Tragedy of the Correlated Commons
How prestige optimization and correlated parenting strategies can produce safer outcomes for individuals while starving the frontier of weird, depth-first exploration.
Read essayEssays on incentives, technology, economics, and systems
Notes from the overlap between machine learning and social theory.
Most of these essays try to take one technical frame, optimization, compounding, coordination, search, and use it to think more clearly about human systems.
The Communist Constraint
A machine-learning-flavored argument for why centrally optimized systems struggle when the environment is high-dimensional, adaptive, and computationally ugly.
Read essayCompounding Returns of Genetic Capital
On selection, compounding effects across generations, and why some technologies matter mostly because their consequences stack over time.
Read essayCommon Threads