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Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software engineering tasks doubles every 6-7 months, but there is a "messiness tax" for real-world tasks (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)
https://windowsontheory.org/2025/11/04/thoughts-by…

Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite nothing. There were wars, political intrigue, the in…

The obvious result of making regulation so nakedly political
is that businesses respond by finding ways to butter-up the president
rather than building a case their deals serve the public interest
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3m7snmxfri52h

The Economist (@economist.com)
The obvious result of making regulation so nakedly political is that businesses respond by finding ways to butter-up the president rather than building a case their deals serve the public interest https://econ.st/3KHKcm2

"(1) "This is a political decision — specifically, a Republican decision," (2) "The pain from lost food aid will, if anything, hurt Republican voters worse than Democrats," (3) "Despite what Republicans believe, SNAP recipients aren’t malingerers," and (4) "Food stamps are an investment in the future."
'Hunger games': Nobel economist details 4 ways Trump gutting food benefits will hurt GOP - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/krugman-snap-trump/

I love these Laws named after people who we have never heard of:
Stein's law says: Everything that can't go on forever eventually stops.
Stein was a conservative (in the political sense) economist who lived in the 20th century. Wikipedia known: Stein observed this logic in analyzing economic trends (such as rising US federal debt in proportion to GDP, or increasing international balance of payments deficits, in his analysis).