Wes ChowI Love MITI love MIT for its contradictions. As the Dao says, when everyone knows beauty, therein arises ugliness.Dec 9, 2023Dec 9, 2023
Wes ChowSeeing Like a PluralistWhat is a functional definition of a pluralistic system?Jan 14, 2023Jan 14, 2023
Wes ChowModeration via GroupsWe should look at social dynamics and small groups for clues on how to moderate speech.Jan 22, 2022Jan 22, 2022
Wes ChowDARPA is Retroactive FundingRetroactive public goods funding gets the Scott Alexander treatment. In it, Scott reproduces a Lewis Carroll story about a university…Jan 6, 2022Jan 6, 2022
Wes ChowStatus Capture and Institutional DesignIn Founding vs Inheriting, Balaji Srinivasan lays out an argument for a meritocratic future that goes roughly like this: the act of…May 13, 2021May 13, 2021
Wes ChowSubstack, Subscriptions, & Malincentives in the Media EconomyThe ad model is widely cited as a major reason for the decline in quality of online news, but it’s not clear subscriptions are better.Apr 9, 2021Apr 9, 2021
Wes ChowLet’s Start a ReligionA religion for the non-religious will solve all our problems.Mar 16, 2021Mar 16, 2021
Wes ChowOpportunities in the Design of Decentralized Social NetworksCan we make a censorship resistant social network free from trolls?Feb 9, 2021Feb 9, 2021
Wes ChowThe Unreasonable Accuracy of Eroom and MooreA speculative and disastrously simple model for why knowledge discovery is so damn expensive.Mar 28, 2020Mar 28, 2020
Wes ChowA Reckless Coronavirus ProposalMaybe we can still slow down the spread while hanging out.Mar 9, 2020Mar 9, 2020
