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The Elephant in the Brain
The Elephant in the Brain is the most cheerfully cynical book I have read. It argues for a simple core claim: Our brains are built to act in our self-interest while at the same time trying hard not to...
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On the complexity of games
(Warning: frivolous.) It’s not obvious what properties of games determine whether they are easy or hard. Poker has imperfect information while Sokoban can have very long solutions; which is harder?...
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Epistemic incentives and sluggish updating
Summary: We can get better estimates of epistemic virtue by considering changes in people’s beliefs, rather than only comparing their predictions to reality. But if we use this information, people who...
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