Sketches & Scraps

Mostly incomplete, and prone to revision at any time, these may or may not become finished pieces.

Some ideas about reputation systems, backed up by some simulations. First draft 2015-11-08; picked up again 2023-08-06.

The ‘Alignment Problem’ is the wrong way to think about the hazards of Generative AI

Computer simulations of ridehail traffic and trips in a simplified city

There are other ways to think about AI than like an organism

What open data from Chicago tells us about the Uber driver population.

Social media platforms offer only a simplistic idea of the boundaries around speech.