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Dr. Murray Rudd is an applied environmental economist and policy researcher. His full attention is now on the economic, social, technical, and environmental impacts and potential of emerging technologies.
The aim of this paper is to give researchers and policymakers a common map for connecting partial measures of AI’s economic effects without treating technical capability, adoption, and public benefit as if they were the same thing.
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AI also changes the economics of scientific attention. Where generating plausible hypotheses becomes cheaper, the scarce resource shifts toward judgment.
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On the Moonshot podcast, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House OSTP, argues that declining US scientific productivity stems from outdated grant structures and review processes.
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A recent conversation about opposition to AI infrastructure tests—and sharpens—an argument in my draft chapter on Bitcoin mining.
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The August 4, 2026 episode of The Ezra Klein Show features Jasmine Sun examining the growing political backlash against AI data centers.
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What we know now: on July 31, 2026, an attacker swept roughly 594 BTC – about USD $38 million – from approximately 500 single-signature Bitcoin Coldcard wallets.
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Python code replicates results and reproduces Figures from Rudd et al. 2024. An integrated landfill gas-to-energy and Bitcoin mining framework. Journal of Cleaner Production
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The July 7, 2026 episode of the Isabel Foxen Duke podcast features Stephen Barbour describing Bitcoin mining as flexible load for upstream energy production.
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The April 13, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast features Josh arguing that Bitcoin Core governance concentrates repository power despite decentralized technical consensus.
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The June 15, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Josh of Secure Sovereign presenting Bitcoin Commons, a Rust implementation that formally specifies consensus separately from Core's monolithic codebase.
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The June 28, 2026 episode of The Robin Seyr Podcast features Jeff Booth framing deflation as the free market's natural state, distorted by debt-based fiat money.
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The February 23, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Nova Podcast features Josh ("Secure Sovereign") presenting a quantitative governance analysis identifying merge-access concentration among a handful of Bitcoin Core maintainers.
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