Sociology

That part of humans that subsists between their skulls.

Models of inequity Sharpening the fuzzy process of bias, discrimination and inequity 2017-08-13 – 2022-10-04

Multi level marketing Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Newcomb unboxing 2022-10-02 – 2022-10-02

How to communicate with humans 2019-04-02 – 2022-09-25

Innovation Side order of progress studies now I guess 2014-07-27 – 2022-09-24

Scientific institutions and mechanisms Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-09-13

Multi-agent self 2022-09-11

Soft methodology of science 2012-01-13 – 2022-09-06

Timeless works of art Aesthetics as a conditional average treatment effect 2015-01-12 – 2022-09-04

Autism/allism spectrum 2022-05-25 – 2022-08-28

Ablation studies, lesion studies, and complex systems 2016-10-26 – 2022-08-06

Pluralism 2020-02-01 – 2022-08-06

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

Mechanism design for reputation systems Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning… 2014-08-05 – 2022-08-02

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

Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-07-28

Designing social movements Synthetic biology for utopian egregores 2021-05-01 – 2022-07-27

Subculture dynamics Egregores, superorganisms, memeplexes, coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26

Red queen social signal dynamics Arms races in memetic selection on graphs is how I make my fashion choices 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-24

Being stroppy For people too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else 2022-03-04 – 2022-07-06

Rituals and beliefs that bind 2021-05-01 – 2022-07-05

Astroturf and artificial reefs On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet 2016-01-13 – 2022-07-03

Gender identity Political and/or empirical engagement therewith 2017-08-13 – 2022-06-25

Invasive arguments Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-25

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

Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2022-05-14

Casual anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2022-05-01

Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds Information cascades 2019-09-22 – 2022-04-22

The levels of simulacra 2018-12-18 – 2022-04-07

Myths Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives, Schelling points in the social construction of reality 2022-02-20 – 2022-04-07

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

Attention economy 2012-01-13 – 2022-04-03

The language game Coevolution of words and meanings 2014-12-29 – 2022-04-01

Science; Sociology and institution design for Scientist, falsify thyself 2020-05-17 – 2022-03-06

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

Symbolic and substantive insurrections Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building 2022-02-20 – 2022-02-27

Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-02-13

Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2022-02-11

Sexual ethics and institutions 2020-06-07 – 2022-02-07

Sociology and politics of information Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society 2022-01-09 – 2022-02-02

Bounded rationality Plus miscellaneous rationality postulates restricting von Neumann-Morgenstern 2012-01-13 – 2022-01-15

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

Bounded rationality at large It is as if we knew what we were doing 2012-01-13 – 2022-01-12

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

Diversity as an end in itself On a rich an vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought 2021-12-13

Diffusion of innovations Epidemiology of widgets 2020-01-30 – 2021-12-10

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

Narrative 2019-10-27 – 2021-10-10

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

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

Queerness 2021-05-06

Matching and weighting Making the optimal beverage from the fruit life gave you 2020-04-22

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

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

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

Simulation for the social sciences 2010-09-28