About

Hi. I’m Eli. If you want to know more about me and the projects I work on, check out my personal homepage.

This is a blog to put my not-very-polished thoughts.

I write about productivity and human effectiveness, learning methodologies, psychology and phenomenology (mostly my own), human rationality, conversational facilitation, the sociology of intellectual lineages, and obscure decision theory / “philosophy of uncertainty” problems relevant to ex-risk strategy.

If you’re new and don’t know where to start, these are, in my own opinion, my best posts.

• A mechanistic description of status
• Honor is about common knowledge?
• RAND needed the “say oops” skill
• Conceptual precision breaks cooperation, but is necessary for robust cooperation
• Ideology/narrative stabilizes path-dependent equilibria
• On category I and category II problems