AI-native firms keep creating OOD data, so economics never runs out of puzzles
akbirthko · x · 2026-11-09
A quoted discussion argues that as models refactor the economy, diffusion itself moves the goalposts: AI-native firms generate entirely new corpora of interactions that never existed before, making their data definitionally out-of-distribution — so there will be fresh economic data in perpetuity. The poster quips this means a rediscovery of the Austrian school of economics.
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