Karthik Tadepalli

Karma: 4,420

I think about technological progress, global development, and AI’s economic impacts. I write about these topics on my blog, Beyond Imitation.

The Oracle’s Gift

Karthik Tadepalli21 Oct 2025 23:05 UTC

15 points

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The relative range heuristic

Karthik Tadepalli9 Jul 2025 22:20 UTC

98 points

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Long-distance development policy

Karthik Tadepalli18 Jan 2025 10:38 UTC

90 points

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[Question] Why does your organization not offer internships?

Karthik Tadepalli26 Nov 2024 17:38 UTC

26 points

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Growth theory for EAs – reading list and summary

Karthik Tadepalli12 Sep 2024 11:05 UTC

98 points

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Statistical foundations for worldview diversification

Karthik Tadepalli23 Aug 2024 11:55 UTC

49 points

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Labor markets in LMICs (what we know about growth, part 3)

Karthik Tadepalli12 Feb 2024 19:13 UTC

56 points

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Firm growth in LMICs (what we know about growth, part 2)

Karthik Tadepalli15 Dec 2023 17:00 UTC

47 points

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Karthik Tadepalli’s Quick takes

Karthik Tadepalli12 Dec 2023 9:30 UTC

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What do we really know about growth in LMICs? (Part 1: sectoral transformation)

Karthik Tadepalli2 Dec 2023 17:04 UTC

167 points

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[Linkpost] Prize for proposing climate change/biosecurity innovations

Karthik Tadepalli26 May 2023 6:51 UTC

23 points

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(marketshaping.uchicago.edu)

The ones that walk away

Karthik Tadepalli19 Jan 2023 15:33 UTC

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New intervention: paying farmers to not burn crops

Karthik Tadepalli22 Dec 2022 17:18 UTC

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Millions in cash transfers, without spending a penny

Karthik Tadepalli26 Oct 2022 20:03 UTC

18 points

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Valuing lives instrumentally leads to uncomfortable conclusions

Karthik Tadepalli4 Sep 2022 21:32 UTC

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[edited] Inequality is a (small) problem for EA and economic growth

Karthik Tadepalli8 Aug 2022 9:42 UTC

99 points

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Cause area: climate adaptation in low-income countries

Karthik Tadepalli12 Jul 2022 18:11 UTC

31 points

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General equilibrium thinking

Karthik Tadepalli11 Jun 2022 19:27 UTC

27 points

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