Tag Society

The user manual for my blog: why and how I write (and how to read my texts)

Our fears, indifference and hopes are often self fulfilling prophecies

How denying ourselves all the real fun leads to disaster

Exploring the sociodynamics of modern beauty using simulation (in python)

How visiting the Cuckoo’s nest taught me to fly

The end of owning, part 3

Ein nicht mehr ganz aktueller, dafür etwas anderer Beitrag zum Antifaschismus.

How man had to become a wolf to man

Pursuing instrumental goals and the art of living happily in a shitty world

We cannot analyze evil if we are bound by moral

A look at the tools required: evolutionary psychology

A look at the tools required: science and mathematics

If we want to overcome evil, we have to understand it first.

Learning is an active process - much like playing Battleships

This will be my most controversial post so far. If I did not manage yet to ruin my reputation with this blog, this post will probably get the job done.

And some footnotes to effective altruism

Kümmern wir uns doch lieber um unsere Gesellschaft

There is no alternative to the cooperative society

So far my most sophisticated attempt to save the world in a breeze. But when I read my finished text, I realized that I’m actually trying to incite a global neo-hippie sex orgy using somewhat dubious arguments based on the Red Queen’s hypothesis,...

How game theory can explain the current explosion of hate and violence in our world

In a world getting more absurd every day, isn‘t it foolish to remain reasonable?

The story of our „super grandma“ Yvette (and why planning a good life cannot possibly work)

Musings about the school of the future from an AI perspective

Musings on luxury, self driving cars and kindness

Yes, let‘s talk about menstruation - and feminism

A mathematical explanation for the dire state of society

Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (Part 4)

Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (Part 3)

And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 3: how women regained power)

And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 2: how women lost power)

And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 1: the color green, décolletages, dowry)

Musings about evil, luxury and happiness

Part 3: How to use the library. Examples.

Are there ideas so dangerous that we should never even think about them?

How our fears to lose hope have imprisoned us

It will look beautiful on your hand

You challenged me to tackle the question „what is good sex?“ / „Yes means yes“, part 2

This simply cannot work: a journey deep down the rabbit hole of sexuality

Part 2: Theory, examples, challenges and solutions

Part 2: how we lost compassion - a different short history of humankind

Part 1: compassion vs moral

An open source python library to speed up theory construction in the social sciences

An analysis based on the immigration problem (moral is a symptom and not the solution, part 4)

A wild ride (powered by game theory) from prostitution to pedophilia (moral is a symptom and not the solution, part 3)

Fake content is maybe not a problem but the solution

To their great misfortune they did not know themselves well enough

And start using your own mind now! - A rant in four acts.

Memories of my mother and a short manual for growing dreams

Python code walkthrough

Computer experiments about human cooperation and trust

The lost pleasure of helping strangers

Moral is a symptom and not the solution, part 2

Moral is a symptom and not the solution

An opportunity, and not a problem!

„Old people think slower than young people“ and other fairy stories

10 (insufficient) rules

What I want you to know about drugs

Knowledge without ten times the meta-knowledge is useless and dangerous

Maybe it is better if we lose control over AI soon

Why we should (mostly) ignore politics.

Why we must use AI to study human nature right now.

A Sci-Fi story about our future with Artificial Intelligence.

Can machines make art?

We don’t need to be afraid of A.I. if we are ready for radical change.

Why we are heading in this direction today and what can we do to avoid such dire fate?

Mein Weg aus der Depression

Why the world is not getting safer if technology makes trusting humans obsolete.

AI technology is currently developing at unprecedented speed. This will soon bring enormous economic, social and cultural challenges for society.

We should not try to create gods so that we can remain fools. We should strive instead to improve ourselves.

Why is democracy historically so successful?

Something to think about...

Many years ago I spent a few months sailing from island to island in the south pacific. I will never forget what happened on an island of Tarawa when we came back shopping large amounts of food for the next few weeks on sea.

A little game project (great for a family afternoon on a rainy Sunday)

It happened on a warm summer day somewhere near Zurich