game_theory

Goodhart’s Law 2019-12-22 – 2022-05-25

Autism/allism spectrum 2022-05-25

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

Climate crisis The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations 2011-12-13 – 2022-05-02

Anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2022-05-01

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

Workhacks How to succeed in business (with or without trying) 2020-07-19 – 2022-04-21

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

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, falsify thyself 2020-05-17 – 2022-03-06

Measurement, analytics and performance indicators Street fighting statistics 2014-09-22 – 2022-03-04

Journalism, normative Sensors for the superorganism 2020-01-26 – 2022-03-04

Being stroppy For people too perverse to be contrarian 2022-03-04

Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-03-04

Designing social movements Minimum viable utopia 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

Incentive mechanism design Markets, cakes, karma, and reverse game theory 2014-09-22 – 2022-02-15

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-02-13

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

Subculture dynamics Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-02-11

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2022-01-20

Modern conspiracy theorising You are only reading this because the Deep State wants you to 2020-08-16 – 2022-01-16

Quantified self Instrumentation and analytics for body and soul. 2022-01-11

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

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2022-01-05

Effective altruism First world trolley problems 2017-06-06 – 2021-12-24

Diversity as an end in itself On a rich an 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

Project management With special attention to speculative and innovative projects 2021-03-23 – 2021-11-04

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

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

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

Trauma, managing 2021-07-19 – 2021-07-19

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

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

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

Management Upon having and being a boss 2019-04-02 – 2020-11-02

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

Designing less toxic social media 2020-07-12

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

Climate crisis versus ML 2020-04-02

Mechanism design for reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank… 2014-08-05 – 2020-03-02

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

Crisis, collapse etc All your base are belong to dust 2018-10-15 – 2019-08-27

Game complexity 2019-06-07

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

Game theory 2016-10-13 – 2017-04-24

Statistical mechanics 2015-11-14