5M engagements

""Between [----] and [----] the average graduation rate at public high schools in America leapt from 74% to 87%.Yet SAT scores fell. Results from the latest PISA test show that maths and reading literacy are flat or down.""
X Link 2024-03-19T13:07Z 44.6K followers, 363K engagements

"@BorisBartlog It's not percent it's millions"
X Link 2024-04-16T21:11Z 44.6K followers, 50.1K engagements

"@Coscorrodrift It's not percent it's millions"
X Link 2024-04-16T22:16Z 44.6K followers, 31.2K engagements

"US politics is an outlier and should not be seen as representative of the rich world. Between [----] and [----] trust in national institutions increased in all of the G7 except the US where it fell substantially"
X Link 2024-04-18T13:34Z 44.6K followers, 403.1K engagements

"Most people are not unhappy Most people are unhappy. So I've spent [--] hours watching Bill Murray interviews over [--] months. What I found Bill Murray's Happiness Formula: https://t.co/N0rNlezMTz Most people are unhappy. So I've spent [--] hours watching Bill Murray interviews over [--] months. What I found Bill Murray's Happiness Formula: https://t.co/N0rNlezMTz"
X Link 2024-05-16T10:48Z 44.6K followers, 81.8K engagements

"Paper found that: 1) People believe that cynical people - who believe that human behaviour is guided by self-interest - are smarter than others. 2) In fact cynical people are less smart than others"
X Link 2024-07-11T18:51Z 44.6K followers, 128.8K engagements

"@waitbutwhy Slightly more males are born but higher male mortality normally means there are more females. Factors that lead to a majority men include sex-selective abortions and immigration (men usually migrate more)"
X Link 2024-08-14T21:08Z 44.6K followers, 98.7K engagements

"Doctor quality matters a lot. Norwegian study finds that replacing one of the 5% worst general practitioners with one of average quality generates a social benefit of $9.05 million. Via @jonasvlachos. https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2022/working-paper/does-your-doctor-matter-doctor-quality-and-patient-outcomes https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2022/working-paper/does-your-doctor-matter-doctor-quality-and-patient-outcomes"
X Link 2024-08-15T07:51Z 44.6K followers, 801.5K engagements

"@FabrizioRomano Looks like he's about to invade East Anglia"
X Link 2024-08-15T21:19Z 44.6K followers, 45.1K engagements

"By the standards of the ancients we've played God for the last few centuries. It obviously has worked - spectacularly well. There is a decent chance in the next [--] years we figure out how to reverse aging and nobody dies anymore. Human megalomania on full display. Playing God never works never will work and I fundamentally believe it will always end badly. Sooner or later. Memento mori. https://t.co/jaSkGFRxTj There is a decent chance in the next [--] years we figure out how to reverse aging and nobody dies anymore. Human megalomania on full display. Playing God never works never will work and I"
X Link 2024-10-18T13:33Z 44.6K followers, 34.6K engagements

"No Harris raised and spent more. People overestimate the extent to which you can buy an election. Turns out the worlds richest man can buy an election. Who knew Turns out the worlds richest man can buy an election. Who knew"
X Link 2024-11-06T09:27Z 44.6K followers, 39.4K engagements

"42% of private school pupils in England get extra time in exams because of ADHD dyslexia or other diagnoses. FTs article focuses on the difference vs state schools but their numbers are also crazy high. This is a serious cultural defect and not only in the UK"
X Link 2024-11-07T23:55Z 44.6K followers, 212.1K engagements

"Obviously you have to adjust for population Europe is being STRANGLED by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen's red tape. Between 2019-2024 the EU churned out [-----] legal acts while the US passed just [----] laws and [----] resolutions. RESULT = EUROPE'S ECONOMY IS IMPLODING. Source: FT https://t.co/DhnyD7bv5n Europe is being STRANGLED by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen's red tape. Between 2019-2024 the EU churned out [-----] legal acts while the US passed just [----] laws and [----] resolutions. RESULT = EUROPE'S ECONOMY IS IMPLODING. Source: FT https://t.co/DhnyD7bv5n"
X Link 2024-12-28T09:38Z 44.6K followers, 453.3K engagements

"The association between defence spending and distance from Moscow among EU countries"
X Link 2025-01-10T13:23Z 44.6K followers, 664.1K engagements

