The ability to organize, pulling structure from nothing, is the most important tool we have against stagnation and death. Recent experiments with democracy have created large efficient machines for reducing rent-seeking from political elite – free mark... (more…)

Tackling real-world socio-economic challenges requires designing and testing economic policies. However, this is hard in practice, due to a lack of appropriate (micro-level) economic data and limited opportunity to experiment. In this work, we train socia... (more…)

Amazon.com Inc. has placed an order for 1,000 autonomous driving systems from self-driving truck technology startup Plus and has acquired the option to buy a stake of as much as 20%, Plus said in a regulatory filing, confirming an earlier Bloomberg report... (more…)

A recent re-evaluation of AI algorithms from 10+ years ago has revealed they are often capable of matching modern counterparts when lightly tweaked. We haven't made as much progress in every field as we thought we had. Issues like this are not necessarily... (more…)

New estimates show how much China’s investments in AI have been overblown. (more…)