incentive_mechanisms

Scientific institutions and mechanisms Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2023-12-08

Moral wetware What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate? 2020-04-27 – 2023-12-05

Designing social movements Synthetic biology for utopian egregores 2021-05-01 – 2023-11-10

Comfort traps On edging life with the optimal amount of friction 2023-09-17 – 2023-11-09

Time management The psychology of getting stuff done 2017-06-18 – 2023-10-20

Wicked tail risks x-risk, y-risk, jackpot, die-risk, 2015-04-30 – 2023-10-11

Decoupling the economy from energy 2021-05-21 – 2023-10-03

Whom to live amongst Designing housesholds, bash’es, families, villages 2021-09-25 – 2023-10-02

Superstimuli 2023-09-25

Cohousing in Australia Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation 2021-09-25 – 2023-09-15

Where next Sydney freaks? 2021-04-11 – 2023-09-11

Akrasia Description to come later 2017-06-18 – 2023-09-09

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

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2023-08-21

Doing complicated things the obvious way and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong 2022-04-04 – 2023-08-07

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

Real estate economics Passive-aggressive income 2022-01-24 – 2023-08-06

The social brain Rubber-duck-typing 2011-12-09 – 2023-08-02

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

Noise pollution 2021-05-26 – 2023-07-31

The returns on hierarchy in group coordination Optimising egalitarianism 2019-10-25 – 2023-07-07

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

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2023-05-01

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

Performance indicators, Measurement, analytics Street fighting statistics 2014-09-22 – 2023-04-13

The property market is pollution Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat. Or: Investing in Boomer Bitcoin 2021-05-26 – 2023-04-13

Diffusion of innovations Epidemiology of widgets 2020-01-30 – 2023-02-09

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

Growing up 2022-04-13 – 2022-11-27

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

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

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

Intellectual property especially in science and technology. 2014-12-30 – 2022-10-06

Physical infrastructure 2022-09-24

Multi-agent self 2022-09-11

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2022-09-06

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

Urbanism Stuff about cities 2014-12-25 – 2022-08-06

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

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

Trauma and resilience 2021-07-19 – 2022-07-23

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

Performance indicators, measurement, analytics Street fighting statistics 2014-09-22 – 2022-07-09

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

Astroturf and artificial reefs On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet 2016-01-13 – 2022-07-03

Moral attribution and diffusion On institutions for siphoning blame 2020-04-27 – 2022-06-30

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

Institutions Stable orbits in human systems 2014-10-29 – 2022-06-10

Attention management tips for web browsing 2017-04-20 – 2022-06-08

Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2022-05-14

Farming and husbandry of black swans and dragon kings Heavy tailed and Knightian uncertainties for fun and profit 2020-09-22 – 2022-04-30

Utopian governance Hedonistic mechanism design 2020-05-04 – 2022-04-22

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

OODA loops 2021-05-01 – 2022-02-28

Betting and prediction markets Market design for good guesses 2017-08-12 – 2022-02-15

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

Evolution 2014-11-04 – 2022-02-07

Sociology and politics of information Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society 2022-01-09 – 2022-02-02

Dunning-Kruger theory of mind On anthropomorphising humans 2020-06-18 – 2022-01-28

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

Dunning-Kruger theory of society Lay theories of groups 2022-01-20

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

Financing utopia Hedonistic mechanism design 2015-02-16 – 2021-11-12

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

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

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

What is your Sydney housing endgame? 2021-04-11 – 2021-05-26

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

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

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

Deep fakery 2020-06-15

The surveillance society All-seeing like a state 2017-02-09 – 2020-03-19

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

Smartypants cities 2014-12-25 – 2019-11-05

Game complexity 2019-06-07

“Business Leadership” The default pseudo-content for undirected MBA research 2016-05-25 – 2017-11-10

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

Normal accidents 2015-06-03