Tag: all communication is manipulation

• Pfeilstorch Progress: Games, Dialectic, Spirit

  I launched a [Discord server with a] small community of friends, which has this year, 2021, evolved into an online forum. Our mascot is the pfeilstorch. We’re interested in the inexact sciences, and moreover, in the rigorizing pipeline that got us from natural philosophy to biology, or alchemy to chemistry.

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  May 11, 2021

  Blog

  all communication is manipulation, Bruno Latour, degenerate play, discursive games, erisology, Erving Goffman, Franz Boas, games, generalized reading, Interpretation, John Nerst, language, language games, LessWrong, linguistics, opticratics, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, Sapir-Whorf, Sigmund Freud, strategic epistemology, surrogation, telephone effect, the inexact sciences, Thomas Schelling

• Year In Review

  Bla bla bla, 2020 was a big year for me. I started off doing philosophy of language and ended up at “strategic interaction.” For the uninitiated, think game theory meets microsociology, or check out a slide deck. Add a side plate of institutional theory, debt, and philosophy of science. Though our press, Not Nothing, was…

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  February 21, 2021

  Blog

  all communication is manipulation, El Morado, Erving Goffman, LessWrong, opticratics, Pfeilstorch, predictive hermeneutics, surrogation, the inexact sciences, Thomas Schelling

• Economics thinking

  Mistakes in business or in science are costly and deplorable, but mistakes in the conduct of life are usually dangerous to life itself. To the tack of illuminating man’s progress toward a better understanding of human nature, this book is dedicated. Alfred Adler (1927) Everybody gets something out of every transaction. House of Games 1.…

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  October 27, 2020

  Essays

  Agnes Callard, all communication is manipulation, David Mamet, evolutionary psychology, Jonathan Franzen, Knut Hamsun, psychology, reciprocity, strategic interaction, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Schelling, Tyler Cowen