Marciano Siniscalchi
@marciano.bsky.social
Econ prof at Northwestern. Tech enthusiast. TeX devotee. Pythonista. Weekend runner. Born and raised in Milan 🇮🇹, living in Chicago 🇺🇲. Husband and dad. https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/msi661 (pardon the handcrafted 90s-style HTML)
Latest in @theatlantic.com . What we are seeing now is US weakness across the board. The American Age is over. What comes next will be very different. Gift link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The End of the American Age
The Iran war marks the conclusion of eight decades of global dominance.
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They should have taken the opportunity to combine the Stanford Prison Experiment, the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator into a show where people assigned as guards or prisoners are repeatedly bombarded with either one marshmallow now or two marshmallows later.
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w agoNetflix has announced a new reality series titled ‘THE NEW STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT’. The series follows 30 participants who enter a real prison and are randomly assigned as guards or prisoners. They must see if they conform to the roles or if morality wins.
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Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped thei...
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Honestly, I find this sort of PR (because that's what it is) really puzzling. OpenAI is basically telling its potential customers that they can't be trusted to secure their own systems. How can said customers feel comfortable sending their most sensitive data to OpenAI's models?
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.OpenAI says it took a week to detect its AI models had hacked Hugging Face ft.trib.al/CBExF7Q
Six editors and nearly 60 advisory editors of Games and Economic Behavior resigned after Elsevier, the journal’s publisher, decided not to renew the editor-in-chief’s contract.
Editors of economics journal resign after Elsevier doesn’t renew EIC’s contract
Six editors and nearly 60 advisory editors of Games and Economic Behavior resigned after the journal’s publisher decided not to renew the editor-in-chief’s contract. In late July, Elsevier to…
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What the post should say: "...a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY expert and others say" (the guy in the picture)
Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · last mo.A lower dose might work as well or help avoid side effects. But few people in the U.S. healthcare system — beyond patients — have a stake in learning that a lower dosage could work as well while causing less harm, a University of Chicago expert and others say.
@lopatto.bsky.social read Zuck's 6,500-word screed so we don't have to
The Verge@theverge.com · 2mo agoThe point of Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word essay is to define a positive future for AI. Zuckerberg uses an example that is telling, in a grim kind of way: He asked an AI to pick out a “personalized” recipe to bake with his daughter. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: buff.ly/QouZnFZ
What could possibly go wrong
CNN@cnn.com · 2mo agoScientists used an AI program to create new viral genomes that are different from any known natural viruses and that targeted specific hosts, a new study says. The development is a hopeful step toward medical advances, but also raises concerns around the potential for misuse. https://cnn.it/45KamLH
🚨🚨🚨 New working paper! 🚨🚨🚨 "The Hunt for Loss Aversion: A Bayesian Detective Story" with Brian Monroe and Glenn Harrison #EconSky #ProspectTheory #Bayes cear.gsu.edu/wp-2026-01-t... a thread ...
#Bieber was the hydration break of the #WorldCup #HalftimeShow
Apparently, we've already reached the "come over to the dark side" phase share.google/a7wbzoF3LnW4...
Anthropic President Daniela Amodei: 'We must embrace both the positive side and the dark side of AI'
The president of the American artificial intelligence start-up, valued at $965 billion and known for its warnings about the risks of this technology, shares her perspective with Le Monde on the major ...
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Interesting. My birthplace shows up in this ranking. Surprisingly, my current ( and much beloved) hometown does not. Ranked: The World's Top Billionaire Cities in 2026 share.google/GaqFQw4zhgTC...
Ranked: The World’s Top Billionaire Cities in 2026
New York ranks first with 146 billionaires, but Chinese cities dominate the upper ranks.
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For people on Windows who are upset bc their country flags 🇺🇸 are not showing up, try the Flagmoji extension chromewebstore.google.com/detail/flagm...
Flagmoji - Chrome Web Store
Displays flag emojis
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Seriously, who would have thought that the humble matrix multiplication would turn out to be be the Spice of our civilization?
Steve Wozniak figured out how to talk about AI during a graduation speech without getting booed. 😁
London Business School and Milan’s SDA Bocconi School of Management lead the twin 2026 FT executive education rankings, at a time of rapid disruption in demand from managers and employers for training and development. ft.trib.al/uIbvux1
This morning I spotted my second Waymo car in Chicago - apparently, for now, they're just mapping streets ahead of the actual launch. Still, pretty cool to see!
Not shaping up to be a great summer season for the cruise industry
CNN@cnn.com · 5mo agoAs many as 1,700 passengers are being held on board a cruise ship in southwest France, after dozens of cases of possible gastroenteritis on board.
TIL something new about a horribly dark chapter in my hometown's history
CNN@cnn.com · 5mo agoNot only is Milan's main train station one of the most famous buildings in Italy to be completed during fascism, but beneath the main passenger facilities lies a concealed platform that was used for horrifying purposes during World War II. https://cnn.it/4dcoHns
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN
Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.
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