Marginal Revolution Shares Saturday Assorted Links
Key Takeaways
- •The 1991 Project has published roughly 50 hours of oral history interviews with policy reformers and witnesses to India's market liberalization, now publicly accessible online.
- •Marginal Revolution's roundup links AI capability discussions directly to cybersecurity and operational defense concerns rather than treating them as separate topics.
- •Simon Willison published a piece on "The Incident," reportedly covering an OpenAI cyberattack event.
- •Anthropic's economic research futures program is allocating $200 million toward randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
- •Marginal Revolution endorsed an Emily Wilson Substack interview as excellent, suggesting readers may undervalue her work.
Marginal Revolution published its “Saturday assorted links” roundup, highlighting seven items across economics, technology, sports, and literature.
The first item points to The 1991 Project’s oral history collection, led by Shreyas Narla and Shruti. The collection includes about 50 hours of interviews with policy reformers and witnesses to India’s market liberalization, and is now available at The 1991 Project oral history page. For readers tracking economic history, the value of the link is that it points to primary-source interviews rather than a retrospective summary.
The roundup also links to a Cato Institute blog item on Mini Cities, followed by a shared Claude conversation on the new Claude and Mondrian.
Several technology and security-related items are included: more on cybersecurity and cyberdefense via an X post at https://x.com/hosseeb/status/2080396229536800952?s=46&t=fSypFxt84bBHId-do9r5Ag; Simon Willison’s post on “The Incident”; and an X post arguing that early AI fears were not about LLMs and that the distinction matters, at https://x.com/jon_stokes/status/2080729236013187369. Taken together, those links place AI discussion alongside operational security questions, rather than treating model capability debates as separate from deployment and defense issues.
The remaining links include a critique of the new 76ers at https://x.com/databallr/status/2080765040853123072, an item on Anthropic economic research futures allocating $200 million to RCTs at https://x.com/yanagizawad/status/2080670638122115462?s=48, and an interview with Emily Wilson at Substack. Marginal Revolution described the Wilson interview as an “Excellent piece,” adding that “many of you underrate her.”