Go and look
Almost everything we argue about has a number in it; almost every number we have is a proxy
What Makes a Good Politician?
The one standard we can all agree on, and how our MPs score against it
Chords are shapes
What an isomorphic keyboard makes visible about harmony
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
Tradition and Change
Why We Need Both Conservatism and Progressiveness
Beyond Earning to Give
The EA Road to AI
The Unfair Lottery
and the Duty to Spend Your Luck
What is Capitalism at its Core?
A Steelman of the Four Beliefs That Shape Our World
Our Attention is a Multi-Billion Dollar Asset
Who's Cashing In?
The Utility of Stories
and the limits of our imagination
Global coordination problems via game theory
Why AGI is not like climate change
The Clockwork Mind
The strange paradox of free-will
The Offline Economy
Why financial tools for the unconnected are a genuinely hard problem
Entropism
The Universe's Burning Ambition
The Hammer and the Nuke
Why AI Robustness is a Necessary Condition for AI Alignment
Is the Efficient Market Hypothesis true?
Linearity, Non-Linearity, and a Confounding Conjunction
Intelligent Immunity
What if intelligence evolved within the immune system?
The Alignment Problem
Future AI Overlords vs. Present Corporate Greed
Money laundering and illicit financial flows
The industry that facilitates the world's worst crimes
Affirmative Action's Simplistic Approach
Using a 1-Dimensional Solution for a Multi-Dimensional Problem
Every Bias Names an Algorithm
Bounded reasoners trade accuracy for efficiency in three places, and each trade leaves its own fingerprint
The cure for capitalism
More capitalism
Luck vs skill in poker and life
Why does poker have many rounds?
How can you prove anthopogenic global warming?
An individual cannot.
What makes something true?
How does deductive truth (ie math) relate to inductive truth (ie science)?