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This is a blog on artificial intelligence and "Social Science++", with an emphasis on computation and statistics. My website is brenocon.com.
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The Jungle Economy
I wish I knew Hebrew. Well, fortunately there is also an English article version of Equilibrium in the Jungle (Piccione and Rubinstein ’06): In the typical analysis of an exchange economy, agents are involved in consumption and exchange goods voluntarily … Continue reading
Anarchy vs. social order in Somalia
In light of the Somali transitional government’s recent military triumph over Islamist forces, the BBC did a piece of very interesting testimonials from everyday Somalis — they all want a government for peace and order in their lives. Anarchy is … Continue reading
Double thesis action
Earlier this year, it turned out that humans socially evolved cooperation through group competition and conflict. And now, it seems that biased evidence assimilation can happen through bounded rationality. Hooray.
A big, fun list of links I’m reading
Since blogging is hard, but reading is easy, lately I’ve taken to bookmarking interesting articles I’m reading, with the plan of blogging about them later. This follow-through has happened a few times, but not that often. In an amazing moment … Continue reading
4-move rock, paper, scissors!
Contrary to baseless speculation, it turns out it is possible to have a four-player, non-degenerate RPS game. The game below is assymetrical: B does better than others, but you don’t want to play it all the time because that makes … Continue reading
Two Middle East politics visualizations
These are both useful summaries. Slate has a chart of relationships between Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, and Lebanon, versus a number of different actors in the region. NYTimes has something similar on a map, also showing the sizes of ethnic/religious groups. … Continue reading
neuroscience and economics both ways
I previously posted two neuroeconomics reviews. Here’s a new one from this year in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. It’s interesting because not only does it look at using psychological knowledge to inform economics, but it also reviews work in the … Continue reading
Social network-ized economic markets
Extremely interesting — a generalization of Arrow-Debreu equilibrium in which interactions are restricted along a social network. Kakade et al 2005. (Found through NIPS 2004 (which looks like a great conference)). Also a longer and more detailed related version: Kakade … Continue reading
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Pure game theory is debatably social science, so here goes. Inspired by various 5-, 7-, and even 25-move extensions to Rock, Paper, Scissors, my friends and I were wondering whether it’s possible to have an even-move version. It doesn’t seem … Continue reading