I write about culture science / memetics. How do ideas spread in society? Can we predict the behavior of groups of humans? Can we change it?
“Anatomy of an Internet Argument” is an open science effort to understand what real people think & how we can change each other’s minds. It’s also an attempt to shift culture of debates on the internet (by explaining how to do it better, broadcasting the successful attempts, and analyzing the failed attempts).
If you’re curious about my origin story, I wrote about “how I learned to think for myself at age 30”:
If you want to go REAL deep, here’s some more links:
All of my tweets in chronological order, starting when I made the anonymous “Defender” account in July 18, 2023
Semantic search for (most) of my tweets. You can type “on politics” or “on corruption” or “adventures in the farmer’s market” and it’ll pull up any conceptually related tweets.
Grant proposal I wrote for kickstarting “open memetics”
