evolution

Cooperation in evolutionary context ‘Cui bono’ for selfishness 2020-04-27 – 2022-11-08

Feelings, applied 2022-01-24 – 2022-11-04

Modern conspiracy theorising You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to 2020-08-16 – 2022-08-30

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2022-08-26

Trapped beliefs Thinking now what made sense then 2022-04-09 – 2022-08-06

Models of huamn cultural evolution Egregores, superorganisms, memeplexes 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26

Subculture dynamics Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-24

Being stroppy For people too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else 2022-03-04 – 2022-07-06

Moral wetware What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate? 2020-04-27 – 2022-06-30

The levels of simulacra 2018-12-18 – 2022-04-07

Doing complicated things the obvious way and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong 2022-04-04 – 2022-04-04

The language game Coevolution of words and meanings 2014-12-29 – 2022-04-01

The social brain Rubber-duck-typing 2011-12-09 – 2022-02-27

Evolution 2014-11-04 – 2022-02-07

Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions Lay theories of social mechanisms 2022-01-20

Cooperation amongst humans 2014-11-04 – 2021-11-12

Weaponizing social media Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape 2019-10-21 – 2021-10-24

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

Nature, nurture and friends If life gives you lemons, what should you make? 2015-06-05 – 2020-03-21

Embodiment It’s easier to teach a robot to walk if it has legs. 2015-01-02 – 2017-10-14

Genetic algorithms 2011-04-06 – 2016-12-28