Optimally Irrational

What are we really doing on social media?

The motives and strategies that shape our online presence

Oct 10 • 

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Artificial General Intelligence will likely require a general goal, but which one?

AGI, LLMs and the challenge of alignment

Oct 6 • 

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September 2025

Power balance and ideology

Why the cultural hegemony of the left erodes its epistemic standing

Sep 26 • 

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The delusion of political violence

Our fantasies about violence are an evolutionary mismatch

Sep 18 • 

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The truth about sport

Why we really care about it

Sep 11 • 

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August 2025

Friendship politics

Everything you have always wanted to know on friendship

Aug 26 • 

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Why science is politically disruptive

With a few examples

Aug 15 • 

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Epstein files: how arguments really make people change political side

The not totally ineffective nature of political arguments

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

What are the chances you’re right about everything?

The somewhat (but not entirely) arbitrary nature of political ideological bundles

Jul 23 • 

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June 2025

Why has the right become more popular among low-income voters?

Explaining the growing defection of the working class from the left

Jun 24 • 

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Why has the left gentrified?

In my previous post I described the phenomenon of gentrification of the left and placed in a decades-long process of demographic and ideological…

Jun 12 • 

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May 2025

The gentrification of the left

And the popularisation of the right in Western countries

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