wonk
Weaponised design
2014-10-10
– 2023-09-25Machine learning for climate systems
2020-04-02
– 2023-09-25Moloch, slack and hyperselection
Weak selection versus goodharting, 内卷, involution
2021-12-25
– 2023-09-25Degrowth
Yurtopia
2019-10-29
– 2023-09-23Ecomodernism
A tomorrow worth retiring to
2019-10-29
– 2023-09-23Whom to live amongst
Designing housesholds, bash’es, families, villages
2021-09-25
– 2023-09-18Privacy while web browsing
Browsing the internet without giving corporations my personal information for free
2018-12-12
– 2023-09-16Cohousing in Australia
Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation
2021-09-25
– 2023-09-15Designing social movements
Synthetic biology for utopian egregores
2021-05-01
– 2023-09-12Where next Sydney freaks?
2021-04-11
– 2023-09-11Pornography and other lewd art
Morsels of oddity from the depiction of human sexual behaviour
2020-04-22
– 2023-09-06Status
The original karma system
2019-10-25
– 2023-08-21Sydney lifestyle theme village
The sunniest mortgage farm in the Southern Hemisphere!
2019-03-05
– 2023-08-20Misrule, 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
2018-03-26
– 2023-08-11Community
Engineering, maintaining, organizing…
2020-02-02
– 2023-08-09Doing it yourself
Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms
2018-03-26
– 2023-08-08Doing complicated things the obvious way
and not researching alternatives when the obvious way turns out to be wrong
2022-04-04
– 2023-08-07Modern conspiracy theorising
Someone paid me to write this
2020-08-16
– 2023-08-07Science; Institution design for
“Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding…
2020-05-17
– 2023-08-07Real estate economics
Passive-aggressive income
2022-01-24
– 2023-08-06Community governance
Coordinating human beings by collective application of social force
2020-02-02
– 2023-08-06Metis and .*-rationality
High modernism, spontaneous order, legibility, the Great Society, technocracy, local knowledge
2017-07-24
– 2023-08-04The social brain
Rubber-duck-typing
2011-12-09
– 2023-08-02Gradient steps to an ecology of mind
The best as enemy of the good
2011-11-27
– 2023-08-02Crisis, collapse etc
All your base are belong to dust
2018-10-15
– 2023-07-31Healthcare in Australia
2021-02-13
– 2023-07-23Australian authoritarianism
Beneath the beach, the barbed wire
2019-08-20
– 2023-07-18The returns on hierarchy in group coordination
Optimising egalitarianism
2019-10-25
– 2023-07-07Journalism, normative
Sensors for the superorganism
2020-01-26
– 2023-06-23Bureaucracy
Iron Laws and Moral Mazes
2020-02-02
– 2023-06-15Medicalisation
2020-01-28
– 2023-06-10Research discovery
Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet?
2019-01-22
– 2023-06-06Climate change
The conspiracy of those malign incumbent powers, the laws of physics, against the plucky underdog, coal megacorporations
2011-12-13
– 2023-05-31Who I donate to
Expensive value signalling
2019-08-21
– 2023-05-31Dynamics of recommender systems and other AI social interventions at societal scale
Variational approximations to high modernism
2023-07-03
– 2023-04-26Legibility and automation
Variational approximations to high modernism as AI modernism
2017-07-24
– 2023-04-22The property market is pollution
Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat. Or: Investing in Boomer Bitcoin
2021-05-26
– 2023-04-13Cheap talk
Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc
2020-02-01
– 2023-04-11Fashion
Theory and practice of hip garments
2020-07-10
– 2023-03-27Contemporary neo-feudalism & endimming
2017-02-04
– 2023-03-27Contemporary techno-horror
On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts
2019-12-23
– 2023-02-20Diffusion of innovations
Epidemiology of widgets
2020-01-30
– 2023-02-09When 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
– 2023-01-28Models of inequity
Sharpening the fuzzy process of bias, discrimination and inequity
2017-08-13
– 2023-01-19Weaponizing social media
Trolls, bots, lulz, infowars and other moods of the modern networked ape
2019-10-21
– 2023-01-15Melbourne
Australia’s culture sweatshop
2021-10-18
– 2023-01-15Economic development
2014-10-29
– 2022-12-20Growing up
2022-04-13
– 2022-11-27Cooperation in evolutionary context
‘Cui bono’ for selfishness
2020-04-27
– 2022-11-08But what can I do?
