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Scott’s Mixtape

5 issuesArchived Oct 22, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026Subscribe at the source

By Scott Cunningham

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  1. Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad, who knows

    I have a strange attitude towards AI. Strange to myself, I mean. But I suspect it’s actually how I am in general, and maybe you too, and not just about AI but about everything. My attitude is something like this:

  2. Cheap Talk, Signaling and Claude Code

    In signaling games, there are usually thought to be three equilibria. There’s the pooling equilibrium, the separating equilibrium, and a hybrid equilibrium. I want to talk about about the first two in the context of Claude Code and the effect that — and all the other advances in…

  3. CodeChella Mexico City, January 11–14, 2027

    I wanted to shoot up a flare telling people about our upcoming CodeChella in Mexico City coming up at the launch of 2027. I think it’s the perfect time to ask your department chair to throw some money your way so you can come down and spend a week with the CodeChella team to…

  4. Welcome to Scott's Substack!

    Hi there—I'm thrilled you've joined the free version of my Substack! I'm Scott Cunningham, a middle-aged guy living in Texas, working as the Ben H. Williams Professor of Economics at Baylor University. I’m also the author of Causal Inference: the Mixtape (soon to be in its…