Arpit Gupta

How do we best balance security needs for AI labs with broader economic goals of containing Chinese open source models and diffusing AI? Brandon Fuller, Sean Speer and I argue for antitrust exemptions paired with forced open weight releases manhattan.institute/article/an-a...

Am consistently impressed with the prevalence of lawn cutting robots in Europe vs the US Despite average US wages maybe 30-40% higher (though Finnish wages compressed on lower end which contributes to capital intensity)

Back to my favorite hand pulled noodle spot in Helsinki

Vox's Marina Bolotnikova argues rent control's design determines its harm: strict versions (SF) shrink housing supply, while looser laws with vacancy decontrol and new-construction exemptions—like California's 2019 cap—show no measurable supply loss. www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Property taxes function as embedded leverage, with higher property taxes redistributing housing away from the elderly to the young, from Joshua Coven, Sebastian Golder, Arpit Gupta, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye www.nber.org/papers/w35587

Nontrivial point here

The study in this paper is not nearly strong enough to support the claim and it's driving me nuts. Measured at the congressional district level the paper says it shifted the vote to Harris by 1.5 percent but it doesn't hold at the county level! Not particularly robust.

Whatever happened to those disposable Greek coffee cups in NYC?

This is incredible. "Foreign travel now makes up 1.4% of the US consumer spending budget. By contrast, imported Chinese goods make up about 3% of US domestic expenditures. Seems like American travel in Europe got turbocharged with Instagram" - @arpitrage.bsky.social www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

This is week 7 of AI and Finance: AI in the Workforce • Is AI a "Normal" Technology? • How does production need to change to incorporate AI? • What does history say about the nature of disrupted professions and leisure time? arpitrage.substack.com/p/7-ai-a-nor...

Absolute banger on AI, jobs and firms from @arpitrage.bsky.social arpitrage.substack.com/p/7-ai-a-nor...

Time to launch a distillation attack on the discipline of urban planning

Want to see in real time what's been happening to public school enrollment in your school district? Through @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social, we've just released a school enrollment tracker for Massachusetts, allowing you to explore the data yourself. wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...

via @arpitrage.bsky.social, a pied-a-terre tax for unused faculty offices

Yeah, The Odyssey, the classic Greek tale about how people should defy Gods and that never goes badly

An unexpectedly pleasant feature of Varese is high tree cover for Southern Europe An expectedly pleasant feature is lawn cutting robots and underground car parks

Solar punk New York

excellent piece from @arpitrage.bsky.social

Another great read on this topic with some good ideas from @arpitrage.bsky.social for @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social www.vitalcitynyc.org/mamdani-rent...

The RGB recently voted for a two year rent freeze on NYC rent stabilized housing I was the lone dissenting vote I've written two pieces here; which highlight the challenges of a rent freeze and where to go next www.vitalcitynyc.org/mamdani-rent... cityjournal.substack.com/p/the-high-c...

Davelle in NYC has the best chicken katsu curry I’ve ever tried

The Real Deal writes on a proposal of mine to condition rental increases on building conditions in the rent stabilized stock therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

They should move the goalposts closer so they can score more goals

Lipstick on a pig

Optimal World Cup play is to rack up the goal difference, but only Germany is ruthless enough to do so

Week six of my class on AI and Finance: Asset Management and Trading • Scaling laws for alpha • Distinguishing between spurious and genuine factors • Who captures value when markets get more efficient arpitrage.substack.com/p/6-signal-a...

Local Law 11 comes for NYU Stern

Proposal: either the United Kingdom fields one football team, or else each underlying nation declares independence; this is ridiculous

A romantic comedy between an AI lab employee who marries his boss to keep access to Fable, but then she visits his compute rich family and realizes he’s not rate limited after all

@arpitrage.bsky.social: "The opportunity for New York lies in becoming the primary destination for firms seeking to build the plumbing and deployment for AI across these different domains." www.vitalcitynyc.org/ai-economic-...

Everyone is worried that AI will do to white collar jobs what automation did to blue collar work in the 70s. Fair concern! But the city has two big moats: regulation and proprietary data. My case for NYC as the capital of Applied AI in Vital City: www.vitalcitynyc.org/ai-economic-...

How hard can it be to get into the École Normale Supérieure? Every French person I know did it

The part of history I feel most unclear on is 800-900 AD

E24-24, my proposal to raise the IBC’s single-stair apartment building height limit from three stories to four, has passed the final membership vote, and will now officially make it into the 2027 IBC 🎉

Did not realize that Watergate was an urban courtyard design

Now Penn Station is on fire? In Japan the government would fall

In Japan, a high-ranking JR official would have lost their job over the delays I'm dealing with in this Amtrak

The harmless torturer thought experiment from Derek Parfit in the wild!

A building grows in Manhattan

I have ~6 active group chats with three people in them; some with many more people, but a missing group chat gap involving 4-6 people

Pretty happy with my latest book haul

Euripides, you-buy-a-these