Actuarial Blog Series

This repo includes the supporting notebooks for my series of blog posts exploring various actuarial topics through the lens of a novel insurance product, Knowledge Depreciation Guarantee (KDG), which covers sudden drops in value (measured by $\text{utility} \times \text{truthfulness}$) of knowledge assets, such as academic research papers.

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1. Survival Model.ipynb

• This supports When Truth Decays: Actuarial Adventures in Parametric Insurance Design
  • What would the actuarial pricing of truth look like? Imagine if “knowledge” had a measurable risk of decay or distortion…

2. Map of Knowledge.ipynb

• This supports When Truth Decays Part 2: Turning Knowledge into Liabilities
  • We’ll explore the basics of actuarial reserving, using our hypothetical Knowledge Depreciation Guarantee as the illustrative example.

3. Reinsurance Basics.ipynb

• This supports When Truth Decays Part 3: Reinsuring Epistemic Upheavals
  • Exploring risk transfer strategies for our hypothetical insurer of knowledge assets.

4. Quantum Cat Model.ipynb

• This supports the upcoming post: When Truth Decays Part 4: Ontological Schrödinger's Cats
  • Utilizing quantum algorithms to model, price, and reinsure the rare tremors that shake the very foundations of what we believe to be true.