"@paularambles Writing full sentences would prevent this"
X Link 2025-03-20T18:29Z 44.6K followers, 269.8K engagements

"It's striking that we have such a relatively free market economy in spite of people's poor understanding of it and their aversion to parts of it. Presumably in part thanks to the influence of political/policy elites. The people have spoken 🥴https://t.co/43kbRzLnvW https://t.co/EvLGDZe4Ly The people have spoken 🥴https://t.co/43kbRzLnvW https://t.co/EvLGDZe4Ly"
X Link 2025-03-21T17:53Z 44.6K followers, 53.4K engagements

"ChatGPT's market share is shrinking though it remains almost 3/4. Gemini has quadrupled its market share in the last six months. Data from @Similarweb"
X Link 2025-10-03T08:16Z 44.6K followers, 123.5K engagements

"In [----] humble nails were 1/250 of US GDP about the same as computers today"
X Link 2025-10-25T16:48Z 44.6K followers, 26.9K engagements

"In the 90s Pakistan had 50% higher GDP per capita than India but now its only half as large as Indias"
X Link 2025-10-26T23:32Z 44.6K followers, 1.1M engagements

"Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in enterprise large language model API market share"
X Link 2025-10-27T05:58Z 44.6K followers, 701.9K engagements

"@paulg I don't have a clear understanding sorry"
X Link 2025-10-27T13:19Z 44.6K followers, 458.7K engagements

"Relatedly the UK has become less attractive for high-skilled immigrants (next tweet). By @jburnmurdoch https://www.ft.com/content/d70c4037-396f-4304-a85d-10eb10c74eae https://www.ft.com/content/d70c4037-396f-4304-a85d-10eb10c74eae"
X Link 2025-10-31T06:07Z 44.6K followers, 40.3K engagements

"HR has grown very fast over the last decade https://www.economist.com/business/2025/11/10/how-hr-took-over-the-world https://www.economist.com/business/2025/11/10/how-hr-took-over-the-world"
X Link 2025-11-13T16:02Z 44.6K followers, 110.3K engagements

"On the contrary kudos to them for funding this important and humane endeavour This is the dangerous path were headed down. https://t.co/IhAUWYQVnp This is the dangerous path were headed down. https://t.co/IhAUWYQVnp"
X Link 2025-11-14T17:50Z 44.6K followers, 43.3K engagements

"Bismarck famously created the welfare state to impede the socialists. But a new paper finds the strategy backfired and instead increased support for the socialists. Via @Nonicoc https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/5989/file/BSoE_DP_0081.pdf https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/5989/file/BSoE_DP_0081.pdf"
X Link 2025-11-15T19:28Z 44.6K followers, 56.3K engagements

"Some superstitious divination rituals may have spread because they functioned as adaptive randomization devices in contexts where people otherwise would have used decision procedures worse than chance. From Henrich "The Secret of Our Success""
X Link 2018-12-01T18:06Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Paper: cognitive ability of top 5% more important for country wealth than mean cognitive ability; in turn more key than bottom 5%. Relatedly is it more important to improve elite epistemics than e.g. fight anti-vaxxers and fake news Worth considering. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797611407207 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797611407207"
X Link 2020-04-11T11:05Z 44.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Bertrand Russell's prediction was quite wrong"
X Link 2021-02-01T23:03Z 44.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Pretty big difference US vs UK in this wave. Vaccination differences likely a big part of it"
X Link 2022-01-16T14:57Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Elites - in the media academia business politics - are elites mostly because they're more competent than most people. This is plainly obvious but many people find so offensive that they refuse to see it. You should try to see the world as it is whether it's comforting or not"
X Link 2022-03-16T12:53Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

""Societies change their minds faster than people do: Generational replacement is what shifts public opinion" https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/31/societies-change-their-minds-faster-than-people-do https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/31/societies-change-their-minds-faster-than-people-do"
X Link 2022-11-01T09:25Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"31% of Soviet troops 29% of German troops and 29% of Japanese troops died during World WarII. For Britain its empire and commmonwealth the figure was 33%; and for the US 2.5%. An order of magnitude difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_deaths_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_deaths_by_country"
X Link 2023-04-15T21:36Z 44.6K followers, 210.4K engagements

