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Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare.

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Joshua Gans

The Antitrust Case Against Twitter

As I read the title of this post, this seems ludicrous to contemplate. In social media, Twitter is a bit player. Depending on where you…

6 min readJan 15, 2023

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The Antitrust Case Against Twitter

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Stopping Twitter Impersonation: There’s a way to do it

With Elon Musk set to roll out new Twitter verification options, the need to ensure that accounts cannot impersonate companies, people or…

4 min readNov 25, 2022

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Don’t buy Bitcoin to speculate on hyperinflation

It is potentially a good hedge against that but that doesn’t make it a good investment now

6 min readJun 20, 2022

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Don’t buy Bitcoin to speculate on hyperinflation

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DeSoc’s Dark Heart

DeSoc, for all its talk, has a very dark element as proposed

5 min readJun 13, 2022

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DeSoc’s Dark Heart

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Is Twitter a public ledger?

Yes, yes it is and that may be why Musk wants it

4 min readJun 6, 2022

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web3’s Biggest Challenge is Identity

If it is all about better governance, web3 is going to have to come up with a way of knowing who’s there

9 min readJun 1, 2022

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The Myth of Renewable Bitcoin

Why pushing Bitcoin towards renewables is unlikely to help anything

8 min readMay 23, 2022

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Why Economists Don’t Like Bitcoin (Part II)

Let’s take a look at some good reasons

9 min readMay 16, 2022

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Chart showing the decline of Bitcoin’s price in US dollars in recent weeks.

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Why Economists Don’t Like Bitcoin

Do their reasons stack up?

9 min readMay 9, 2022

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The Crypto Turing Test

A simple benchmark to measure the everyday usability of cryptocurrency

6 min readMay 2, 2022

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Joshua Gans

Joshua Gans

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Skoll Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and Chief Economist, Creative Destruction Lab.

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