Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Adam Smith surveys overseas trading companies in the last part of his 1784 pamphlet (Part #13). I went over the first five paragraphs of this part of Smith’s 1784 pamphlet in my previous post. The rest of Smith’s pamphlet is … Continue reading →

Nota bene: I discuss Adam Smith’s first “dire warning” here. As promised (see here and here), I will now turn to the last part of Adam Smith’s 79-page pamphlet (Part #13, pp. 47-79), Additions and Corrections to the First and … Continue reading →

Earlier this month (6-8 July), I had surveyed Part #11 of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet, Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Smith … Continue reading →

Shout out to my favorite L.A. bookstore, Lost Books (the entrance of which is pictured below), where I found a veritable treasure trove of erudite tomes — listed below in alphabetical order (by author): Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the … Continue reading →

Below are links to some free mathematics textbooks/lecture notes: (hat tips: @pickover, @gemchange_ltd, @LunesDes, and @ParamSiddh) Donna Kirk, Contemporary Mathematics (2026) MIT Sloan Business Club, Quant Bible (not dated) W. W. Sawyer, A Path to Modern Mathematics (1966) C. H. … Continue reading →

Bonus link: See also my 2015 paper “Finding Santiago“, where I trace the biographical origins of the legendary protagonist of Ernest Hemingway’s timeless novella The Old Man and the Sea.

Are prediction markets (PMs) immoral or dangerous? What about retrodiction markets? What would Adam Smith or F. A. Hayek say? In alphabetical order (by author), below are some anti-PM links: Saahil Desai, Polymarket is going to get someone killed, The … Continue reading →

More generally, is “good faith” more like a rule (e.g. a speed limit or “no smoking” sign), or is it more like a standard (e.g. “fair use” or “be careful”)? Or does the meaning of good faith depend on purely … Continue reading →

Evolvable AI or “eAI” refers to artificial intelligence systems that can autonomously create copies of themselves, pass on heritable traits, and undergo some form of natural selection, e.g. random mutation, recombination, and survival of the fittest. Some AI researchers claim … Continue reading →