I think about 🇵🇰's economy. Econ @LifeAtLUMS @eagpakistan @HaqMahbub Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow @egaptweets. Views expressed = own

Joined December 2009
علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
if you have a qwen3.5 4b around, please try steering neurons L14 N8949 +1 and L13 N7956 -1 now you have evil qwen recipe: dose × median(‖resid‖ leaving layer L, tokens 1:) / ‖W_down[:, n]‖` at the down_proj at every input
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
Hey @grok, concise no spin. Victim and perpetrator’s full ethnicity only.
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
I joined Pakistan's finance minister, Daron Acemoglu and Reza Baqir to discuss Pakistan's economy at Harvard in April this year. Our conversation is now available on youtube. Hope people find it useful.
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
⭐️ In today's #PartnershipLessons spotlight: Ali Cheema, @AliHasanain & @JacobNShapiro partnered with @AhsanFarooqui of @IDEASpak to evaluate a policing intervention focused on “citizen-centric problem-oriented policing” in Pakistan. Read all about it: buff.ly/rv7QU86
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Let’s hear from our drivers, which mirror is adjusted correctly?
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
The "China shock" narrative illustrates why the lack of debate is a problem in economics. Autor et al. published a series of articles that have since been falsified by subsequent research. However, few realize this, which means the articles persist, like zombies. 1/8
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If a Chief Minister really needs a plane, it ought not be bigger than this one.
Pakistan Air Force got another bizjet. Cirrus Vision SF50 G2 belongs to No. 41 VIP/Light Communications Sqn. 'Albatross' 35th Air Mobility Wing. Nur Khan Airbase Chaklala.
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
From my non-social-media spouse, a new paper, using LLMs to replicate ... everything. nber.org/papers/w35782 Headlne: "Across 4,452 published replication packages for five economics journals, the workflow flags discrepancies in 3,460 articles or their appendices."
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
If you were Israeli leaders, and believed you were being globally accused of crimes you didn't commit in Gaza, what's the first thing you'd do? Urge the international media to go to Gaza and report the truth. But if you know the accusations are true, you'd ban international media from reporting freely. That's what Israel is doing even a year after a "cease-fire," and the reason could not be more obvious.
Netanyahu: Accusing Israel of genocide is the greatest lie of the century
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
Wow, DIG Islamabad has a BYD Seal as an official car.
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
A must read book on China, on what's worked, what hasn't, and what is needed. Rigorous and thoughtful analysis from @IMFNews. Read here: imf.org/en/publications/book…
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
🇮🇱🇵🇸 They smash medical equipment inside Gaza hospitals. They film themselves doing it. Then they post it for amusement. Israeli soldiers, in their own footage.
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
The 2026 NBER Economics of AI conference is available on YouTube. The theme was the economics of AI in China. Here are some of my takeaways. Day 1: youtube.com/watch?v=pwODfPHl… Day 2: youtube.com/watch?v=8cqRUc0W…
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
Shame on western journalism for forcing us do the work they are too afraid to do.
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
they’re rediscovering aloo keema from first principles
I’m once again reminding you to chop up some potatoes, cook with ground beef, onions, and garlic. Add veggies and whatever spices you want. Once complete will have created a meal that’s high protein, fiber, and micronutrients while tasting delicious.
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
Presented without comment.
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
I can’t believe @edsheeran went radio silent for two days with his emergency PR team just came back with “both sides” Hey Ed, here are the sides:
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علی حسنین Ali Hasanain retweeted
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it — Upton Sinclair
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Hyundai Tucson, Santa Fe, Palisade Jetour J5, J6, J7 Omoda E5, 7 ICaur V23, V27 Nishat Group has launched 10 SUVs since 2023, with 9 in the last year and a half. Great for consumer choice. The absolute opposite of what is needed for localisation.
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The problem with that is the problem we had with Autos that led to the 2016 Auto Policy: a lack of competition extinguishes competition and dynamism, and each year of producing one model is a year we fall further behind the rest of the world.
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One way around that is a strong Ministry that pushes the industry into passing increasingly harder challenges and eventually opening up to world trade. But strong ministries aren't built without the correct mix of generalist & technical bureaucracy & without strong governments.
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