Sociology

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2021-10-28

Anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2021-10-28

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 – 2021-10-28

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

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

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

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

Timeless works of art The efficient arts hypothesis, artbitrage, arts and crafts in mass production 2015-01-12 – 2021-09-18

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

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

Scientific community Descriptive and normative 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

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

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

Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds 2019-09-22 – 2021-07-05

Queerness 2021-05-06

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

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

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2021-02-27

The levels of simulacra 2018-12-18 – 2020-10-19

Post stratification Making the optimal beverage 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

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

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

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

Simulation for the social sciences 2010-09-28