polymers in general rock
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polymers in general rock
If you have used Claude Code or similar for research, I'd love to pick your brain on two issues I have been wondering about:
- Data confidentiality: what kind of data do you give it access to?
- Data security: how do you deal with the risk that the agent does something stupid with your data?
Our moral intuitions about “theft” are grounded in rivalry and perceived harm, not legal definitions.
This helps explain why digital piracy remains morally contested and why it is more difficult to enforce intellectual property laws.
They articulate the positive-sum logic of zero-marginal-cost copying. For example, … farmer Almond reasons, “ok so disks cant be stolen so everyone take copies,” explicitly rejecting the application of “stolen” to discs.
Participants never instruct one another to stop taking disc copies, yet they frequently urge others to stop taking seeds. The objection targets the taking away of rivalrous goods. Player Almond explains, “cuz if u give a disc u still keep it."
To test the moral intuition for taking ideas, we create an environment where people can take from each other and we study their freeform chat. The people in the game each control a round avatar in a virtual environment.
In our experiment, participants produce:
🌱 Seeds (rivalrous: if I take yours, you lose it)
💿 Discs (nonrivalrous: zero marginal cost copies, like digital files)
Some sessions allow unauthorized taking. Check out the manuscript for more details on the environment.
In the early 2000s the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) released an anti-piracy trailer. Media companies tried to create a moral equivalency between taking physical goods and pirating digital goods.
🚨New paper: You Wouldn’t Steal a Car: Moral Intuition for Intellectual Property
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Maybe the mirror gives people the idea
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
Really grateful to @aeacswep.bsky.social for organising a mentoring workshop ahead of #SEA2025
Thank you so much for the opportunity and building a community of early career economists! Highly recommend checking CSWEP events
Looking for something to do tomorrow at 8am at #SEA2025?? I’m presenting my JMP tomorrow in Meeting Room 9!
Catching up on AI pieces from the past couple of weeks.
Recommendations:
1. End Stage Enshittification awardsforgoodboys.substack.com/p/end-stage-...
2. AI Psychosis investigation from A More Perfect Union www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...
3. Open AI compute costs www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
@zacharybartsch.bsky.social wrote an article for econ profs: economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/19/w...
#Econsky check the Economics Department at the University of Arkansas is hiring two open-rank Economics professors, including an opening in public economics and public policy.
Public Economics/Public Policy:
lnkd.in/eQTEgPM9
Macroeconomics:
lnkd.in/ewxxNSh8
For friends who teach statistics economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/09/06/t...
It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
This is why total productivity isn’t rising.
Top posts from our blog so far in 2025 @mikemakowsky.bsky.social economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/08/09/t...
Do you also fill out the forms for their summer camps?
"Analyses have also found that some 60% of Google searches are now 'zero-click,' ending without the user visiting a single link."
A few years ago, I went to Panama to see the "sterile fly barrier" that keeps a flesh-eating parasite out of the U.S.
It's one of the wildest things I've ever written about it...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
At the library in Telluride, Colorado
a substantial part of Middlemarch is about Dorothea's realization that the man she has married in the belief that he is a genius through his 'Key to All Mythologies' has wasted his life on a futile quest because he doesn't read German and is entirely unaware of modern scholarly work.
Thanks for being specific.
If you live near Arlington, VA, come out and hear about my new experiment on Friday May 2 ices.gmu.edu/events/16497
