Pradyumna

Karma: 18

Hi! My name is Pradyumna and I write about economic growth at brettongoods.substack.com. Interests of mine include economic growth in developing countries, international finance and financial crises

Pradyumna 23 Jan 2023 1:04 UTC
2 points
in reply to: Alexander de Vries’s comment on: Revving up the Progress Studies Idea Machine
yes but that was done with the assumption that the best way is to increase productivity growth

Pradyumna 22 Jan 2023 2:12 UTC
2 points
in reply to: Alexander de Vries’s comment on: Revving up the Progress Studies Idea Machine
yeah absolutely, but I think there has already been a consensus on this part. Generally people consider it to be 1

Pradyumna 17 Jan 2023 22:55 UTC
2 points
on: Pradyumna’s Shortform
This hackernews thread about working at the DoE national labs gives a positive impression of them although with some caveats

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34414527

Pradyumna 17 Jan 2023 22:41 UTC
2 points
in reply to: Tyler Cowen’s comment on: Tyler Cowen AMA
Unrelated to the accuracy of this, it feels ChatGPT generated. If so, we’ll played

Pradyumna 17 Jan 2023 14:20 UTC
1 point
on: Tyler Cowen AMA
To what extent is fieldwork underrated by economists? I feel it is quite so because it captures things that numbers often lose (eg nuance) and context that is hard to get without it. IMO i
t shouldn’t be the best form of evidence, but definitely a starting point in it

Pradyumna 17 Jan 2023 14:18 UTC
1 point
on: Tyler Cowen AMA
How do the returns to high verbal intelligence change if AI gains the writing abilities of the median NYT opinion writer? How should people whose comparative advantage is in writing prepare for this?

Pradyumna 11 Dec 2022 2:01 UTC
3 points
on: Patrick McKenzie AMA
Singapore has a government entity that builds open source technologies (eg static site generator, form maker) for other government departments to use. Could you se this being replicated elsewhere?