culture
Political axes
Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society
2021-03-01
– 2022-05-17Cohousing in Australia
Plus other low-cost, low tedium options for secure habitation somewhere
2021-09-25
– 2022-04-24Real estate economics
Rentiers and the future
2022-01-24
– 2022-04-22Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds
Information cascades
2019-09-22
– 2022-04-22Feelings, applied
2022-01-24
– 2022-04-13Social norms
2019-10-07
– 2022-04-13Trapped beliefs
Thinking now what made sense then
2022-04-09Institutions and governance for mass conversation
Discourse red in tooth and claw
2020-02-01
– 2022-04-09Myths
Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives
2022-02-20
– 2022-04-07Doing complicated things the obvious way
and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
2022-04-04Attention economy
2012-01-13
– 2022-04-03Contemporary rationalists and contrarians
Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition
2020-09-06
– 2022-03-10Cheap talk
Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc
2020-02-01
– 2022-03-09Astroturf and artificial reefs
On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
2016-01-13
– 2022-03-04Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-03-04Race, genetics and politics of
Ethnicity too.
2021-12-20
– 2022-03-04Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds
How to win elections and influence people
2020-08-30
– 2022-03-03Designing social movements
Minimum viable utopia
2021-05-01
– 2022-02-28The social brain
Rubber-duck-typing
2011-12-09
– 2022-02-27Rhetoric
Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive
2017-06-07
– 2022-02-27Symbolic and substantive insurrections
Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building
2022-02-20
– 2022-02-27Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Cooperation in evolutionary context
2020-04-27
– 2022-02-07Sexual ethics and institutions
2020-06-07
– 2022-02-07Dunning-Kruger theory of mind
On anthropomorphising humans
2020-06-18
– 2022-01-28Status
The original karma system
2019-10-25
– 2022-01-20Dunning-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
– 2022-01-14Standards hell
Lock-in, QWERTY, coordination problems etc
2015-01-05
– 2022-01-11Metis and .*-rationality
High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge, normies and sects
2017-07-24
– 2022-01-02Group size
Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination
2011-12-09
– 2022-01-02Tokenism 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
– 2021-12-18Diversity as an end in itself
On a rich an vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought
2021-12-13Cooperation amongst humans
2014-11-04
– 2021-11-12Economics on networks
2020-05-17
– 2021-10-16Narrative
2019-10-27
– 2021-10-10The property market is pollution
Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat
2021-05-26
– 2021-09-25Community governance
Coordinating human being by application of social force
2020-02-02
– 2021-09-20Clickbait bandit problems
On using computers to program humans
2017-05-18
– 2021-09-16Governance 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
– 2021-07-08Moral philosophy
2014-08-04
– 2021-07-01Contemporary techno-horrorists
On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts
2019-12-23
– 2021-06-29Where next Sydney freaks?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26What is your Sydney housing endgame?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26Queerness
2021-05-06The simplest thing
Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering
2020-02-03
– 2021-04-27Management
Upon having and being a boss
2019-04-02
– 2020-11-02Politics of play
also, playful politics
2014-10-29
– 2020-09-08Contemporary ethnomusicology
Global bass, World Music 2.0 etc
2015-04-02
– 2020-08-22Contemporary neo-feudalism & endimming
2017-02-04
– 2020-06-23Smartypants cities
2014-12-25
– 2019-11-05Scarce urban resources
2015-10-16 