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Science Friction: Is the Burden of Knowledge a Good Explanation for Diminishing Returns to R&D Investment?

Probably, but more to the R than the D.

Feb 1, 2024 • 

Toby Weed

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October 2023

To Quantify Or Not to Quantify?

Foreign Policy Needs Measurement

Oct 24, 2023 • 

Toby Weed

Unlocking Foreign Policy Reform Recommendations

A Computationally-Informed Review of Proposals to Improve the Institutions of U.S. Foreign Policy

Oct 24, 2023 • 

Toby Weed

October 2022

To What Degree Can We Design Society?

Disentangling Collective Intelligence and Artificial Social Engineering

Oct 11, 2022 • 

Toby Weed

Why Blogs?

And by that I mean: “why read blogs?” “Why write a blog?” “How to choose what blogs to read?” And so on. I’ve been thinking about writing a blog for a…

Oct 11, 2022 • 

Toby Weed

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The Number of AI Research Publications is Accelerating Faster in China than the U.S.

Note: this post was completed as part of a written work trial for Epoch and was originally published on my Medium account.

Oct 4, 2022 • 

Toby Weed

There's a lot of cognition out there

As I’m writing this, there are about 7.98 billion people on earth. The average human brain is usually estimated to have somewhere around 86 billion…

Oct 3, 2022 • 

Toby Weed

August 2022

How to Think About Voting Systems

Substantive ways to identify coalitions, assess power distribution, and visualize preference topology within an electoral body.

Aug 12, 2022 • 

Toby Weed