Cooperation

Moloch and hyperselection Weak selection versus goodharting 2020-03-17 – 2021-09-18

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

Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2021-09-08

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

Journalism, normative 2020-01-26 – 2021-09-02

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2021-08-30

Conversation dynamics in the internet age I tried to make this about “free speech” and “political correctness” but my deep disinterest in that framing won out 2020-02-01 – 2021-08-29

Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2021-08-16

Designing social movements Minimum viable utopia 2021-05-01 – 2021-08-11

Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing, (self-)governing 2020-02-02 – 2021-07-29

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

Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds 2019-09-22 – 2021-07-05

Effective altruism First world trolley problems 2017-06-06 – 2021-07-01

Dunning-Kruger theory of mind On anthropomorphising humans 2020-06-18 – 2021-06-25

The property market is pollution Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat 2021-05-26 – 2021-05-27

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

Diversity, oddness and multiculturalism in humans On clone wars 2020-05-27 – 2021-05-03

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2021-04-25

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

Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2020-10-05

Recommended workplace habits 2020-07-19

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

Getting along Tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic; Causes, pathologies and consequences of 2017-02-19 – 2020-05-25

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

Cooperation amongst humans 2014-11-04 – 2020-04-27

Cooperation in evolutionary context 2020-04-27

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

Anthropic principles Controlling for sampling bias in lived human experience 2020-02-15

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

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

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