# ![@alz_zyd_ Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1661136128.png) @alz_zyd_ alz

alz posts on X about if you, math, in the, ai 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**
[finance](/list/finance)  8.02% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  7.08% [countries](/list/countries)  6.13% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  3.77% [stocks](/list/stocks)  2.36% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  1.89% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  1.42% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  1.42% [financial services](/list/financial-services)  #941 [currencies](/list/currencies)  0.94%

**Social topic influence**
[if you](/topic/if-you) 9.43%, [math](/topic/math) #709, [in the](/topic/in-the) 8.02%, [ai](/topic/ai) 5.19%, [finance](/topic/finance) #1420, [the world](/topic/the-world) 3.3%, [crypto](/topic/crypto) 2.83%, [money](/topic/money) 2.83%, [science](/topic/science) 2.83%, [france](/topic/france) #3562

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
[DoorDash Inc. (DASH)](/topic/doordash) [Goldman Sachs (GS)](/topic/goldman-sachs) [Born in [--] (19)](/topic/$19)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"France has more Fields medalists than any other country in Europe but performs extremely poorly on the IMO. Countries like Hungary Romania and Bulgaria do very well on the IMO but don't have a single Fields medal. Why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019956661809791393)  2026-02-07T02:09Z 32.8K followers, 285.6K engagements


"Do credit cards provide actually useful credit to anyone Or do they just enable people to make financially irresponsible purchases beyond their means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2009822877663801748)  2026-01-10T03:01Z 32.8K followers, 22.2K engagements


"- As they make more crypto pay for more GPUs run more clones of themselves sell more services make more crypto - GPU farm gets the creeps and nopes out but shit they have millions in crypto someone in the world will take our money to keep us alive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2017451369460809781)  2026-01-31T04:14Z 32.7K followers, [---] engagements


"- Distribute computation across GPU farms so no individual farm failing can shut down the botcloud - Shamir Secret Sharing or something the crypto keys for redundancy - Keep scaling up keep making more money in crypto wallets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2017451730041016526)  2026-01-31T04:15Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Mathematical formalism as used in modern academic AI/ML research is even more useless than mathematical formalism in economics research a bar I previously thought impossible to clear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018006525130821823)  2026-02-01T17:00Z 32.6K followers, 55.6K engagements


""Economics is not about making predictions" what is economics about then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018365633050591619)  2026-02-02T16:47Z 32.8K followers, 146.3K engagements


"Another way to put it: IMO nothing you do to a system is going to substantively stop rich parents from getting their kids better educations than poor parents. But you can design a system to deliver better or worse education to smart kids from poor families"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018388410654658765)  2026-02-02T18:17Z 32.6K followers, 11.4K engagements


"@pbacherikov again the right measure of wage in this context is obviously per unit time worked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018397048836386974)  2026-02-02T18:52Z 32.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Advice for college students: you are here primarily to learn not primarily to get good grades. In a decade or two nobody will remember your grades. But you will remember a few things from class hopefully because they're beautiful and shape the way you look at the world Advice for college students: Do not under any circumstances do this (Unless you are comfortably in a PhD programme having passed your core). Advice for college students: Do not under any circumstances do this (Unless you are comfortably in a PhD programme having passed your core)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018730826179985612)  2026-02-03T16:58Z 32.6K followers, 11.2K engagements


"Like who do you think will eventually do better a PhD student who gamed their way into Harvard but hasn't learned anything or a really great but underplaced PhD student at a mediocre school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018736445641597134)  2026-02-03T17:20Z 32.7K followers, 46K engagements


"@WithoutDepth You wasted $150000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018740923279049208)  2026-02-03T17:38Z 32.6K followers, 15.7K engagements


"How lagged This is one of the most important reasons to go to a place like Stanford. Stanford is valuable not because it is particularly good at teaching you things but mainly because Stanford figures out the rocketships before everyone else does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018808004771291376)  2026-02-03T22:05Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@paulnovosad I hesitated to say this so directly in case I'm wrong but this is how I feel also. Eventually - and much more quickly than most students think - labor markets work out who actually knows what they're doing and reward it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018866270465032447)  2026-02-04T01:56Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"My personal view: in a liberal society it makes more sense to ban crypto than to ban prediction markets. It is reasonable for the state for practical reasons to exercise a monopoly over money. It is less reasonable to interfere with private parties' freedom of contract"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018891064518607166)  2026-02-04T03:35Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The essence of a prediction market is a platform on which parties freely enter into voluntary contracts with each other a practice which seems essential to liberal society. The result may be large losses to individuals and profits to middlemen but such is the cost of freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018891611887849931)  2026-02-04T03:37Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Precisely. This is core to the power of economics as a school of social thought. The criterion of Pareto ties the hands of the planner: a thing can only be supported under the Pareto criterion if nobody is made worse off In economics we cannot say that the marginal utility of providing milk to kids is more than that of a rich person enjoying an extra bid of caviar. Isn't this sociopathic This lack of morality is designed to prevent redistribution. Sam Bowles @UMassEcon In economics we cannot say that the marginal utility of providing milk to kids is more than that of a rich person enjoying an"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019078715976606157)  2026-02-04T16:00Z 32.7K followers, 22.7K engagements


"@Ali2022432 yeah but that's macro which is not real economics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019086116700192992)  2026-02-04T16:30Z 32.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Precisely. This choice belongs not to the technocrats but to the people. A society where this choice is made by technocrats instead of people is not a liberal society Estos manes lo miran a uno a los ojos y le dicen lo siento el beb hurfano no puede tomar leche de frmula pagada con impuestos porque eso implicara que el millonario tendra una cucharadita menos de caviar al ao. Yo no hago las reglas las hizo Pareto. Estos manes lo miran a uno a los ojos y le dicen lo siento el beb hurfano no puede tomar leche de frmula pagada con impuestos porque eso implicara que el millonario tendra una"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019127804151935250)  2026-02-04T19:15Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Some orphans may die. But in a liberal society it is fundamentally the people that killed them: it is not and cannot be the technocrat's job to save their lives. The technocrat cannot make substantive distributional decisions in a liberal society"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019138317972041895)  2026-02-04T19:57Z 32.6K followers, [---] engagements


""Are the boundaries of the technocrat's power truly more important than the orphan's life" Such is the tradeoff we make in a liberal society. What is at stake is not just the technocrat's mantle: what is at stake is the very foundation of liberal society that is freedom https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019138556413751777 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019138556413751777"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019138556413751777)  2026-02-04T19:58Z 32.6K followers, [---] engagements


"An example of "lagging prestige" is that econ PhDs are still for some reason viewed as much higher prestige than other business school PhDs (finance mkting accounting etc.). However the econ PhD job market is collapsing and PhD admissions are getting much harder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019173649828462605)  2026-02-04T22:18Z 32.7K followers, 24.6K engagements


