Observed arrival · 2026-08-25
Post-Opacity: When Checking Becomes Cheap
An essay and research agenda about what happens to commerce when AI makes it inexpensive to verify economic claims.
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The project turns a familiar accounting irritation into an economic threshold: a €43 discrepancy is effectively protected when verification costs €200, but not when they fall to €2. Its eight-section essay compresses two working papers, one formalizing machine verification and the other examining institutions of trust. The page also supplies a timeline, direct PDF links, SSRN references, and BibTeX and APA citation tools. An empirical implementation focused on commercial energy contracting is identified as in progress rather than complete.
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