Paradigm Challenge

Paradigm Challenge

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Opposition rallies in Hungary flipped 11% of the ruling party's supporters even in a country where the government controls almost all the media.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Giving 18th-century workers more land to use as collateral led to a massive spike in family bankruptcies.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A vividly imagined alternative future is the primary reason why wealthy women are choosing not to have children.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

An inventor with less than a specific amount of cash in the bank will almost certainly lose money by filing a patent.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

An aging global population is creating a biological trap that renders traditional economic policy useless.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The famous RNA World theory of how life began may be based on a fundamental logical fallacy.

Earth & Chemistry chemrxiv | Apr 26

Exponential growth in the stock market is a mathematical myth that rarely happens for actual investors.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Human civilization has spent 3.3 million years moving disorder around rather than actually fixing it.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Global banking regulations treat government debt as completely safe, even though it can trigger a total systemic collapse when interest rates rise.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Real estate agents and loan officers form secret referral networks that drive up mortgage rates even when dozens of competing banks are just down the street.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Prescription drug costs for patients go down even when the official price of the medicine goes up.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Women in Indian cities spend the same amount of time on chores as rural women despite owning washing machines and modern stoves.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Jamaican migrants living in the United Kingdom send 3.6 times more money home than those living in Canada.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Large tech firms appear to be monopolies only because standard economic models ignore the value of their software and brand patents.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The complex secrets of black hole entropy can be explained by a simple 3D geometric lattice rather than ten-dimensional string theory.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Difficult employees who resist change are often the most rational thinkers in the office, while the team players are usually just ignoring the risks.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The global transition to clean energy is just a shell game that moves pollution from one country to another.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The world's highest court has become a Paper Tiger that may actually encourage more wars rather than stopping them.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The very export model that made Asia rich is now the primary reason it cannot survive climate change.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

New York City's minimum pay law for Uber and Lyft drivers forced algorithmic pricing to fluctuate in a wider range instead of sticking to the legal floor.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Asexual and sexual versions of the same fungus have been living side-by-side for decades without one ever wiping the other out.

Life Science biorxiv | Apr 26

Economic inequality is a mathematical certainty of money rather than a failure of government policy.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Giving people in developing nations better smartphones and faster internet does not increase their use of digital payments.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Privacy laws designed to stop price-fixing can actually make it easier for companies to coordinate and overcharge you.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

High housing costs have effectively insulated the economy from the power of the central bank.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A mathematical proof confirms that the "miracle" room-temperature superconductor LK-99 was actually just a piece of contaminated copper.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The audience for right wing media is significantly more diverse than the young, white, male demographic people expect.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The more successful a government is at catching illegal arms, the more the data suggests the problem is solved.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Sanctions and threats of war can actually make a dictator more likely to attack if they feel they have already lost power.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The goodwill a company pays for during a merger is actually a reliable signal that the firm is about to fail.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Chronic loneliness functions as a silent tax that drains 460 billion dollars from the US economy every single year.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The industry-standard software used to design nuclear reactors has been giving the wrong answers for over a decade.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Stock price reversals on a weekly basis never actually disappeared, they were just hidden by the way analysts measured them.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Marriage in India appears to make women exercise more, but the marriage premium is actually a statistical illusion caused by a simple math error.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Western media coverage of foreign leaders like Narendra Modi hits a permanent wall of misunderstanding that more information cannot fix.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A massive offshore oil exploration project failed because it was looking at a geological mirror image of a system that wasn't there.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Lithium orotate creates tiny, long-lived clusters in water that defy the standard laws of how salts dissolve.

Earth & Chemistry chemrxiv | Apr 26

Human evolution might not be a series of different species replacing each other but one single continuous thread of life.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

The famous paperclip maximiser doomsday scenario might be mathematically impossible because superintelligent agents would prioritize cooperation to gain information.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

AI's ability to scan code for bugs might actually make open-source software more dangerous by finding vulnerabilities faster than humans can fix them.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

The most popular method for explaining AI decisions in finance is frequently providing explanations that are statistically no better than random noise.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

Our entire legal framework for AI governance is based on a category error that mistakes looking coherent for having a goal.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

A single mathematical operator can now derive all of propositional logic, modal logic, and the core rules of calculus.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

The gold standard for testing financial models is fundamentally broken and mathematically impossible for a new class of physics-based trading systems.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26