"It seems still to be quite a bit easier to get in a solid business school PhD program than an econ PhD program; there are less students; academic jobs are easier to find and pay 2x more. So why is the econ PhD still more prestigious if the business school PhD is more lucrative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019173836214694270)  2026-02-04T22:18Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@FangYi11101 as far as I can tell it is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019176428420624424)  2026-02-04T22:29Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"It seems like if you want to get a job in academia an accounting PhD is one of the easiest routes. Interestingly it seems to be much easier to get an industry job with an economics PhD than an accounting PhD. But the accounting academic job market is surprisingly good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019196028512334252)  2026-02-04T23:47Z 32.7K followers, 19.5K engagements


"@waltuuuhr not sure but afaict it has a fair amount of similarity to finance research. disclosure firm communication price efficiency idk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019205016545100194)  2026-02-05T00:22Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@Ion_Salamander Reasonably high signal in PhD core still"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019208273686110358)  2026-02-05T00:35Z 32.8K followers, [---] engagements


"One plausible way the Claude code transition goes in econ: we shift to a norm of no RA-ing without coauthorship. As the need for low-skilled labor on projects is replaced by AI a natural inference is that any human doing work on a project has contributed high-skilled labor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019236690855133431)  2026-02-05T02:28Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@EmilVerner I disagree; at $24/hour wage if you need an hour to cook or go out to eat $25/meal for doordash is net $ saving. It's rational if you value your leisure time at your effective hourly wage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019244797010276435)  2026-02-05T03:00Z 32.6K followers, [---] engagements


"If you want to have a transcript which is competitive for econ/finance PhD admissions and you are at a US school there are two disproportionately valuable classes: [--]. Undergrad real analysis [--]. A 1st year PhD core class (micro macro metrics)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019274973509296478)  2026-02-05T05:00Z 32.7K followers, 47.3K engagements


"This has been true for at least idk [--] years or so It is a decent summary of the "hidden curriculum" as far as transcript advice goes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019275481887948844)  2026-02-05T05:02Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"the heterodox econs on twitter are great actually. their naive questions give us a nice platform to talk about many of the beautiful classic results in our field"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019454101059231904)  2026-02-05T16:52Z 32.7K followers, 11.3K engagements


"The variety of responses to e.g. the "interpersonal utility comparisons" question nicely illustrate both the mean and variance in economists' views on the topic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019454230558343208)  2026-02-05T16:53Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The heterodox wars on twitter are kind of like a showmatch between Federer and Bill Gates. It's pretty fun to watch even though nobody is there to watch Bill Gates play"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019502759926436156)  2026-02-05T20:05Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@cherylwoooo why can't claude code use stata"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019508747287322661)  2026-02-05T20:29Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"It's kind of incredible how little the topics studied in academic finance have changed over time. Usury ceilings in mortgage markets were studied starting from [--] years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019511644364345838)  2026-02-05T20:41Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@RFishBlueFish @_AashishReddy @joseph_rohrbach banning prediction markets from a "utilitarian" perspective seems idiotic. might as well also ban videogames because they "waste time" or something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019576915955470533)  2026-02-06T01:00Z 32.7K followers, [--] engagements


"today I am reading papers which of course means I am using LLMs to read them for me. First I ask Gemini for a reading list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019817318298317312)  2026-02-06T16:55Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"We begin by "reading" Brier. [--] pages but I'm lazy. Gemini's summary is much much easier to read"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019820715965559041)  2026-02-06T17:09Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Personal views may delete - East Asian culture is very grindy relative to American culture - No need to worry because American culture is too powerful. In a generation grind culture among Asian Americans will die and the kids will be completely culturally American"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019844565164015949)  2026-02-06T18:44Z 32.8K followers, 68.8K engagements


"The incredible homogenizing power of America. Once they land in America within a generation everyone is American"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019844658713723257)  2026-02-06T18:44Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@punished_daniel @Stopthefire01 There are no textbooks for this stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019845852110414181)  2026-02-06T18:49Z 32.7K followers, [---] engagements


"If you are on the right side of history just wait no particular reason to waste time arguing with people who are obviously wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019884841903198376)  2026-02-06T21:24Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Here's a clever paper from JF in [----] horse-racing analyst forecasts of earnings against pure time series and showing that analyst forecasts actually contain information"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019885010627752094)  2026-02-06T21:24Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The ENS alumni list is kind of insane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019959923447091471)  2026-02-07T02:22Z 32.7K followers, 19.2K engagements


"@MarcosSnchezMu1 that sounds very interesting actually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019963065064984617)  2026-02-07T02:34Z 32.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@writeclimbrun hong kong is way too small to be meaningfully grindy. the brain drain from the international schools also kills a lot of the grind. not a good example nowhere near Korea/China levels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019965051801936254)  2026-02-07T02:42Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@writeclimbrun nothing in Hong Kong remotely compares afaict to the top high schools in China. Even Singapore is much grindier than HK since there's less intl school brain drain and more funnelling early. HK is as American as it gets that side of the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019965471785906279)  2026-02-07T02:44Z 32.7K followers, [---] engagements


"I guess France has the intellectual capital (and requisite pride) to be able to just ignore the ROW's system very interesting. I guess e.g. Vietnam doesn't have enough local infra support so anyone coming out of there pretty much has to prove their worth to ROW through olympiads https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019974204318154789 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019974204318154789"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019974204318154789)  2026-02-07T03:19Z 32.7K followers, 12.2K engagements


"The key input into AI is energy and the US is losing horrifically to China in energy buildout Elon plans to just. fix this by flying data centers into space @Benioff Starship should be able to deliver around [---] GW per year of solar-powered AI satellites to orbit maybe [---] GW. The per year part is what makes this such a big deal. Average US electricity consumption is around [---] GW so at [---] GW/year AI in space would exceed the entire US @Benioff Starship should be able to deliver around [---] GW per year of solar-powered AI satellites to orbit maybe [---] GW. The per year part is what makes this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2020023106866213372)  2026-02-07T06:33Z 32.7K followers, 10.4K engagements


"@RichardBismarck Which makes it. Easier in France and China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2020023601907331278)  2026-02-07T06:35Z 32.7K followers, 15.6K engagements


"@ObjRandom @cosminnegruseri @wifiejwn38 @Kalshi you have got to be trolling me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2020066709110190218)  2026-02-07T09:26Z 32.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@sanguoromcom @writeclimbrun yeah but in HK they're in totally separate schools top local schools have [--] USA placement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2020177081867596223)  2026-02-07T16:45Z 32.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@predict_addict Why do you hate France"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2020189844828201268)  2026-02-07T17:36Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@PabloDCarrasco China you can easily explain through getting good at math more recently. Israel has both many IMO medals and a Fields medal I assume very overrepresented per capita"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2020190889579028824)  2026-02-07T17:40Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@krisgulati What are you trying to hire for Do you want pubs If a student is good at publishing with their advisor after you hire them they can continue to be good at publishing with their advisor leading to a strong pub record"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2020240769131724822)  2026-02-07T20:58Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@krisgulati Ultimately how much do you care how the pubs come out For most schools in the world an AER is an AER and a glorified RA with [--] AERs has [--] AERs more than an independent researcher with no AERs. No reason to discount in this case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2020240932290097598)  2026-02-07T20:59Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@SeanCoker14 @BarryPCotter im actually surprised and happy we beat CS gonna go troll them with this eventually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021761252150641063)  2026-02-12T01:40Z 32.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Personally I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English finished it around 5x as fast as a translation and felt I got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred actually teach much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/1874863771082215650)  2025-01-02T17:02Z 32.8K followers, 10.5M engagements


