game_theory

Exit/voice dilemmas Fix this one or build another? 2018-12-18 – 2023-09-18

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

Incentive alignment problems What is your loss function? 2014-09-22 – 2023-09-08

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

Science; Institution design for “Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding… 2020-05-17 – 2023-08-07

Gradient steps to an ecology of mind The best as enemy of the good 2011-11-27 – 2023-08-02

Algorithmic mechanism design Designing markets and games to achieve what we collectively want from what we individually want 2014-09-22 – 2023-08-01

Crisis, collapse etc All your base are belong to dust 2018-10-15 – 2023-07-31

Journalism, normative Sensors for the superorganism 2020-01-26 – 2023-06-23

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2023-06-22

Bureaucracy Iron Laws and Moral Mazes 2020-02-02 – 2023-06-15

Climate change The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations 2011-12-13 – 2023-05-31

Dynamics of recommender systems and other AI social interventions at societal scale Variational approximations to high modernism 2023-07-03 – 2023-04-26

Legibility and automation Variational approximations to high modernism as AI modernism 2017-07-24 – 2023-04-22

Are they too old/young for me? Dating, gender, age, and equity 2017-10-14 – 2023-01-15

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

Goodhart’s Law 2019-12-22 – 2023-01-11

Casual anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2022-10-28

Tribal sorting and polarization Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-10-08

Social organisation of knowledge Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-10-07

Multi level marketing Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Newcomb unboxing 2022-10-02 – 2022-10-02

Effective altruism First world trolley problems 2017-06-06 – 2022-09-06

Distributional robustness in inference 2019-07-12 – 2022-08-30

Managing people Making piece with the fact that I cannot do everything myself 2020-07-19 – 2022-08-30

Project management With special attention to speculative and innovative projects 2021-03-23 – 2022-08-28

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

Scenius 2020-01-26 – 2022-07-28

Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-07-28

Models of human 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

Conflict theorist models of coordination 2022-07-20 – 2022-07-24

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

Iterated and evolutionary game theory 2016-10-13 – 2022-07-09

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

Dilemmas of collective action 2014-11-25 – 2022-07-05

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

Soft incentive mechanism design Markets, cakes, karma, and reverse game theory, applied to humans 2014-09-22 – 2022-06-29

Invasive arguments Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-25

Workhacks How to succeed in business (with or without trying) 2020-07-19 – 2022-06-14

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

Crowd-sourced science 2015-08-10 – 2022-05-17

Voting Systems Mathematics and economics of ballots 2014-09-22 – 2022-04-21

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

OODA loops 2021-05-01 – 2022-02-28

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

Adversarial learning Statistics against Shayṭtān 2016-10-07 – 2022-02-21

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

Standards hell Lock-in, QWERTY, coordination problems etc 2015-01-05 – 2022-01-11

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

Decentralized net services a.k.a. web3, DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend; Internet for an untrustworthy world 2017-09-18 – 2021-11-15

Economics on networks 2020-05-17 – 2021-10-16

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

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

Cryptographic tokens, distributed ledgers, and blockchain-like-things When all you have is a hasher… 2016-10-15 – 2021-04-19

ML benchmarks and their pitfalls On marginal efficiency gain in paperclip manufacture 2020-08-16 – 2021-04-13

Generative adversarial networks 2016-10-07 – 2020-12-14

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

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

Inference on social graphs Heterogeneous media and controls 2019-09-22 – 2020-06-03

Trusting information Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads 2017-02-09 – 2019-11-25

Game complexity 2019-06-07

Evidential decision theory 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

Game theory 2016-10-13 – 2017-04-24

Statistical mechanics 2015-11-14