FLAME with Brad Hook
Rethinking Economic Systems in the Age of Superintelligence
Nuclear engineer turned market designer Noah Healy thinks our economic plumbing is centuries out of date — and that the mathematics of information offers better designs, especially as superintelligence looms.
Noah's path — nuclear engineering, dot-com startups, then deep fascination with the mathematics of information — led him to patent work on commodity market design. His argument: markets are technologies, they can be engineered better, and the arrival of powerful AI makes redesign urgent rather than academic.
The conversation spans game theory, applied superintelligence, the ethics of system design and what better commodity markets would change for ordinary people. Dense in the best way — a genuinely different lens on questions everyone else answers with slogans.
In this episode
- Markets as technologies that can be redesigned
- The mathematics of information applied to economics
- Game theory for the age of AI
- Why superintelligence makes system design urgent
- Ethics as an engineering constraint
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