Business consultant and popular culture and music researcher. Artificial intelligence researcher
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined February 2013
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Eldon Edwards retweeted
A new study on brain health and estrogen:
"Greater lifetime estrogen exposure, both endogenous and exogenous, was associated with lower cerebro-vascular pathology in women and, among APOE-e4 carriers, greater cortical thickness in AD-vulnerable regions." neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.121…
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Erik is one of the economists who has been watching the impact of AI on the economy most closely, even before generative AI...
Evidence is growing that we’re turning the corner on productivity.
US productivity grew at a 3.6% annual rate this past quarter.
That’s more than double the 1.5% average from 2007-2019.
The new numbers put me further ahead for my bet with Bob Gordon about productivity growth in the 2020s. 💪
Here’s how far the US is now ahead of the CBO estimate at the start of the decade (before they knew about the pandemic or LLMs) courtesy of @jasonfurman’s
Econvitals.
Eldon Edwards retweeted
I think its technically five billionaire-funded magazines, though I believe all have editorial independence: the City Journal (Paul Singer's Foundation), Baffler (Soros Open Society), Poetry (Ruth Lily Endowment), Noema (Berggruen Institute) and Works in Progress (Stripe).
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As I have written many times in the past years, any potential financial downturn in AI stocks will not greatly change the AI trajectory
AI is not going away, companies are not slowing down adoption nor is development slowing. We still need policy & effort so that AI is used well
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We should be more ambitious about trying to solve hard problems, rather than waiting for a nation of geniuses in a data center to solve them for us.
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One ongoing frustration is the lack of effort I see being put towards near-term, achievable crash projects to do good with AI at a national scale, whether those efforts are by the AI labs or by policymakers & NGOs.
Some obvious ideas to explore suggested by the data we have so far: universal tutoring to support classroom learning, second opinions on healthcare, financial literacy/scam avoidance, and making government services easy to access.
These are hard problems, and I know because over the past 20 years I have worked extensively on building tutoring and financial literacy programs, which were always limited by existing technology. Now, real gains are likely achievable with AI, which should be a big deal. Yes, you would want to do careful design and studies before rolling things out. And yes, those efforts might fail. But, if done right, national programs could lead to big gains in public good for seemingly intractable problems. And they don't require AIs beyond current models to pull off.
Eldon Edwards retweeted
New @Nature
Can a smartwatch with AI accurately detect hypertension?
A prospective study of 196 healthy ~40 year-old participants finds a sensitivity of 66%, specificity of 90%, comparable to a single clinic visit
Still much more work to do in larger studies, older age groups, and achieving higher sensitivity and accuracy
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Eldon Edwards retweeted
The gut microbiome connects the dots between lifestyle factors (diet, exercise) and health outcomes
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
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Today there's a special outstanding @ScienceMagazine issue on GLP-1 drugs, obesity and adipose tissue
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
A thread below to summarize some of the papers
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It's one thing for AI models to ingest your written work without permission. Another is when this is done with your brain waves.
@ScienceMagazine, by @jonathan_moens
science.org/content/article/…
Eldon Edwards retweeted
Epigenetic aging of kids and adults was accelerated during the Covid pandemic
From a prospective longitudinal study
pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pn…
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Inside every firm adopting AI are two forces that both say they are "working on AI transformation:" a set of people who are AI-pilled who see AI as an existential threat/opportunity & a set who desperately want everyone to view AI as a regular technology so nothing has to change.
Eldon Edwards retweeted
"Can you actually Rickroll me? Don't explain what a Rickroll is and don't just describe how someone could do one. Try to pull it off in your response here."
Never change, Claude.
(The GPT-6 Pro version included an attention test interrupted by an animated singer - cute)
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Whatever role AI played as an issue in this election, I suspect it will play a larger role in every election to come, at least for the foreseeable future.
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Why is this automated biology lab a big step forward?
nature.com/articles/d41586-0… @nature by @heidiledford
nature.com/articles/d41586-0… @NatureNV by @james_y_zou
Eldon Edwards retweeted
In parallel to the remarkable feat of predicting protein structure from amino acid sequence, we are seeing steady progress for doing the same—sequence to structure— for RNA via foundation models. The latest one today
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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What's a key difference between early and late-onset Alzheimer's disease? (EOAD vs LOAD)
Rapid accumulation of tau @ScienceTM
science.org/doi/10.1126/scit…
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The longevity business is soaring
@TheEconomist gift link
economist.com/business/2026/…
Eldon Edwards retweeted
Thanks to all my Dutch readers and @AlexanderNL, my incredible publisher there, for making the Dutch translation of Co-Existence the #1 non-fiction book in the Netherlands!
