Rhetoric
Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive
2017-06-07
– 2020-03-19
Capitalism’s end game
What money wants
2014-12-31
– 2020-03-17
Economics of insurgence
2015-02-02
– 2020-03-10
Journalism, normative
2020-01-26
– 2020-03-09
Inference on social graphs
Heterogeneous media and controls
2019-09-22
– 2020-03-04
Mechanism design for reputation systems
Karma, credit scores, pagerank…
2014-08-05
– 2020-03-02
Bureaucracy
Iron Laws and Moral Mazes
2020-02-02
Community
Engineering, maintaining
2020-02-02
Free speech
Upon the diverse camps of people using their freedom of speech to accuse one another of depriving them of it
2020-02-01
Economic inequality
Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature
2014-10-29
– 2020-01-22
Status
the original karma system
2019-10-25
– 2020-01-21
Intellectual property
especially in science and technology.
2014-12-30
– 2020-01-16
Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat
The high price of cheap talk in the mass media
2017-02-12
– 2019-12-07
Groupthink, diversity and the wisdom of crowds
2019-09-22
– 2019-10-21
Solarpunk
A tomorrow worth retiring to
2019-10-29
– 2019-10-20
Voting Systems
Mathematics and economics of ballots
2014-09-22
– 2019-10-05
Hollow states
Skim government when fat cats drank the cream
2019-03-13
Contemporary neo-feudalism
King Bannon, Jester Trump, and the Strange Case of the Fate of Billions
2017-02-04
– 2018-09-27
Getting along
Tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic; Causes, pathologies and consequences of and suggestions for
2017-02-19
– 2018-08-08
Cooperation
Using the vast global technological infrastructure of blogging to notice the self-demonstrating fact that people occasionally work together
2014-11-04
– 2018-01-31
Institutions
Stable orbits in human systems
2014-10-29
– 2017-06-20
Effective altruism
First world trolley problems
2017-06-06
– 2017-06-06
Game theory
2016-10-13
– 2017-04-24
Prepping for the end of (my access too) the (industrialised) world
2016-06-19
Altruism
2014-08-05
– 2015-06-18
Dunbar’s number
2011-12-09