democracy

Designing social movements Synthetic biology for utopian egregores 2021-05-01 – 2023-09-12

Community Engineering, maintaining, organizing… 2020-02-02 – 2023-08-09

Modern conspiracy theorising Someone paid me to write this 2020-08-16 – 2023-08-07

Community governance Coordinating human beings by collective application of social force 2020-02-02 – 2023-08-06

Who I donate to Expensive value signalling 2019-08-21 – 2023-05-31

Cheap talk Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc 2020-02-01 – 2023-04-11

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

Weaponizing social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2023-01-15

But what can I do? Recommended behaviour to make society better is to think, then act 2020-02-06 – 2022-11-06

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2022-11-06

Pluralism, multiculturalism, politics 2020-02-01 – 2022-10-29

Mechanism design for reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning… 2014-08-05 – 2022-08-02

Microstressors Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions 2020-02-01 – 2022-07-28

Rituals and beliefs that bind 2021-05-01 – 2022-07-05

Designing less toxic social media 2020-07-12 – 2022-06-11

Institutions and governance for, and using, mass conversation Discourse red in tooth and claw versus the sovereign 2020-02-01 – 2022-05-30

Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds Information cascades 2019-09-22 – 2022-04-22

Attention economy 2012-01-13 – 2022-04-03

OODA loops 2021-05-01 – 2022-02-28

Symbolic and substantive insurrections Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building 2022-02-20 – 2022-02-27

Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13

Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2022-01-02

Diversity as an end in itself On a rich and vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought 2021-12-13

Media virality Strategic modelling for content creators 2016-08-30 – 2021-07-15

Economics of insurgence 2015-02-02 – 2020-07-01