Snark

Topics upon which I am unwisely sarcastic.

Cheap talk Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc 2020-02-01 – 2023-04-11

When to argue ad hominem Skin in the game, vested interests, overt and covert prejudices, lived experience, Dunning-Kruger outgroup effects, genealogy of knowledge, aetiology, donatism, genealogy of knowledge 2020-02-01 – 2023-01-28

Growing up 2022-04-13 – 2022-11-27

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2022-11-06

Pluralism, multiculturalism, politics 2020-02-01 – 2022-10-29

Multi-agent self 2022-09-11

Trapped beliefs Thinking now what made sense then 2022-04-09 – 2022-08-06

Microstressors Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions 2020-02-01 – 2022-07-28

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

Institutions and governance for, and using, mass conversation Discourse red in tooth and claw versus the sovereign 2020-02-01 – 2022-05-30

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

Race, politics of Ethnicity too 2021-12-20 – 2022-03-04

Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds How to win elections and influence people 2020-08-30 – 2022-03-03

The social brain Rubber-duck-typing 2011-12-09 – 2022-02-27

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

Social psychology Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated? 2017-02-20 – 2022-01-14

Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2022-01-02

Unix/linux distros explained as bikes 2021-08-02 – 2021-08-02

Decoupling the economy from energy 2021-05-21

Power generation, engineering and use Miscellaneous links on the magical terrible process of keeping the lights on 2021-05-04

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

Embodiment It’s easier to teach a robot to walk if it has legs. 2015-01-02 – 2017-10-14

Material basis of the economy 2011-10-17 – 2016-08-01

Coarse graining 2014-11-11 – 2015-12-02

Altruism 2014-08-05 – 2015-06-18