institutions
Scientific institutions and mechanisms
Descriptive and normative
2021-08-24
– 2023-12-08The simplest thing
Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering
2020-02-03
– 2023-12-06Moral wetware
What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate?
2020-04-27
– 2023-12-05Designing social movements
Synthetic biology for utopian egregores
2021-05-01
– 2023-11-10Sexual ethics and institutions
2020-06-07
– 2023-10-31Interpersonal relationships
Applied. Love, friendship, trust and oxytocin, considered dyadically
2022-01-24
– 2023-10-18Bureaucracy
Iron Laws and Moral Mazes
2020-02-02
– 2023-10-07Decoupling the economy from energy
2021-05-21
– 2023-10-03Whom to live amongst
Designing housesholds, bash’es, families, villages
2021-09-25
– 2023-10-02Misrule, punks and ravers
Peasantpunk, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, metis farming, the feast of fools in suburbia, crusty rituals for the churchless, oxytocin fixes, mock chivalric orders, squads
2018-03-26
– 2023-09-26Superstimuli
2023-09-25Cohousing in Australia
Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation
2021-09-25
– 2023-09-15Where next Sydney freaks?
2021-04-11
– 2023-09-11Incentive alignment problems
What is your loss function?
2014-09-22
– 2023-09-08Remix and copyright
2014-10-29
– 2023-08-22Community
Engineering, maintaining, organizing…
2020-02-02
– 2023-08-09Doing it yourself
Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms
2018-03-26
– 2023-08-08Doing complicated things the obvious way
and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
2022-04-04
– 2023-08-07Science; Institution design for
“Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding…
2020-05-17
– 2023-08-07Real estate economics
Passive-aggressive income
2022-01-24
– 2023-08-06Community governance
Coordinating human beings by collective application of social force
2020-02-02
– 2023-08-06The social brain
Rubber-duck-typing
2011-12-09
– 2023-08-02Algorithmic mechanism design
Designing markets and games to achieve what we collectively want from what we individually want
2014-09-22
– 2023-08-01Noise pollution
2021-05-26
– 2023-07-31Bio marker tracking
We are probably not going to optimize ourselves out of mortality, but it feels good to try nonetheless
2022-01-11
– 2023-07-18Journalism, normative
Sensors for the superorganism
2020-01-26
– 2023-06-23Teamwork
2020-01-26
– 2023-06-22Research discovery
Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet?
2019-01-22
– 2023-06-06Academic publishing
2015-07-07
– 2023-05-01Performance indicators, Measurement, analytics
Street fighting statistics
2014-09-22
– 2023-04-13The property market is pollution
Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat. Or: Investing in Boomer Bitcoin
2021-05-26
– 2023-04-13Diffusion of innovations
Epidemiology of widgets
2020-01-30
– 2023-02-09Goodhart’s Law
2019-12-22
– 2023-01-11Open Source (mostly software)
On published schematics for cheap objects
2017-03-31
– 2022-12-12How to communicate
with humans
2019-04-02
– 2022-11-06Feelings, applied
2022-01-24
– 2022-11-04Social organisation of knowledge
Descriptive and normative
2021-08-24
– 2022-10-07Intellectual property
especially in science and technology.
2014-12-30
– 2022-10-06Squads
Small scale collectives
2022-06-25
– 2022-09-25Physical infrastructure
2022-09-24Multi-agent self
2022-09-11Soft methodology of science
2012-01-13
– 2022-09-06Managing 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
– 2022-08-28Urbanism
Stuff about cities
2014-12-25
– 2022-08-06Scenius
2020-01-26
– 2022-07-28Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-07-28Performance indicators, measurement, analytics
Street fighting statistics
2014-09-22
– 2022-07-09Rituals and beliefs that bind
2021-05-01
– 2022-07-05Astroturf and artificial reefs
On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
2016-01-13
– 2022-07-03Moral attribution and diffusion
On institutions for siphoning blame
2020-04-27
– 2022-06-30Soft incentive mechanism design
Markets, cakes, karma, and reverse game theory, applied to humans
2014-09-22
– 2022-06-29Invasive arguments
Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse
2021-12-20
– 2022-06-25Workhacks
How to succeed in business (with or without trying)
2020-07-19
– 2022-06-14Institutions
Stable orbits in human systems
2014-10-29
– 2022-06-10Memetics
Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc
2020-01-30
– 2022-05-14Utopian governance
Hedonistic mechanism design
2020-05-04
– 2022-04-22Social norms
2019-10-07
– 2022-04-13Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds
How to win elections and influence people
2020-08-30
– 2022-03-03OODA loops
2021-05-01
– 2022-02-28Politics as statistical learner
2022-01-31
– 2022-02-17Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Sociology and politics of information
Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society
2022-01-09
– 2022-02-02Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions
Lay theories of social mechanisms
2022-01-20Standards 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
2021-12-13Financing utopia
Hedonistic mechanism design
2015-02-16
– 2021-11-12Economics on networks
2020-05-17
– 2021-10-16Science
History, sociology and philosophy thereof
2017-07-08
– 2021-07-21What is your Sydney housing endgame?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26Complexity of markets
Computation in economic mechanisms
2021-02-20
– 2021-05-13ML 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
– 2020-07-02Firms: What is WITH you?
2014-10-15
– 2020-06-16Productivity 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
– 2020-06-05The surveillance society
All-seeing like a state
2017-02-09
– 2020-03-19Smartypants cities
2014-12-25
– 2019-11-05Hollow states
Skim government when fat cats drank the cream
2019-03-13“Business Leadership”
The default pseudo-content for undirected MBA research
2016-05-25
– 2017-11-10Financial stability
When does volatility become a crash?
2019-10-21
– 2017-05-15Normal accidents
2015-06-03