"What appeals to me most abt American traditions is the creedal nature of national identity, the Declaration’s insistence on universal equality…the rights enumerated in our Constitution…I consider innovation…growth…sustained material prosperity…downstream of free expression." @rajivsethi.bsky.social

New post on the compact open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

CASBS's Creating a New Moral Political Economy program (2020-23) offers an open access repository allowing students & educators to expand their thinking about moral political economy issues & questions.

Scholars: add your syllabus & other digital resources to the repository.

👉 mpe.stanford.edu

New post on gun supply open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

Latest issue of @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social is on gun supply, lots of interesting contributions, here is mine (with Dan O'Flaherty) www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/whe...

Check out Interactive Economics, an open access project co-directed by CASBS fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social & devoted to learning economics & the dynamics of interactions among people, resources & the environment. Four modules released & more coming soon

Play with it 👉 www.interactiveeconomics.org

CASBS fellow @rajivsethi.bsky.social has a terrific Substack called Imperfect Information

In this post, Rajiv describes his CASBS year project on how messages & signals we send & receive become adopted or contested, & their sometimes unintended consequences

Check it out & read more Rajiv posts ⬇️

Topical in a couple of different ways, but also points out a major failure point of our collective information processing systems: we infer from financial metrics much more than what their generative process warrants.

Much like omens in other cultures... 1/

New post on celebrity unions, papal conclaves, and financial markets
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New post on the coming academic year and an ongoing project open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

New post on a presidential memorandum open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

Call for Papers: 20th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

www.isid.ac.in/~acegd/acegd...

It's a great conference, I'm on the program committee and hoping to attend this year

New post on the Columbia deal:
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New post on the work of Jens Ludwig on gun violence open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

I made a quick Russian interference explainer. When CIA director Ratcliffe started down this road, I wrote 3000 words about the Senate reports, the data sets from big tech, etc.

Now Tulsi’s doing her thing…so here’s a quick video about her “Obama treason” voting machine claims vs reality. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Follow up post on this open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

New post on a second act for PredictIt: open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

New deal between PredictIt and the CFTC drops restrictions on total number of traders and raises cap to $3.5K per trader in any given market (up from $850); it will be interesting to see implications for forecasting accuracy:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New post on professional distancing in academia (based recent work by Kris Gulati and Lorenzo Palladini): open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

Hear me out: this is actually potentially interesting if they can find a way to avoid floods of spam. It could address some big issues w/ Community Notes — language neutrality issues preventing “clearing,” bandwidth to write notes, ideologue topic issues, etc

www.theverge.com/news/696210/...

Just posted a new paper (with Chiara Chanoi, José Luis Montiel Olea and Dan O'Flaherty) that looks at use of lethal force by police officers in the 1930s, based on data collected as background material for Myrdal's American Dilemma
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Our preprint “How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy” is now online.

We show how coordinated multi-agent LLM swarms can infiltrate communities, craft synthetic grassroots “consensus,” and erode institutional trust—and what we can do now to stop it.

osf.io/preprints/os...

New post on prediction markets, opinion polls, and the New York City mayor's race: open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...