Recommended behaviour to make society better is to think, then act
2020-02-06
– 2022-11-06How to communicate
with humans
2019-04-02
– 2022-11-06Queerness
2021-05-06
– 2022-11-06Feelings, applied
2022-01-24
– 2022-11-04Ethical consumption
Socialism as a Service
2020-02-06
– 2022-11-04Emancipating my tribe
Inclusivism and exclusivism in sacred and secular subcultures. Or, scaling up the in-group.
2021-12-20
– 2022-11-01Pluralism, multiculturalism, politics
2020-02-01
– 2022-10-29Casual anthropic principles
Convenience-sampling lived human experience
2020-02-15
– 2022-10-28Narrative
2019-10-27
– 2022-10-20Tribal sorting and polarization
Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies
2017-02-12
– 2022-10-08Multi level marketing
Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Newcomb unboxing
2022-10-02
– 2022-10-02Squads
Small scale collectives
2022-06-25
– 2022-09-25Physical infrastructure
2022-09-24Multi-agent self
2022-09-11Contemporary rationalists
Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition
2020-09-06
– 2022-08-09Social factors in information security
Our revealed preference for revealing our preferences
2018-11-21
– 2022-08-07Urbanism
Stuff about cities
2014-12-25
– 2022-08-06Futurism
Useful ways of imaginatively forecasting
2014-12-31
– 2022-08-06Economic inequality
Return to capital versus return to labour versus return to state of nature
2014-10-29
– 2022-08-06Mechanism design for reputation systems
Karma, credit scores, pagerank, optimised ad hominem reasoning…
2014-08-05
– 2022-08-02Microstressors
Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions
2020-02-01
– 2022-07-28Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-07-28Conflict theorist models of coordination
2022-07-20
– 2022-07-24Trauma and resilience
2021-07-19
– 2022-07-23Australia
You’re standing in it
2020-01-25
– 2022-07-14Dilemmas of collective action
2014-11-25
– 2022-07-05Rituals and beliefs that bind
2021-05-01
– 2022-07-05Astroturf and artificial reefs
On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
2016-01-13
– 2022-07-03Moral attribution and diffusion
On institutions for siphoning blame
2020-04-27
– 2022-06-30Moral wetware
What ethical operating systems can be executed on our neurosocial substrate?
2020-04-27
– 2022-06-30Gender identity
Political and/or empirical engagement therewith
2017-08-13
– 2022-06-25Invasive arguments
Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse
2021-12-20
– 2022-06-25Rhetoric
Argumentation, descriptive and prescriptive
2017-06-07
– 2022-06-24Tokenism or table stakes?
“The least you can do” is the minimum unviable product
2021-12-20
– 2022-06-23Political axes, political correlations
Dimensionality reduction for the Great Society
2021-03-01
– 2022-06-12Designing less toxic social media
2020-07-12
– 2022-06-11Institutions
Stable orbits in human systems
2014-10-29
– 2022-06-10Plants
2020-05-28
– 2022-06-02Institutions and governance for, and using, mass conversation
Discourse red in tooth and claw versus the sovereign
2020-02-01
– 2022-05-30The Illawarra
The cheaper bit underneath Sydney comprising Wollongong etc
2022-05-27Applied psephology
2016-07-12
– 2022-05-25Memetics
Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc
2020-01-30
– 2022-05-14Utopian governance
Hedonistic mechanism design
2020-05-04
– 2022-04-22Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds
Information cascades
2019-09-22
– 2022-04-22Voting Systems
Mathematics and economics of ballots
2014-09-22
– 2022-04-21Model fairness
2018-11-29
– 2022-04-21Social media if you must
Harm minimisation for corporate social network users
2017-04-05
– 2022-04-21Myths
Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives, Schelling points in the social construction of reality, stone soups and Tinkerbell effects
2022-02-20
– 2022-04-07Attention economy
2012-01-13
– 2022-04-03Race, politics of
Ethnicity too
2021-12-20
– 2022-03-04Opinion dynamics 1: Social contagion moves hearts and minds
How to win elections and influence people
2020-08-30
– 2022-03-03OODA loops
2021-05-01
– 2022-02-28Symbolic and substantive insurrections
Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building
2022-02-20
– 2022-02-27Moral calculus
2014-08-04
– 2022-02-19Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Sexual ethics and institutions
2020-06-07
– 2022-02-07Sociology and politics of information
Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society
2022-01-09
– 2022-02-02Dunning-Kruger theory of mind
On anthropomorphising humans
2020-06-18
– 2022-01-28Prepping for the end of (my access to) the (industrialised) world
2016-06-19
– 2022-01-24Dunning-Kruger theory of institutions
Lay theories of social mechanisms
2022-01-20Dunning-Kruger theory of society
Lay theories of groups
2022-01-20Sex and sexology
Incorporating smut, lewdness, and prurience
2020-06-07
– 2022-01-17Social psychology
Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated?
