Misrule, punks and ravers Peasantpunk, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, metis farming, the feast of fools in suburbia, crusty rituals for the churchless, oxytocin fixes, mock chivalric orders, squads 2018-03-26 – 2023-09-26
Doing it yourself Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms 2018-03-26 – 2023-08-08
Doing complicated things the obvious way and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong 2022-04-04 – 2023-08-07
Science; Institution design for “Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding… 2020-05-17 – 2023-08-07
Ablation studies and lesion studies In order to understand it we must be able to break it 2016-10-26 – 2023-08-01
Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2023-06-06
Dynamics of recommender systems and other AI social interventions at societal scale Variational approximations to high modernism 2023-07-03 – 2023-04-26
Legibility and automation Variational approximations to high modernism as AI modernism 2017-07-24 – 2023-04-22
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
Models of inequity Sharpening the fuzzy process of bias, discrimination and inequity 2017-08-13 – 2023-01-19
Tribal sorting and polarization Polarization and fragmentation by browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-10-08
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
Subculture dynamics 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 malcontents too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else 2022-03-04 – 2022-07-06
Astroturf and artificial reefs On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet 2016-01-13 – 2022-07-03
Invasive arguments Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-25
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
Myths Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives, Schelling points in the social construction of reality, stone soups and Tinkerbell effects 2022-02-20 – 2022-04-07
Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds How to win elections and influence people 2020-08-30 – 2022-03-03
Symbolic and substantive insurrections Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building 2022-02-20 – 2022-02-27
Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13
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
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