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elliotlip.bsky.social • 98 days ago

I love this.

My idea for Econ seminars: speakers can go for as long as they want and talk about whatever they want. But we change the norm so that the audience can leave whenever they want and it’s nbd. Let supply and demand for attention determine seminar length/structure, etc.

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ethanbdm.bsky.social•98 days ago

Not to go all university administrator on this thought experiment, but in this imagined world, do we still use classrooms to teaches classes on a regular schedule?

elliotlip.bsky.social•98 days ago

You’ve changed, man

spydermed.bsky.social•98 days ago

Let me tee up another one for you: “But Ethan, we could just have a big room that is dedicated only to seminars.”

bengolub.bsky.social•98 days ago

there would be an open-outcry spot market for space in the buildings

shocked that you would even need to have this suggested, given where you work

emreozdenoren.bsky.social•98 days ago

How about if enough audience members press a button a trap door opens up and the speaker falls into a pit full of alligators.

emreozdenoren.bsky.social•97 days ago

I am surprised no one followed up on this with a joke about Chicago.

elliotlip.bsky.social•97 days ago

Based on what they say about the old-school Chicago days, the gator pit might be an improvement.

adamkapor.bsky.social•97 days ago

Wasn’t there but I thought if you gave a bad talk Becker would shoot you with probability epsilon — fortunately it never happened on path!

elliotlip.bsky.social•98 days ago

I believe this is called a "proper scoring rule"

marciano.bsky.social•97 days ago

Or a pit full of R2's

elliotlip.bsky.social•98 days ago

Also, somebody should analyze this dynamic signaling game with psychological preferences. I think it would be a fun model to learn about.

maxkwiek.bsky.social•98 days ago

Online seminars work like this, more or less. The audience is heterogeneous: in a 60-minute seminar, one group drops out after about 30-40 minutes and the other stays for 60 minutes.

elliotlip.bsky.social•98 days ago

This excellent feature is yet another reason @vset.bsky.social rocks

vset.bsky.social•98 days ago

🤘

itaisher.bsky.social•98 days ago

I have a brilliant idea but it takes 45 minutes of boring background before someone can even see its potential. That’s even if I present it optimally. What do I do?

seema.bsky.social•98 days ago

You develop a reputation where you can state that credibly at the start of the seminar.

itaisher.bsky.social•98 days ago

But all my ideas are like that and I can never get people to stick around long enough the first time!

seema.bsky.social•98 days ago

Pay people to stay the first time.

wwwojtekk.bsky.social•98 days ago

Ah, development economists and their sweet ngo grants

seema.bsky.social•98 days ago

lol. you can require that they pay you if they stay for your later talks. seems like this should be doable w/ no net transfers in equilibrium, no?

elliotlip.bsky.social•98 days ago

But make sure you pay them only at the end of the lecture

convexify.bsky.social•98 days ago

But how will people know he will pay at the end of the seminar if no one has ever stayed until the end?

itaisher.bsky.social•98 days ago

I didn’t know there were transfers … that kind of changes the game

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