""In her autobiography Agatha Christie discusses how she never thought she would ever be wealthy enough to own a car nor so poor that she wouldnt have servants thus neatly summarizing differential productivity growth and its consequences." - @ATabarrok on the Baumol Effect"
X Link 2023-07-01T22:51Z 44.6K followers, 57.8K engagements

"Forecasts used to say China would quickly overtake US GDP but that's no longer the case"
X Link 2023-07-15T07:27Z 44.6K followers, 475.8K engagements

"John von Neumann was born on this day [---] years ago"
X Link 2023-12-28T12:14Z 44.6K followers, 319.6K engagements

"Nick Bostrom Superintelligence"
X Link 2024-01-03T19:26Z 44.6K followers, 52K engagements

""Why Ozempic is cheating - Weight loss isn't supposed to be easy" Weight loss isn't supposed to be anything. Blind evolutionary forces made it hard to lose weight in the present environment. If we can make it easier to do so without offsetting side effects we should do so. A lifetime on the drug will be characterised not by desire but the absence of it. And perhaps this is its own sort of tragedy. Read @katrosenfield on Ozempic: 👇 https://t.co/d0ZaQ6pLR7 A lifetime on the drug will be characterised not by desire but the absence of it. And perhaps this is its own sort of tragedy. Read"
X Link 2024-02-21T17:29Z 44.6K followers, 60.6K engagements

"@AlecStapp Sound volume regulation are good imo though the levels can be discussed. Earphones often have volumes that can incur life-long tinnitus"
X Link 2024-04-12T17:29Z 44.6K followers, 33.2K engagements

"It's crazy that people like Elon Musk Marc Andreessen and many others with a self-image as intelligent people can support this inane and vicious liar. The fact that he lies so much and has done it for such a long time shouldn't numb us to how vile and simply weird his lies are Trump: She wants abortions in the eighth and ninth month of pregnancy. That's fine with her even after birth https://t.co/UJgzOUOwDu Trump: She wants abortions in the eighth and ninth month of pregnancy. That's fine with her even after birth https://t.co/UJgzOUOwDu"
X Link 2024-07-24T23:00Z 44.6K followers, 72.6K engagements

"These kinds of posts reflect badly on those who make and like them. JD Vance has the face and general presence that anyone with a bartending background can immediately clock as A Guy To Keep An Eye On the minute he walks in https://t.co/tFVKSyUGL8 JD Vance has the face and general presence that anyone with a bartending background can immediately clock as A Guy To Keep An Eye On the minute he walks in https://t.co/tFVKSyUGL8"
X Link 2024-07-29T21:52Z 44.6K followers, 65.8K engagements

"On the contrary modern history is the history of the mutual reinforcement of the civilising process and rapid economic growth. 😬 https://t.co/RQk2QOAFPn 😬 https://t.co/RQk2QOAFPn"
X Link 2024-08-05T21:53Z 44.6K followers, 86.2K engagements

"This claim flatters most listeners which probably partially explains its popularity. But it's not true. Elites are much more competent than randomly selected people. "We're better off being run by people picked at random from the phonebook than the faculty of Harvard." - Elon Musk https://t.co/HoBIm1q6Dw "We're better off being run by people picked at random from the phonebook than the faculty of Harvard." - Elon Musk https://t.co/HoBIm1q6Dw"
X Link 2024-08-10T14:21Z 44.6K followers, 633.9K engagements

"Where the wealthy move and from where"
X Link 2024-08-11T22:31Z 44.6K followers, 242.9K engagements

"Reminds me of https://x.com/stefanfschubert/status/1675275959375745024s=46 Londons strange. Theres many seemingly modest aspirations - getting a cat cycling to work having your own garden - that are essentially gated behind a 95th percentile income while luxuries - like having someone prepare you a boutique drink every morning - are common https://x.com/stefanfschubert/status/1675275959375745024s=46 Londons strange. Theres many seemingly modest aspirations - getting a cat cycling to work having your own garden - that are essentially gated behind a 95th percentile income while luxuries - like"
X Link 2024-08-30T11:20Z 44.6K followers, 44.3K engagements

"I don't think this is paradoxical or proving the argument is weak. I think some of them would attribute the argument's lack of spread to people having weak rationality. Though in fact I think they underestimate the rationality of key people and thus the societal response"
X Link 2024-10-21T19:05Z 44.6K followers, 23.9K engagements

