Quant backgrounds have blind spots in the AI economy, says economist Daniel Rock
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-09
Daniel Rock endorses @lefttailguy's thesis that the economy's knowledge discovery increasingly resembles quant trading: spotting opportunities and validating solutions with models faster than others. Rock adds a caveat — zero-sum trading environments breed mental models that default to inelastic supply and demand, a blind spot that matters in the AI economy.
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