Marginal Revolution

Economist Tyler Cowen is soliciting questions from readers ahead of a planned interview with Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal and co-author of the original SSL critique. On his blog Marginal Revolution, Cowen invites suggestions for what he should ask the cryptographer and open-source developer, continuing his well-known series of crowdsourced conversations with technologists.

Tyler Cowen has asked readers of Marginal Revolution to suggest questions for Tom Griffiths, the Princeton cognitive scientist known for work on human decision-making and co-author of 'Algorithms to Live By'. Readers are posting their questions in the comments ahead of an upcoming interview, in line with Cowen's usual practice of crowdsourcing prompts before conversations with prominent thinkers.

Marginal Revolution, the economics blog run by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, has published a piece warning readers not to let AI tools erode their thinking skills. The article, filed under AI, education and technology, argues that heavy reliance on artificial intelligence can dull reasoning if people outsource too much of their mental work to it. It lands amid a wider debate about AI's effect on learning and cognition.

The Trump administration has announced limits on predatory lending practices in education, according to the Marginal Revolution economics blog, which highlighted the policy change in September 2026. Details on which lending practices are being restricted and how students will be affected remain sparse in the available coverage.

The economics blog Marginal Revolution has published a short post simply titled 'Shade', filed under its economics, culture and books categories. No further details about the post's content are available, and there is no indication yet of a wider conversation or reaction around it.