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by AGsist 7mo ago
HN note: the SSRN page is still being processed and temporarily shows the standard “under review” placeholder. The working preprint version is available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18912296 The paper explores
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by AGsist 7mo ago
Macroeconomics treats capital as a cumulative stock. Capital persists through time, can be inherited, and therefore appears in macroeconomic accounting as a stock variable. But there is a curious asymmetry. Human lifetime also accumulates h
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Why can capital accumulate but lifetime cannot? (SSRN)(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by AGsist 7mo ago|2 comments
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Deterministic State Machine for Economic Invariant Testing (Research Blueprint)(github.com)
1 points by AGsist 8mo ago|1 comments
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by AGsist 8mo ago
I’m exploring whether a non-monetary economic protocol can be validated purely as a deterministic state machine. No token launch. No deployment. No market simulation. Just: – explicit state surface – deterministic events – invariant layers
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Grand Time: Time-Based Models in Decentralized Trust
4 points by AGsist 8mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Critical review of a spec-first economic protocol
2 points by AGsist 9mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How would you formalize a time-based macroeconomic model?
1 points by AGsist 10mo ago|1 comments
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by AGsist 10mo ago
That’s a fair point. I agree the current profitability is largely driven by demand patterns and regulatory arbitrage rather than pure market design. My comment was more about why the underlying event-contract model struggles to scale sustai
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Show HN: Research repo for a time-based macroeconomic valuation model(github.com)
1 points by AGsist 10mo ago|0 comments
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by AGsist 10mo ago
One structural difference seems to be incentive alignment. Sportsbooks monetize volume and friction, while prediction markets depend on sustained liquidity and accurate pricing, which is much harder to maintain at scale. It feels less like