"Huge drop in the cost of public college in the US virtually unreported. The average inflation-adjusted net tuition and fees paid by first-time full-time in-state students enrolled in public four-year institutions: 201213: $4340 202425: $2480"
X Link 2024-10-22T13:28Z 44.6K followers, 332.5K engagements

"@AlecStapp Cherrypicking"
X Link 2024-10-29T14:29Z 44.6K followers, 40.8K engagements

"Many Americans greatly exaggerate this narrative with cherry-picked data Europe is now approaching [--] years of roughly zero growth in many of its major economies https://t.co/6GjeqH5nlf Europe is now approaching [--] years of roughly zero growth in many of its major economies https://t.co/6GjeqH5nlf"
X Link 2024-10-29T14:30Z 44.6K followers, 268.2K engagements

"@dissproportion Eye for detail"
X Link 2024-11-01T19:15Z 44.6K followers, 471.9K engagements

"@ArmandDoma Different European countries differ wildly in this regard. I think it's more useful and accurate to talk about the "baseline in Poland" than "the baseline in Europe""
X Link 2025-01-04T20:04Z 44.6K followers, 110.3K engagements

"I think a big part of the explanation for the current meltdown is that the most powerful person on the planet simply is not smart at all. If so that seems like an argument for having smart politicians and against the "first people in the telephone directory" claim"
X Link 2025-04-04T21:06Z 44.6K followers, 35.3K engagements

"Yes Scott is quite right. People underrate the importance of this kind of intellectual hygiene. Sloppy cynicism is corrosive to sound thinking"
X Link 2025-04-11T09:19Z 44.6K followers, 668.1K engagements

"Bill Gates just announced he'll give away almost all his wealth in the next two decades and close the Gates Foundation in 2045"
X Link 2025-05-08T12:59Z 44.6K followers, 23.1K engagements

"retweet of locked account academia is a welfare program for midwits professor making 80k to teach marxism to debt slaves while plumbers make 150k actually building something universities are madrasas for secular religion academia is a welfare program for midwits professor making 80k to teach marxism to debt slaves while plumbers make 150k actually building something universities are madrasas for secular religion"
X Link 2025-05-31T11:40Z 44.6K followers, 85.4K engagements

"Particulate matter local air pollution from road transport is much less due to petrol exhaust than most people think. More is due to brake tyre and road wear. This means the effects of electrifying the car fleet in local air pollution are smaller than one might have wished"
X Link 2025-06-07T08:34Z 44.6K followers, 174.6K engagements

"In the 18th century there was a real chance of death at any point in life and there wasn't a big peak in old age. It wasn't just higher infant mortality - the whole distribution was completely different. Great chart by @Scientific_Bird"
X Link 2025-07-02T20:05Z 44.6K followers, 144.6K engagements

"The hatred that's being directed against her in the quote tweets is despicable. The discourse about violence against US business leaders is really disturbing. Not a good sign about US political culture (which also has many other problems). Words cannot express the devastation we feel that our beloved colleague Wesley LePatner was among those who lost their lives in the tragic incident yesterday at [---] Park Avenue. We are also deeply saddened by the loss of the other innocent victims including brave security https://t.co/q3mTHHntJf Words cannot express the devastation we feel that our beloved"
X Link 2025-07-30T21:27Z 44.6K followers, 50.8K engagements

"The falling birth rates are tilted towards he left. Left-wing and right-wing voters used to have roughly the same number of children but in recent decades a big gap has opened up. By @jburnmurdoch"
X Link 2025-08-29T07:08Z 44.6K followers, 252.9K engagements

"Reich said it had been believed that natural selection was minimal among humans for the last [-----] years Reich now believes Europe at least is in a period of accelerated selection that began [----] years ago Underreported finding - really important for our worldview. Pure bloodlines Ancestral homelands DNA science says fuggettaboutit -- we're all migrant mongrels. Stunning research by my colleague David Reich. https://t.co/QXJ9jm7TYg Pure bloodlines Ancestral homelands DNA science says fuggettaboutit -- we're all migrant mongrels. Stunning research by my colleague David Reich."
X Link 2025-09-19T13:47Z 44.6K followers, 143.3K engagements

"I don't think this is causal Good game everyone https://t.co/8tHjMQUU2g Good game everyone https://t.co/8tHjMQUU2g"
X Link 2025-10-01T23:09Z 44.6K followers, 84.3K engagements

