What the Great Fama-Shiller Debate Has Taught Us

Some summary thoughts, piggybacking on smarter people’s takes on the 2013 Economics Nobel announcement.

“You can prove anything with statistics.”

No, you can’t. This is one of the most dangerous fallacies currently in the common imagination. As with words, you can say almost anything you want with data, and similarly, it is very difficult to say things that are both true and useful with them. As with…

Robot labour, and what we can’t know about the future

The future is hard, y’all.

Online tribalism

Across several dimensions, tribalism (or group identification) creates a space for otherwise intelligent people to say remarkably stupid things. Traditionally, politics and religion have been the realms in which this kind of conversational cancer flourishes. Group identity and conflict have been…

International trolling + Promoting your country

Simple ideas for a happier world.

Trinbagonians:

If you’re abroad, and you meet someone who’s never heard of T&T, and the person asks you if they speak English in your…