Sociology

That part of humans that subsists between their skulls.

Designing social movements Synthetic biology for utopian egregores 2021-05-01 – 2023-11-10

Big history Cliodynamics, deep history, big-picture history 2018-12-18 – 2023-11-06

Sexual ethics and institutions 2020-06-07 – 2023-10-31

Clickbait bandit problems On using computers to program humans 2017-05-18 – 2023-09-29

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

Exit/voice dilemmas Fix this one or build another? 2018-12-18 – 2023-09-18

Autism/allism spectrum 2022-05-25 – 2023-08-30

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

Timeless works of art Aesthetics as a conditional average treatment effect 2015-01-12 – 2023-08-07

Science; Institution design for “Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding… 2020-05-17 – 2023-08-07

The social brain Rubber-duck-typing 2011-12-09 – 2023-08-02

Gradient steps to an ecology of mind The best as enemy of the good 2011-11-27 – 2023-08-02

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

Academic publishing 2015-07-07 – 2023-05-01

Scientific institutions and mechanisms Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2023-04-28

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

Agent-based models Science as Grand Theft Auto 2011-07-28 – 2023-04-19

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

Diffusion of innovations Epidemiology of widgets 2020-01-30 – 2023-02-09

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

Bounded rationality at large It is as if we knew what we were doing 2012-01-13 – 2023-01-15

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

Queerness 2021-05-06 – 2022-11-06

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

Casual anthropic principles Convenience-sampling lived human experience 2020-02-15 – 2022-10-28

Narrative 2019-10-27 – 2022-10-20

Tribal sorting and polarization Polarization and fragmentation by browser cookies 2017-02-12 – 2022-10-08

Social organisation of knowledge Descriptive and normative 2021-08-24 – 2022-10-07

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

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

Multi-agent self 2022-09-11

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

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

Models of human cultural reproduction Egregores, superorganisms, memeplexes 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26

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

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 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

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, stone soups and Tinkerbell effects 2022-02-20 – 2022-04-07

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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