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Economics as bridge between math and science

Objects in our world sometimes organize around physical patterns pertaining to things like light and gravity and inertia and sometimes to non-physical patterns like the prime numbers. There is a tension here: why are the patterns we organiz...

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One way of thinking about perception is based on weak anticipation. The idea is that you take in data about the world around you, feed that into your internal model, and use that to produce some picture of the outside world. Call this “weak...

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Humans sometimes enjoy wielding power over other humans, and so accordingly spend time and resources trying to create situations where they are in a position to wield power. This kind of power seeking is a weak anticipation process: an inte...

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Strong intelligence

The economy is an intelligence capable of learning and solving novel problems. But it doesn’t work the way we might ordinarily envision intelligence: as something involving representation, prediction, generalization, etc. The economy is an...

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One-shot learning via strong categorization in the economy

The economy is able to adapt to novel conditions extremely quickly. If the conditions of supply and demand change in some historically novel way, or if a new technology, good, or service is introduced to the economy, the economy nevertheles...

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