Linklog 1

I’ve been collecting interesting links on bluesky with the #linklog tag. For now I’m thinking to post them here in threes.

The Brainrot IDE. “Brainrot” is a very good term. I don’t fully know what it means. This is consistent with sleaze theorem though. OP

Incomplete Contracting and AI Alignment. I’ve been thinking for a while about this specific connection between economic theory and AI alignment and hoping someone would write it up. They did, and only a few years before I thought about it! OP

Real purchasing power over time is not economic welfare over time. Characteristically thought-provoking. Among the thoughts this sparked: is there any quantitative way to measure “economic welfare” that doesn’t eventually suffer the madness of ubiquitous rational surrogacy? OP