Saturday, August 2nd, 2014
Let me first emphasize that I’m not talking about the deeper question of superintelligence and what happens when robots can do anything a human can do.
This is about the (relatively) more immediate question:
What happens when robots can perform any unskilled labor much more cheaply than humans?
My answer is that we’ll need a good social safety... »
Tags: ai, economics, fallacies, future, market, politics, robots
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Saturday, April 5th, 2014
Online marketplaces facilitating peer-to-peer exchange of goods and services have been flourishing.
Last year half a million visitors to New York City used Airbnb to find a place to stay.
Airbnb is an online marketplace that matches those looking for short-term accommodation with those that can provide it in their homes.
So far, consumers have... »
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Friday, March 21st, 2014
It turns out people are pretty morbidly fascinated by Bethany Soule’s and my auction-based lifestyle.
After Bethany’s Messy Matters article,
“Love and/or Money,”
it was
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Tags: economics, mechanism design, rationality, yootles
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Friday, January 31st, 2014
With Valentine’s Day two weeks away, there’s still plenty of time to find your soul mate.
But daters beware: nearly 50 years after the Supreme Court ruled bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional,
race still matters.
Among newlyweds, only 9% of whites and 17% of blacks
married outside their race.
Several recent studies, moreover, have shown that... »
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