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July 2nd, 2025
- recommended here in response to LPC
June 22nd, 2024
- recommended by Romeo Stevensa
- > Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable to execute alone. The evolutionary success of our species is indeed due, to a large degree, to our unparalleled other-regarding abilities. Yet, a comprehensive understanding of human cooperation remains a formidable challenge. Recent research in social science indicates that it is important to focus on the collective behavior that emerges as the result of the interactions among individuals, groups, and even societies. Non-equilibrium statistical physics, in particular Monte Carlo methods and the theory of collective behavior of interacting particles near phase transition points, has proven to be very valuable for understanding counterintuitive evolutionary outcomes. By studying models of human cooperation as classical spin models, a physicist can draw on familiar settings from statistical physics. However, unlike pairwise interactions among particles that typically govern solid-state physics systems, interactions among humans often involve group interactions, and they also involve a larger number of possible states even for the most simplified description of reality. The complexity of solutions therefore often surpasses that observed in physical systems. Here we review experimental and theoretical research that advances our understanding of human cooperation, focusing on spatial pattern formation, on the spatiotemporal dynamics of observed solutions, and on self-organization that may either promote or hinder socially favorable states.
April 26th, 2024
- reflections on trusting trust (1984 paper)
April 24th, 2024
- #to-read article on mice in overpopulated conditions interfering with each others' mating
April 22nd, 2024
- #to-read cool article on Weaving Shared Reality by Michael Porcelli
April 12th, 2024
- random things #to-read
March 26th, 2024
- trust repair — maybe a good article, #to-read
January 16th, 2024
- #to-read Breaking Into The Circle: a philosophical justification for a first-person approach to the science of consciousness
- by a guy Ashok who Nobu maybe knows, who's on twitter
January 12th, 2024
- pretty short paper operationalizing trust into 5 factors
- which seem about right on the object-level
- tho it seems to be missing the magic of meta-trust
December 17th, 2023
- to-read from Zev Benjamin
- > the concept of God appears pretty complicated in Buddhism. here is another sutta where the Buddha talks with Brahmā, which might be closer to the judeo-christian god than Sakka/Indra, who might be closer to Zeus: suttacentral.net/mn49/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain¬es=asterisk&hi…
- > you might find section 3.1.2 of suttacentral.net/dn1/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain¬es=asterisk&hig… interesting because it details how a being might become confused as to its identity as God, when it is, in fact, just another being
★ Redesigning Twitter
- "twitter as an argument machine" - powazek.com/posts/3368 #to-read
- "status as a service" facebook.com/jeffladish/posts/10218297852145832 #to-read
January 25th, 2021
- This actually makes a fuckton of sense, because...
- my experience doesn't contradict your experience!
- my experience makes sense of my behavior!
- unlike facts, or values, that can seem to be in direct conflict, my experience itself does not conflict with yours
- my interpretation of it might contradict some interpretation of yours (or even imply you couldn't possibly have had an experience you know you had, which is a mess)
- but the experience itself just exists and somehow needs to be reconciled with the relevance and significance of other peoples' experience
- this is "of course you would do that"
- cf "levels of reconciliation" tweet
- there's a sense in which we all have the same set of objective facts, even if we disagree on what we are
- whereas sharing a subjective reason gives plenty of space for you to say "oh of course you'd see it that way, given your experiences; I still don't really see it that way myself, given mine."
- cites
- J. L. Kalla, D. E. Broockman, Reducing exclusionary attitudes through interpersonal conversation: Evidence from three field experiments. Am. Polit. Sci. Rev. 114, 410–425 (2020).
- > "One large-scale study found that narratives, when paired with nonjudgmental listening, can shift views on contentious issues"