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  My experience has been that academia gives you more freedom in your day-to-day at the cost of constant stress of long-term survival. Alt ac is less freedom day to day but greater long-term freedom in choosing where you want to live and work, knowing you can always change jobs etc

  

  I say it's largely a myth that academic jobs offer greater intellectual or time "freedom" compared to jobs outside the academy, all things considered. A myth that keeps PhDs from truly exploring their options and sometimes stuck in crap situations. What say you all?

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  Who are your favorite voices who explain AI to non-technical audiences? I'm looking for inspiration on how to explain what AI can and cannot do & how to critically assess AI output without going into tech details. So far I've got

  @JanelleCShane

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  @FryRsquared

  , who am I missing?

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  name a film you’ve seen more than seven times with just a gif

  

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  name a film you’ve seen more than seven times with just a gif

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  Why limit this to economics? I so desperately want to be able to add one "yeah, we didn't think this made any sense either" or "reviewer 2 insisted on this and we didn't have energy to fight them for another round"

  

  I propose that all economics journal editors allow one snarky comment in every published paper, to be inserted after acceptance. For example, footnote/endnote #6 might read like this:

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