Arturo Macias

My article “An Agentic Perspective in Experimental Economics” has been published in MDPI Games. The article outlines my position on behavioural economics, suggesting that critiques of neoclassical approaches regarding nonrationality require specification of both the deviation and the mechanism for scaling into aggregate outcomes. The difference between Economics and the...

Dear all, this little note (that will be included as a section in the next version of “The ideal political workflow”) is a summary of the relation between the Storable Votes literature and Social Choice. I want to test it before my next attempt to publish the article, so please,...

A Karma system is a resource sharing mechanism based on an account of non-tradable rights. A recent paper named “Dynamic Recourse Allocation with Karma: An Experimental Study” (Elokda, Nax, Bolognani and Dörfler, 2024) describes this kind of mechanism. To summarize, agents have some rights to a given resource, and their...

Idolatry is the worship of non-conscious objects, sometimes falsely attributing consciousness to them, sometimes putting the value of some admittedly nonconscious being over that of conscious beings. Idolatry leads to human sacrifice because to prove your idol more important than the human soul the natural test is to sacrifice a...

And it's all around us as ghosted machines […] And as much as I'd like to believe there's a truth about our illusion, well, I've come to conclude there's just nothing beyond it the mind can perceive except for the pictures in the space in between. Jan Blomqvist, The Space...

Seeds of Science has kindly published my essay “Prediction and control in natural and social systems”. This short essay : i) address and contextualize the modest predictive success of Social Science and ii) describes what kind of scientific intervention on the human society can be successful. Its main arguments are...

Matthew Adelstein has recently published a post on arthropod (specifically shrimp) sentience. He defends a comparable degree of pain between shrimps and humans (shrimp=20% human). My position is that arthropod consciousness is “too small to measure”, so there is not a conscious self on which pain can be inflicted, and...