Cooperation

Anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2022-05-01

Cohousing in Australia Plus other low-cost, low tedium options for secure habitation somewhere 2021-09-25 – 2022-04-24

Real estate economics Rentiers and the future 2022-01-24 – 2022-04-22

Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds Information cascades 2019-09-22 – 2022-04-22

Voting Systems Mathematics and economics of ballots 2014-09-22 – 2022-04-21

Workhacks How to succeed in business (with or without trying) 2020-07-19 – 2022-04-21

Feelings, applied 2022-01-24 – 2022-04-13

Trapped beliefs Thinking now what made sense then 2022-04-09

Institutions and governance for mass conversation Discourse red in tooth and claw 2020-02-01 – 2022-04-09

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

Cheap talk Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc 2020-02-01 – 2022-03-09

Astroturf and artificial reefs On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet 2016-01-13 – 2022-03-04

Journalism, normative Sensors for the superorganism 2020-01-26 – 2022-03-04

Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-03-04

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

Designing social movements Minimum viable utopia 2021-05-01 – 2022-02-28

The social brain Rubber-duck-typing 2011-12-09 – 2022-02-27

Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2022-02-27

Symbolic and substantive insurrections Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building 2022-02-20 – 2022-02-27

Moloch, slack and hyperselection Weak selection versus goodharting 2021-12-25 – 2022-02-22

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-02-13

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

Cooperation in evolutionary context 2020-04-27 – 2022-02-07

Dunning-Kruger theory of mind On anthropomorphising humans 2020-06-18 – 2022-01-28

Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2022-01-26

Prepping for the end of (my access to) the (industrialised) world 2016-06-19 – 2022-01-24

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2022-01-20

Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions Lay theories of social mechanisms 2022-01-20

Dunning-Kruger theory of society Lay theories of groups 2022-01-20

Social psychology Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated? 2017-02-20 – 2022-01-14

Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2022-01-02

Effective altruism First world trolley problems 2017-06-06 – 2021-12-24

Tokenism or table stakes? “The least you can do”, “virtue signalling”, and other manoeuvres that leave us fighting symbolic battles over substantial ones 2021-12-20 – 2021-12-18

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

Cooperation amongst humans 2014-11-04 – 2021-11-12

The property market is pollution Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat 2021-05-26 – 2021-09-25

Community governance Coordinating human being by application of social force 2020-02-02 – 2021-09-20

Institutions Stable orbits in human systems 2014-10-29 – 2021-09-18

Governance of the commons On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time 2014-10-29 – 2021-09-02

Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing… 2020-02-02 – 2021-07-29

Bureaucracy Iron Laws and Moral Mazes 2020-02-02 – 2021-07-08

Where next Sydney freaks? 2021-04-11 – 2021-05-26

What is your Sydney housing endgame? 2021-04-11 – 2021-05-26

Queerness 2021-05-06

Open Source (mostly software) On published schematics for cheap objects 2017-03-31 – 2021-04-09

Management Upon having and being a boss 2019-04-02 – 2020-11-02

Solarpunk A tomorrow worth retiring to 2019-10-29 – 2020-10-15

Economics of insurgence 2015-02-02 – 2020-07-01

Contemporary neo-feudalism & endimming 2017-02-04 – 2020-06-23

Firms: What is WITH you? 2014-10-15 – 2020-06-16

Pluralistic ignorance We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe 2020-06-03

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

The money laundry, ownership and control Paypal for the 1% 2020-05-13

Capitalism’s end game What money wants 2014-12-31 – 2020-03-17

Mechanism design for reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank… 2014-08-05 – 2020-03-02

Intellectual property especially in science and technology. 2014-12-30 – 2020-01-16

Hollow states Skim government when fat cats drank the cream 2019-03-13

Game theory 2016-10-13 – 2017-04-24

Altruism 2014-08-05 – 2015-06-18