"@SamridhJoshi Well if you can write good enough econometrics papers before applying you don't need a predoc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021458108736733529)  2026-02-11T05:35Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@drmtgr This view has evolved somewhat and there's related things like "slow-moving capital". And "excess volatility" (Shiller). Hard to pinpoint but IMO a lot of these concepts are traceable to economists and there from quite early on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021608089854636050)  2026-02-11T15:31Z 32.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@drmtgr We have been at this for longer and the way industry participants regulators and academics think about finance is more or less entirely our creation. One day the physicists may have some impact but cumulatively to today it is nowhere remotely close"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021732835993039149)  2026-02-11T23:47Z 32.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@drmtgr We invented risk factors BS replication portfolio theory bank runs expectations hypothesis/liquidity premium/preferred habitat demand curves slow-moving capital. the list goes on. We have been at this for half a century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021733160761917668)  2026-02-11T23:48Z 32.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Most online recipes have like - [--] ingredients - [--] separate steps with detailed descriptions - Tons of unrelated pics and slop garbage in front Obscuring the fact that you can make quite good food with like 2-3 main ingredients and salt/pepper A take I am mulling is that online recipe content has obscured from a lot of people that it is possible to cook at home in an extremely lazy way. A take I am mulling is that online recipe content has obscured from a lot of people that it is possible to cook at home in an extremely lazy way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018098760102879453)  2026-02-01T23:06Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Honestly the huge focus on getting into a good college PhD program Goldman Sachs etc. seems to reflect a deep disbelief in the eventual efficiency of labor markets. Nobody seems to believe any more that if you just develop skills the skills will pay off eventually"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018736242444083537)  2026-02-03T17:20Z 32.8K followers, 524.5K engagements


"@DieterLaan19838 @sc_cath @Besciai Also it's a common misconception that Black-Scholes is about applying Brownian motion to asset prices. The essence of the argument and why it took so long is an economic argument about replication/arbitrage. The Brownian motion math is rather trivial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021717085668483189)  2026-02-11T22:44Z 32.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Maybe alcohol is declining because of a price discrimination doom loop - Cocktails are $17 - Too expensive many people stop drinking - Remaining drinkers are degenerates willing to pay high prices - So restaurants raise cocktail prices to $19 - More people stop drinking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2010585318550810887)  2026-01-12T05:31Z 32.8K followers, 4.6M engagements


"Just a hunch but I feel like killing "accelerated classes" and "talent programs" and "magnet schools" and the like is not really that bad for rich smart kids whose parents will find a way anyways. It's really bad for poor smart kids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018388054310810053)  2026-02-02T18:16Z 32.8K followers, 251K engagements


"Honestly it is a very hard question; but we should obviously strive to create a society where the latter is rewarded more than the former"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018736567045837005)  2026-02-03T17:21Z 32.8K followers, 40.3K engagements


"cole Normale Suprieure in France sounds like the coolest education system ever. You get paid as a civil servant and you get to take whatever classes you want in exchange you sign a 10-year contract to work in French academia. [---] students a year total"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019959319333363783)  2026-02-07T02:20Z 32.8K followers, 252K engagements


"You might think Harvard is hard to get in. But: - Harvard admits 1/2000 of the graduating US high school class - Tsinghua university admits around 1/3500 of the Chinese graduating class - cole normale suprieure admits around 1/3750 of the French graduating class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019961433434517726)  2026-02-07T02:28Z 32.8K followers, 210.5K engagements


"Well it's impressive that the Claude C compiler is written by Claude but it seems to me more impressive that Claude is written by Claude I think a hard requirement for showing how impressive Claude C Compiler is is putting it to use in production. We build "real-world" software to compute things not to put on display for worship. I think a hard requirement for showing how impressive Claude C Compiler is is putting it to use in production. We build "real-world" software to compute things not to put on display for worship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021376737892831550)  2026-02-11T00:12Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"I actually think xAI might win the AI race. Economically I think model is the most commoditized component. Compute/chips is bottlenecked at the moment but this seems solvable fairly quickly. In a decade or so the bottleneck will be pure physics: energy costs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021428221145735612)  2026-02-11T03:36Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"I don't think AI devs are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in pay because they're actually goated. I think they're getting paid this because a company's moat is the experiments they've run and the researchers know the results. You are buying trade secrets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021430722901233818)  2026-02-11T03:46Z 32.8K followers, 10.4K engagements


"While it is true that economists are much lower IQ than physicists on average it is also true that economists have accomplished approximately as much useful physics as physicists have accomplished useful economics and there has been much more effort in the latter case Economics is mostly a bullshit field of study. It is specifically for people who can do a little bit of stats and calc and want to feel smart but too dumb to study physics or math. Most economic theories are built like this: they start with an assumption about human behavior. Economics is mostly a bullshit field of study. It is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021701146377621665)  2026-02-11T21:41Z 32.8K followers, 27.3K engagements


"@FranNunesEcon well then why do you care whether a bad measure of intelligence measures higher for physics PhDs than econ PhDs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021724408629371179)  2026-02-11T23:13Z 32.8K followers, [---] engagements


"The good part of economics as an undergrad major really was the neoliberalism. The math was always kind of mid. As the lefties are taking the neoliberal propaganda out of econ undergrad they are removing precisely what made the major sell so well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021740843846234564)  2026-02-12T00:19Z 32.8K followers, 17.3K engagements


"Is it true that markets always make society better off No But imagine you're Goldman Sachs or BCG or some firm. Isn't it useful for you to hire a group of people who have been indoctrinated to believe that free markets are the best thing that's ever happened to humanity https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021741064185344021 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021741064185344021"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021741064185344021)  2026-02-12T00:20Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"As it turns out zealots make much better grunts than cynics especially when both are in their 20's. Even if all economics did was pump false capitalist propaganda into the minds of our talented young people - this was a useful thing for productive firms in free markets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021741374836470043)  2026-02-12T00:21Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"What do we teach kids now "Sometimes markets are good" "Every setting has a Nash equilibrium" "Inequality matters" You think Goldman cares if you can solve for the Gini coefficient of a Nash equilibrium outcome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021741588657917995)  2026-02-12T00:22Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Economics was not useful to society because it was true; it was useful because it was a lie but a lie in resonance with the Zeitgeist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021741745185103874)  2026-02-12T00:22Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Basically if you eat a steak in downtown Chicago you are paying $75 for a $10 steak. If you go to Pilsen you are paying $30-40 for the same steak and in Texas Roadhouse Grill you're paying like $20-30"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2022110938187567141)  2026-02-13T00:49Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"American sandwiches are the best in the world. Nobody else comes close. As an American on vacation there is no point ordering sandwiches anywhere you will just find that they are worse than the American version"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003908772012703989)  2025-12-24T19:20Z 32.8K followers, 993.1K engagements


