Mind
Scientific 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
– 2022-05-14Technological singularities
Incorporating hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, deus-ex-machina, deus-ex-nube, nerd raptures and so forth
2016-12-01
– 2022-05-10Workhacks
How to succeed in business (with or without trying)
2020-07-19
– 2022-04-21Feelings, applied
2022-01-24
– 2022-04-13Depression
2022-02-13
– 2022-04-13Social norms
2019-10-07
– 2022-04-13This is a simulation
Can the automaton learn to play the game of life?
2017-04-04
– 2022-04-09Trapped beliefs
Thinking now what made sense then
2022-04-09Institutions and governance for mass conversation
Discourse red in tooth and claw
2020-02-01
– 2022-04-09Myths
Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives
2022-02-20
– 2022-04-07Science communication
On making people feel they are smart enough to teach themselves, or failing that, that they are smart enough to fund YOU to teach yourself
2021-06-02
– 2022-04-05Predictive coding
Does the model that our brains do bayesian variational prediction make any actual predictions about our brains?
2011-11-27
– 2022-04-04Doing complicated things the obvious way
and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
2022-04-04Attention economy
2012-01-13
– 2022-04-03The language game
Coevolution of words and meanings
2014-12-29
– 2022-04-01Contemporary rationalists and contrarians
Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition
2020-09-06
– 2022-03-10Cheap talk
Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc
2020-02-01
– 2022-03-09Science; Sociology and institution design for
Scientist, falsify thyself
2020-05-17
– 2022-03-06Learning stuff
Shoving knowledge into my brain
2020-06-16
– 2022-03-04Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-03-04Race, genetics and politics of
Ethnicity too.
2021-12-20
– 2022-03-04Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds
How to win elections and influence people
2020-08-30
– 2022-03-03Designing social movements
Minimum viable utopia
2021-05-01
– 2022-02-28Invasive arguments
Weeds in public discourse
2021-12-20
– 2022-02-27The social brain
Rubber-duck-typing
2011-12-09
– 2022-02-27Rhetoric
Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive
2017-06-07
– 2022-02-27Symbolic and substantive insurrections
Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building
2022-02-20
– 2022-02-27Akrasia
Description to come later
2017-06-18
– 2022-02-25Our eating disorder
2014-11-30
– 2022-02-17Politics as statistical learner
2022-01-31
– 2022-02-17How to communicate
with humans
2019-04-02
– 2022-02-17Neurons
Neural networks made of real neurons, in functioning brains
2014-11-03
– 2022-02-14Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Risk perception and communication
2011-04-14
– 2022-02-11Academic publishing
2015-07-07
– 2022-02-11Sexual ethics and institutions
2020-06-07
– 2022-02-07Teaching
How-to
2020-02-11
– 2022-02-05Sociology 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
– 2022-01-28Drugs, recreational
2017-08-07
– 2022-01-28Teaching mathematics and statistics
2020-02-12
– 2022-01-27Psychometrics
Dimensionality reduction for souls
2017-10-31
– 2022-01-26Time management
The psychology of getting stuff done
2017-06-18
– 2022-01-20Status
The original karma system
2019-10-25
– 2022-01-20Teamwork
2020-01-26
– 2022-01-20Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions
Lay theories of social mechanisms
2022-01-20Dunning-Kruger theory of society
Lay theories of groups
2022-01-20Risk perception and communication
2011-04-14
– 2022-01-17Bounded rationality
Plus miscellaneous rationality postulates restricting von Neumann-Morgenstern
2012-01-13
– 2022-01-15Social psychology
Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated?
2017-02-20
– 2022-01-14Bounded rationality at large
It is as if we knew what we were doing
2012-01-13
– 2022-01-12Quantified self
Instrumentation and analytics for body and soul.
2022-01-11Mind as statistical learner
2022-01-09Metis and .*-rationality
High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge, normies and sects
2017-07-24
– 2022-01-02Group size
Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination
2011-12-09
– 2022-01-02Tokenism or table stakes?
“The least you can do”, “virtue signalling”, and other manoeuvres that leave us fighting symbolic battles over substantial ones
2021-12-20
– 2021-12-18Diversity 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
– 2021-12-10Gamification
“Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked
2019-10-27
– 2021-11-18Project management
With special attention to speculative and innovative projects
2021-03-23
– 2021-11-04Teaching and doing mathematics remotely
2020-03-16
– 2021-10-28Better homes and societies
On destinations
2017-11-01
– 2021-10-27Survey modelling
Adjusting for the Lizardman constant
2019-08-29
– 2021-10-24Economics on networks
2020-05-17
– 2021-10-16Research discovery
Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet?
2019-01-22
– 2021-10-13Planning under uncertainty
Transcending planning-though-hope-and-haruspicy
2020-04-23
– 2021-10-10Narrative
2019-10-27
– 2021-10-10Mind as statistical learner
2020-06-23
– 2021-10-05Science for policy
Using evidence and reason to govern ourselves
2011-08-07
– 2021-09-22Economics of automation
When to the robots come for my job?
2021-09-20Clickbait bandit problems
On using computers to program humans
2017-05-18
– 2021-09-16Governance of the commons
On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time
2014-10-29
– 2021-09-02Games, computer, recreational
2020-01-22
– 2021-08-02Online whiteboards
2020-08-26
– 2021-07-30Science
History, sociology and philosophy thereof
2017-07-08
– 2021-07-21Trauma, managing
2021-07-19
– 2021-07-19Contemporary techno-horrorists
On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts
2019-12-23
– 2021-06-29The simplest thing
Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering
2020-02-03
– 2021-04-27Free will
A matter about which I voluntarily admit I don’t care, but am compelled to have something to link to when eliding
2012-03-16
– 2021-04-23Health and chemistry
Pollution, ambient poisons and other things it turns out I cannot rely upon the state to protect me from
2021-04-14
– 2021-04-14Prediction processes
Some kind of weird time series formalism
2021-04-09Colour
2015-04-07
– 2021-03-24Assorted laws and paradoxes
Mostly-eponymous laws I would confound without this note
2019-12-22
– 2021-03-18Technopoetics
2016-07-26
– 2021-03-12Mind reading by computer
The ultimate inverse problem
2017-07-01
– 2021-03-03Online collaboration
2020-06-01
– 2021-02-03Online collaboration tools
2020-06-01
– 2021-02-03Management
Upon having and being a boss
2019-04-02
– 2020-11-02Semantics
Compressed representations of reality for syntactic agents; which might be what meaning means
2014-12-29
– 2020-08-21Firms: 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
– 2020-06-05Pluralistic ignorance
We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe
2020-06-03Post stratification
Making the optimal beverage from the fruit life gave you
2020-04-22Agent-based models
Science as Grand Theft Auto
2011-07-28
– 2020-03-23Selling uncertainty
On the marginal price of ignorance
2016-05-25
– 2020-02-18Psychoacoustics
2016-08-15
– 2020-01-28Addiction
2021-05-24
– 2020-01-28Learning in adaptive systems
On staring into scopophilic abysses
2019-10-19
– 2020-01-22Trusting information
Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads
2017-02-09
– 2019-11-25Alzheimers and the microbiome
Your digestive system eating your brain
2019-01-29Newcomb-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“Business Leadership”
The default pseudo-content for undirected MBA research
2016-05-25
– 2017-11-10Behavioural economics
2011-04-15
– 2017-09-17Game theory
2016-10-13
– 2017-04-24Justice
2017-04-01Flashcards
Spaced repetition systems
2015-01-02
– 2017-04-01Musical metrics and manifolds
2014-09-26
– 2017-03-27 