collective_knowledge

Scientific institutions and mechanisms Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2023-12-08

Moral wetware What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate? 2020-04-27 – 2023-12-05

Designing social movements Synthetic biology for utopian egregores 2021-05-01 – 2023-11-10

Big history Cliodynamics, deep history, big-picture history 2018-12-18 – 2023-11-06

Misrule, 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 – 2023-09-26

Superstimuli 2023-09-25

Exit/voice dilemmas Fix this one or build another? 2018-12-18 – 2023-09-18

Zotero The adequate citation tool 2019-12-01 – 2023-09-04

Doing it yourself Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms 2018-03-26 – 2023-08-08

Doing complicated things the obvious way and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong 2022-04-04 – 2023-08-07

Timeless works of art Aesthetics as a conditional average treatment effect 2015-01-12 – 2023-08-07

Science; Institution design for “Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding… 2020-05-17 – 2023-08-07

Metis and .*-rationality High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge 2017-07-24 – 2023-08-04

The social brain Rubber-duck-typing 2011-12-09 – 2023-08-02

Gradient steps to an ecology of mind The best as enemy of the good 2011-11-27 – 2023-08-02

Journalism, normative Sensors for the superorganism 2020-01-26 – 2023-06-23

Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2023-06-06

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2023-05-01

Dynamics of recommender systems and other AI social interventions at societal scale Variational approximations to high modernism 2023-07-03 – 2023-04-26

Legibility and automation Variational approximations to high modernism as AI modernism 2017-07-24 – 2023-04-22

Diffusion of innovations Epidemiology of widgets 2020-01-30 – 2023-02-09

BibLaTeX Also BibTeX if you must 2020-09-29 – 2022-12-23

Open Source (mostly software) On published schematics for cheap objects 2017-03-31 – 2022-12-12

Mind as statistical learner 2020-06-23 – 2022-12-06

Scientific writing In which tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2022-11-06

Casual anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2022-10-28

Tribal sorting and polarization Polarization and fragmentation by browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-10-08

Social organisation of knowledge Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-10-07

Intellectual property especially in science and technology. 2014-12-30 – 2022-10-06

Multi level marketing Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Newcomb unboxing 2022-10-02 – 2022-10-02

Multi-agent self 2022-09-11

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2022-09-06

Mechanism design for reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning… 2014-08-05 – 2022-08-02

Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-07-28

Models of human cultural reproduction Egregores, superorganisms, memeplexes 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26

Subculture dynamics Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-24

Being stroppy For malcontents too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else 2022-03-04 – 2022-07-06

Rituals and beliefs that bind 2021-05-01 – 2022-07-05

Astroturf and artificial reefs On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet 2016-01-13 – 2022-07-03

Invasive arguments Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-25

Political axes, political correlations Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society 2021-03-01 – 2022-06-12

Pluralistic ignorance, silent majorities, spiral of silence, hidden tribes We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe 2020-06-03 – 2022-06-11

Crowd-sourced science 2015-08-10 – 2022-05-17

Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2022-05-14

The levels of simulacra 2018-12-18 – 2022-04-07

The language game Coevolution of words and meanings 2014-12-29 – 2022-04-01

Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds How to win elections and influence people 2020-08-30 – 2022-03-03

OODA loops 2021-05-01 – 2022-02-28

Politics as statistical learner 2022-01-31 – 2022-02-17

Reproducible research Open notebooks etc 2016-06-07 – 2022-02-15

Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13

Sociology and politics of information Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society 2022-01-09 – 2022-02-02

Mind as statistical learner 2022-01-09

Diversity as an end in itself On a rich and vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought 2021-12-13

Knowledge geometry 2012-05-23 – 2021-10-20

Planning under uncertainty Transcending planning-though-hope-and-haruspicy 2020-04-23 – 2021-10-10

Software engineering for scientists 2016-06-07 – 2021-09-16

Publication bias Replication crises, P-values, bitching about journals, other debilities of contemporary science at large 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-22

Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21

Moral philosophy 2014-08-04 – 2021-07-01

Distributed sensing, swarm sensing, adaptive social learning 2014-10-13 – 2021-06-28

Citation management On PDFcocking 2014-09-08 – 2020-07-14

Deep fakery 2020-06-15

Inference on social graphs Heterogeneous media and controls 2019-09-22 – 2020-06-03

Tool discovery Settling upon an adequate gizmo to identify other adequate gizmos 2020-02-19 – 2020-03-12

Selling uncertainty On the marginal price of ignorance 2016-05-25 – 2020-02-18

Wikis plus also CMSs 2020-01-03 – 2020-01-02

Trusting information Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads 2017-02-09 – 2019-11-25

Sustainability Anthropocene not heard 2011-04-15 – 2017-05-16