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Marciano Siniscalchi

@marciano.bsky.social
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Econ prof at Northwestern. Tech enthusiast. TeX devotee. Pythonista. Weekend runner. Born and raised in Milan 🇮🇹, living in Chicago 🇺🇲. Husband and dad. faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/msi661 (pardon the handcrafted 90s-style HTML)

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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...
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The End of the American Age
The Iran war marks the conclusion of eight decades of global dominance.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16/09/2026
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.
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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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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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Robot arms, what could possibly go wrong
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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?
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
😢
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 24/08/2026
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.
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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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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
So proud of this!
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excellent. Now I want one in YouTube.
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What the post should say: "...a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY expert and others say" (the guy in the picture)
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@lopatto.bsky.social read Zuck's 6,500-word screed so we don't have to
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What could possibly go wrong
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What could possibly go wrong
Title from a Reddit ad: "What if Claude could actually place the trade it just recommended?"
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James Bland @jamesbland.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨🚨🚨 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 ...
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andrew.ottawa 🇨🇦 @ottawandrew.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
THE HALFTIME SHOW WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES. #ESPARG #WorldCup
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Devon Heinen @devonheinen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#Bieber was the hydration break of the #WorldCup #HalftimeShow
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Apparently, we've already reached the "come over to the dark side" phase share.google/a7wbzoF3LnW4...
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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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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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...
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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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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For people on Windows who are upset bc their country flags 🇺🇸 are not showing up, try the Flagmoji extension chromewebstore.google.com/detail/flagm...
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Flagmoji - Chrome Web Store
Displays flag emojis
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Seriously, who would have thought that the humble matrix multiplication would turn out to be be the Spice of our civilization?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Steve Wozniak figured out how to talk about AI during a graduation speech without getting booed. 😁
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The guy knows a thing or two about AI, so...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18/05/2026
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
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
In case you want to feel old www.reddit.com/r/90s/commen...
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From the 90s community on Reddit: How did people in the 90s buy plane tickets or plan trips to unknown countries with limited or no Internet connection?
Explore this post and more from the 90s community
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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!
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Not shaping up to be a great summer season for the cruise industry
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
👏👏👏
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
TIL something new about a horribly dark chapter in my hometown's history
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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Reddit post: In "The Odyssey" (2026), Odysseus speaks with a Boston accent, despite being from Ithaca, which is in New York.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 23/04/2026
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN
Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Sometimes The Onion just goes for whimsy. And it works.
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Erzo F.P. Luttmer @erzoluttmer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Congratulations to Botond Kőszegi for being appointed as AER coeditor, handling papers in theory, behavioral, and experimental econ. His term will start on January 1, ‘27. I’m delighted to have him on our team. @aeajournals.bsky.social #EconSky
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Literally
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Can somebody explain why Outlook is a good choice for space communications?
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This one wins April 1st AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history | TechSpot share.google/7exg4JrL5bW2...
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Controversial take: the Italian national soccer team doesn't take the World Cup very seriously
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Jason Snell @snell.zone · 30/03/2026
Really honored to be asked by The Verge to write a couple of pieces about Apple at 50. Here's the first one, about the computer that made Apple a success long before the Mac: The Apple II.
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Apple II Forever!
Apple would never have survived a decade without Steve Wozniak’s marvelous machine.
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Duolingo shares up
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I always had a deep personal connection with The Onion
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
First it was Halloween - it's now all the rage in my native country. Now this. What's next, Thanksgiving to become an Italian national holiday?
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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So weird: there's more than one scammy memorial site inviting donations or tree-planting in my dad's memory. We are not asking for that, but if people feel moved, donations in lieu of flowers to www.aclu-mn.org, www.aclu.org, or www.eff.org Econ folks, can you help get the word out?
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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 was awarded jointly to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in th...
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
@ourworldindata.org never disappoints
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
What could possibly go wrong
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
So sad to learn about Joe Halpern's passing. What Tobias describes resonates fully with me.
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Andrej Karpathy is at It again microgpt share.google/WZbks45IS2DV...
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Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Best news to start the day
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero. While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country. I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below). www.youtube.com/shorts/RgDXI...
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Update from KSE
YouTube video by Tymofiy Mylovanov
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What could possibly go wrong Goldman Sachs to tap Anthropic AI model to automate accounting, compliance share.google/SqYnQZ9EV5Jc...
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Shocking, I say!
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I just learned about D. John Roberts' passing. One of the giants. saet.uiowa.edu/wp-content/u...
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