Tim McPhillips

Opinion | A Perfect Christmas Is Suboptimal Gift giving is inefficient from an economic point of view. It’s an example of ‘expensive signaling.’

On the apparent waste of holiday gift-giving. 'Costly signaling' here draws on at least three streams: evolutionary biology (honest signals require real costs), information economics (signaling what can't be observed), and social anthropology (gifts as social bonds).

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‘Imperfect Oracle’ Review: A Question of Autonomy Humans tend to trust their intuitions over rational calculation. Can artificial intelligence help us overcome cognitive biases?

The phrase "choice architect" from the book "Imperfect Oracle" makes the reviewer's blood run cold. If it means officials using AI to decide for us, then mine too. But AI decision support that helps individuals make their own informed choices could be totally different.

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The AI Arbitrator FAQ suggests this is actually a human-in-the-loop system: a human arbitrator remains responsible for the decision, with the AI providing decision support and not replacing human judgment. The AI does not detect divergence from expected human decisions.

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This WSJ article mentions the “AI Arbitrator,” a system for cases decided solely by documents that claims transparency, explainability, and “monitoring for deviations from what human experts might conclude.”

Not clear here how the latter works for new cases. #ai-in-law

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