What Makes a Good Politician?
The one standard we can all agree on, and how our MPs score against it
Ballot Structure from the Preference-Dependency Graph
Which questions should a ballot ask together? The votes can tell us.
Minimality from uncertainty
How much of an action set should be foreclosed before you can learn?
Agency as the candidate objective
Deriving a social utility function from four toy worlds
Why care about institutional design
How institutions amplify human nature, for good and ill
A model of human nature
Every political philosophy is a bet on it — and its width matters more than its centre
Designing behind the veil
How to choose institutions when you don't know what people will want
The Geometry of Governance
Voting as a compression problem, and the right to be heard
Tradition and Change
Why We Need Both Conservatism and Progressiveness
A Decision-Theoretic Take on Social Choice
Using L2 to solve the preference dilution problem
Global coordination problems via game theory
Why AGI is not like climate change
The DAO Proving Ground
An Engineering Approach to Building Aligned Organizations
Freedom-Adjusted Life Years
Are We Solving the Right Problems?
A Market for 'Truth'
Using Bets to Find a Shared Truth
The Rain Protocol
A Framework for Verifiable Promises
Money laundering and illicit financial flows
The industry that facilitates the world's worst crimes
Politics in NZ
What Is, What Should Be, and How To Get There
The cure for capitalism
More capitalism
The Treaty of Wai-terra
A Story of First Contact, Good Intentions, Discrimination and Lost Heritage
Tax optimisation as an adversarial game
A new perspective on tax law
What are these power-compare websites for?
An example of how to regulate markets to remove inefficiencies.
Policy search engine
Motivating a tool for tracking the effects of policies.
A guide to regulation
If we measure things, we can regulate them, fairly.
UBI: Unconditional basic income
Why AI's succeses motivate the need for a UBI