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Max Reith

@maxreith.bsky.social

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AI, Economic Theory, Political Economy Economics @EconOxford, prev. Mannheim

Max Reith @maxreith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Huge fan of this book! I'm learning a lot about animal intelligence vs AI. For example: world models. In experiments, you can get rats to show regret, e.g. wishing they had taken a different path in a maze that would have led to tastier food.

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Max Reith @maxreith.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Another DeepSeek moment? Moonshot AI, a Chinese lab, released its new (open source!) model K2 Thinking, outperforming OpenAI et al. on several benchmarks. I tested it with a question from an unpublished paper of mine. Out of 5 tries, Kimi, GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro each replied correctly 3 times!

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Max Reith @maxreith.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Do tech optimists have a point? Within standard economic growth models, AI could drive explosive growth through one of two mechanisms. 1) Labor Substitution So far, it seems like capital and labor mostly complement each other, which limits the returns to additional capital given fixed labor.

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Max Reith @maxreith.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

People on Polymarket don't seem convinced. Any clue what could explain this gap?

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Max Reith @maxreith.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The pope's death is a big deal. When the last pope resigned, it flipped an election.

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Max Reith @maxreith.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Gemini's response feels more on point. GPT points out some good things, but it rambles more and then moves on to talk about models with symmetric preferences.