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However, these systems have an unfortunate tendency to concentrate power often excessively,

By altering the ingredients of the idea menu they are exposed to, we might, in turn, minimize the dangerous inputs to the processes of belief and network updating.

computer scientists have learned to engineer increasingly sophisticated electronic algorithms.

The system puts enormous work into shifting itself to a point where it can maximize information.

a subject of active development is how systems like Polis and Community Notes could be extended with modern graph theory and GFMs.

Each company is trying to figure out how to strategize, how much to invest, what the technology should be. In a case like that, it’s not at equilibrium.

“toy” models of economies—simple models that are so abstract they bear little resemblance to reality.

When something happens to the expectation value, is that actually also what happens over a long time to the thing that we are observing?

he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.