game_theory
Climate crisis
The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations
2011-12-13
– 2023-05-31Dynamics of recommender systems and other AI social interventions at societal scale
Variational approximations to high modernism
2023-05-11
– 2023-04-26Legibility and automation
Variational approximations to high modernism as AI modernism
2017-07-24
– 2023-04-22Designing social movements
Synthetic biology for utopian egregores
2021-05-01
– 2023-04-22Science; Sociology and institution design for
Scientist, falsify thyself
2020-05-17
– 2023-03-13Are they too old/young for me?
Dating, gender, age, and equity
2017-10-14
– 2023-01-15Weaponizing social media
Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape
2019-10-21
– 2023-01-15Goodhart’s Law
2019-12-22
– 2023-01-11Casual anthropic principles
Convenience-sampling lived human experience
2020-02-15
– 2022-10-28Tribal sorting and polarization
Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies
2017-02-12
– 2022-10-08Social organisation of knowledge
Descriptive and normative
2021-08-24
– 2022-10-07Multi level marketing
Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Newcomb unboxing
2022-10-02
– 2022-10-02Effective altruism
First world trolley problems
2017-06-06
– 2022-09-06Distributional robustness in inference
2019-07-12
– 2022-08-30Modern conspiracy theorising
You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to
2020-08-16
– 2022-08-30Managing people
Making piece with the fact that I cannot do everything myself
2020-07-19
– 2022-08-30Project management
With special attention to speculative and innovative projects
2021-03-23
– 2022-08-28Mechanism design for reputation systems
Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning…
2014-08-05
– 2022-08-02Scenius
2020-01-26
– 2022-07-28Teamwork
2020-01-26
– 2022-07-28Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-07-28Models of human cultural evolution
Egregores, superorganisms, memeplexes
2018-12-18
– 2022-07-26Subculture dynamics
Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale
2018-12-18
– 2022-07-26Conflict theorist models of coordination
2022-07-20
– 2022-07-24Red queen social signal dynamics
Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices
2018-12-18
– 2022-07-24Iterated and evolutionary game theory
2016-10-13
– 2022-07-09Being stroppy
For people too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else
2022-03-04
– 2022-07-06Dilemmas of collective action
2014-11-25
– 2022-07-05Rituals and beliefs that bind
2021-05-01
– 2022-07-05Algorithmic mechanism design
Designing markets and games to achieve what we want
2014-09-22
– 2022-06-29Soft incentive mechanism design
Markets, cakes, karma, and reverse game theory, applied to humans
2014-09-22
– 2022-06-29Invasive arguments
Weeds in public discourse
2021-12-20
– 2022-06-25Workhacks
How to succeed in business (with or without trying)
2020-07-19
– 2022-06-14Designing less toxic social media
2020-07-12
– 2022-06-11Crowd-sourced science
2015-08-10
– 2022-05-17Voting Systems
Mathematics and economics of ballots
2014-09-22
– 2022-04-21The levels of simulacra
2018-12-18
– 2022-04-07OODA loops
2021-05-01
– 2022-02-28Symbolic and substantive insurrections
Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building
2022-02-20
– 2022-02-27Adversarial learning
Statistics against Shayṭtān
2016-10-07
– 2022-02-21Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Standards hell
Lock-in, QWERTY, coordination problems etc
2015-01-05
– 2022-01-11Diversity as an end in itself
On a rich and vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought
2021-12-13Decentralized net services
a.k.a. web3, DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend; Internet for an untrustworthy world
2017-09-18
– 2021-11-15Economics on networks
2020-05-17
– 2021-10-16Science
History, sociology and philosophy thereof
2017-07-08
– 2021-07-21Media virality
Strategic modelling for content creators
2016-08-30
– 2021-07-15Bureaucracy
Iron Laws and Moral Mazes
2020-02-02
– 2021-07-08Distributed sensing, swarm sensing, adaptive social learning
2014-10-13
– 2021-06-28Cryptographic tokens, distributed ledgers, and blockchain-like-things
When all you have is a hasher…
2016-10-15
– 2021-04-19ML benchmarks and their pitfalls
On marginal efficiency gain in paperclip manufacture
2020-08-16
– 2021-04-13Generative adversarial networks
2016-10-07
– 2020-12-14Economics of insurgence
2015-02-02
– 2020-07-01Deep fakery
2020-06-15Productivity 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
– 2020-06-05Inference on social graphs
Heterogeneous media and controls
2019-09-22
– 2020-06-03Climate crisis versus ML
2020-04-02Journalism, normative
Sensors for the superorganism
2020-01-26Trusting information
Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads
2017-02-09
– 2019-11-25Crisis, collapse etc
All your base are belong to dust
2018-10-15
– 2019-08-27Game complexity
2019-06-07Evidential 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.
2018-10-24Game theory
2016-10-13
– 2017-04-24Statistical mechanics
2015-11-14