Links 5/4
Fascinating experiment which tests different organizational forms for AIs in solving complex problems - solo agent versus delegation to subagents versus markets. Adding an explicit error correction loop for markets seemed like putting the thumb on the scale a bit in favor of markets. Takeaway: AIs are bad at delegating and breaking up problems in subproblems intelligently. Why Coase needs Hayek — Rohit Krishnan
MacIver on C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score. Been meaning to read Nguyen’s book - his ideas seem very important in our metric driven era. MacIver’s long essay is worth reading for the account of the four horsemen of bureaucracy alone (those are: rules, replaceable parts, centralized control, and scale). How to be less box-shaped — David R. MacIver
Alison Roman: Spanish tortilla is more a feeling than a recipe (isn’t a lot of great home cooking?) — potatoes confit-cooked in olive oil, six or seven eggs, flipped (flipping is the hardest part!) or broiled to set, the reserved oil making the aioli. Spanish Tortilla: more a feeling than a recipe — Alison Roman