I've struggled to announce this amidst so much dark & awful going on in the world, but with 1mo to go, I wanted to share that: (i) I finally graduated; (ii) In August, I'll begin as an assistant professor in the CS dept. of the National University of Singapore.

Our article "Sharing the Algorithm" is now available for download. Forthcoming in Columbia Journal of Tax Law, Prof Jeremy Bearer-Friend & I argue the public should co-own generative artificial intelligence: https://t.co/1d4a9ebN8z @ColumJTaxL

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Anthropic, Dec 2024 vs May 2025

We were driven to this decision by a big increase in LLM-assisted survey papers. We don't have the moderator resources to examine these submissions and identify the good surveys from the bad ones.

The Computer Science section of @arxiv is now requiring prior peer review for Literature Surveys and Position Papers. Details in a new blog post

I wish you a happy holiday!

Anyway it'd be fun if the EU decided to require Google Play / the App Store to show a screen like this every time you try to install Uber / Lyft / Grab etc.

(Second idea is not mine, but suggested to me by a someone once when I was complaining about rideshare operator's ability to set market prices in their own favor.)

Not an economist, but this suggests to me 2 ways of reducing monopoly / oligopoly profits of e.g. rideshare apps like Uber. Obvious way is to reduce costs of market entry -- but also, a "meta-rideshare" app that makes it easier for consumers to check prices across market-makers.

cc: @sebkrier @edelwax

Joseph Campbell died today. A great man, with great wisdom for the World, drowned out in the torrent of the NEXT THING.

Very interesting theoretical work suggesting that a future where everyone bargains with everyone (e.g. with the help of AI negotiators) is not the most scalable or efficient approach

🚨 Updated paper alert 🚨 "Market microstructure and informational complexity" with @GuthmannR Why do we have organized markets with intermediaries like NYSE or Amazon? Our answer: they drastically reduce the information burden on everyone else. Here's how we get there 🧵

What does it take for civilization to be resilient in a world where powerful AI is abundant? 🤔 ...the question @edwardkembery & I've been obsessed with for the past few months Our goal: starting to spec out an ambitious R&D agenda to unlock decisively defense-favoured futures.

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OCaml sorry not sorry

and also know how to get a computer to mimic by predicting pixels and waveforms (even if those aren't the same things as visual/audio precepts). It's far less clear how to do that kind of prediction for tastes!

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As an aside, I find it remarkable that I am able to make phenomenological predictions like these at all -- I guess taste prediction feels especially mysterious compared to visual and auditory prediction / imagination, which I engage in regularly --

But I don't drink fruit juice thaaaat often, so realistically I have to generalize from past experiences to make new predictions (a la contextual multi-armed bandits), and it's fun to (subjectively) assess how accurate those predictions are.

Now, SGean fruit juice stalls usually mix 2-3 fruits at most, so learning my own desires is not intractable -- even if there's no additional structure that enables generalization, it's at worst cubic wrt types of fruits, rather than 2^N if all fruit combos were allowed.

Everytime I buy a new combination of fruit juice from the canteen here (today's is orange passionfruit) I play the game of "What will it taste like?" + "How much will enjoy it?" It's fun because the sheer number of combinations means I'll never fully know what my preferences are.

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