blog Misaligned Markets blog post review - First year edition Catch the highlights from the first year of the Misaligned Markets blog
AI Featured LLM “intelligence” is a dark pattern LLMs leverage scaffolding and user psychology to appear as slabs of raw intelligence in service of a costly illusion.
information asymmetry Featured Capitalism runs like a computer (and it's being hacked) Like computer networks, market capitalism rewards actors that exploit gaps created by system and user behavior.
information asymmetry What do AI alignment fears reveal about market capitalism? Capitalism's misincentives won't create Skynet but resemble optimization problems AI programmers face.
externalities The lethal economics of corporate kung fu Does competition in market capitalism incentivize increasingly cleverer ways of bypassing economic competition?