Bitcoin mining as infrastructure: a conditional case
Explore how a conceptual study links Bitcoin mining to grid flexibility and settlement security under specific conditions.
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Research review notes
Reviews of the credibility, utility, and implications of research papers. Each current (2026) AI-assisted review uses a two-stage prompt. First, an editorial sweep examines what the paper actually says and extracts core claims. Second, a research review pass creates the raw material for each note. Besides the claims, I also include a bit about how this paper fits into the broader literature, remaining information gaps, and the paper's broader implications.
Bitcoin's price power law: mechanism or fit?
Explore how a 2026 study links Bitcoin price scaling to adoption and network value, and where its mechanistic claims outrun the evidence.
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The Turing Trap: AI, Automation, and Power
Explore how human-like AI risks a political trap where automation concentrates wealth and strips workers of bargaining power.
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The Productivity J-Curve and Intangible Capital
Explore how unmeasured intangibles cause two-sided productivity mismeasurement, forming a J-curve explaining recurring technological paradoxes.
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Measuring digital welfare via choice experiments
Explore how online choice experiments measure consumer surplus from zero-price digital goods, revealing private welfare gains absent from GDP.
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Economics of transformative AI: a research agenda
Explore how economists can prepare for transformative AI through nine grand challenges, new indicators, and scenario planning.
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Evidence-based AI policy architecture
Explore how AI policy can act as a reciprocal system to accelerate evidence generation across the technology lifecycle.
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Mapping the opacity of foundation models
Explore how the Foundation Model Transparency Index reveals AI documentation blind spots and challenges assumptions about open and closed models.
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Social pressure drives AI adoption
Explore how social pressure and peer adoption scenarios drive parental demand for educational AI, even when cognitive risks are known.
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GPT-4 capability atlas and AGI sparks
Explore how early GPT-4 shows unprecedented cross-domain breadth but exposes profound architectural limits in planning and explanation fidelity.
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AI levels the experience curve in customer support
Explore how a GPT-3 assistant compresses productivity, accelerating novice learning and leveling the experience curve in customer support.
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Measuring Generative AI Consumer Surplus
Explore how stated preference experiments reveal generative AI's massive consumer surplus, highlighting critical gaps in traditional GDP measurement.
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