Amazing afternoon mini-conferencing with fellow west coast innovation/entrepreneurship peeps (Francesca Truffa Matteo Tranchero Kris Gulati Matt Clancy) - thanks to Christian Fons Rosen for organizing. Such a privilege to hang out with friends and discuss cool cutting-edge ideas!

lol. h/t Stuart Buck

Nat Friedman's Vesuvius Challenge confirms the central insight of metascience:

It’s not about how much we spend, it’s about how we spend it.

New details about GPT-5 from Sam Altman
He’s basically admitting that GPT-5 will be a massive upgrade from GPT-4, so we can expect a similar jump from 3 to 4.
''If you overlook the pace of improvement, you'll be 'steamrolled'... Altman is confident in the performance of GPT-5 and…

One year since GPT-4 release. Hope you all enjoyed some time to relax; it’ll have been the slowest 12 months of AI progress for quite some time to come.

Biomedical innovation is miraculous

Fascinating conversation over lunch yesterday. The best predictor of being a good teacher is performance in the previous year (or first year). The paper makes the claim that 80% of teachers should be dismissed

Max is one of the smartest/funniest/amazing people I know and everyone should subscribe to his **brilliant** blog which I look forward to reading every Wednesday morning!! maximum-progress.com

One reason the sci of sci literature seems to be better known compared to econ of sci is because they publish in sci/nature. Suggests if you want policy change/impact you should change the venue with which you aim to publish -- but at odds with career progression?

'In 1940, the AAUP recommended that the academic tenure probationary period be seven years, which is still the current norm.' Should this now be longer/shorter?

'One immediate implication is that autistics should receive a higher return from working at home and working through online connections'

This is ME! from tylercowen 's paper on Neuroeconomics of autism.

I think we need to actually put autistic power to good use. Imo, Instead…

Cool dashboard website! The FDA has the ability to enforce fines for not sharing clinical trial results but has never done so. The amount they could have fined is astonishing...

Which economics of science/innovation papers have led to policy change?