Marginal REVOLUTION

Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

2026-02-25 · 00:00 UTC ·Tyler Cowen ·0 min read

Brief

Tyler Cowen's 'Wednesday assorted links' (Marginal Revolution, 2026-02-25) compiles seven links: a piece on human enhancement, the Feb issue of Works in Progress, a Springer study on proximity bias, an AI task-automation paper shared by Peyman Shahidi (and John Cochrane on Refine), the largest sexuality-survey dataset, the Anthropic–DOD update, and ccatalini's measurability remark.

Source evidence

title: Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
author: Tyler Cowen
contenttype: article
publication: Marginal REVOLUTION
published: 2026-02-25T00:00:00
sourceurl: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/wednesday-assorted-links-542.html?utmsource=rss&utmmedium=rss&utm_campaign=wednesday-assorted-links-542

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Wednesday assorted links

  1. Will human enhancement win without thinking?

  2. February issue of Works in Progress.

  3. Proximity bias.

  4. New paper on AI and task automation. And John Cochrane is wowed by Refine.

6. Largest survey dataset on human sexuality in the world.

  1. The Anthropic-DOD situation.

  2. “Measurability is the new fault line.” Important work, worth a ponder.