Flood insurance is more than actuarily fair — it is actually giving away money to homeowners. Yet, 40% of high-risk consumers don’t purchase flood insurance. Why? And what does it mean for optimal policy? 1/ https://t.co/XbWF6vfBTx
A few months ago I was at a conference where Robin Hanson spoke about prediction markets.[1] He argued that given how much of companies' outcomes are driven by who they choose to hire, and how non-rigorous the process of selecting employees and revisiting those selections is, there's a literal trillion-dollar opportunity in getting it right.... See more
Who am I? I’m a 25 year old writer from London, mostly writing on Samstack (at samstack.io), focusing on social science, Effective Altruism, and forecasting. My background is in social science - I did a master’s degree in quantitative political science, and found that a load of the research I wa...