In this post we will show some practical examples of how liquid democracy can be understood in terms of, and make use of results from spectral graph theory. For more background please see [Vigna2009]. Wikipedia says: In mathematics, spectral graph theory is the study of properties of a graph in…

I once heard a metaphor about progress that I now use when talking about AI. Don’t know where I heard it first, so can’t give credit. Update: see comment by Pat Lee below. Imagine you want to get to the moon, but you don’t know how. Someone suggests using a…

A theory appears beautiful or elegant [..] when it’s simple, [..] when it can be expressed very concisely. — Murray Gell-Mann The question of whether one should use beauty as a heuristic in physics is a difficult problem with deep philosphical roots. It is hard to find appropriate assumptions to…