Economics

Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2021-09-18

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

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2021-09-18

DIY Artisanal poverty, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget 2018-03-26 – 2021-09-18

Clickbait bandit problems On using computers to program humans 2017-05-18 – 2021-09-16

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

Alternative social networks V. cypherpunk! much 733+! 2019-08-12 – 2021-09-05

Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY etc 2015-01-05 – 2021-09-03

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

Scientific community Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24

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

Political axes Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society 2021-03-01 – 2021-08-11

Modern conspiracy mania You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to 2020-08-16 – 2021-08-11

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

Weaponizing social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2021-08-07

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

Innovation Can I patent self-moving goalposts? 2014-07-27 – 2021-07-21

Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21

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

Financing utopia Hedonistic mechanism design 2015-02-16 – 2021-07-11

Sexual ethics and institutions 2020-06-07 – 2021-07-11

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

Monetizing my music 2015-05-03 – 2021-07-07

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

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

Moral philosophy 2014-08-04 – 2021-07-01

Distributed sensing, swarm sensing, adaptive social learning 2014-10-13 – 2021-06-28

Technological singularities Incorporating hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, god-in-the-cloud, deus-ex-machina, nerd raptures and so forth 2016-12-01 – 2021-06-01

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

Decoupling the economy from energy 2021-05-21

Hedonism, practising The Good Life as far as I recognise it 2020-06-23 – 2021-05-21

Complexity of markets Computation in economic mechanisms 2021-02-20 – 2021-05-13

Social norms 2019-10-07 – 2021-05-10

Power generation, engineering and use Miscellaneous links on the magical terrible process of keeping the lights on 2021-05-04

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

Open Source (mostly software) On published schematics for cheap objects 2017-03-31 – 2021-04-09

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, falsify thyself 2020-05-17 – 2021-03-30

Remix and copyright 2014-10-29 – 2021-03-18

Assorted laws and paradoxes Mostly-eponymous laws I would confound without this note 2019-12-22 – 2021-03-18

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2021-02-27

Crowd-sourced science 2015-08-10 – 2020-11-24

Secure Scuttlebutt Social media for off-the-grid 2020-11-18 – 2020-11-18

The levels of simulacra 2018-12-18 – 2020-10-19

Solarpunk A tomorrow worth retiring to 2019-10-29 – 2020-10-15

Quantitative risk measurement Mathematics of actuarial and financial disaster 2015-04-30 – 2020-09-22

Trousers 2020-09-05

Bookkeeping 2019-03-14 – 2020-08-20

Outsourcing, applied 0001-01-01 – 2020-08-20

Dilemmas of collective action 2014-11-25 – 2020-08-01

Recommended workplace habits 2020-07-19

Designing less toxic social media 2020-07-12

Miscellaneous fashion desiderata and musings 2020-07-10

Financial markets Descriptive engagement with reality of 2015-03-14 – 2020-07-02

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2020-07-02

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

Economics on networks 2020-05-17 – 2020-06-16

Deep fakery 2020-06-15

Productivity schemes If you can tell me why this placeholder post from 2014 is still consistently in my top 10 most popular posts I would be grateful 2014-10-09 – 2020-06-05

Project management With special attention to 2021-03-23 – 2020-06-05

Link rot, mitigating 2020-05-27

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

Incentive mechanism design Markets, cakes, karma, and games 2014-09-22 – 2020-05-24

Measurement, analytics and performance indicators 2014-09-22 – 2020-05-24

But what can I do? The stuff to do to make a better society is so easy that it is embarrassing if you are not doing it 2020-02-06 – 2020-05-19

Utopian governance Hedonistic mechanism design 2020-05-04 – 2020-05-16

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

Waste, and the late capitalist industrial metabolism 2017-05-11 – 2020-04-22

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2020-04-16

Internet for the occasionally online Intermittency in your bandwidth not in your sanity 2017-04-09 – 2020-04-01

Agent-based models Science as Grand Theft Auto 2011-07-28 – 2020-03-23

Bounded rationality and miscellaneous non-von Neumann-Morgenstern rationality postulates 2012-01-13 – 2020-03-19

DIY internet infrastructure 2019-10-27 – 2020-03-17

Capitalism’s end game What money wants 2014-12-31 – 2020-03-17

Selling uncertainty On the marginal price of ignorance 2016-05-25 – 2020-02-18

Learning in adaptive systems On staring into scopophilic abysses 2019-10-19 – 2020-01-22

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

Sharing / gig economy Turking your ride 2015-03-22 – 2019-11-21

Voting Systems Mathematics and economics of ballots 2014-09-22 – 2019-10-05

Sneakernets Intermittent connectivity, mesh networks and the Honda protocol 2015-10-03 – 2019-09-09

Go bag, Sydney edition 2019-08-26

Game complexity 2019-06-07

Low impact fashion Suiting australia 2019-04-18

Hollow states Skim government when fat cats drank the cream 2019-03-13

Newcomb-type decision problems I know that you know what I think you know about what we all know about people who write about strong AI online. 2018-10-24

Attention economy 2012-01-13 – 2018-05-28

Better homes and societies On destinations 2017-11-01

Behavioural economics 2011-04-15 – 2017-09-17

Sustainability Anthropocene not heard 2011-04-15 – 2017-05-16

Financial stability When does volatility become a crash? 2019-10-21 – 2017-05-15

Game theory 2016-10-13 – 2017-04-24

This is a simulation 2017-04-04

Justice 2017-04-01

Material basis of the economy 2011-10-17 – 2016-08-01

Prepping for the end of (my access too) the (industrialised) world 2016-06-19

Statistical mechanics 2015-11-14

Altruism 2014-08-05 – 2015-06-18

Disruptive technology 2014-10-09

Macroeconomics 2011-10-17

Configuration space of the economy 2011-09-07

Econophysics 2011-04-13

Honours thesis 2010-12-16