Redistribution Should Be Global Local redistribution leaves a lot to be desired. For one, local redistribution can distort the incentive to move to higher productivity areas, which leads to inefficiencies. For example, people might forgo a higher paying job if lower redistribution at their destination cancels out the higher pay. Local redistribution is also unstable.Continue reading "Global Redistribution"

Social network cryptography. Having your social network verify your identity seems like a flexible, highly secure way to protect your digital life. Combined with passwords and biometrics, nobody has to have their identity stolen again. Interventions to increase work desire. Keynes predicted a 15 hour work week. In some sense this is already happening, butContinue reading "Underrated Research Areas"

To aid my thinking process, I want to vaguely define a project for AI safety. I think AI will want to control people rather than literally attacking people. It will probably find ways to influence us that are hard to see or understand. Even today, advertising, politics, and your social network probably subtly influence you.Continue reading "Attempt to Define AI Influence"