Cooperation

Cheap talk Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc 2020-02-01 – 2023-04-11
Cohousing in Australia Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation somewhere 2021-09-25 – 2023-04-10
When to argue ad hominem Skin in the game, vested interests, overt and covert prejudices, lived experience, Dunning-Kruger outgroup effects, genealogy of knowledge, aetiology, donatism, genealogy of knowledge 2020-02-01 – 2023-01-28
Emancipating my tribe Inclusivism and exclusivism in sacred and secular subcultures. Or, scaling up the in-group. 2021-12-20 – 2022-11-01
Squads Small scale collectives 2022-06-25 – 2022-09-25
Managing people Making piece with the fact that I cannot do everything myself 2020-07-19 – 2022-08-30
Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2022-08-26
Urbanism Stuff about cities 2014-12-25 – 2022-08-06
Futurism Useful ways of imaginatively forecasting 2014-12-31 – 2022-08-06
Economic inequality Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature 2014-10-29 – 2022-08-06
Trapped beliefs Thinking now what made sense then 2022-04-09 – 2022-08-06
Community governance Coordinating human beings by application of social force 2020-02-02 – 2022-08-05
Microstressors Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions 2020-02-01 – 2022-07-28
Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-07-28
Moral wetware What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate? 2020-04-27 – 2022-06-30
Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2022-06-24
Workhacks How to succeed in business (with or without trying) 2020-07-19 – 2022-06-14
Institutions Stable orbits in human systems 2014-10-29 – 2022-06-10
Voting Systems Mathematics and economics of ballots 2014-09-22 – 2022-04-21
Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13
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
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
Solarpunk A tomorrow worth retiring to 2019-10-29 – 2020-10-15
Hollow states Skim government when fat cats drank the cream 2019-03-13