Icosian Reflections

…a tendency to systematize and a keen sense

that we live in a broken world.

Selected writing & Works in progress

Recent / selected writing:

  • Poker is a bad game for teaching epistemics. Figgie is a better one. (blog) (twitter)
  • Proper scoring rules are isomorphic to order books (blog)
  • Testing 30 cows per herd for H5N1 is good enough (twitter)
  • (econ theory paper) Large random matching markets with localized preference structures can exhibit large cores (journal) (preprint)
  • (blog)
  • (twitter)

Works in progress -- These aren't published yet, but I'm looking to have conversations about them at LessOnline!

Biotech and biosecurity:

Incentive design:

EA inside baseball: