'The Anxiety Makers' is a clear exposition of what happens when 'expertise in practical and verifiable matters is confused with expertise in conduct and morality'. The examples chosen are intercourse, masturbation, constipation, venereal disease and birth control. Comfort shows how, in the nineteenth century, many medical experts used their professional standing to propagate anxiety-loaded fant...

We propose a flexible framework for profit-seeking market making by combining cost function based automated market makers with bandit learning algorithms. The key idea is to consider each parametrisation of the cost function as a bandit arm, and the minimum expected profits from trades executed during a period as the rewards. This allows for the creation of market makers that can adjust liquidi...

I suggest a simple thought experiment. Science fiction books occasionally mention an imaginary device: a replicator. It consists of two boxes; you put an object in a box, close the lid, and instantly get its undistinguishable fully functional copy in the second box. In particular, a replicator can replicate smaller replicators. Now imagine the economy based on replicators. It needs two groups o...