incentive_mechanisms
Goodhart’s Law
2019-12-22
– 2022-05-25Autism/allism spectrum
2022-05-25Scientific institutions and mechanisms
Descriptive and normative
2021-08-24
– 2022-05-17Soft methodology of science
2012-01-13
– 2022-05-17Memetics
Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc
2020-01-30
– 2022-05-14Cohousing in Australia
Plus other low-cost, low tedium options for secure habitation somewhere
2021-09-25
– 2022-04-24Utopian governance
Hedonistic mechanism design
2020-05-04
– 2022-04-22Real estate economics
Rentiers and the future
2022-01-24
– 2022-04-22Voting Systems
Mathematics and economics of ballots
2014-09-22
– 2022-04-21Feelings, applied
2022-01-24
– 2022-04-13Remix and copyright
2014-10-29
– 2022-04-10Trapped beliefs
Thinking now what made sense then
2022-04-09Doing complicated things the obvious way
and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
2022-04-04Science; Sociology and institution design for
Scientist, falsify thyself
2020-05-17
– 2022-03-06Astroturf and artificial reefs
On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
2016-01-13
– 2022-03-04Measurement, analytics and performance indicators
Street fighting statistics
2014-09-22
– 2022-03-04Journalism, normative
Sensors for the superorganism
2020-01-26
– 2022-03-04Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-03-04Designing social movements
Minimum viable utopia
2021-05-01
– 2022-02-28Invasive arguments
Weeds in public discourse
2021-12-20
– 2022-02-27Akrasia
Description to come later
2017-06-18
– 2022-02-25Incentive mechanism design
Markets, cakes, karma, and reverse game theory
2014-09-22
– 2022-02-15Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Academic publishing
2015-07-07
– 2022-02-11Cooperation in evolutionary context
2020-04-27
– 2022-02-07Evolution
2014-11-04
– 2022-02-07Sociology and politics of information
Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society
2022-01-09
– 2022-02-02Dunning-Kruger theory of mind
On anthropomorphising humans
2020-06-18
– 2022-01-28Time management
The psychology of getting stuff done
2017-06-18
– 2022-01-20Status
The original karma system
2019-10-25
– 2022-01-20Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions
Lay theories of social mechanisms
2022-01-20Dunning-Kruger theory of society
Lay theories of groups
2022-01-20Diversity as an end in itself
On a rich an vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought
2021-12-13Diffusion of innovations
Epidemiology of widgets
2020-01-30
– 2021-12-10Financing utopia
Hedonistic mechanism design
2015-02-16
– 2021-11-12Project management
With special attention to speculative and innovative projects
2021-03-23
– 2021-11-04The property market is pollution
Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat
2021-05-26
– 2021-09-25Institutions
Stable orbits in human systems
2014-10-29
– 2021-09-18Governance of the commons
On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time
2014-10-29
– 2021-09-02Science
History, sociology and philosophy thereof
2017-07-08
– 2021-07-21Distributed sensing, swarm sensing, adaptive social learning
2014-10-13
– 2021-06-28Where next Sydney freaks?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26What is your Sydney housing endgame?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26Decoupling the economy from energy
2021-05-21Complexity of markets
Computation in economic mechanisms
2021-02-20
– 2021-05-13Cryptographic 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
– 2021-04-13Financial markets
Descriptive engagement with reality of
2015-03-14
– 2020-07-02Deep fakery
2020-06-15Intellectual property
especially in science and technology.
2014-12-30
– 2020-01-16Trusting information
Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads
2017-02-09
– 2019-11-25Game complexity
2019-06-07Sustainability
Anthropocene not heard
2011-04-15
– 2017-05-16Financial stability
When does volatility become a crash?
2019-10-21
– 2017-05-15Game theory
2016-10-13
– 2017-04-24