Economist parodies "pause" calls: recursive self-publication weeks away
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-17
Economist paulnovosad satirizes AI-safety-style pause rhetoric: he announces he is pausing publishing in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and calls on leading economists to do the same, arguing the publishing rat race is out of control and AI is making it worse. He then jokes that inside his lab, "recursive self-publication" is just weeks away — top labs should stop writing good articles now.
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