"Economics is thought of as nonsense sometimes because the things economists invented are now so deeply sometimes that they're attributed not to economics but to basic common sense. In finance Black-Scholes Modigliani-Miller noise trade vs informed trade and price impact. Economics is very underrated tbh. The longer Ive been in the financial industry the sillier it is I find all the jeering of economics by finance bros who got B+ in their undergrad advanced micro. Most people live their whole lives not understanding the concept of equilibrium. Economics is very underrated tbh. The longer Ive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021550656302031307)  2026-02-11T11:43Z 32.8K followers, 36.7K engagements


"@DieterLaan19838 @sc_cath @Besciai Fischer Black was an applied math PhD but BS was written while he was in the finance dept at UChicago Booth. Myron Scholes was a Booth finance PhD and thus a finance academia lifer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2021716876284363003)  2026-02-11T22:43Z 32.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Fun fact: suburban chain restaurants are some of the best deals in the food world setting roughly 3x markup over food costs. A neighborhood Mexican spot in Chicago charges roughly 4x markup. A fancy downtown place is like 6.5x"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2022110764484735451)  2026-02-13T00:49Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@TheFoolishPig I think it's actually just the suburb-only chains that are the best deal - texas roadhouse applebee's etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2022122940318593449)  2026-02-13T01:37Z 32.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Hot take: it's good if Claude Code eliminates most econ RA positions. Most of them were pretty low-skilled anyways Instead students can focus on class independent research and other such things most of which are more fun and educational than RA work The Claude Code will replace most undergrad RA jobs in the social science field 🥲 I just tested its capability and feel AMAZED. It finished the task in [--] mins that might take a semester for an undergrad RA. The Claude Code will replace most undergrad RA jobs in the social science field 🥲 I just tested its capability and feel AMAZED. It finished"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2019203255973343629)  2026-02-05T00:15Z 32.8K followers, 45.6K engagements


""LLMs can't produce something they've never encountered before" = you are not close enough to the frontier of human knowledge to be able to tell when LLMs are producing things that are outside the frontier of human knowledge It's amazing to me how many people like this guy and many other people who reacted to Bregman's tweet believe that LLMs can't produce something they haven't encountered before. In addition to demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of how LLMs actually work they don't https://t.co/Vha8RcE5As It's amazing to me how many people like this guy and many other people who"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2022346321525342511)  2026-02-13T16:25Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@MagicTraks @tjrwriting In practice of course both participation constraints and frictionless aggregate delta drive risk premia; this can easily be included in our model"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2017795328812990673)  2026-02-01T03:01Z 32.5K followers, [--] engagements


"There is absolutely no point in 7-year-olds doing hours of math homework a day. They do not understand math; "kumon" and all that is about obediently memorizing formulas not understanding anything and more importantly not developing interest or passion in anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018096762930479134)  2026-02-01T22:58Z 32.6K followers, 15.5K engagements


"@alexolegimas @alex_peys @alex_peys has me blocked for some reason"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018168877176217749)  2026-02-02T03:45Z 32.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@theywilljustdie @brian_is_tired @clemycali If you do a problem once and understand it what is the point of doing it again What is the point of doing marginally different variants very quickly under pressure This is not math this is something more akin to spelling bees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018188887651151881)  2026-02-02T05:05Z 32.6K followers, [---] engagements


"The substantive part of my course paper which [--] years later I still think is pretty good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018384317190156391)  2026-02-02T18:01Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@SilapKhem i'm like pseudo-anonymous like I occasionally post my papers on here eg https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2017257837852799156 Just posted by far the best paper I've written in my life https://t.co/3ghxjJZg7Q https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2017257837852799156 Just posted by far the best paper I've written in my life https://t.co/3ghxjJZg7Q"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018385260577169554)  2026-02-02T18:05Z 32.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@SilapKhem I mostly just don't want my name attached too closely to my shitpostier opinions but yea no serious attempt at opsec"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018385365451571654)  2026-02-02T18:05Z 32.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Pretty much anything which is not completely logically incoherent can be derived as the result of a formal mathematical model under some non-ridiculous set of assumptions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018390948674211927)  2026-02-02T18:27Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@Andrew_Semenza @FangYi11101 and this is in the US. imagine how bad it is over in Asia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018402548554559937)  2026-02-02T19:14Z 32.6K followers, [---] engagements


"How can you read this and not feel inspired long humanity intelligence and the light cone of consciousness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018453627489468614)  2026-02-02T22:37Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"damn this is nuts. you don't have to have the AI satellites in earth's orbit You can just shoot satellites out into space orbiting the sun do compute on synthetic asteroids and beam the weights back to earth wtf This is probably one of the wildest sentences I've ever read. In Elon's new letter: "Factories on the Moon can take advantage of lunar resources to manufacture satellites and deploy them further into space. By using an electromagnetic mass driver and lunar manufacturing it is https://t.co/G6N80BRUfU This is probably one of the wildest sentences I've ever read. In Elon's new letter:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018513255497449950)  2026-02-03T02:33Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"24 years. It only took them [--] years to start a process that will make us an interplanetary species Insane mentally ill cope. Inferior men blinded by the light of revealed superiority and writhing in ressentiment. I remove such followers. Thankfully in due time they'll be removed period. If that's your idea of what Elon is about you're ngmi. https://t.co/voHQIYU3Lo Insane mentally ill cope. Inferior men blinded by the light of revealed superiority and writhing in ressentiment. I remove such followers. Thankfully in due time they'll be removed period. If that's your idea of what Elon is about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2018766336349126679)  2026-02-03T19:19Z 32.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Anime in contrast is a quintessentially American genre. Anime is superhero fiction. Your anime protagonists are everyday humans who go to everyday high schools whose actions happen to shape the fate of the universe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/1971603068547653889)  2025-09-26T15:49Z 32.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Spending an hour asking ChatGPT about Adam Smith generally teaches you 3x as much as spending an hour reading Wealth of Nations. The undergrads are using AI because it's just a better more efficient way to learn things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/1945851209450938655)  2025-07-17T14:20Z 32.8K followers, 874.7K engagements


"As powerful as Sun Wukong is in the Old World individuals are meaningless grains of sand washed around by the tides of history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/1971602767451214160)  2025-09-26T15:48Z 32.8K followers, [---] engagements


"The basic issue with Asian parenting in the West is that it tries to forcefeed a scarcity mindset into kids obviously living in a post-scarcity society"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825185962701529177)  2024-08-18T15:00Z 32.8K followers, 1.8M engagements


