Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
The Michael Jordan of baseball
The greatest of all time? Yes, as a lifelong baseball fan, Shohei Ohtani has my vote!
Defending the truth market, part 3
Inspired by the ideas of Robin Hanson (see, by way of example, the video below on prediction markets), I have proposed the creation of a “truth market” in order to counteract the spread of false information on the Internet, and … Continue reading
Defending the truth market, part 2
In my previous post I described how a “truth market” could be used to counteract the spread of false information on the Internet. To the point, my proposed truth market would operate like a betting market but would remain open … Continue reading
Defending the truth market, part 1
Earlier this year I posted a short white paper on SSRN (see here) in which I proposed the creation of a “truth market” to counteract the spread of false information on the Internet, and in a previous post, I identified … Continue reading
This day in international law history
On this day (20 March) in 2003, the United States and Britain, along with Australia and Poland, led a full-scale and illegal war of aggression against their former ally Iraq. Alas, 20 years later none of the public officials who … Continue reading
Conference selfie
Greetings from Fort Worth, Texas! Pictured below are yours truly (far right) along with my colleagues and fellow KCON panelists: Spencer Williams (Golden Gate), who spoke on “contractual complexity”; Mitja Kovač (University of Ljubljana), who retold Cicero’s solution to the … Continue reading
Three objections to my truth market proposal
Note: This blog post is designed to provide some background regarding my upcoming talk on “belief contracts” at KCON XVI this weekend. Fake or fact? What is the best way of dealing with false information on the Internet, such as … Continue reading