Revealed Priorities is where I write about medicine and health, AI, epistemics, signalling and incentives, ethics, and systems and tools.

The name comes from “revealed preferences” in economics: the idea that you can infer what people want by observing their choices rather than their stated preferences. The standard interpretation is fatalistic, in that if you scroll TikTok instead of reading Tolstoy, you really do prefer TikTok, regardless of what you say you value.

I prefer “revealed priorities” because your behaviour reveals what you’re currently prioritising, not what you’re capable of prioritising or what you ultimately want, and the gap between those can be closed by removing friction, changing environments, or (sometimes) with pharmacological help.

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