Assorted Links: Digital Money, Japan Baths, and AI Patterns
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A collection of assorted links from Marginal Revolution on July 8, 2026, touches on topics including the fragility of perfectly safe digital money, potential regulation of Japan’s electric baths, and internal neural patterns in Claude AI. Other links question whether a silent revolution is occurring in macroeconomics, suggest automation does not appear to lower the labor share, and ask which schools have the highest disability rates. The post also includes an update on Jonathan Haidt.
What’s reported
The fragility of perfectly safe digital money is discussed.
The article asks whether Japan’s electric baths are unregulated.
Claude AI has developed a small collection of internal neural patterns that play a special role compared to all its other internal processing.
The article asks if there is a silent revolution in macro.
Automation does not seem to lower the labor share.
The article asks which schools have the highest disability rates.
There is a Jonathan Haidt update.
Key figures
Jonathan Haidt (mentioned in an update)
Sources: marginalrevolution.com