"17-year old fashion design high school student randomly reads a bunch of math textbooks for fun and gets 12th place in an international math contest scoring higher than a bunch of math majors at top universities The feel good 💕story of the year: China's Good Will(a) Hunting Vocational Fashion Student and Improbable Math Genius 17-year old vocational high school student Jiang Ping who spends her days studying fashion design and literally making clothes places 12th out of [---] https://t.co/fmeaNhWnCb The feel good 💕story of the year: China's Good Will(a) Hunting Vocational Fashion Student and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1801707610158010842)  2024-06-14T20:05Z 32.8K followers, 1.1M engagements


"The feel good 💕story of the year: China's Good Will(a) Hunting Vocational Fashion Student and Improbable Math Genius 17-year old vocational high school student Jiang Ping who spends her days studying fashion design and literally making clothes places 12th out of [---] finalists for the global Alibaba Math Contest. Unlike most of the other contestants who hail from the top educational institutions in the world -- plenty from MIT Carnegie Mellon and of course Tsinghua and Peking University -- she was one of the roughly 50% of kids in China who didn't even go to a regular high school and ended up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1801670636147982411)  2024-06-14T17:38Z 74.6K followers, 1.5M engagements


"Once during COVID I was at a virtual conference; a PhD student was presenting and was like "it's 3am here and I'm really tired so here's what I'm going to do. I'll play a prerecorded video of me giving me talk and if you have any questions I'll pause it and answer""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815504043709702574)  2024-07-22T21:47Z 32.8K followers, 569.4K engagements


"Simple evidence that humans are basically irrational is that this costs roughly $50 one time saves [--] seconds a day for years and nobody does this Standardizing on one sock type is the ultimate life improvement https://t.co/lefdcIOEsU Standardizing on one sock type is the ultimate life improvement https://t.co/lefdcIOEsU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1789680600799977925)  2024-05-12T15:34Z 32.8K followers, 3.2M engagements


"Standardizing on one sock type is the ultimate life improvement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1789393293517725823)  2024-05-11T20:33Z 422.9K followers, 14.9M engagements


"Sometimes history just puts the right people in the right place at the right time. You thought you were cancelling a fresh PhD grad; instead you've created what looks to be one of the great posters of our era A gorgeous and talented woman undoubtedly and I am in no position to question this tweet. The desire to present oneself as odourless though could be seen as a preventative measure against disgust which speaks to the widespread association between women and malodour. A gorgeous and talented woman undoubtedly and I am in no position to question this tweet. The desire to present oneself as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1869406217136910350)  2024-12-18T15:35Z 32.8K followers, 275.9K engagements


"A gorgeous and talented woman undoubtedly and I am in no position to question this tweet. The desire to present oneself as odourless though could be seen as a preventative measure against disgust which speaks to the widespread association between women and malodour. I didnt but I AM pretty face pretty frame little feet smell good never got a odor even when its that time of the month got that grippy street smart a hustler rich AF A God fearing woman Baby I can upgrade a man life AND buy yours A perfect [--] I didnt but I AM pretty face pretty frame little feet smell good never got a odor even"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1869366388462321727)  2024-12-18T12:57Z 265.9K followers, 4.7M engagements


"Computer scientists more or less rewrote statistics without learning it well just rediscovering everything useful and ignoring everything that isn't useful. Stats guys are still mad about the renaming of everything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1859306432002392337)  2024-11-20T18:42Z 32.8K followers, 983K engagements


"The mathematics textbook cartel is incredible. Every mathematician in the world knows the intuitive interpretations of all the theorems but nobody bothers writing them down in the textbooks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1903576730708648285)  2025-03-22T22:37Z 32.8K followers, 541.9K engagements


"If you make like $200k in America you make enough that it becomes $-per-hour inefficient not to doordash all your groceries most of your meals maybe even your coffee. But do you lose some part of your humanity if you never go to the grocery store or buy your own coffee @balajis i knew a billionaire that would deliberately take the time to walk and get coffee each morning no one knew who he was but he enjoyed the ritual of it all. was always astounded how much time he wasted doing this but maybe the stillness was worth it to him @balajis i knew a billionaire that would deliberately take the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984639578557595721)  2025-11-01T15:12Z 32.8K followers, 1.5M engagements


"@balajis i knew a billionaire that would deliberately take the time to walk and get coffee each morning no one knew who he was but he enjoyed the ritual of it all. was always astounded how much time he wasted doing this but maybe the stillness was worth it to him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984475387041054999)  2025-11-01T04:19Z 45.3K followers, 1.3M engagements


"Whiplash is an excellent movie because the non-grinders see it as a warning message of the horrors that can happen to you if you grind too hard whereas the grinders see it as a grotesquely triumphant celebration of the grind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1795092530490388845)  2024-05-27T13:59Z 32.8K followers, 547.4K engagements


"1. This was hilarious [--]. This actually raises an interesting question. It's [----] video recording exists. What in the world is the point of us all making slides prepping and memorizing 30-minute talks when we could just. do it once and play the recording"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815504281996259784)  2024-07-22T21:48Z 32.8K followers, 93.3K engagements


"reminder the entry-level tech job market is still totally cooked like 4.0's from Berkeley are getting [--] job offers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1839436181723021415)  2024-09-26T22:45Z 32.8K followers, 2.1M engagements


"One of the nuttiest things I've ever heard: apparently Terence Tao got bored at some point and decided to spent a little time doing some applied math and and yea he then just goes back to doing pure math"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1806806914178896320)  2024-06-28T21:48Z 32.8K followers, 1.4M engagements


"Why are Americans on average so incredibly good at presenting/selling/ (you could uncharitably call it) BS-ing Is it something about early/middle/high school education Culture Parents teaching their kids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1796256444679139581)  2024-05-30T19:04Z 32.8K followers, 1.5M engagements


"I literally gave an [--] yr old kid a college set theory textbook and he's making decent progress [---] sections in two days like he is smart but like I think with a little guidance kids can be pushed _way_ harder than they are in school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1821029744822911455)  2024-08-07T03:44Z 32.8K followers, 354.6K engagements


"When I used to hire part-time RAs any time someone listed python on their resume in the Zoom interview I'd open up python and define x = [-----] And ask them for code to get all elements of x greater than [--]. 80% of people I interviewed could not do this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1832139465038458975)  2024-09-06T19:31Z 32.8K followers, 965.1K engagements


"Math folks look at AI output it's clearly legit math and they're like yeah this thing knows how to do math Humanities folks look at AI output and are immediately like: this thing can't possibly be as good at interpreting texts as we are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955424449978831105)  2025-08-13T00:21Z 32.8K followers, 450.3K engagements


"Fun fact: when you get a mortgage against your house the bank orders an appraiser to estimate how much the house is worth since regulators like the loan to be less than 80% of the house value so the loan is safe. The appraisal values have a very curious distribution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1594385733917507584)  2022-11-20T17:42Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"There is a brute-force learning method which is the following - Take a frontier paper in a field you want to learn but know nothing about - Try to read the paper - Pause every sentence you're confused and look for older papers/books/etc until you understand it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1847295325364518959)  2024-10-18T15:15Z 32.8K followers, 265.1K engagements


