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26 Nov 2025

Wash hiring. I like this term “wash hire”. Data drift, particularly for firm-specific knowledge, seems a reasonable driver of wash hiring. OP

What is the chance of an earthquake? “The Bayesian approach, despite its virtues, changes the topic” made me laugh. Really nice paper, much on the value of suitably constrained methodological anarchy OP

Crowds contain multitudes. This is framed as being about the un-wisdom of crowds but it really seems to be about the challenges of distributed trust and alignment. In fairness I suppose wisdom is often presumed to be benign. OP