In several of my recent posts, I laid out my case for how it might not undermine all of economic thinking to find that people aren’t necessarily rational. One of my key points was that you can model irrationality as rationality, but this does raise the question: What good are models in the first place? [...]
Before I continue to post my analyses of the various ideas that I am constantly mulling over, I thought that I would take a brief detour and explain a bit of how my thought process works. Fundamental to how I view the world is the idea of symmetry. What I mean by symmetry is whether [...]
In part one of this two-part series, I introduced my thoughts on how logic can be used to extract (but not introduce) information from the premises using 4×4 su doku with no unique solution. In this follow-up post, my intention was to discuss the more subtle forms of information extraction that can be done with [...]
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on intellectual rigor and a precursor to later posts on logical discourse, I think it’s important for me to write a post or two explaining my mental model of what logic does and does not do. Also, I just saw
Physical chemistry Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley and all around curious guy.