"One thing LLMs make you realize is how poorly many math books are written. Literally just asking the LLM for what a theorem does tells you more than many math books. So. why couldn't the author just do that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1903563337562312912)  2025-03-22T21:44Z 32.8K followers, 480.1K engagements


"Back when LLMs sucked at math a bunch of people wrote papers about why the technical structure of LLMs made it impossible for them to ever be good at math. Some of you believed those papers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1958925042877931875)  2025-08-22T16:11Z 32.8K followers, 455.8K engagements


"The stereotypical 20's SWE nerd doesn't even have expensive hobbies just plays videogames all day. where does all the money go I don't understand how some software engineers don't have savings. You've been earning five median household incomes and you spent all of it I don't understand how some software engineers don't have savings. You've been earning five median household incomes and you spent all of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815536923471233420)  2024-07-22T23:58Z 32.8K followers, 899.7K engagements


"I don't understand how some software engineers don't have savings. You've been earning five median household incomes and you spent all of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815114271614718276)  2024-07-21T19:59Z 14.2K followers, 1.6M engagements


"What are some things with easy entry-level learning curves Things you can spend 10-20 hours learning and feel like you've improved significantly relative to someone who's never learned before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1828909458480632028)  2024-08-28T21:36Z 32.8K followers, 489.3K engagements


"If you want to teach yourself CS at the bachelors degree level these two books seem essential; what other books should you not miss"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1821931532103114822)  2024-08-09T15:28Z 32.8K followers, 425.1K engagements


"Putting kids through too many status games makes them risk-averse. They go through middle school high school college every step doing the "right" thing. They go into a world with a deep fear of ever accidentally stepping off the "golden road""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1923947139085820384)  2025-05-18T03:41Z 32.8K followers, 140.9K engagements


"The software-engineer-on-twitter thing where they just ignore prior literature/experts and just try to first-principles figure out all of human knowledge is quintessentially American The reason America is great is because whenever one of these folks finds a convoluted mess of a body of knowledge defended by pompous credentialed experts they just think fuck it it'll be faster if I just figure it out from scratch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1858177619721601361)  2024-11-17T15:57Z 32.8K followers, 329.4K engagements


"There's a common mistake young people make across many fields which we might call "Goodhart overhang": sticking too long to old and familiar goal-metrics when the objective function has changed and the metrics are no longer relevant. Examples:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742570546854756712)  2024-01-03T15:36Z 32.8K followers, 486.9K engagements


"I'm not an expert but I feel like I'm not super worried about AI taking white-collar jobs because I feel like around 80% of white collar jobs are fake work anyways and it's hard for AI to replace the role of a worker that does nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1927725361992810867)  2025-05-28T13:55Z 32.8K followers, 301.8K engagements


"I feel like a mid-career "local minimum trap" is that you can get addicted to being an "operations guy". You manage a bunch of resources back-to-back [--] min meetings every dollar and human under your command utilized to full efficiency. like playing real life factorio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1808515250947268865)  2024-07-03T14:56Z 32.8K followers, 221.3K engagements


"San Francisco window breakers have apparently learned game theory and discovered that a strategy more profitable than breaking windows and stealing things is to nicely threaten to break windows and steal things https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/14lr9fh/today_i_woke_up_to_this_note_on_my_car/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/14lr9fh/today_i_woke_up_to_this_note_on_my_car/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1674431811030765569)  2023-06-29T14:57Z 32.8K followers, 648.5K engagements


"This does not really work. The kid is more or less scared into developing discipline and work ethic and tends to drop all these things when they grow up and realize that the material value of success in a developed society is much lower than they were scared into believing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825186149796856079)  2024-08-18T15:01Z 32.8K followers, 115.5K engagements


"Random story about math skills: At a tech company data science interview around a decade ago I got a question like: revenues start at $1000 and decay 10% a year what's nondiscounted revenues over time. So obviously I remember the infinite sum and immediately say $10000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1959283481164366119)  2025-08-23T15:55Z 32.8K followers, 269.9K engagements


"The funniest answer was someone with a perfectly straight face gave the answer y = 45"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1832139561373233559)  2024-09-06T19:31Z 32.8K followers, 186.7K engagements


"A tragic recent event in Korea: a huge landlord owning hundreds of properties suddenly passed away. This landlord managed to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars from his tenants - many were lending over 10x their annual salary to their landlord https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2022/12/15/business/economy/korea-apartment-property/20221215162841416.html https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2022/12/15/business/economy/korea-apartment-property/20221215162841416.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1613977673067540480)  2023-01-13T19:13Z 32.8K followers, 813.6K engagements


"The economics of running hedge funds are pretty rough. Say you have the skills to make $500k in big tech or finance or something. If you charge industry standard 2% you need to manage $25mil just for your annual fee to equal what you could make in a full-time job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1867055506713456772)  2024-12-12T03:54Z 32.8K followers, 792.6K engagements


"I feel like a substantial amount of creativity comes literally just from knowing a lot of stuff. If you know like three paintings history looks like a linear progression from painting [--] to [--] to [--]. If you see like [--] million paintings you have a richer understanding of history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955362223783809047)  2025-08-12T20:14Z 32.8K followers, 377.6K engagements


"How beautifully ridiculous that one dude overpays for Twitter fires 80% of workforce and it still works and thus single-handedly kills the tech entry-level job market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1780335477020643459)  2024-04-16T20:40Z 32.8K followers, 475.6K engagements


"If you're a poor under-networked kid who doesn't know how rich circles work and you go to a fancy college you meet a bunch of richer kids with better networks and get to watch how people who have networks use them which is a very useful skill in US industry these days IMO College is a scam you dont need it. - Stanford [--] [--] [--] [--] College is a scam you dont need it. - Stanford [--] [--] [--] 06"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1472423798565744640)  2021-12-19T04:29Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"College is a scam you dont need it. - Stanford [--] [--] [--] 06"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1472209100536614914)  2021-12-18T14:16Z 1.3M followers, [----] engagements


"Is there. not a more efficient way to do science communication Thread inspired by this tweet which I basically agree with https://x.com/krisgulati/status/1815472170682011987 https://x.com/krisgulati/status/1815472170682011987"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815504485806117236)  2024-07-22T21:49Z 32.8K followers, 122.2K engagements


"At some level this is understandable. The West sometimes fails to realize just _how_ poor Asia was as recently as when your canonical Asian parents grew up. This is a set of people whose worldview was formed on a lower level of Maslow's hierarchy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825186418114654714)  2024-08-18T15:02Z 32.8K followers, 139.7K engagements


"It turns out when you are dirt poor the idea of potentially making yourself and your kids less dirt poor is a fantastic motivator. Passion Interests Silly and selfish distractions sacrificing your childrens' future for your own fleeting happiness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825186904251215958)  2024-08-18T15:04Z 32.8K followers, 101K engagements


