Karthik Tadepalli

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

Posts

The Oracle's Gift
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2025-10-21 | +15 | 0 comments

The relative range heuristic
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2025-07-09 | +98 | 0 comments

Long-distance development policy
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2025-01-18 | +90 | 0 comments

Why does your organization not offer internships?
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2024-11-26 | +26 | 0 comments

Growth theory for EAs – reading list and summary
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2024-09-12 | +98 | 0 comments

Statistical foundations for worldview diversification
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2024-08-23 | +49 | 0 comments

Labor markets in LMICs (what we know about growth, part 3)
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2024-02-12 | +56 | 0 comments

Firm growth in LMICs (what we know about growth, part 2)
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2023-12-15 | +47 | 0 comments

Karthik Tadepalli's Quick takes
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2023-12-12 | +6 | 0 comments

What do we really know about growth in LMICs? (Part 1: sectoral transformation)
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2023-12-02 | +167 | 0 comments

[Linkpost] Prize for proposing climate change/biosecurity innovations
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2023-05-26 | +23 | 0 comments

The ones that walk away
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2023-01-19 | +368 | 0 comments

New intervention: paying farmers to not burn crops
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2022-12-22 | +88 | 0 comments

Millions in cash transfers, without spending a penny
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2022-10-26 | +18 | 0 comments

Valuing lives instrumentally leads to uncomfortable conclusions
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2022-09-04 | +17 | 0 comments

[edited] Inequality is a (small) problem for EA and economic growth
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2022-08-08 | +99 | 0 comments

Cause area: climate adaptation in low-income countries
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2022-07-12 | +31 | 0 comments

General equilibrium thinking
by Karthik Tadepalli @ 2022-06-11 | +27 | 0 comments