Economists' Nightmare Meme: a Lab Quietly Drops ~400 Cutting-Edge DiD Papers
danielrock · x · 2026-10-14
A joke tweet making the rounds among economists: the author dreamed that economics finally gets finished off by AI when one of the labs quietly posts 400 cutting-edge DiD (difference-in-differences) papers. The meme taps into the field's collective anxiety about AI automating empirical research, and has been widely shared by academics as AI's disruption of academia becomes a mainstream talking point.
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