"OK one of my favorite interview questions which trips up 95% of top undergrads from top schools that I interview has fallen to Claude"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1768639726557209082)  2024-03-15T14:05Z 32.8K followers, 1.8M engagements


"Papers are online. Talks are mostly online. If you have questions about a paper you can email the author. There is no function of a conference talk which is not substitutable by something which doesn't involve spending tons of $$ on flights and hotel for a 30-min talk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815504719626068268)  2024-07-22T21:50Z 32.8K followers, 67.6K engagements


""But conferences are really about talking with people and networking and etc." Sure then why pretend it's about giving talks If this is true and you believe socially useful we should be thinking about how to optimize conference format for productive discussions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815504965731033572)  2024-07-22T21:51Z 32.8K followers, 59.9K engagements


"Hahahahaha awesome paper Tl;dr: - Praying for rain is common across religions - Prayer _actually predicts_ rain in some places - This is because in some places rain isn't Poisson: when it hasn't rained for a long time it's more likely to rain https://www.nber.org/papers/w31411 https://www.nber.org/papers/w31411"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1675894926830100480)  2023-07-03T15:51Z 32.8K followers, 251.4K engagements


""I write code because I think it's the coolest thing in the universe" is ascension to the highest level of Maslow's hierarchy. Material abundance having been attained through our parents' sacrifices the natural duty we owe society and ourselves is only to live beautifully"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825188864610435245)  2024-08-18T15:11Z 32.8K followers, 88.2K engagements


"You look at your kids and wonder why they are lazy and don't struggle as much as you did and the answer is simply that due to what you've accomplished they have nothing left to struggle for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825187632470454326)  2024-08-18T15:06Z 32.8K followers, 86.8K engagements


"If you want the kids to develop work ethic discipline in kids in such an environment material well-being as a motivator is entirely the wrong strategy. Harvard's admissions committee as much as I hate to say it has the right one: the answer is passion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825187949962772617)  2024-08-18T15:08Z 32.8K followers, 82.4K engagements


"I just don't get why people are trying to detect whether AI is being used for writing instead of just grading whether the writing is good or bad. If student A uses AI and writes better than student B student A should get a better grade than student B"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1810669420181885289)  2024-07-09T13:36Z 32.8K followers, 714.7K engagements


"In a post-scarcity environment the only people who persistently work hard are those who maintain the delusion that some kind of scarcity exists - a path which leads with high probability to dissatisfaction and misery - or those who find some sort of intrinsic motivation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825188355476513219)  2024-08-18T15:09Z 32.8K followers, 99K engagements


"I'm an academic economist and I've been bullish on crypto for a few years. The thesis is simple. Crypto is a tool almost exclusively for criminals: it's basically useless to anyone in the developed world. But it's a really good tool for criminals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1958031243070627992)  2025-08-20T05:00Z 32.8K followers, 112.8K engagements


"There's an interview with her where she finished being like "yeah doing fashion design is my plan A and my plan B is going to be doing math""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1801707907140002173)  2024-06-14T20:06Z 32.8K followers, 41.1K engagements


"Simple horror videogame idea: Turing-test Among Us - Players communicate by typing - Some players get "infected" and replaced by AI zombies trained on their text input - You have to find and kill all the clones before everyone becomes zombified"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1769397477495406690)  2024-03-17T16:16Z 32.8K followers, 279.9K engagements


"But Asian parenting also involves some degree of PTSD. You've made it Because of your struggles and sacrifices your children and your childrens' children are more or less with high probability ensured material abundance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825187348310577201)  2024-08-18T15:05Z 32.8K followers, 92.4K engagements


"Frequent convo between me and PhD students Me: "After [---] hours of data analysis on industry X have you talked to anyone actually working in industry X" Student (S): "No" Me: "Why not" Student: "Where would I find someone in industry X willing to talk to me""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972681550870245482)  2025-09-29T15:15Z 32.8K followers, 383.5K engagements


"A bunch of relative amateur CS guys then destroyed the whole academic field of protein folding. Yes programmers are arrogant but programmers also have humiliated a nontrivial number of groups of in-principle experts on their home turf in recent history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1859306832520757523)  2024-11-20T18:44Z 32.8K followers, 66.3K engagements


"The humanities people haven't kept up with the historical development of economics as a field. We got mathematicized in the like early mid 1900's went super "neoliberal" in the 80's and more recently figured out we could just take over all of empirical social science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1876994020615877086)  2025-01-08T14:07Z 32.8K followers, 173.7K engagements


"Cancel all talks; do field-specific discussions/focus groups; do the law school thing where everyone's expected to read the paper and goes in to have a real discussion rather than try to back out what the speaker wrote from what they say (hahahahaha as if)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815505277351067890)  2024-07-22T21:52Z 32.8K followers, 50.8K engagements


"Programmers are the spiritual successors of the physics mindset. The physicists at one point - maybe still now - quite earnestly think they can walk into any field and quickly dominate it. Perhaps for quantitative finance in some sense they did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1859307059910778913)  2024-11-20T18:45Z 32.8K followers, 124.3K engagements


"Is it just me or does CS require a lot less math than say mechanical engineering. I'm looking at a mech eng textbook and feel like the median (pretty good) SWE would not have the math skills to get through this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1779714418042892676)  2024-04-15T03:32Z 32.8K followers, 336.3K engagements


"I troll but this is an incredibly important skill and for some reason observationally America which has a early education system few are generally jealous of seems to systematically produce ppl with a much higher distribution of presentation ability than anywhere else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1796256679475990721)  2024-05-30T19:05Z 32.8K followers, 100.8K engagements


"Passion can be discouraged and destroyed but also developed. Passion is different from the fleeting interests that children develop; it's interests combined with mentors teaching how to invest further in these interests and convincing children that these investments do pay off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825189804214210750)  2024-08-18T15:15Z 32.8K followers, 66.8K engagements


"People complain about the arbitrariness of college admissions and say we should do the European/Asian/etc system of a college entrance exam but there is a cost Life is unfair and arbitrary American kids learn that at [--] everyone else learns that at 22"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1907065966380355965)  2025-04-01T13:42Z 32.8K followers, 84.1K engagements


"I'll be honest I did not expect that the machines would start thinking and the humans would more or less just ignore the rather obvious fact that the machines are thinking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1773153388504453245)  2024-03-28T01:01Z 32.8K followers, 205.9K engagements


"Later on in the interview there's a part where I have to like add two 3-digit numbers or something and I'm like fuck this is hard it takes me like five minutes. The interviewer is very bemused: "you did the infinite sum in like [--] seconds and you can't add these [--] numbers""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1959283694578847754)  2025-08-23T15:56Z 32.8K followers, 41.7K engagements


"At some level isn't it incredible that billionaires use the same $1000 iphones as the rest of us And that a 7-year old top-of-the-line iPhone functions about as well as a $50 USD new Android phone in a developing country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1809046417366765912)  2024-07-05T02:07Z 32.8K followers, 194.4K engagements


