Mind

Survey modelling Adjusting for the Lizardman constant 2019-08-29 – 2021-10-24

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

Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2021-10-13

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2021-10-12

Planning under uncertainty Transcending planning-though-hope-and-haruspicy 2020-04-23 – 2021-10-10

Dunning-Kruger theory of mind On anthropomorphising humans 2020-06-18 – 2021-10-10

Contemporary rationalists and contrarians Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition 2020-09-06 – 2021-10-10

Narrative 2019-10-27 – 2021-10-10

Mind as statistical learner 2020-06-23 – 2021-10-05

Project management With special attention to speculative and innovative projects 2021-03-23 – 2021-10-02

Conversation dynamics in the internet age I tried to make this about “free speech” and “political correctness” but my deep disinterest in that framing won out 2020-02-01 – 2021-10-02

Psychometrics Dimensionality reduction for souls 2017-10-31 – 2021-10-02

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2021-09-28

Science for policy Using evidence and reason to govern ourselves 2011-08-07 – 2021-09-22

Metis and .*-rationality High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, and local knowledge 2017-07-24 – 2021-09-20

Economics of automation When to the robots come for my job? 2021-09-20

Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2021-09-18

Clickbait bandit problems On using computers to program humans 2017-05-18 – 2021-09-16

Teaching mathematics and statistics With a side order of communicating science 2020-02-12 – 2021-09-08

Learning stuff Shoving knowledge into my brain 2020-06-16 – 2021-09-06

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

Status The original karma system 2019-10-25 – 2021-08-30

Time management Akrasia, gamification, hyperbolic discounting, quantified self and voluntary blackmail 2017-06-18 – 2021-08-26

Scientific community Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24

Teaching How-to 2020-02-11 – 2021-08-24

Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2021-08-16

Designing social movements Minimum viable utopia 2021-05-01 – 2021-08-11

Games, computer, recreational 2020-01-22 – 2021-08-02

Online whiteboards 2020-08-26 – 2021-07-30

Risk perception and communication 2011-04-14 – 2021-07-27

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

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

Sexual ethics and institutions 2020-06-07 – 2021-07-11

Contemporary techno-horrorists On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts 2019-12-23 – 2021-06-29

Predictive coding Fancy analogy for brains 2011-11-27 – 2021-06-24

Science 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

Technological singularities Incorporating hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, god-in-the-cloud, deus-ex-machina, nerd raptures and so forth 2016-12-01 – 2021-06-01

Drugs, recreational 2017-08-07 – 2021-05-24

Social norms 2019-10-07 – 2021-05-10

Diversity, oddness and multiculturalism in humans On clone wars 2020-05-27 – 2021-05-03

The simplest thing Minimum viable whatever, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering 2020-02-03 – 2021-04-27

Free 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 – 2021-04-23

Health and chemistry Pollution, ambient poisons and other things it turns out I cannot rely upon the state to protect me from 2021-04-14 – 2021-04-14

Prediction processes Some kind of weird time series formalism 2021-04-09

Teaching and doing mathematics remotely 2020-03-16 – 2021-03-31

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, falsify thyself 2020-05-17 – 2021-03-30

Colour 2015-04-07 – 2021-03-24

Assorted laws and paradoxes Mostly-eponymous laws I would confound without this note 2019-12-22 – 2021-03-18

Technopoetics 2016-07-26 – 2021-03-12

Mind reading by computer The ultimate inverse problem 2017-07-01 – 2021-03-03

Online collaboration 2020-06-01 – 2021-02-03

Online collaboration tools 2020-06-01 – 2021-02-03

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

Rhetoric Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive 2017-06-07 – 2020-10-05

Gamification “Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked 2019-10-27 – 2020-09-21

Recommended workplace habits 2020-07-19

Teamwork 2020-01-26 – 2020-07-02

Firms: What is WITH you? 2014-10-15 – 2020-06-16

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

Pluralistic ignorance We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe 2020-06-03

Post stratification Making the optimal lemonade from the fruit life gave you 2020-04-22

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2020-04-16

Agent-based models Science as Grand Theft Auto 2011-07-28 – 2020-03-23

Bounded rationality and miscellaneous non-von Neumann-Morgenstern rationality postulates 2012-01-13 – 2020-03-19

Selling uncertainty On the marginal price of ignorance 2016-05-25 – 2020-02-18

Psychoacoustics 2016-08-15 – 2020-01-28

Addiction 2021-05-24 – 2020-01-28

Learning in adaptive systems On staring into scopophilic abysses 2019-10-19 – 2020-01-22

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

Social psychology Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated? 2017-02-20 – 2019-10-03

Alzheimers and the microbiome Your digestive system eating your brain 2019-01-29

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

Attention economy 2012-01-13 – 2018-05-28

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

Better homes and societies On destinations 2017-11-01

Behavioural economics 2011-04-15 – 2017-09-17

Game theory 2016-10-13 – 2017-04-24

This is a simulation 2017-04-04

Justice 2017-04-01

Flashcards Spaced repetition systems 2015-01-02 – 2017-04-01

Pop social psychology 2015-03-31 – 2017-03-28

Musical metrics and manifolds 2014-09-26 – 2017-03-27