Institute for New Economic Thinking

Surviving the 2050 Extinction Deadline

Theoretical physics shows that the universe is stranger than the wildest science fiction. Two-and-half thousand years ago, the Chinese historian Lao Zi reported the science of a civilization that was already ancient at his time. Those Ancients proposed a sophisticated sum-zero cr...

Teaching beyond technology: student ratings of TPACK-informed teaching in a Sino-British transnational entrepreneurship programme

Purpose Technology plays an increasingly important role in entrepreneurship education, particularly within transnational higher education where culturally diverse classrooms require effective alignment of disciplinary content, pedagogy, and digital technologies. Despite the growi...

A Top-Down Method for Estimating the Market Value of Creative Work to AI Systems: Evidence from the Reddit-Google Licence

Google reportedly pays Reddit \$60 million a year for data access covering both model pre-training and the grounding of live answers. This paper uses that disclosed price, together with a top-down valuation method emerging from the data-economics literature, to estimate the share...

Axiomatic Architectural Safety for Superintelligent AI

This paper is a technical companion to Benjamin Shapiro, The Decency Chip Manifesto — Protecting Humanity From Itself, first published on Zenodo on October 6, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17274356 This document was first published on the Thinking Software, Inc. websi...

Axiomatic Architectural Safety for Superintelligent AI

This paper is a technical companion to Benjamin Shapiro, The Decency Chip Manifesto — Protecting Humanity From Itself, first published on Zenodo on October 6, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17274356 This document was first published on the Thinking Software, Inc. websi...