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...
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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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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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