2017-02-20
– 2022-01-14Hardened desktop operating systems
Also amnesiac and/or anonymous
2019-09-11
– 2022-01-11Group size
Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination
2011-12-09
– 2022-01-02Diversity as an end in itself
On a rich and vibrant ecosystem of culture and thought
2021-12-13Gamification
“Belated Blogging of a Buzzword” achievement unlocked
2019-10-27
– 2021-11-18Cooperation amongst humans
2014-11-04
– 2021-11-12Sexy plants
2020-05-28
– 2021-11-02Better homes and societies
On destinations
2017-11-01
– 2021-10-27Trousers
2020-09-05
– 2021-10-27Survey modelling
Adjusting for the Lizardman constant
2019-08-29
– 2021-10-24Science for policy
Using evidence and reason to govern ourselves
2011-08-07
– 2021-09-22Clickbait bandit problems
On using computers to program humans
2017-05-18
– 2021-09-16Governance of the commons
On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time
2014-10-29
– 2021-09-02Baby’s first private cloud
2021-08-08
– 2021-08-20Contact tracing
Reverse engineering social graphs for the control of contagions of pathogens, subversive ideology and other substances of interest
2020-03-21
– 2021-07-28Science
History, sociology and philosophy thereof
2017-07-08
– 2021-07-21Media virality
Strategic modelling for content creators
2016-08-30
– 2021-07-15How to reduce corporate spying
on me, hopefully
2018-12-12
– 2021-07-12Moral philosophy
2014-08-04
– 2021-07-01What is your Sydney housing endgame?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26Nowhere to hide
A catalogue of terrifying surveillance methods I encounter
2019-07-13
– 2021-01-03Financial markets
Descriptive engagement with reality of
2015-03-14
– 2020-07-02Economics of insurgence
2015-02-02
– 2020-07-01How to reduce government spying on you
2018-12-12
– 2020-05-27The money laundry, ownership and control
Paypal for the 1%
2020-05-13Waste, and the late capitalist industrial metabolism
2017-05-11
– 2020-04-22Matching and weighting
Making the optimal beverage from the fruit life gave you
2020-04-22How to reduce criminals spying on you
2018-10-03
– 2020-04-09Confidentiality
How to maintain it
2014-08-23
– 2020-04-09The surveillance society
All-seeing like a state
2017-02-09
– 2020-03-19Capitalism’s end game
What money wants
2014-12-31
– 2020-03-17Selling uncertainty
On the marginal price of ignorance
2016-05-25
– 2020-02-18Learning in adaptive systems
On staring into scopophilic abysses
2019-10-19
– 2020-01-22Disgust
2019-12-23Trusting information
Spinning swarm sensing from comment threads
2017-02-09
– 2019-11-25Sharing / gig economy
Turking your ride
2015-03-22
– 2019-11-21Smartypants cities
2014-12-25
– 2019-11-05Low impact fashion
Suiting australia
2019-04-18Hollow states
Skim government when fat cats drank the cream
2019-03-13Facebook messages pro-forma response
It doesn’t work but it’s worth trying
2018-04-28“Business Leadership”
The default pseudo-content for undirected MBA research
2016-05-25
– 2017-11-10Marketing psychology
2017-04-27
– 2017-05-29Sustainability
Anthropocene not heard
2011-04-15
– 2017-05-16Diversity in Electronic Art
2016-09-01
– 2016-08-23Women in electronic and popular music
2016-09-01
– 2016-08-23Altruism
2014-08-05
– 2015-06-18Normal accidents
2015-06-03Econophysics
2011-04-13Honours thesis
2010-12-16