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  • On auctions, politics, quantum computing, and waste.

    All-pay auctions can make for a fun board game, but these same rules are *horrible* when used for politics.

    November 8, 2019

    Frank Brown Cloud

    All posts, Economics, Politics
    auction, auction board games, auction games, auction theory, auction types, board game, board games, computer encryption, computer security, cooperative versus competitive board games, cooperative versus competitive games, encryption, Facebook, Facebook advertising, Facebook fraud, Facebook fraudulent political ads, Facebook political ads, Facebook political lies, fraudulent political ads, high speed stock trading, inequality, political contests, politics, quantum computing, security, stock market, wealth extraction, wealth inequality
    On auctions, politics, quantum computing, and waste.
  • On empathizing with machines.

    With sufficient power to pursue its goals, an AI might destroy the world. But then, we’d probably do it too.

    December 1, 2017

    Frank Brown Cloud

    All posts, Economics, Video games
    AI, algorithm, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, Burt Helm, computer games, decision-making, empathy, end of the world, ethics, Facebook, Facebook advertising, Facebook algorithm, Frank Lantz, goals, GPS, Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Guantánamo, machines, money, morality, neural networks, paperclips, philosophy, the algorithm, tools
    On empathizing with machines.

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