Cooperation
Economic development
2014-10-29
– 2022-12-20Open Source (mostly software)
On published schematics for cheap objects
2017-03-31
– 2022-12-12Growing up
2022-04-13
– 2022-11-27Cooperation in evolutionary context
‘Cui bono’ for selfishness
2020-04-27
– 2022-11-08How to communicate
with humans
2019-04-02
– 2022-11-06Feelings, applied
2022-01-24
– 2022-11-04Pluralism, multiculturalism, politics
2020-02-01
– 2022-10-29Casual anthropic principles
Convenience-sampling lived human experience
2020-02-15
– 2022-10-28Tribal sorting and polarization
Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies
2017-02-12
– 2022-10-08Intellectual property
especially in science and technology.
2014-12-30
– 2022-10-06Cohousing in Australia
Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation somewhere
2021-09-25
– 2022-10-04Multi level marketing
Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Newcomb unboxing
2022-10-02
– 2022-10-02Squads
Small scale collectives
2022-06-25
– 2022-09-25Physical infrastructure
2022-09-24Multi-agent self
2022-09-11Effective altruism
First world trolley problems
2017-06-06
– 2022-09-06Managing people
Making piece with the fact that I cannot do everything myself
2020-07-19
– 2022-08-30Autism/allism spectrum
2022-05-25
– 2022-08-28Cluster B personality disorders
2022-06-20
– 2022-08-26Status
The original karma system
2019-10-25
– 2022-08-26Urbanism
Stuff about cities
2014-12-25
– 2022-08-06Futurism
Useful ways of imaginatively forecasting
2014-12-31
– 2022-08-06Economic inequality
Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature
2014-10-29
– 2022-08-06Trapped beliefs
Thinking now what made sense then
2022-04-09
– 2022-08-06Community governance
Coordinating human beings by application of social force
2020-02-02
– 2022-08-05Mechanism design for reputation systems
Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning…
2014-08-05
– 2022-08-02Microstressors
Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions
2020-02-01
– 2022-07-28Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-07-28Designing social movements
Synthetic biology for utopian egregores
2021-05-01
– 2022-07-27Conflict theorist models of coordination
2022-07-20
– 2022-07-24Iterated and evolutionary game theory
2016-10-13
– 2022-07-09Rituals and beliefs that bind
2021-05-01
– 2022-07-05Astroturf and artificial reefs
On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
2016-01-13
– 2022-07-03Real estate economics
Rentiers and the future
2022-01-24
– 2022-06-30Moral wetware
What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate?
2020-04-27
– 2022-06-30Rhetoric
Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive
2017-06-07
– 2022-06-24Tokenism or table stakes?
“The least you can do” is the minimum unviable product
2021-12-20
– 2022-06-23Workhacks
How to succeed in business (with or without trying)
2020-07-19
– 2022-06-14Pluralistic ignorance, silent majorities, spiral of silence, hidden tribes
We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe
2020-06-03
– 2022-06-11Cheap talk
Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc
2020-02-01
– 2022-06-10Institutions
Stable orbits in human systems
2014-10-29
– 2022-06-10Institutions and governance for, and using, mass conversation
Discourse red in tooth and claw versus the sovereign
2020-02-01
– 2022-05-30Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds
Information cascades
2019-09-22
– 2022-04-22Voting Systems
Mathematics and economics of ballots
2014-09-22
– 2022-04-21Doing complicated things the obvious way
and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
2022-04-04
– 2022-04-04Journalism, normative
Sensors for the superorganism
2020-01-26
– 2022-03-04Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds
How to win elections and influence people
2020-08-30
– 2022-03-03OODA loops
2021-05-01
– 2022-02-28The social brain
Rubber-duck-typing
2011-12-09
– 2022-02-27Symbolic and substantive insurrections
Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building
2022-02-20
– 2022-02-27Moloch, slack and hyperselection
Weak selection versus goodharting, 内卷, involution
2021-12-25
– 2022-02-22Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Dunning-Kruger theory of mind
On anthropomorphising humans
2020-06-18
– 2022-01-28Prepping for the end of (my access to) the (industrialised) world
2016-06-19
– 2022-01-24Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions
Lay theories of social mechanisms
2022-01-20Dunning-Kruger theory of society
Lay theories of groups
2022-01-20Social psychology
Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated?
2017-02-20
– 2022-01-14Group size
Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination
2011-12-09
– 2022-01-02Diversity as an end in itself
On a rich an vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought
2021-12-13Cooperation amongst humans
2014-11-04
– 2021-11-12The property market is pollution
Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat
2021-05-26
– 2021-09-25Governance of the commons
On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time
2014-10-29
– 2021-09-02Community
Engineering, maintaining, organizing…
2020-02-02
– 2021-07-29Bureaucracy
Iron Laws and Moral Mazes
2020-02-02
– 2021-07-08Where next Sydney freaks?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26What is your Sydney housing endgame?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26Solarpunk
A tomorrow worth retiring to
2019-10-29
– 2020-10-15Economics of insurgence
2015-02-02
– 2020-07-01Contemporary neo-feudalism & endimming
2017-02-04
– 2020-06-23Firms: What is WITH you?
2014-10-15
– 2020-06-16Inference on social graphs
Heterogeneous media and controls
2019-09-22
– 2020-06-03The money laundry, ownership and control
Paypal for the 1%
2020-05-13The surveillance society
All-seeing like a state
2017-02-09
– 2020-03-19Capitalism’s end game
What money wants
2014-12-31
– 2020-03-17Smartypants cities
2014-12-25
– 2019-11-05Hollow states
Skim government when fat cats drank the cream
2019-03-13Game theory
2016-10-13
– 2017-04-24Altruism
2014-08-05
– 2015-06-18 