adaptive
Scientific institutions and mechanisms
Descriptive and normative
2021-08-24
– 2023-12-08Moral wetware
What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate?
2020-04-27
– 2023-12-05Comfort traps
On edging life with the optimal amount of friction
2023-09-17
– 2023-11-09Big history
Cliodynamics, deep history, big-picture history
2018-12-18
– 2023-11-06Interpersonal relationships
Applied. Love, friendship, trust and oxytocin, considered dyadically
2022-01-24
– 2023-10-18Wicked tail risks
x-risk, y-risk, jackpot, die-risk,
2015-04-30
– 2023-10-11Canalization in human learning agents
Thinking now what made sense then
2022-04-09
– 2023-09-29Misrule, punks and ravers
Peasantpunk, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, metis farming, the feast of fools in suburbia, crusty rituals for the churchless, oxytocin fixes, mock chivalric orders, squads
2018-03-26
– 2023-09-26Superstimuli
2023-09-25Exit/voice dilemmas
Fix this one or build another?
2018-12-18
– 2023-09-18Doing it yourself
Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms
2018-03-26
– 2023-08-08Doing complicated things the obvious way
and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
2022-04-04
– 2023-08-07Timeless works of art
Aesthetics as a conditional average treatment effect
2015-01-12
– 2023-08-07The social brain
Rubber-duck-typing
2011-12-09
– 2023-08-02Gradient steps to an ecology of mind
The best as enemy of the good
2011-11-27
– 2023-08-02Diffusion of innovations
Epidemiology of widgets
2020-01-30
– 2023-02-09Cooperation in evolutionary context
‘Cui bono’ for selfishness
2020-04-27
– 2022-11-08Feelings, applied
2022-01-24
– 2022-11-04Social organisation of knowledge
Descriptive and normative
2021-08-24
– 2022-10-07Multi-agent self
2022-09-11Soft methodology of science
2012-01-13
– 2022-09-06Models of human cultural reproduction
Egregores, superorganisms, memeplexes
2018-12-18
– 2022-07-26Subculture dynamics
Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale
2018-12-18
– 2022-07-26Conflict theorist models of coordination
2022-07-20
– 2022-07-24Red queen social signal dynamics
Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices
2018-12-18
– 2022-07-24Being stroppy
For malcontents too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else
2022-03-04
– 2022-07-06Astroturf and artificial reefs
On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
2016-01-13
– 2022-07-03Moral attribution and diffusion
On institutions for siphoning blame
2020-04-27
– 2022-06-30Invasive arguments
Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse
2021-12-20
– 2022-06-25Memetics
Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc
2020-01-30
– 2022-05-14The levels of simulacra
2018-12-18
– 2022-04-07The language game
Coevolution of words and meanings
2014-12-29
– 2022-04-01Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds
How to win elections and influence people
2020-08-30
– 2022-03-03Evolution
2014-11-04
– 2022-02-07Sociology and politics of information
Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society
2022-01-09
– 2022-02-02Marine biology and ecology
2021-06-24Ecology
2015-01-27
– 2021-06-01Our microbiome
2017-07-14Normal accidents
2015-06-03Microbial Ecology
2015-01-27
– 2015-01-28