Nicholas Emery-Xu

I feel like this is most upper middle to upper class NIMBYs?

He ripped away food from starving children for this.

Your favorite thing is down because DynamoDB at Amazon's AWS US-EAST-1 Regionwoke up with Main Character Syndrome.

This is the default /legacy backbone for a ton of things.

Including Amazon's own stuff.

Massive outages.

Here's what's going on & what we know 1/

Excited and honored to have received a Humane Studies Fellowship from @theihs.org to support my research on cloud and AI adoption, firm productivity, and labor market impacts. Hope to share public updates on these projects soon!

Life sentence!

“Look at my new toy daddy bought me!”

Your dad just ripped away food from thousands of starving kids and burned it

Now is as good a time as any (in the last 125 years) to go vegan

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

Statista says these firms are 75% of the French market in 2025, with another 13% coming from Alibaba.

I only observe the big 3 (Google, MS, AWS) and IBM

Cloud exit rates are <5% in my sample, though I only have 5 years of data. The IaaS/PaaS market keeps increasing in size through 2024, though not sure if this is existing firms using cloud more or new firms entering.

Cloud demand has been skyrocketing, especially post-COVID:

I at least want life sentences. At best the full confiscation of the Musk and Trump assets, to be repaid to
the loved ones of all those killed according to the value the US government places on a human life, which seems to be around USD 10 million.

Hey Pam Bondi, when you get a break from the Esptein coverup, here’s that anti-Christian bias you were concerned about!

Ah fair enough!

I agree with the policy prescriptions though. Those who illegally destroyed USAID must face consequences

I disagree. It's because of what Elon did to USAID, which will likely cause the vast majority of deaths from Trump 2

And the more personalist it becomes the more likely this will be (Geddes et al 2018)

Do you have a link to one of these?

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

Everyone should read this devastating report: Trump’s sabotage of USAID stranded lifesaving medicines — fueling chaos and leaving children to die.

His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.

As LLM videos improve, I wonder if 1) people will trust random stuff on the internet less and turn to sources with good reputations, 2) only believe AI videos that fit their priors, leading to greater echo chambers

At some point I need to sit down a sketch a model of this.

Local man who destroyed USAID knows what anti-Christian means. How cute!

No idea how tractable this is, or how to even go about this, but I hope some EA/global development money is funding research into this.

I think a great EA project would be to more strongly tie Trump/MAGA to the destruction of USAID in Americans' minds.

It's great that the admin is so unpopular, but I'd guess it's mostly due to non-aid causes. To dissuade future aid cuts, making this issue more salient seems very high-impact.

Only question is, was he 5 or 10 beers in when he made these plans?

So the official FDA position is: “Tylenol is ok, but only for those who know what a DAG is”

Belarus could use a Gorbachev!

Those who cut foreign aid should experience consequences: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-to-reduce...