Charlie Cheesman
A collection of ideas at various stages of development:
- Net Zero from Day Zero - there will come a day when all new companies will be Net Zero from the day they start. There should be a platform that enables this.
- The Dual Rationality Hypothesis - the Joint Hypothesis Problem can be generalised to any test for rationality. Any test for rationality requires a model of rationality to test against, meaning models of rationality can never fully be rejected.
- Ideaware - Ideas can be thought of as software for thinking. In the same way as you have a Tech Stack, you can have a Personal Idea Stack. Your idea stack is the collection of ideas you use to interpret the world.
- Impact Arbitrage - why doesn't charitable giving behave like investing? Because there is no impact arbitrage. There is (1) no absolute metric for impact and (2) no means to trade impact among givers. If there were, charity would look more like effective altruism. We could change this...
- An AMC for Carbon Taxes - why don't companies voluntarily commit to an AMC for carbon taxes? This would incentivise governments to introduce a carbon tax.
- A Marketplace for AMCs - Advance Market Commitments will soon be privatised and apply to many markets. There should (and soon will) be a marketplace for AMCs.
- Comparative Advantage for Startups - Comparative Advantage explains why startups can outcompete incumbents. They have a lower opportunity cost to effort.
- Confidence Expectations - a variable for confidence is the missing link between Rational Expectations and Behavioural Economics.
- Learning Efficiency in AI Systems - learning efficiency as a measure of AI intelligence. How many repetitions of a game does it take for the AI system to become good, relative to a human?
Some thoughts and questions:
- Intertemporal Fairness - in what sense is it 'fair' to be born in one time period vs another?
- Intelligence as being General Purpose - intelligence is how general purpose something is
- The Cost of Signalling - Stereotyping is the cost of our reliance on signalling.
- Branding Diseconomies - Brands suffer from diseconomies of scale.
- The Market for Nimbyism - why don't we have a market for Nimbyism?
- Meal Deals - Why are there no meal deals in other countries?
- Memory Palaces - Why do we not all taught how to build memory palaces?
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