"Share of young Swedish women and men who view "the environment/climate" and "gender equality/feminism" as one of the five most engaging political questions. Substantial drop since 2017/2019"
X Link 2025-10-12T08:49Z 44.6K followers, 269.1K engagements

"Replying to a VP of science at OpenAI. Be sceptical of these types of claims. @kevinweil Hi as the owner/maintainer of https://t.co/69gOJM7Ci7 this is a dramatic misrepresentation. GPT-5 found references which solved these problems that I personally was unaware of. The 'open' status only means I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it. @kevinweil Hi as the owner/maintainer of https://t.co/69gOJM7Ci7 this is a dramatic misrepresentation. GPT-5 found references which solved these problems that I personally was unaware of. The 'open' status only means I personally am unaware of a paper"
X Link 2025-10-17T19:18Z 44.6K followers, 425.2K engagements

"Sweden has reliable statistics unusually far back in time which makes it a useful country to look at for long-running trends. @StatsSweden shows [--] mums are not a new phenomenon: in the late 1800s 12% of children were born to women [--] compared with 5% today"
X Link 2025-10-24T08:09Z 44.6K followers, 90.6K engagements

"The US obesity rate is on its way down according to Gallup surveys. After peaking at 40% in [----] its now 37%. Meanwhile the number of Americans who have used GLP-1 drugs is rapidly increasing - now at 12%"
X Link 2025-10-29T14:52Z 44.6K followers, 151.3K engagements

"The main takeaway should be that the reported height was on average strikingly honest/correct (in this study) Objectively one of the funnier graphs out there. Measured vs. reported male height. https://t.co/g0KZJXWEC4 Objectively one of the funnier graphs out there. Measured vs. reported male height. https://t.co/g0KZJXWEC4"
X Link 2025-10-29T16:26Z 44.6K followers, 40K engagements

"Lol What happens when online job applicants start using LLMs It ain't good. [--]. Pre-LLM cover letter quality predicts your work quality and a good cover gets you a job [--]. LLMs wipe out the signal and employer demand falls [--]. Model suggests high ability workers lose the most 1/n https://t.co/b0ShCRMpFL What happens when online job applicants start using LLMs It ain't good. [--]. Pre-LLM cover letter quality predicts your work quality and a good cover gets you a job [--]. LLMs wipe out the signal and employer demand falls [--]. Model suggests high ability workers lose the most 1/n https://t.co/b0ShCRMpFL"
X Link 2025-11-04T23:17Z 44.6K followers, 423.1K engagements

"In addition to being biased its also so incredibly dumbed down like theyre talking to a nine-year old. I think BBC going back to a more formal and measured language would help to alleviate the impartiality issues. The BBC defines "democratic socialism". https://t.co/Sxk52XB68Y The BBC defines "democratic socialism". https://t.co/Sxk52XB68Y"
X Link 2025-11-05T13:19Z 44.6K followers, 32.5K engagements

"Astonishing chart showing that since [----] average Spanish pensions have grown 1.9% while average salaries have grown 0.2%. Over time that's added up to pensions growing 65% while salaries have barely grown at all in real terms. A problem in many countries. uno de los comentarios que ms estoy recibiendo es "el problema no son las pensiones es que los salarios son bajos; luchad por subir los salarios y ya est". vamos a ver por qu este argumento no se sostiene. primero ignora completamente lo que ha pasado en las ltimas tres https://t.co/tXA3Emq32z uno de los comentarios que ms estoy recibiendo"
X Link 2025-11-16T14:20Z 44.6K followers, 223.5K engagements

"I quite dislike the widespread contempt of economics and economists In my view economists tend to be clever and reasonable - including on non-econ topics And economics is imo the most useful and illuminating of the social sciences Its alleged political bias is also exaggerated"
X Link 2022-08-26T17:00Z 44.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Non-drinking rapidly increasing among young English people"
X Link 2023-01-09T23:58Z 44.6K followers, 923.1K engagements

"Concept creep: Science paper shows that as we make progress on social problems (bullying prejudice etc) we broaden the definition of the problem. As a result we fail to notice the progress we've made on these problems. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/1465 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/1465"
X Link 2023-06-29T14:24Z 44.6K followers, 147.8K engagements

"How economics has changed"
X Link 2025-05-23T12:30Z 44.6K followers, 311.2K engagements

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