Multi-agent model representation Blocks can declare an entity class, such as a set of firms or a population of households, whose variables take one value per member. Equations that read across a c...

AI X-risk is in the news cycle again. This time, it comes when AI companies have imminent IPOs and when their products are taking off. So while concerns about AI X-risk have been around for quite a while, and were part of the motivating ideologies of many of the AI lab founders, we are being told (again) that this problem is especially urgent, now.

Well over a year ago I wrote about building something new. I'm pleased to say that now there is a 0.1.0 release of scikit-agent available. Like one does, I find that as I work on it, what was a simple idea expands, and I now understand that the project is indeed quite technically ambitious. This first release is just a tiny part of what the library should be.

There's a longer version of this argument to be made, but I wanted to see if I could present it briefly. What is wealth? Nominal financial worth -- in terms of, e.g. US dollars, and other fiat currency, is clearly not a good measure of wealth. Because it is often based on speculative pricing. Because it is vulnerable to inflation.

The following article was written with Gemini Flash 3.6 “in the style of The Economist’s Bagehot”. It is an experiment in AI writing. The arguments and structure are mine. –…

I had a wonderful time at FAccT 2026 in Montreal. I was at the first FAT* in 2018 and thought it was doing something important — creating an intellectual space for serious thinking about powe…

One thing that’s become clear to me lately is that I now believe that ethics can be naturalized. I also believe that there is in fact a form of ‘natural law’. By this I mean that …

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While AI agents have long been discussed and studied in computer science, today's Agentic AI systems are something new. We consider other definitions of Agentic AI and propose a new realist definition...

“People don’t touch art,” she once said. “That’s one of the problems.”

Polymarket | This market will resolve to the calendar date range (ET) of the first day after September 30, 2025 which the U.S. The Office of Personnel Manage...

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How did a debate over housing become a call to end the anti-monopoly movement? Abundance co-author Derek Thompson used slimy tactics to protect wealth and power in America. It's worth examining how.