Essays on AI, economics, game theory, and complex systems.
How Tiger Parents Engineer a World of Incrementalism (Why Your Weird Hobby Matters)
When parents correlate their strategies pushing kids toward SAT-optimized, resume-padding 'safe' milestones, they create a tragedy of the commons: a world starved of the deep, weird, uncorrelated innovations that only depth-first exploration can find.
How Gradient Descent Explains the Fall of the Soviet Union
Picture two ML engineers optimizing human welfare: Adam Smith deploys stochastic gradient descent with thousands of independent agents. Karl insists on batch gradient descent. The optimization problem that ate the 20th century explained through machine learning.
How Embryonic Selection Creates Exponential Divergence in Human Potential
In 2006, Warren Buffet donated $31 billion to the Gates Foundation; yet a hypothetical $10 thousand invested in embryonic selection might yield greater social welfare returns. Through the compound interest of genetic advantages across generations, small differences today create vast divides tomorrow.
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