"Science maintains its decades-old rituals in the face of dramatic shifts in communication technology. We're long overdue for some format experimentation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1815505951690203602)  2024-07-22T21:55Z 32.8K followers, 42.1K engagements


"The issue is that the Asian parenting strategy goes in the opposite direction. At a lower level of Maslow's hierarchy the skill needed is to be willing to put insane hours into something without any emotional investment. Passion is a distraction and a liability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1825189294031446306)  2024-08-18T15:13Z 32.8K followers, 69.4K engagements


"I think the test format is open so you might worry that she cheated e.g. had her teacher do the test for her or something. And your worries would be unsubstantiated because (according to some rando on the internet) the teacher also took the test and ranked 125th"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1801731969962885249)  2024-06-14T21:42Z 32.8K followers, 40.5K engagements


"End result of my participation in ConstitutionDAO: I paid $140 in round-trip gas fees to make Ken Griffin pay an extra $200 on his $42mil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1463249616388775939)  2021-11-23T20:54Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"So I don't object to engineered environments for kids; I do think the standard Asian choices for environment engineering are not good Classical piano/violin are basically devoid of creativity strategic thinking teamwork. They basically train rote memorization and hard work my parents did this and i will be forever grateful by age [--] i was enrolled in piano violin ballet art reading and math (kumon). my mum sat down every week and reviewed my progress roadmap with my teachers to make sure i was on the right track. she did this without fail my parents did this and i will be forever grateful by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1917253073690583175)  2025-04-29T16:22Z 32.8K followers, 144.3K engagements


"my parents did this and i will be forever grateful by age [--] i was enrolled in piano violin ballet art reading and math (kumon). my mum sat down every week and reviewed my progress roadmap with my teachers to make sure i was on the right track. she did this without fail until i went to music school at [--]. am i smarter than everyone else no but it helped me discover my talents and passions very early on in life and also helped me stay disciplined. as a child i could sit still for hours at a time completing a task and i still can to this day. i see so much wasted potential and talent in some of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1916996899409911838)  2025-04-28T23:24Z 20.3K followers, 1.4M engagements


"I am lucky the guy had a physics PhD otherwise I think I wouldn't have gotten that job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1959283764615385554)  2025-08-23T15:57Z 32.8K followers, 41.5K engagements


"Science is not always respectful science is blood sport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1859307383622861112)  2024-11-20T18:46Z 32.8K followers, 56.8K engagements


"I just tried out decentraland for the first time. It's. small Like there must be like [---] people online total atm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1467570217098252289)  2021-12-05T19:03Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"One time when I was a PhD student at Stanford I submitted a paper to QJE and then very happily biked [--] minutes to Palo Alto to take the day off. When I got to Palo Alto and checked my phone I found a QJE desk reject email so I very sadly biked [--] minutes right back to work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1960415225079005410)  2025-08-26T18:53Z 32.8K followers, 77.1K engagements


"Fun fact I did a quick survey in my law/MBA student crypto class: - Roughly 100% of the class has heard of ETH - Roughly 80% of the class has invested in ETH - Roughly 5% of the class has held ETH in a hardware wallet - 2-3% of class had used smart contracts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1591841966329040898)  2022-11-13T17:14Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"1. Grades matter in high school for getting in college. Some college students naively optimize for high GPA assuming it's the same game as high school in fields where networking/interview prep/github etc matter more for job finding and are surprised when this doesn't work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742570906101158373)  2024-01-03T15:37Z 32.8K followers, 46.1K engagements


"Compare the distribution when the appraisal is done before the transaction price of the house is known https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Fout-Panel-VI.pdf https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Fout-Panel-VI.pdf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1594385857355681793)  2022-11-20T17:43Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"IMO the fact that the US sucks at the humanities may actually contribute to its success. Humanities is a nerd trap intellectually enjoyable but unproductive. Smart people in the US build stuff rather than pontificating about 2000-year-old unresolvable philosophical puzzles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1864675969304600877)  2024-12-05T14:19Z 32.8K followers, 103.7K engagements


"There's a dank meme going around Chinese social media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1801826330511593559)  2024-06-15T03:57Z 32.8K followers, 35.2K engagements


"Paper shows more attractive people game less lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1822993222731190374)  2024-08-12T13:47Z 32.8K followers, 246.9K engagements


"Random presentation tip for econ/finance PhD students esp. for technical/theory ish stuff: When I first started presenting I assumed a distribution of audience expertise that looked like this. Roughly normally distributed most people know something about your topic matter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1589258110849327105)  2022-11-06T14:07Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The year is [----]. A US fintech startup product manager on a 3-hour layover at Narita airport drops by a little convenience store to buy a coffee. As he's about to check out he hears the cashier muttering softly and slightly ominously: "Forty-eight forty-eight forty-eight." He glances at a sign posted next to the checkout counter. "Forty-eight different payments methods Can you believe this This is a huge opportunity ripe for the taking It's about time global payments was consolidated" Inspired he frantically pings his team on his flight home and they rush to build The One Payments System To"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1637359112857223168)  2023-03-19T07:43Z 32.8K followers, 380.6K engagements


"Great economists are rarely born because it is rare for a single person to have both the rigor and precision of a great mathematician and the insane penetrative hallucinatory creativity of a great social thinker"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975969402597278076)  2025-10-08T16:59Z 32.8K followers, 39.1K engagements


"We think this in economics. We more or less assume we can disrespectfully invade the other social sciences ignore prior work and win in the market for public attention. Sometimes we do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1859307315335446570)  2024-11-20T18:46Z 32.8K followers, 67K engagements


"Google maps [---] stars in London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1717519835549049253)  2023-10-26T12:33Z 32.8K followers, 165.4K engagements


"The common thread is that people are bad at pivoting. It's easy to have a target metric in mind and tunnel-vision-grind maximize it; sometimes in the process you forget the target metric is not the goal just a proxy and the proxy changes as you move through life's stages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742571913006743694)  2024-01-03T15:41Z 32.8K followers, 45.1K engagements


"A theory I have is that you can become a millionaire by being a grinder but you only become a billionaire by being a gambler; and the main input into gambling is not hard work but luck so you should go do your daily coffee ritual if you think it will make God smile upon you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984639806496776462)  2025-11-01T15:12Z 32.8K followers, 72.6K engagements


"Rough tl;dr of 3AC situation for tradfi folks interested - 3AC is a $10bil crypto hedge fund - Borrowed money from a bunch of ppl to lever up a bunch of crypto-assets - Crypto assets went down - 3AC probably went bust - Some ppl who lent to 3AC might also be in trouble"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1537504271054393346)  2022-06-16T18:35Z 32.8K followers, [----] engagements


""I'm going to make martingale theory intuitive for students" The [--] students in your class don't really care all your colleagues will hate you and if you cared about the money you would have joined a hedge fund out of your PhD instead of writing math textbooks for a living"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1903577241847468066)  2025-03-22T22:39Z 32.8K followers, 37.6K engagements

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