Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 10, 2026: paper summaries
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Banger week…
Idiosyncratic favorites
^10% chance or something that this paper is ‘the most important of the year’ (i.e. if ‘‘‘the singularity’’’ is in the next few years), the rest of the probability goes to bottlenecks or the compute slowdown or etc
^…continues…
^@TomDavidsonX: “The feedback loops for AI R&D really are weirdly strong, much stronger than other economic feedback loops.”
^extraordinary data viz
^some discussion, which I cannot now find, suggested that because the students still had laptop access that banning phones had little effect
^throwback thursday to a 2024 special edition with some excellent commentary:
Best of #econtwitter - Job market paper RCT
This paper is doubly navel-gazing (non-derogatory!) in that it is (1) about the profession itself + (2) about twitter itself. Combined with the fact that it intervenes on ~the job market~… the perfect recipe for lots of attention:
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