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If you think AI is more about human flourishing than advertising, just look at Zuckerberg's latest earnings call: "AI will make advertising a meaningfully larger share of global GDP than it is today"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-ai-

GARG-AML against Smurfing: A Scalable and Interpretable Graph-Based Framework for Anti-Money Laundering
Bruno Deprez, Bart Baesens, Tim Verdonck, Wouter Verbeke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04292

GARG-AML against Smurfing: A Scalable and Interpretable Graph-Based Framework for Anti-Money Laundering
Money laundering poses a significant challenge as it is estimated to account for 2%-5% of the global GDP. This has compelled regulators to impose stringent controls on financial institutions. One prominent laundering method for evading these controls, called smurfing, involves breaking up large transactions into smaller amounts. Given the complexity of smurfing schemes, which involve multiple transactions distributed among diverse parties, network analytics has become an important anti-money la…

The % of GDP spent on Defence isn't necessarily a measure that makes sense. Estonia is spending over a billion Euros a year which is whereabouts 3% is, and that makes sense for the size of Estonia's overall GDP.
The UK spend currently about £52B, spending 3% would take it to £76.8B, aside from spending more than the £20B what greater amount of defence would it actually provide a year?
An extra 10B and perhaps it would provide for missiles and ammunition. Greater manpow…

Die DPolG (bzw. ihr durchgeknallter Posterboy Ostermann) erklärt, alles sei supi, die GdP weist auf die möglichen juristischen Probleme für ihre Mitglieder hin, wenn sie den Anweisungen des rechtsbrecherischen Innenministerclowns Folge leisten. Da sieht man dann deutlich den Unterschied zwischen einer Gewerkschaft und einer rechtsradikalen Trollhöhle.

Sure thing, Heggy. But first, we’re going to need a pig and a live TV feed.
#auspol #uspol #BlackMirror

Gauging Growth: AGI Mathematical Metrics for Economic Progress
Davit Gondauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03156 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Gauging Growth: AGI Mathematical Metrics for Economic Progress
Today, the economy is greatly influenced by Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of the quantitative relations of AGI on the country's economic parameters. The authors use the analysis of historical data in the research, develop a new mathematical algorithm that refers to the level of AGI development, and conduct a regression analysis. The economic effect of AGI is deduced if it affects the growth of real GDP. As a result of the analysis, i…

Prospects for Degrowth
The DegrowthUK network is mounting a series on Prospects for Degrowth. See the articles in this series "As much of the world takes a sinister turn on several fronts, not least in the UK with the re-vindication of GDP growth and militarism, DegrowthUK is inviting timely submissions on the topic ‘Prospects for Degrowth’. This will create a series, and to start it, we publish a short piece ‘Prospects for Degrowth’.

Prospects for Degrowth
The DegrowthUK network is mounting a series on Prospects for Degrowth. See the articles in this series “As much of the world takes a sinister turn on several fronts, not least in the UK with …

The impact of economic policies on housing prices. Approximations and predictions in the UK, the US, France, and Switzerland from the 1980s to today
Nicolas Houli\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09620

The impact of economic policies on housing prices. Approximations and predictions in the UK, the US, France, and Switzerland from the 1980s to today
I show that house prices can be modeled using machine learning (kNN and tree-bagging) and a small dataset composed of macro-economic factors (MEF), including an inflation metric (CPI), US treasury rates (10-yr), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and portfolio size of central banks (ECB, FED). This set of parameters covers all the parties involved in a transaction (buyer, seller, and financing facility) while ignoring the intrinsic properties of each asset and encompassing local (inflation) and liqu…