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erezyoeli.bsky.social
Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Director, Applied Cooperation Initiative Co-author, Hidden Games Research focus: How to motivate people to do good
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Garber’s got the gift of gab

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This is the most sensible explanation for Trump’s tariffs that I’ve seen. He may also have some quaint ideas about how tariffs are good for society. But if they didn’t bolster executive power we wouldn’t have them.

LSE's @eapower.bsky.social is seeking a postdoc to model the impacts of social networks and reputation on inequality. Very cool opportunity. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Federal funding of university research has its roots in WWII, specifically finding new ways to scale penicillin production to protect our troops from infectious diseases. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

One of the things that makes me particularly skeptical of DOGE’s stated aims is that government efficiency is much less about the number of employees and much more about the number of regulations. For a timely example, see: open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

This sucks. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

New ep! I talk to @erezyoeli.bsky.social about how game theory underpins our societies: strategyaaron.substack.com/p/a-beautifu...

A part of the culture war people don’t talk enough about: whether society should place expectations on individuals to behave in ways that are beneficial for others. Anti-woke anti-vaccine anti-foreign-aid is in large part just anti-helping-others.